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
school thinking common
I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
dad thinking guy
Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
kids thinking should-have
I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.
thinking ambitious adjectives
I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
judgmental rarely
Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.
becomes
When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
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.
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.
change knew life lucky realised suddenly thyroid wish
Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.
On the beach, I take my clothes off under a towel.
fact fantastic public schools sports state
I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.
change matters sports
I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.
acts actual bones far flesh hate love merely shape thin understood veil whose women
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.