Clare Balding is working 'smarter' and focusing on 'quality' not quantity
Clare Balding has revealed how her approach to work has changed over the years.
Clare Balding is glad to be doing "far less work" than she did earlier in her career.
The 55-year-old sports broadcaster started her career in 1994 with BBC National Radio and made her TV debut covering Royal Ascot the following year, before building her reputation presenting the likes of the Olympic Games and Wimbledon, but now she's happy to be slowing down.
She told the Daily Mail newspaper: "I do far less work now than I did in my forties, thirties and twenties. But I hope it's better quality as I work smarter and I can combine things.
"If I've got to do book events, I'll tie it in with something else.
"I wish I'd learned the art of enjoying the moment sooner, that is something that I am really so much better at now. And taking time and appreciating what's around me and wanting to be home more, to be honest."
Clare is now getting to spend more time at home with her wife Alice Arnold, and she's glad to have struck a balance.
She explained: "I mean, I love my work and I love the variety of my work, but I also am very appreciative and better at being present.
"Maybe that's something that always comes with age, you'd be a pretty unusual teenager if you could do that, I think."
Clare first met radio star Alice, 64, when they were both working for the BBC in 1999, and they entered a civil partnership seven years later before officially tying the knot in 2015.
Clare credits "trust, honesty and laughter" with their happy relationship, and they "enjoy doing the same things to relax".
She added: "But also we have the same work ethic, Alice works for Mellow Magic, she's a radio person through and through.
"She totally understands the broadcast environment and she's very honest with me and will say if she thinks I haven't done something well or could do it better, so I think there's that level of trust and honesty."
