Biography

Clare Balding was born on January 29, 1971 in Kingsclere, Hampshire, UK. She is an actress, known for London 2012: Games of the XXX Olympiad (2012), Dream Horse (2020) and Dark Money (2019). She has been married to Alice Arnold since 2015.

Equal marriage is a very exciting development and that's just affirmation of couples being able to be the same as everybody else and that's I think wonderful and joyful and gosh, there are going to be some good parties.

I believe in equality and I believe in freedom and I therefore believe in the right for people to do the job that they do without fear of prejudice, without fear of recrimination on any basis, whether that's race, religion, gender or sexuality, so for me to go to Russia, a country that doesn't yet believe that and hasn't got there yet, my statement is here am I, one of the three main presenters for the BBC on the Winter Olympics and I'm out and I'm proud and I'm happy and I'm doing my job and I think that's a stronger statement to make, for me personally, than to stay here. Because, frankly, if I stayed here no one in Russia's going to notice.

We can change the world and there are lots of ways, and boycotts have worked effectively in some situations but you all need to be doing it. It's not just about one individual and certainly not about the one gay presenter.