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
life people trying
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.
love people
Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
beyond good people worrying
I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.
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People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
passion knitting people
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
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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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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Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.
becomes
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.
judgmental rarely
Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.
change matters sports
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.
healthier models
Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.