Clare Balding is happily married to wife Alice Arnold – but it hasn’t always been rosy for the couple.
Presenter Clare, 54, has been a staple on screens for years – hosting the likes of Wimbledon, the Olympics, Channel 4’s Paralympics and America’s Biggest Dog Show: Westminster 2025 – which is on today (April 12).
Away from the showbiz and TV world, Clare lives a very wholesome personal life. She is in a happy marriage to her wife, Alice Arnold, 63, – who she has been with for more than two decades.
But when did they first get together? Who was Clare’s “handsome” army officer boyfriend? And why did Alice threaten to leave Clare? Here, we’re taking a look inside the couple’s romance.
Clare’s ex previously proposed to her (Credit: Lorraine/YouTube)
Clare Balding had ‘handsome’ boyfriend before wife Alice
Before finding love with Alice, when Clare was younger, she struck up a romance with a “so damn handsome” army officer, who was on leave.
The pair met at a party – and it seemed Clare was smitten, as she told MailOnline in 2012 that when he kissed her, “my knees went trembly”.
Clare and her army officer continued their romance, albeit long-distance – and he eventually asked her to marry him, just before he headed to the first Gulf War.
However, when he had returned “it had become clear that we were better in long-distance letters than we were in person. He did not propose again”.
The pair have been together for years (Credit: SplashNews.com)
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