Top UK sports and TV presenter Clare Balding has been given the all-clear for thyroid cancer. The plucky bright and fun presenter told BBC Radio 2's French and Saunders programme the news during rehearsal breaks for the current live TV show she co=presents with Chris Evans on Channel 4.
She told the comedy duo, she needed no more treatment since having a lymph node removed before Christmas, telling them she was "very happy" and looking forward to 2011 after receiving the news by letter from her oncologist.
The 39 year od had been receiving radioactive iodine treatment since having a cyst and her thyroid gland removed in 2009. Clare Balding told French and Saunders: "I had to have a little operation just before Christmas to take out a nasty little lymph node and there was a worry that I might have to have more treatment. "But I had a lovely letter from my oncologist just after Christmas saying, 'Hurrah, no more treatment', so I'm very happy about that." She added: "2011 is going to be a good one."
I say many congratulations to Clare on her all clear, she is a lovely presenter and really stands up for the rights of the gay community, especially when she took The Sunday Times and AA Gill to task over his derogatory comments regarding her sexuality in his TV review column. She complained to the editor, and the Press Complaints Commission. The PCC supported the case confirming the article broke the Editorial Code of Conduct and told the Sunday Times that they should have apologised 'at the earliest possibly opportunity'. As Clare says on her website, “The point I was making was that no person in any walk of life deserves to be judged on the basis of their sexuality but on their ability to do their job”
She is currently on screen live in Liverpool for Famous & Fearless on C4.
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