Clare Balding and wife Alice Arnold once shared the reason why Clare’s mum wasn’t too keen about Alice at the start of their romance.
TV favourite Clare – who is on screens for the Olympics tonight (August 4) and journalist Alice have been together for over two decades. After meeting for the first time in the late 1990s, the pair entered into a civil partnership in 2006, before getting married in 2015.
But it appears Clare’s mum had initial hesitations at the start of their romance.
Clare’s mum wasn’t impressed by Alice at first (Credit: SplashNews.com)
Clare Balding on mum’s ‘suspicions’ of wife
Back in February this year, Clare and Alice sat down for a candid and rare chat about their romance. Talking on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast, Alice said the pair were “destined to be together for a very long time.”
Clare also recalled how her mum wasn’t that keen on Alice at the start of their relationship.
“My mother, think, was a bit suspicious from early on as, A) Alice is from London,” Clare revealed, as Alice interjected: “And, wasn’t a country girl.”
Clare continued: “And secondly, she was an actress at that time and both of those things were a little bit, ‘ooh’.”
Clare Balding wife on ‘turning point’ with future in-law
Alice then chimed in and quipped: “I might as well have been a prostitute.” She then revealed that there was a ‘turning point’ in her relationship with Clare’s mum.
“I think she was wary of me, but then we had a sort of cottage down in the countryside that we rented from Clare’s uncle, and it was pouring with rain one day,” Alice said.
“And, I was out in the garden in, kind of, a boiler suit digging. And I think when she saw that she thought, ‘Oh you’re alright then. You can do digging in the garden’” she added.
“I think she forgave the actress thing because was prepared to get muddy,” Claire then said.
Alice and Clare have known each other for decades (Credit: SplashNews.com)
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