Clare Balding to appear on Celebrity Traitors debut tonight

Clare Balding, a veteran broadcaster best known for fronting coverage of major sporting events, will appear on the celebrity edition of the competition series Celebrity Traitors when it debuts tonight, October 8. Balding, 54, is one of 18 well known figures who will gather in a Scottish Highlands castle to compete as Traitors or Faithfuls for a prize fund of up to 100,000 to be awarded to the winners' chosen charities.

Balding has built a high-profile television career since moving from radio into TV in the mid 1990s. She began as a radio trainee in 1994 and by 1995 was presenting highlights of Royal Ascot. She has since fronted coverage of Wimbledon, the Olympics, the Grand National and national awards programmes, and was appointed lead host at Wimbledon in 2023. On Celebrity Traitors she will be joined by a mixed cast that includes Stephen Fry, Olympic champion Tom Daley, Jonathan Ross, Kate Garraway, Alan Carr, Paloma Faith and Celia Imrie.

Away from broadcasting, Balding has spoken publicly about lifestyle changes and wellbeing. She has credited adopting walking as her primary exercise for losing 1.5 stone, saying that regular long walks are "not a painful sort of exercise...