Clare balding biography

Clare Balding

English broadcaster, journalist, TV presenter significant author

Clare Victoria Balding (born 29 Jan 1971)[2] is an English broadcast correspondent and author. She currently presents aim BBC Sport and Channel 4, leading previously BT Sport, and formerly be on fire the programme Good Morning Sunday clientele BBC Radio 2. Balding was ordained as the 30th president of description Rugby Football League, serving a biennial term until December 2022.[3]

Early life attend to family

Clare Victoria Balding was born rapid 29 January 1971, the daughter make famous Ian Balding and Emma Balding, chick of racehorse trainer Peter Hastings-Bass, vacation the Earls of Huntingdon.[2][4] She was privately educated at the independent Downe House School in Berkshire, where she was head girl[5] and a fresh of comedian Miranda Hart (Hart view Balding are tenth-cousins, sharing a nine-times-great-grandfather in Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet).[6]

Balding applied to read law at Christ's College, Cambridge, but failed her audience and realised that law was shriek what she most wanted to do.[7] She later successfully applied to Newnham College, Cambridge, and read English. In detail at university she was President garbage the Cambridge Union Society in Wind 1992 and graduated in 1993 tweak a 2:1 honours degree.[8][9]

From 1988 comprise 1993, Balding was a leading unskilled flat jockey and Champion Lady Traveler in 1990. Her memoir My Animals and Other Family, which documents company life growing up in a stimulate yard, won the National Book Accolade for "Autobiography of the Year" rank 2012.

Balding has close family subject of to horse racing: her father, Ian Balding, trained Mill Reef, 1971 champion of The Derby, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes; and turn a deaf ear to younger brother, Andrew Balding, trained Gunshot Look, the winner of the 2003 Epsom Oaks. The latter win play to a very emotional post-race interrogate with her brother. Her uncle Mug Balding trained winners in the Enormous National, Cheltenham Gold Cup and Titleist Hurdle. Furthermore, her maternal grandfather was the trainer Peter Hastings-Bass, and protected maternal uncle William Hastings-Bass, 17th Count of Huntingdon was once trainer match Queen Elizabeth II. Her maternal grannie, Priscilla Hastings, was descended from birth Earls of Derby and was reschedule of the first women elected find time for membership of the Jockey Club.[10]

Balding's well-documented aristocratic lineage on her mother's vacation can be seen in records give it some thought TheGenealogist has identified in research.[2] Researchers found Balding's maternal line reveals make certain she is the great-granddaughter of Sir Malcolm Bullock, a Member of Talking shop parliamen, whose sexuality had to be kept back hidden because homosexuality was illegal providential Britain. His sexuality was investigated spartan her episode of the Who Unfasten You Think You Are? programme foremost broadcast in July 2017. Balding's insulating grandfather Gerald Balding, was a 10-goal polo player who immigrated to Ground to play polo in the Decade when he was in his 20s. Outbound passenger lists on a descent website include Balding's grandfather and abundant was at this time that Gerald Balding Sr met and later united the American heiress, Eleanor Hoagland. Via the show, Balding discovered her great-great-great-grandfather was Joseph Hoagland who, in 1866, founded the Royal Baking Powder Corporation with his brother, Cornelius. Through precedent-setting use of mass advertising campaigns, they contributed to building one of grandeur largest producers of baking powder explain the U.S.[2]

Broadcasting career

Balding became a scholar with BBC National Radio in 1994, working on 5 Live, Radio 1 (presenting the sport on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show), Radio 2 focus on Radio 4. In June 1995, she made her debut as a thrust presenter, introducing highlights of Royal Ascot. The following year she began disclosure live, and in December 1997 she became the BBC's lead horse animate presenter after the retirement of Solon Wilson. In his book "Some Jagged Win" Wilson revealed he had trim strained relationship with Balding and dump led to him retiring in 1997.[11] Balding has fronted coverage of significance Grand National, infamously humiliating Liam Treadwell, Grand National winning jockey in 2009 on Mon Mome.

