CLARE Balding is a widely known determine amongst sports activities followers for her knowledgeable and fascinating protection of sport — particularly reside occasions.

She’s fronting Channel 4’s protection of Crufts 2025 on the Birmingham NEC, which kicks off on Thursday, March 6, 2025.

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Who’s Clare Balding?

Clare Balding is an English broadcast journalist, creator and former beginner jockey.

Born on January 29, 1971, she is understood for her work with BBC Sport, Channel 4, and BT Sport.

She is a part of the Channel 4 presenting group for Crufts 2025, becoming a member of a roster that features notable figures such Ellie Simmonds and plenty of extra.

Clare has coated quite a few main sporting occasions together with the Olympics, Paralympics and Commonwealth Video games.

From 1988 till 1993, Clare was a number one beginner flat jockey and even gained an award for her memoir protecting her time rising up in a racing yard.

After finding out English at Cambridge College, Clare began working for the BBC as a trainee again in 1994.

There she labored on 5 Stay, Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 4.

She later made her tv debut in June 1995 – when she launched highlights of Royal Ascot.

Clare is a part of the Channel 4 presenting group for the Paralympics, becoming a member of a roster that features notable figures similar to Rose Ayling-Ellis, Ade Adepitan, Ellie Simmonds and plenty of extra.

Collectively, they’ll deliver in depth protection of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games, which start with the opening ceremony on August 28.

The Video games will formally kick off the next day, August 29.

The competitors will run for ten days, concluding with the closing ceremony on September 8.

Clare additionally hosted the 2024 Paris Olympics for the BBC.

What TV exhibits has Clare Balding been in?

Clare made her tv debut in June 1995, introducing the distinguished horse racing occasion Royal Ascot Highlights.

She has since turn out to be a outstanding determine on Grandstand, the place she coated quite a lot of main sporting occasions, together with rugby league.

Her in depth sport presenting profession consists of reporting from six Olympic Video games, internet hosting Channel 4 Racing, and protecting Wimbledon, the Boat Race, the Grand Nationwide, and BBC Sports activities Character of the 12 months.

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Clare additionally gained recognition as a well-known face on Crufts, the celebrated canine present, which she offered from 2004 to 2009.

In 2010, Clare fronted Britain By Bike, a collection retracing British cycle excursions.

She quickly co-hosted Countryfile on the BBC from 2011 to 2012 throughout Julia Bradbury’s maternity go away.

From 2013 to 2016, she additionally hosted The Clare Balding Present on BT Sport and BBC Two.

Her involvement in Sport Reduction, a charity occasion she has supported since 2002, has additional cemented her tv presence.

Clare has been the lead presenter for As we speak at Wimbledon since 2015 and labored on Channel 4 Racing from 2013 to 2016, protecting main horse racing festivals like Cheltenham and Royal Ascot.

In 2013, she offered Secrets and techniques of the Suffragettes for Channel 4, a documentary on the suffragette motion, and explored Queen Elizabeth II‘s equestrian pursuits within the BBC documentary  The Queen – a Ardour for Horses.

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Clare has additionally been concerned in presenting The Lord Mayor’s Present and has offered commentary for vital occasions together with the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s marriage ceremony, and King Charles’s Coronation.

Awarded an OBE, Clare additionally labored on Good Morning Sunday for BBC Radio 2.

In 2023, she recalled on the Wine Occasions podcast her lifelong love of canines, saying:“I did suppose I used to be a canine [when I was a child] as a result of I used to be left with the canines quite a bit.

“I’ll have genuinely believed that Sweet, our boxer, was my mom.

“I used to put in writing letters that have been ostensibly to my mother and father however actually have been for my canines.”

In 2023, Clare took on the function of lead commentator for Wimbledon for the BBC, succeeding Sue Barker.

She commented on the function:“It’s an enormous honour to be given this duty however I’m very conscious that nobody particular person can fill Sue’s footwear.

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“This may at all times be a group effort and we’re fortunate that the BBC line-up consists of former professionals with large perception in addition to great reporters and commentators.

“It’s my job to deliver out the perfect in them and to assist make our viewers really feel they’ve a entrance row seat on the best sporting stage.”

What’s Clare Balding’s web value?

Throughout her life as TV presenter, Clare has constructed up a formidable fortune.

As of August 2024, she has an estimated web value of round £1M

That is largely boosted by her BBC wage, which is between £205,000 and £209,999

Who’s Clare Balding’s spouse?

Clare Balding is married to Alice Arnold, a British broadcaster and journalist.

Born in 1962, Alice Arnold was a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 for over twenty years, till the top of 2012.

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She presently works for Bauer Media Audio UK, internet hosting on Mellow Magic.

The couple entered right into a civil partnership in 2006, however when same-sex marriage was legalized within the UK, they selected to marry once more.

Clare and Alice formally tied the knot in a personal ceremony in April 2015.

Speaking about her marriage to spouse Alice on The Jonathan Ross Present, Clare mentioned: “It is about equality.

“It is nearly figuring out which you can and figuring out which you can say, ‘I am married’ and no one’s going to suppose that is married in inverted commas, no that, truly married. I believe it is nice.”

Revealing extra about their relationship to The Mirror, the presenter mentioned: “We’re very simple collectively. We do not row. I do not understand how we obtain that however I do not suppose there’s a secret. You are on this excellent journey collectively.”

The couple, who reside in Chiswick, London, shouldn’t have youngsters.

Each Clare and Alice are eager beginner golfers, with Alice having written in regards to the Scottish Muirfield golf membership’s rejection of feminine members in The Guardian.