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Clare Balding is irritating AIBU?

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Vera87 · 08/02/2026 21:01

Clare Balding can we have one sporting event without this woman. Wimbledon we ended up with her and now the bloody Winter Olympics have her. Next thing is she will be presenting Match of the Day. She pretends she knows literally everything annoyingly about tennis and now about skiing. Bore off. BBC can’t get anymore talent.
This woman came from horse racing commentating now she’s bloody everywhere not just sports. Highly irritating

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Applecharlotte2 · 08/02/2026 21:25

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:22

Wonder what she would be like in hells kitchen eh? 😆 🤣

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She was real goodie goodie in traitors

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:25

ClareBaldingsMum · 08/02/2026 21:04

You ABVVVvVvVvVvVvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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Calm the ham maw!! 😂

Applecharlotte2 · 08/02/2026 21:24

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:15

😂😂😂 I seriously can't get over that! Poor woman!

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Oh I know

when she comes on the tv now I’m gonna say “oooo here’s Gordon’s smoother sister”

😂😂

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:22

Vera87 · 08/02/2026 21:21

And she is LITERALLY everywhere.
if I turn off I miss the sport I like

Wonder what she would be like in hells kitchen eh? 😆 🤣

Thedogscollar · 08/02/2026 21:22

ClareBaldingsMum · 08/02/2026 21:04

If you don’t like her turn off.

Omg I really really want you to be her Mum.
Yabvu OP I like CB and I even like her on Gogglebox which you forgot to mention OP

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Vera87 · 08/02/2026 21:21

And she is LITERALLY everywhere.
if I turn off I miss the sport I like

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Vera87 · 08/02/2026 21:20

I love Wimbledon and Sue barker was an ex pro and knew her stuff as does Annabel Croft who should have replaced her. I don’t dislike Balding I just find her everywhere and surely the BBC can find other ex pros of that sport

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Fingalscave · 08/02/2026 21:18

I like her. She does a good job presenting rugby league and obviously does her research. There are other sports presenters I can't stand whom other people probably like so, YANBU, it's just personal preference.

ramonaquimby · 08/02/2026 21:17

Lovely or not. Would be refreshing to have someone else presenting. She's everywhere

GinaXExperience · 08/02/2026 21:16

She was weirdly competitive on Countdown.

WearyAuldWumman · 08/02/2026 21:16

I remember the days when we were stuck with the same middle-aged men who only knew about football, but anchored any major sporting event.

I like Clare Balding. YABU.

Clearinguptheclutter · 08/02/2026 21:15

I think she’s excellent.

not relevant but I’m friends with a member of her extended family and he confirms that she is lovely

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:15

Applecharlotte2 · 08/02/2026 21:14

She does!

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😂😂😂 I seriously can't get over that! Poor woman!

Applecharlotte2 · 08/02/2026 21:14

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:13

Was a post the other day 😆 🤣. But honestly she actually looks like a smooth faced version of him 😆 🤣

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She does!

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:13

Fends · 08/02/2026 21:06

Eh?

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Was a post the other day 😆 🤣. But honestly she actually looks like a smooth faced version of him 😆 🤣

1apenny2apenny · 08/02/2026 21:11

She’s brilliant much better than the other commentator Kwakye who seems to know very little and just reads off her iPad. I find Clare enthusiastic and interested, she clearly does her research.

Applecharlotte2 · 08/02/2026 21:07

Fends · 08/02/2026 21:06

Eh?

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There wa a thread were someone said they hadn’t realised she was GR sister

NotMeAtAll · 08/02/2026 21:07

I like her.

Figcherry · 08/02/2026 21:06

I didn’t mind her until she was really rude to her partner on Gogglebox.

Fends · 08/02/2026 21:06

Flannelfeet · 08/02/2026 21:05

Is that not Gordon Ramseys sister? 🤣🤣🤣

Eh?

Zov · 08/02/2026 21:06

I like her. Confused

bornintelligent · 08/02/2026 21:05

I really like her . Absolutely nothing offensive about her.

KimHwn · 08/02/2026 21:05

She is brilliant and her Radio 4 programme on rambling was wonderful, sensitive and fascinating.

Applecharlotte2 · 08/02/2026 21:05

ClareBaldingsMum · 08/02/2026 21:04

If you don’t like her turn off.

Then you miss the sport you like

fashionqueen0123 · 08/02/2026 21:05

BishyBarnyBee · 08/02/2026 21:03

She's a skilled and intelligent commentator who does her research. Great to see a middle aged, non glamorous woman with a prominent role in television. YABU

I agree