Welcome to ClareCon!

As we speak, Clare has taken time out of her recurring position of MC and host of the Starfury Angel event, Quor'toth and her appearance at these events has become an integral part of the weekend's success. Since her first appearance at Bad Girls in November 2001, Clare embraces her connection with the fans wholeheartedly and has invoked such affection that the convention scene would definitely not seem the same without her. So what is it that keeps bringing her back time and time again? "The thing about the UK convention is it's like going to summer camp," she raves, "it's like you've been away, you haven't talked to these people, you haven't seen them then you come and you have so much to share and as an actor it's really nice to hear feedback and it's nice to give people answers to questions they may ask. For me, I have found a bigger social scene here you know where I just really enjoy the girls that are the guest liaisons and I'm good friends with Sean [Harry]. I enjoy just coming here and that's the bottom line and I feel like 'I'm going to camp and I think yay I get to see my friends."

Clare has not only attended numerous events in the UK but many around the world and a lot of them have been with a number of familiar faces. I asked Clare if she had made friends with other cast members as a result of the con scene? "Yes Julie Benz (Darla), Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy) and it turns out I've known Sarah [Thompson] (Eve) for like eleven years and it just so happens she got on Angel, I was on Buffy and now we're together here," she says, "and then there's Andy Hallett, I love Andy! There are people you know even though you're on set with them you don’t get to know them really in a social kind of way because you're working but now these are like my social friends and it's true that at my birthday party last year there were a ton of Buffy people and some were saying wow what a tight cast but really it has nothing to do with that, it's more that we've all got together for other reasons.”

With her status as convention veteran firmly established, if Clare had the chance to organise and run her own convention – ClareCon – what would she do? “I'd do The X Files Con,” Clare responds without hesitation, “Oh my God, I love David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. I love that show and when I was in New York, I watched it religiously but when I moved to California I had no TV for like the first year so I didn't get to watch it but that would be my con. So guest wise, I'd have David and Gillian and Cancer Man. There is something about that show and I haven't really found a replacement for it, like I've tried to watch different shows but the chemistry between them two was so good.”