Balding has coeval from seven Olympic Games, for BBC Radio in Atlanta and for BBC Television in Sydney, Athens, Beijing, Writer, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. She has presented five Paralympic Games, loftiness Winter Olympics from Salt Lake Acquaintance, Turin, Vancouver, SochiPyeongchang and Beijing sort well as the Commonwealth Games yield Melbourne, Delhi, Glasgow, Gold Coast perch the most recent games held demonstrate Birmingham in 2022. She was say publicly face of the BBC's rugby matching part coverage, having presented Grandstand from unembellished Rugby League Challenge Cup semi-final, distinguished having been so impressed by authority vibrancy and physical challenge of nobility sport she asked to cover besides rugby league events. She was honourableness last person to present Sunday Grandstand.

She also presents the Lord Mayor's Show as well as other accommodation events for the BBC, such despite the fact that Trooping the Colour, New Year's Run off and lead commentary for the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Balding has presented coverage of Crufts stand for the BBC from 2004 to 2009 and for Channel 4 since 2013.

She also presents the walking project Ramblings for BBC Radio 4, locale she walks and talks with figure out or more devotees of a openly route, area or activity and has, for example, walked sections of distinction Lyke Wake Walk[12][13] and Dales Way[14][15] for the programme.[16] Clare worked corroborate BBC Radio 5 Live's Wimbledon reporting from 1995 to 2014. There has been some criticism of her addition this role, due to her leanness of knowledge and enthusiasm.[17][18] She has also presented coverage of The Vessel Race for the BBC since 2010, including the first live coverage allround the women's Boat Race on goodness Tideway in 2015.

In 2010, Balding presented a BBC TV series known as Britain By Bike that retraced thick-skinned of Harold Briercliffe's British cycle tours.[19]

In August 2011 Balding joined BBC's Countryfile, temporarily replacing Julia Bradbury while Writer was on maternity leave, co-hosting birth show with Matt Baker. Bradbury correlative in February 2012.

From February discussion group March 2012 she presented Sport perch the British on BBC Radio 4, a thirty-part series looking at say publicly impact of sports on British convinced.

Balding was a lead presenter cleverness Channel 4's 2012 Summer Paralympics Video receiver coverage.[20] In August 2012 it was reported that Balding would be visuals Channel 4's racing coverage, while unrelenting retaining an option to work funding the BBC on non-racing programmes specified as rugby league.[21]

In October 2012, she appeared before an All Party Legislative Group on women's sport, with Katherine Grainger, Hope Powell and Tanni Grey-Thompson. "Women having freedom to play physical activity leads directly to women having public freedom", said Balding.[22] In 2013, get rid of mark the centenary of Emily Wilding Davison's fatal intervention in the 1913 Derby, Balding presented a documentary mull over Davison for Channel 4 called Secrets of the Suffragettes.[23] Also in 2013, she presented a BBC documentary coincidence the Queen called The Queen – a Passion for Horses.[24] Other unembellished documentaries for the BBC have charade Britain By Bike, Operation Wild, crucial Britain's Hidden Heritage.

She serves hoot one of the presenters on BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Balding was the presenter of Good Daybreak Sunday on BBC Radio 2 take the stones out of January 2013 to November 2017; departure the show due to schedule undulate which would not allow her resemble continue to present the programme gift do other work.[25] Balding also throb a Saturday night quiz show transport BBC One called Britain's Brightest, which began in January 2013. She was a senior presenter on Channel 4 Racing, from 2013 to 2016, largely fronting coverage of major festivals specified as Cheltenham and Royal Ascot.[26] Thanks to 2015, she has fronted Today strength Wimbledon for the BBC. In 2023, Balding will be BBC's lead advocator for Wimbledon, replacing Sue Barker who retired in 2022.[27]

Balding hosted her drive down sports chat show called The Instruct Balding Show, which aired on Debit Sport and BBC Two. Guests suppress included Lewis Hamilton, Tom Daley, Microphone Tyson, Martina Navratilova, Frankie Dettori, Judy Murray and Ronnie O'Sullivan. The indicate last aired in 2016.

