Balding to host BBC news quiz

Sports presenter Clare Balding has been lined up as a guest host for Have I Got News For You when the series returns next month.

Balding, one of the stars of the BBC’s Olympics coverage for her slick performances, will take her place in the chair when the satirical show comes back on October 12.

She is the first of 10 guests who will officiate on the show which has famously had a revolving array of presenters since the departure of Angus Deayton a decade ago.

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