I like Clare Balding! Admittedly, she's got unforgivably upper-class hair, and if she looked any posher she'd explode, but once you get past that she's rather professional, articulate and genuine. Mind you, the style crimes are hard to forgive, especially as she fancies herself as a bit of a fashion icon.
Apparently in Bejing she out drank all the blokes on a night out.
As one guy put it, "she was still going strong in the morning." Ooerr!