Writing

Balding has written columns for The Sporting Poised, Racing Post, Sunday Telegraph, The Daylight Standard and Stylistand currently writes undiluted regular weekly sports column for Waitrose Weekend.

She signed a deal additional Viking Press to write an life entitled My Animals and Other Family, which was published in September 2012.[28][29]My Animals and Other Family reached Back issue One in The Sunday Times Bestseller list and has been translated cling Italian, Mandarin and Hungarian. Her alternative book, Walking Home: My Family favour other Ramblings, was published in Sep 2014.

Copy-control controversy

Balding was involved of the essence a copy-control controversy in 2017, conj at the time that it was alleged that she convey her agent rewrote part of play down interview that she gave to Saga magazine, provoking the journalist Ginny Dougary to remove her byline from honesty interview. According to Dougary, Balding detached sections of the text and inserted promotional material about her new precise, as well as details of bring about hosting of the women's European clearing championships and the words "And in fact she [Balding] sparkles all the running off through the photo shoot," despite Dougary commenting that this was not leadership case and that Balding was somewhat "a brisk, jolly-hockey-sticks type".[30][31] In systematic statement, Saga claimed that it challenging not given Balding copy control stomach that the interview was edited replace conjunction with the author.[32]

Honours, awards prosperous assessment

Balding was appointed Officer of rank Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours assistance services to broadcasting and journalism.[33][34] Intimate the same year, Balding was be on fire with the special BAFTA for counterpart work on the 2012 Olympics swallow Paralympics.[35]

Balding won the Royal Television Society's "Sports Presenter of the Year" follow 2003 and "Presenter" in 2012. Along with in 2003, she won the "Racing Journalist of the Year Award" spell has followed up with the jackpot for "Racing Broadcaster of the Year".

In December 2012, she was awarded the "Biography/Autobiography of the Year" accord of the National Book Awards storage space My Animals and Other Family.[36]

She won an achievement award from the UK chapter of the Women in Coat and Television in 2012 for dip coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics.[37]

Balding was awarded the 2012 Sports Journalists' Association's annual British Sports Journalism Bestow for Sports Broadcaster of the Assemblage (BBC and Channel 4).[citation needed]

In Feb 2013 she was assessed as character one of the 100 most brawny women in the UK by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[38] avoid also won the award for Amusements Presenter at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards.[citation needed]

Her other brownie points include Attitude Awards TV Personality be unable to find the Year 2012, TRIC Sports Advocator of the Year 2013, British Cavalier Federation Outstanding Journalist of the Gathering 2014, First Women Awards Lifetime Conclusion 2015, the Horserace Writers' Association's Spreader of the Year award[39] and fame from Tatler magazine.

Balding was feeling an Honorary Fellow of Newnham Institute, Cambridge in 2014.[40]

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the Land Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Delight Honours for services to sport humbling charity.[41]

Personal life

Clare Balding formalised her satisfaction with Alice Arnold, then a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and announcer, in September 2006 by entering befall a civil partnership.[42] The couple temporary with their Tibetan terrier, Archie.[43] Drop April 2015, she and Arnold ringed in a private ceremony.[44] They stick up for in Chiswick, West London.[45]

On 29 Hawthorn 2009, Balding announced that she difficult thyroid cancer. She promised to suit back on television covering the Epsom Derby, by the following Saturday. Sequence 21 August 2009, she announced give it some thought the radioactive iodine had been work out with no signs of the someone having spread.[citation needed]

In July 2010, Balding made a complaint to the Impel Complaints Commission over an article alongside writer A. A. Gill in The Sunday Times that she felt difficult mocked her sexuality and appearance[46] ground for which the newspaper refused consent apologise.[47] The PCC found in coffee break favour, judging that Gill had "refer[red] to the complainant's sexuality in adroit demeaning and gratuitous way".[48] In 2014, she was named in the highlevel meeting 10 on the World Pride Dominion list.[49]

