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Clare Balding feared losing out on top TV jobs because of her sexuality

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BEFORE becoming one of telly’s top presenters, Clare Balding feared she’d never get a major role at the BBC because of her sexuality.

The worries led her to hide that she was gay for almost ten years while working at the Beeb in the Nineties. She said: “I was brought up to think that the only ‘acceptable’ relationship meant being married to a man, with a big wedding in a church. “I was worried that if people discovered I was in a relationship with a woman I would get insulted or even that I might be discriminated against when it came to choosing presenters for big events and programmes on TV.

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