Clare Balding gets on my man tits. yes, I know that's pretty random, there are other evil people in the world that deserve my abject vehemence, But Clare Balding really does my head in. I think she is a corporate robot from the BBC effects dept. Shut up Clare.
And bikes, caught a bit of her on a Britain by bike programme on BBCFour. I tuned in to see if there was anything interesting on it, turned out she was on it so i quickly tuned out.
I for one think she's OK. Her winter Olympics coverage was very good and she seems to be more 'real' than alot of image obsessed TV presenters. There are few enough women in prominent positions in society, yet they make up 50% of us. It seems unkind for her to be judged on her looks.
She's a monster. End of. If the One show can go to all that effort to get another good looking girl on then surely BBC Sport can do the same and get shot of Balding, Barker etc… (although that little Scottish lass who does the snooker I quite like).
So you are judging Balding on her looks not on her skills or knowledge.
Nah, I'm judging her on being a hypocritical superficially obsessed **** based on her interview with that winning jockey where she said to him that he'd be able to buy some nicer teeth now.
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She is more knowledgeable and deserving of a role as a TV sports presenter than many men (as is Gabby!). Problem is, talented presenters then turn up on a variety of programmes and viewers get bored of them…
No idea why she's fronting a series on bicycle touring. Clearly, she is virtually unable to actually ride a bicycle, let alone make any swift or graceful progress.
Gabby Logan would be a much better presenter than CB for a lot of sports, she seems genuinly enthusiastic and knowledgable. CB should just stick to the horses if thats what she knows, she seems to have little knowledge of anything else.
The whole presenting line up for the winter olympics was a disaster IMO, a complete lack of knowledge and very little enthusiasm for the sports themselves, only ever getting excited about British performers rather than apreaciating the best performers. The poor Canadian girl who was brought in as an expert must have wondered what the fork was going on.
There are few enough women in prominent positions in society, yet they make up 50% of us. It seems unkind for her to be judged on her looks.
I agree. My problem is however that she is on almost everything, why not give more women the opportunity to present instead of the BBC having seemingly found a presenter they like and putting her on the TV/Radio at every opportunity. Commenting on things she clearly knows nothing about.
Clare is a presenting god compared to almost all the mail sports presenters on tv. She is also very good on the radio 4 programmes that she presents. What she looks like is unimportant, unless your view of presenters is how hard your rod gets.
I think she is a good presenter but no idea why she's doing that cycle touring show as she doesn't seem to belong on one and every time she gets to a hill starts moaning – much as I do to be fair….
Plenty of idiot male sports presenters on telly that are just as annoying.
Btw the jockey/teeth thing she admitted as a horrible gaffe. Since having your teeth bashed in is a common occupational hazard for jockeys, she assumed that the guy's mangled gob was a badge of honour for his sport. It wasn't, those are just his natural teeth. I think she felt terrible about it afterwards 🙂
Somebody like Mark Lawrenson is equally as bad and if someone was to say he was useless and annoying then people wouldnt try and defend him on the basis of him being an ugly bastard and that criticism of him is because he is an ugly bastard and not eye candy. So Balding being an ugly lesbian is immaterial to how useless and annoying she is.
Only sports presenter i find more annoying than Balding is John Inverdale…that bastard got bbc lawyers to threaten libel action against me for a comment i posted about him on an internet forum 😀
I overhead him say something on an open mike (live broadcast on the bbc had finished but it was still being broadcast over course radio) and I repeated what he said. Cant go anything further than that!
I think she does a great job – she did a good Radio4 series recently about the SDW.
I think the thing with being a presenter is that you have to be able to present. There's no point putting someone who knows everythign about a sport/activity in front of a camera if they can't articulate that knowledge in a way that enthuses and engages others.
He denied it and as no complaints had been made and there was not recording it was basically my word against his. The course radio was not public access but for marshal use and international broadcasters so the audience would be in the 10s rather than 1000s but despite the small audience I know others heard it – i was laughing about what he said with them at the time! I would have been able to get someone to corroborate what i'd heard but like the shitebag i am i figured it was really not worth the hassle particularly with the way libel laws are like in this country so retracted.
I like her, she is very good, although I don't fancy her. It is allowed to have TV presenters that you do not necessarily fancy. Oh and the Jockeys teeth incident was very funny.