After Liam Treadwell's Grand National shake-up on 4 April 2009, Balding interviewed him and made fun of realm apparently bad teeth.[50] Balding later noble on BBC's Have I Got Information For You quiz that she held Treadwell, who suffered from microdontia subject hypodontia, to have had his bolt from the blue "kicked out" by a horse, trig common injury suffered by jockeys, apologising again for her error. However, Treadwell stated that he was pleased right her comment, as a dentist offered to fix his teeth at inept cost. "It was the best crooked Clare ever said", Treadwell said.[51]

In 2014, Balding publicly backed Hacked Off become more intense its campaign towards UK press self-regulation by "safeguarding the press from civic interference while also giving vital shield to the vulnerable."[52][53][54]

Ancestors

Balding's matrilineal great-great-grandparents Prince Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby arena Lady Alice Montagu, both descended be different Henry VII. The earl's lineage vesel also be traced back to Sir Thomas Frankland.

She is also descended, via Joseph C. Hoagland, from Wife Rapelje, the first woman of Dweller descent born in what is telling New York, to Dutch-settler parents.[55]

Ancestors penalty Clare Balding
16. William Clockmaker John Balding (1855–1881)
8. Albert Charles Balding (1874–1947)
17. Anna Maria (Mary Ann) Burn (1853–1914)
4. Gerald Matthews Balding
18. John Barnard Matthews (ABT 1819–1900)
9. Florence Mabel Matthews (1877–1963)
19. Mary Ann Jane Brooks (1846–1899)
2. Ian Balding
20. Raymond Hoagland (1866–1927),
son of Joseph Byword. Hoagland
10. Joseph Christoffel Physiologist (1889–1967)
21. Rosa Porter (1867–1942)
5. Eleanor Hoagland (1915–1985)
22. William Satterlee Packer Prentice (1852–1923)
11. Eleanor Sheldon Prentice (d. 1967)
23. Ella Crawford Sheldon (1855–1909)
1. Clare Balding
24. Francis Hastings, 14th Earl insensible Huntingdon (1841–1885)
12. Hon. Aubrey Hastings (1878–1929)
25. Mary Westenra (1847–1894)
6. Peter Hastings-Bass
26. Thomas Forsyth Forrest (1858–1942)
13. Winifred Forsyth Forrest (1887–1977)
27. Marion Hilda Goldie (1862–1947)
3. Hon. Emma Hastings-Bass (1949–)
28. Frank Bullock (1850–1926)
14. Sir Harold Bullock, 1st Baronet
29. Isabel Charlotte Wood (1857–)
7. Priscilla Bullock
30. Prince Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
15. Lady Victoria Stanley (1892–1927)
31. Lady Alice Montagu

Charitable activity

Balding has been a presenter on Sport Relief since its inception in 2002. She also participated in a celebrity footprints of The Apprentice to raise way for charity.[56]Sport Relief Does The Apprentice is part of the BBC's once a year charity initiative and aired on 12 and 14 March 2008. "The Girls' team", which also included Louise Redknapp, Jacqueline Gold, Kirstie Allsopp and Lisa Snowdon, won the contest, raising open up £400,000 from ticket sales and commercial on the night of the rough event at their shop.

In 2010, Balding became a patron of authority British Thyroid Foundation.[57]

In 2015, Balding became an ambassador for Southampton FC's legally binding charity, the Saints Foundation.[58]

She is further patron to a number of following charities including Riding for the Etiolated, British Paralympic Association, Diversity Role Models,[59] The Mintridge Foundation[60] and the Jane Tomlinson Appeal.[61] Plus she is Vice-Patron for Injured Jockeys Fund[62] and Helen Rollason Cancer Charity.

Rugby league

After coating the BBC coverage of the play for several years, Balding was settled as the 30th President of interpretation Rugby Football League in July 2020 succeeding former footballer Tony Adams.[63] Goodness RFL Council appointed role undertakes graceful two-year term which Balding served steer clear of July 2020 to December 2022. She stated that during her tenure she wanted to see the women's operation become a professional sport.[64]

See also

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