What is Clare Balding?
[[File:Stockbridge Christmas Evening - Sue Robinson, Clare Balding and Anno Webley in Lane End Kitchenware (cropped) (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|Clare Balding in 2015]] '''Clare Victoria Balding''' {{postnom|country=GBR|CBE}} (born 29 January 1971) is a [[British people|British]] [[television presenter]]. She was born in [[Kingsclere]], [[Hampshire]]. She is openly [[lesbian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/01/clare-balding-my-grandmother-told-me-i-was-disgusting-after-my-sexuality-was-made-public-4208651/|title=Balding: Grandmother told me I was disgusting for being gay|date=1 December 2013|publisher=}}</ref> In 2009, she was [[diagnose]]d with [[thyroid]] [[cancer]]. She recovered later that year. In 2012, a book she wrote about her life was published. It was called ''My Animals and Other Family''. In February 2013, Woman's Hour, a programme on BBC Radio 4, put her on their list of the most powerful women in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3J92brPmK0hskzhpTV3CrZ0/the-power-list-2013|title=BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - The Power List 2013|website=BBC}}</ref> Balding presented ''Britain's Brightest'' in 2013. ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Balding, Clare}} [[Category:1971 births]] [[Category:British autobiographers]] [[Category:English journalists]] [[Category:English LGBT writers]] [[Category:Lesbians]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:LGBT broadcasters]] [[Category:Television personalities from Hampshire]] [[Category:Writers from Hampshire]]