Clare Balding
Clare Balding
Clare Victoria Balding OBE is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and author. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport and the religious/spiritual programme Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth29 January 1971
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Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.
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Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I'm proud of, and I think that's important. Now, do I need a church to tell me that? Actually, no, I don't.
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Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
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Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.
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When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.
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Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.
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I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
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Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.
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The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.
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If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.
Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working.