Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announce decision to leave Strictly Come Dancing
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman have announced that they will be to leaving Strictly after the latest series ends.
In an Instagram statement the pair said: “We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream. We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time. We will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show. They’re the most brilliant team and we’ll miss them every day. We will cry when we say the last “keep dancing” but we will continue to say it to each other. Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza. Tess & Claud”
Stockport’s Tess Daly has been a presenter on the show since 2004, working alongside the late Bruce Forsyth, who was a presenter until he stepped down in 2014.
Winkleman also joined the Strictly team in 2004, when she began presenting its spin-off show It Takes Two.