Clare Balding OBE (born 29 January 1971) is a British television presenter, journalist and retired amateur jockey. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport and the show Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2. She formalised her relationship with the BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and newsreader Alice Arnold in September 2006 by entering into a civil partnership. Clare and Alice met in 2000 and Alice said at first she didn't take much notice of Clare until a few years later. The couple live in Chiswick, London, with their Tibetan terrier, Archie. Arnold was previously in a relationship with the comedienne, writer, and presenter Sandi Toksvig. (P: @Keith Page. Clare Balding)On 29 May 2009, Balding announced that she had thyroid cancer. She told the Daily Mail newspaper that she had her thyroid gland removed and would have radioactive iodine treatment in July that year. She promised to be back on television covering the Epsom Derby, by the following Saturday. On 21 August 2009 she announced that the radioactive iodine had been successful with no signs of the cancer having spread.
In July 2010, Balding made a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over an article by writer A. A. Gill in The Sunday Times that she felt had mocked her sexuality and appearance and for which the newspaper refused to apologise. The PCC found in her favour, judging that AA Gill had "refer[red] to the complainant's sexuality in a demeaning and gratuitous way".
Clare Balding is a British television presenter, journalist and retired amateur jockey. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport and the show Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2. She formalised her relationship with the BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and newsreader Alice Arnold in September 2006. The couple live in Chiswick, London, with their Tibetan terrier, Archie. Arnold was previously in a relationship with the comedienne, writer, and presenter Sandi Toksvig.
Balding participated in a celebrity edition of The Apprentice in order to raise money for charity. Sport Relief Does The Apprentice is part of the BBC's annual charity initiative and aired on 12 March and 14 March 2008. "The Girls' team", which also included Louise Redknapp, Jacqueline Gold, Kirstie Allsopp and Lisa Snowdon, won the contest, raising over £400,000 from ticket sales and sales on the night of the big event at their shop.
In 2010 Balding became a patron of the British Thyroid Foundation.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Balding
Alice Arnold (born 1962) is a British broadcaster. She was a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 for more than twenty years until the end of December 2012.
After gaining a degree in politics from the University of Sussex, she trained as an actress at the Drama Studio in Ealing and was in the musical Evita for a year. She was a magistrate for ten years from the age of thirty in Tottenham.
Arnold joined the BBC Radio Drama Company in 1988. After meeting Peter Donaldson at a party in 1994, she joined Radio 4's presentation team in that year. In 2004 she became a newsreader, and regularly read the afternoon and evening news on Radio 4. In 2005, she featured as a news presenter in BBC Two comedy Broken News. In June 2006, she was promoted to read the news on Radio 4's Today programme. From 2007 to 2011 she co-presented comedian Jon Holmes's show Listen Against, a parody of various programmes on Radio 4.
Arnold gained media attention in May 2012. While returning home, stuck in traffic, she observed an empty plastic bottle being thrown from the car ahead of her and threw it back into the vehicle through an open window. On Twitter, colleague and friend Corrie Corfield said Arnold deserved a damehood for her action.
Towards the end of October 2012, the ending of Arnold's role on Radio 4 emerged. Her final shift ended early on 29 December 2012. During 2013 she worked for the BBC in a training capacity and was involved in the Expert Women's Days where she coached potential female interviewees for Today. Arnold has suggested adopting a smile or frown while talking as appropriate to the context.
Since then she has begun to blog for The Daily Telegraph and to write for The Guardian.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arnold
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