Over-exposed

Agreed ! My son made that exact same comment about Clare Balding last night. And does a day ever go by without Simon Cowell getting a mention in the Press?

You can't really compare Clare Balding and the egregious Simon Cowell!
She seems to be up to any call on her talents - very good on QI for example.

Caroline Quentin is getting on my nerves.

Oh, I so agree, merlot...

I think Fiona Bruce is a very poor news reader actually. She's OK as a presenter but she reads the news badly - quite often "gabbles" and over-emphasises things. It's funny how distracting it is! Personal opinion of course - some must like her style.

Women bashing again?

It's Philip Schofield that seems to be showing up everywhere when I put the TV on.

Gagagran, I'm with you on Fiona Bruce's reading of the news. She drives me mad for just the reason you gave.

Oh yes! Caroline Quentin is too gushy by half - she drives me mad. I quite like Fiona Bruce but can't seem to take my eyes off her eyebrows for some reason . Do you remember Angela Rippon on Ernie and Wise - that was the start of newsreaders 'breaking-out'. I think Kenneth Kendall left the news desk and went on to greater(?) things too as did John Suchet - they're all at it!

Have a soft spot for John Suchet, Gally Lovely man.

At one time it used to be Carol Vorderman & Carol Smillie on everything

I'd forgotten about Carol Smilie.

And that is my point Tegan with overexposure. Forgetting about Carols Vorderman and Smillie as we saw them in everything we got fed up so lets overexpose the next flavour of the month. Just listening to Radio 4 - and an ad for a programme with blooming Clair Balding - again.

Nicki Chapman. Bad enough on Escape to the Country and Wanted Down Under, but at the Chelsea Flower she just has to be fast-forwarded.

I like Claire Balding, and the radio 4 programme being advertised was Ramblings, which she has done for some time now, I love it and it suits her character, I can recommend it, I record the series on my TV. I'd rather have her than Julia Bradbury , who is another one who keeps popping up. She was on The Apprentice last night, and came across really badly on 'Come Dine With Me' a while back.

Mylene Klass is another who pops up in all sorts of things.
I remember back in the 60s that every time we switched the TV on, there was Millicent Martin, went on for ages, then suddenly, she wasn`t seen anymore.

I last saw Millicent Martin as Daphne's mother in a late episode of Frasier.

Kim Kardashian. Who is she? Actually I don't care, can someone just make her go away please!

Oh yes, anno, I remember that! She had the most appalling accent - worse than Daphne's!

And there is, of course, Cheryl Cole...Have to agree about Clare Balding. I've been a fan of hers ever since we used to chat to her at Uttoxeter Races and, being a racing fan I've followed her career for years. But I am getting tired of seeing her popping up all over the place. Having said that, unlike the obvious cases of people doing chat shows [anyone remember the short lived Nigella Lawson one?] whatever Clare turns her hand to she is brilliant at it [just hope she doesn't do a chat show].

I can put up with an awful lot of Clare Balding, she's someone I feel I would really like if I met her (and I loved her book) I used to like Caroline Quentin, but then she did her dreadful series about Cornwall with all the awful people in boutique hotels and second home owners playing at being Cornish (Bitter? Moi?)

I watch anything and everything about Cornwall because I used to live there and I love the place, but I watched the first programme she made about Cornwall and never watched it again. As for Clare, I've always felt that she's someone I could sit in a pub with and have a jolly good natter [which is probably the secret of being a god television presenter]. As I've said before, I had a lovely letter from her years ago when she first started presenting the racing on the BBC and she thanked me for thanking her for presenting what had been a very difficult programme that day; what came across was how grateful she was for the input as to how well she was doing her job, as if, right from the start all she wanted to do was perfect her craft.

I like Clare Balding, she comes across as very down to earth. My mother would love this topic as she doesn't like ANYONE on TV.

Clare had a torrid time when the BBC didn't renew her contract and she had to become freelance, but then that's when she branched out into lots of other things.