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'''Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman''' (born 15 January 1972) is an English television and radio presenter, writer, and journalist. She has presented various television shows for [[BBC]], including'' [[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' (2010–present), and [[The Traitors (British TV series)|''The Traitors'']] (2022–present). She previously hosted the Saturday mid-mornings show on [[BBC Radio 2]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-02 |title=Claudia Winkleman quits BBC Radio 2 show |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67600011 |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Claudia Winkleman to quit Saturday morning BBC Radio 2 show {{!}} Radio 2 {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/02/claudia-winkleman-to-quit-saturday-morning-bbc-radio-2-show |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=amp.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-02 |title=Claudia Winkleman steps down from Saturday show on Radio 2: 'It's been a privilege' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/claudia-winkleman-radio-2-bbc-b2457267.html |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>
Winkleman has been nominated three times for the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance]] for her work on ''Strictly Come Dancing''. She received her fourth [[Bafta|BAFTA]] nomination and first win for her work on the reality show ''The Traitors.''
==Early life==
Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman<ref>The Cambridge University List of Members of the university (up to 31 December 1991), Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 1491</ref> was born into a [[British Jews|Jewish]] family in the [[Westminster]] district of London on 15 January 1972,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/claudia-winkleman-fans-shock-reveals-25960865 |last=Johns |first=Victoria |date=2022-01-16 |title=Claudia Winkleman fans in shock as she reveals age on her birthday on BBC Radio 2 show |newspaperurl=Sundayhttps://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/claudia-winkleman-fans-shock-reveals-25960865 Mirror|dateurl-status=16live January|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226003404/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/claudia-winkleman-fans-shock-reveals-25960865 |archive-date=2022-12-26 |access-date=2024-06-09 |newspaper=Sunday Mirror |language=en}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080629202627/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/claudia-winkleman/claudia-winkleman-take-it-from-me-853417.html Take It From Me] ''[[The Independent]]''. 25 June 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2009.</ref> the daughter of author and journalist [[Eve Pollard]] and her husband Barry Winkleman. She grew up in the [[Hampstead]] area of London. Her parents divorced when she was three,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-11 |title=Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman in fight to save |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/strictly-come-dancing-host-claudia-winkleman-in-fight-to-save-troublehit-marriage-6861222.html |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref> and both married other people when she was seven.{{cn|date=October 2020}} Her mother married newspaper editor [[Nicholas Lloyd]], while her father married children's author Cindy Black.{{cn|date=October 2020}}
Her father's marriage to Black gave her a younger half-sister, actress [[Sophie Winkleman]], who would later marry [[Lord Frederick Windsor]]. Her mother's marriage to Lloyd gave her a younger half-brother, Oliver.<ref>{{cite web |last=Shillcock |first=Francesca |date=2023-09-16 |title=Claudia Winkleman's family: meet StrictlyThe Piano star's famous husband, royal sister and kids |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/502524/claudia-winkleman-family-husband-details-children-royal-sister/ |publisherurl-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240330200405/https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/502524/claudia-winkleman-family-husband-details-children-royal-sister/ |archive-date=16 September 20232024-03-30 |access-date=22023-04-02 April|website=Hello! 2023|language=en}}</ref> She was educated at the [[City of London School for Girls]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Claudia Winkleman|url=http://www.mydaughter.co.uk/girls-schools/advocates/claudia-winkleman|date=2009|publisher=Girls' Schools Association|website=mydaughter.co.uk|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225161136/http://www.mydaughter.co.uk/girls-schools/advocates/claudia-winkleman|archive-date=25 February 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and [[Murray Edwards College, Cambridge|New Hall, Cambridge]], where she obtained an [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] in [[art history]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/presenters/claudia-winkleman|title=BBC profile|publisher=BBC|access-date=24 January 2011|archive-date=27 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127031126/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/presenters/claudia-winkleman/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Television career==
===2001–2006===
Winkleman's first major television job was in 2001, on the regional discussion programme ''[[Central Weekend]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/2010/team |title=BBC biography |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101165404/http://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/2010/team/ |archive-date=1 January 2011 }}</ref> Between 2002 and 2004, Winkleman began her first daily TV role when she hosted the [[BBC Three]] Entertainment update show ''[[Liquid News]]'', taking over from [[Christopher Price (broadcaster)|Christopher Price]] on the now defunct [[BBC Choice]]. She shared the presenting duties with [[Colin Paterson]], and later [[Paddy O'Connell]]. The show featured celebrity interviews.
In 2003, ''[[Fame Academy]]'' appointed Winkleman to present a daily update show on [[BBC Three]], in conjunction with its second series. She repeated the show in 2005 for the much shorter celebrity version ''[[Comic Relief Does Fame Academy]]''. Also in 2005, Winkleman co-hosted ''[[The House of Tiny Tearaways]]'', a BBC Three reality TV show. She also began hosting ''[[Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two]]'', a supplementary programme to ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'', taking over from [[Justin Lee-Collins]].
Winkleman then presented several more [[reality television|reality shows]] including ''End of Story'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/endofstory|title=End of Story|publisher=BBC|access-date=24 January 2011}}</ref> and ''Art School''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/08_august/10/art.shtml|title=Art School|publisher=BBC|access-date=24 January 2011}}</ref>
===2007–2012===
On 2 April 2013, Winkleman began presenting the [[BBC Two]] sewing competition ''[[The Great British Sewing Bee]]'', until 2016. The show went off air for 2017, but was brought back in 2018, with [[Joe Lycett]] replacing Winkleman as presenter.<ref name="RTimes">{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-06-22/great-british-sewing-bee-2018-confirmed-bbc-series-back/#:~:text=Claudia%20Winkleman%20will%20no%20longer,Bake%20Off%20judge%20Mary%20Berry. | title=The Great British Sewing Bee WILL be back – but Claudia Winkleman won't be presenting | publisher=RadioTimes | date=June 22, 2018 | access-date=August 3, 2020}}</ref>
In 2015, she appeared on ''[[The Big Fat Quiz of the Year|The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz (2015) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/548f6c795c8f7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203083321/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/548f6c795c8f7 |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2020 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=27 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> In May 2015, she appeared on an episode of ''[[Watchdog (TV programme)|Watchdog]]'' on [[BBC One]] in which she discussed, during a segment on dangerous Halloween costumes, that the previous year her daughter had been badly burned when the costume she was wearing caught fire.<ref>{{cite news |title=Claudia Winkleman relives Halloween fire that injured daughter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32723504 |access-date=25 May 2015 |work=BBC News |date=13 May 2015}}</ref> In November 2016, Winkleman presented the one-off BBC special ''Bublé at the BBC'' with [[Michael Bublé]].
From 2018, she presented ''[[Best Home Cook|Britain's Best Home Cook]]'' and ''The Makeover Show''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/britains-best-cook?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_press_office&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=corporate|title=BBC - BBC One announces Britain's Best Cook (w/t), with Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman|website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> for [[BBC One]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/news/a829737/claudia-winkleman-host-new-series-the-makeover-show-bbc/ |title=Claudia Winkleman will host new Changing Rooms-style series The Makeover Show on the BBC |date=June 2017 |publisher=Digitalspy.com |access-date=2019-05-30}}</ref> In May 2018, Winkleman co-presented ''The Biggest Weekend'' on [[BBC Two]] and [[BBC Radio 2]].
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