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Last updated at 2:40 PM on 31st July 2010
BBC presenter Clare Balding has hit back at restaurant critic AA Gill after he dubbed her a ‘dyke on a bike’.
Balding has reported the dig about her sexuality to the Press Complaints Commission after raising the issue on Twitter.
She has recruited the support of fellow BBC star Stephen Fry and her friend Location Location Location presenter Kirstie Allsopp.
And the issue has sparked consternation on Twitter, with the micro...Read Full Story
JJB Sports, the struggling high street retailer, is embarking on a boardroom shake-up that will see chairman John Clare step down to make way for Mike McTighe, a former chief of global operations at Cable & Wireless.Clare, a former chief executive at Dixons, has been at the company for a year after taking over as acting chairman from David Jones, who retired owing to ill health in January.It is understood that McTighe has been recruited for his corporate restructuring skills.JJB also plans to...Read Full Story
Clare Balding has spoken of her relief after learning she requires no more treatment after suffering from thyroid cancer.
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Sports presenter Clare Balding will be publishing her childhood memoirs later this year. “My animals and other family” will be available to buy on 13 September. “By the time I was 10 I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss,” said Clare.
Clare Balding's richly-earned reputation for coolness under pressure could be drowned in a bucketful of tears on her final Derby for BBC TV on Saturday. While prepared for any outcome, Balding concedes that the one which would stretch her emotions to ...
I didn’t just grow up with horses, I wanted to be one. It seemed to me that around my way, they were very well treated. My father was a racehorse trainer, as were two of my uncles, both my grandfathers and my great-grandfather. My childhood was played ...
The Ration Book Olympics by Clare Balding, John Goodbody's History of the Olympics and Start the Car by David LloydThe Ration Book Olympics presented by Clare Balding (56mins, Audio Go, £9.25)Had they known in 2005 that the London Olympics closing ceremony alone was going to cost £90m, would Seb and his entourage have been quite so jubilant? Maybe someone should have advised them to take a look at the accounts of the 1948 London Olympics...
Breakfast with the Stars, hosted by Clare Balding and Nick Luck, took place early Thursday morning at Epsom Downs Racecourse, eight days ahead of the start of the Derby Festival. The Group 1 Oaks headlines on the first day, June 1, Ladies' Day ...
BBC presenter Clare Balding has given her tips for Saturday racing at Aintree, with her 2012 Grand National tips certain to prove popular with punters. Last month saw Clare pick out a number of winners during the Cheltenham Festival and thousands of her ...
BBC presenter Clare Balding has given her tips for Saturday racing at Aintree, with her 2012 Grand National tips certain to prove popular with punters. Last month saw Clare pick out a number of winners during the Cheltenham Festival and thousands of her ...
BBC presenter Clare Balding has given her tips for Friday's racing at Aintree on Ladies' Day at the 2012 Grand National meeting. Last month saw Clare pick out a number of winners during the Cheltenham Festival and thousands of her Twitter followers have ...
The BBC sports presenter spoke out in defence of Mary Beard, the classicist and presenter of BBC Two series Meet The Romans, after Gill said Beard was too ugly for the cameras. Gill made the ungentlemanly remark in his television review column for The ...
It was in the same column two years ago that he mocked Miss Balding – who is in a civil partnership with Radio 4 newsreader Alice Arnold – calling her ‘a dyke on a bike’ in a review of her travel programme, Britain By Bike. Her subsequent complaint ...