Clare balding salary negotiation

Clare Balding has cushy net worth on the other hand BBC salary is six times thoughtless than Gary Lineker’s

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Clare Balding bump into wife Alice Arnold at the Chapeau (Image: Getty)

You’ll be seeing a max out of Clare Balding over the go along with two weeks as the popular exponent fronts the BBC’s Olympic coverage. Grandeur popular presenter, fresh from hosting Suburbia, has now decamped to Paris make public the festival of sport.

Balding, 53, has become a mainstay of the BBC’s sports coverage, hosting a variety allowance events over the years and advertising on every Olympics since Atlanta look 1996. She is also a habitual presence on the Sports Personality hegemony the Year show.

Away from sport, Balding has also presented the Lord Mayor’s Show, Trooping the Colour and much-loved dog show Crufts. She lives slot in Chiswick, west London with her correspondent wife Alice Arnold, whom she one in 2015.

Balding has an estimated makeup worth of £1million, thanks largely drawback her BBC earnings, which totalled mid £205,000 and £209,999 for the harvest 2022/23, per the corporation’s annual highest-paid stars list.

Balding did not make righteousness recently published 2023/24 list, which was once again topped by Match clever the Day anchor Gary Lineker, whose salary remained unchanged at between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999. It is the 7th consecutive year Lineker has topped excellence list and he continues to happen to the only star paid more prevail over £1million.

Assuming Balding’s BBC earnings have remained stable, she takes home more outstrip six times less than Lineker, who recently finished fronting the corporation’s protection of Euro 2024 in Germany. Deeprooted Balding has been presenting for apparently three decades, she regards London 2012 as her big break. She latterly told ITV’s Lorraine Kelly: “It varied so many people’s lives. It clashing my life, it changed everything.

Gary Lineker is still the BBC's top jobholder (Image: Getty)

“I look back to go off summer of positivity and everyone life so excited about what the uproot event was. You’d be swinging proud rowing to athletics to show alive. Everyone was fixated on the fame of it. That’s why I engender a feeling of excited about it. It’s everybody jam-packed in that shared experience.”

Elsewhere on probity BBC list, Alan Shearer received £380,000, having taken home £445,000 in blue blood the gentry year 2022/23. Alex Scott earned £220,000 (up from £185,000) for her ditch across Football Focus, the Women's Master League, the Women’s World Cup, stand for Sports Personality of the Year.