Claudia Winkleman
Claudia Winkleman was born in London, England, United Kingdom on January 15th, 1972 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 52, Claudia Winkleman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Television career
She appeared on television shows like Holiday in 1992, and she stayed on top of it into the mid-1990s. This culminated in a special documentary in which she traveled around the world for 34 days reporting from Japan, India, Costa Rica, and Dubai. During this period, she appeared on other shows, including This Morning interviewing various celebrities. Winkleman produced a number of programs on smaller digital television networks in the late 1990s. She appeared on L!VE TV for a brief period of time but then moved to pursue other projects. Winkleman hosted Granada's God's Gift (taking over from Davina McCall) and Pyjama Party in 1996 (co-hosted with Katie Puckrik and Michelle Kelly).
In addition, Winkleman's Gameshow on Three's a Crowd, LWT's Talking Telephone Numbers, the second series of Granada TV series God's Gift and Fanorama, the second series. She appeared on Saturday morning television show Tricky as the co-host. She was also a regular team captain on a gameshow called HeadJam, hosted by Vernon Kay.
Winkleman's first big television appearance came in 2001 on the regional discussion show Central Weekend. Winkleman hosted the BBC Three Entertainment update show Liquid News from 2002 to 2004, taking over from Christopher Price on the now defunct BBC Choice. She worked with Colin Paterson and later Paddy O'Connell, sharing in the presentation roles. Celebrity interviews were included in the show.
In 2003, the Fame Academy selected Winkleman to host a daily update show on BBC Three in conjunction with the company's second series. She appeared on the program in 2005 for the much shorter version of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy. Winkleman co-hosted The House of Tiny Tearaways, a BBC Three reality TV show that premiered in 2005. She also started hosting Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, a supplemental program to Strictly Come Dancing, taking over from Justin Lee-Collins.
Winkleman also appeared on several other reality shows, including End of Story and Art School.
Many prime time shows were hosted by Winkleman. In 2007, she took over from Cat Deeley as the main host of the third series of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, co-hosting with Patrick Kielty. In September and again in 2008, she co-hosted the inaugural Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 with Graham Norton for BBC One. She co-presented the UK selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, entitled Eurovision: Your Decision, with Eurovision stalwart Terry Wogan assisting. Winkleman revived her friendship with Kielty in March 2008 when the pair hosted the final leg of Sport Relief 2008.
Winkleman appeared in 2007 for the 79th Academy Awards, repeating it for the 80th Academy Awards. The performance was broadcast live in conjunction with the ceremony itself, from the dark to the early hours of the morning. Winkleman has appeared on panel and talk shows, including: Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Would I Lie to You, Have I Got News for You, Jonathan Ross and Lily Allen and Friends. She appeared on the British version of the comedy improvisational show Thank God You're Here, hosted by Paul Merton in February 2008.
Winkleman narrated the BBC Three show Glamour Girls, a documentary series focusing on Britain's glamorous industry.
Winkleman was introduced as the host of the forthcoming series of Hell's Kitchen on ITV1 in March 2009. In its fourth season, she appeared on the restaurant in East London's nightly show live from the restaurant. Due to main host Bruce Forsyth's sick leave, she appeared on the main show of Strictly Come Dancing on November 14, 2009, she was unable to perform backstage on November 14th. Tess Daly and guest host Ronnie Corbett co-hosted the show.
She was announced on March 29 as one of the new co-presenters of the Film Festival, replacing Jonathan Ross. Winkleman, a devoted and engaging advocate of cinema, and her partner Kris Thykier is a film director with credits on several mainstream publications, according to the Guardian.
Winkleman began presenting the BBC Two sewing competition The Great British Sewing Bee on April 2nd, 2013. The show went off air for 2017, but it was revived in 2018 with Joe Lycett replacing Winkleman as the host.
In 2015, she appeared on The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz. She appeared on BBC One in May 2015 in which she discussed that her daughter had been badly burned during a segment on Halloween costume that had caught fire. In November 2016, Winkleman presented the one-off BBC special Bublé with Michael Bublé on the BBC.
For BBC One, she starred on Britain's Best Home Cook and The Makeover Show from 2018. On BBC Two and BBC Radio 2, Winkleman co-presented The Biggest Weekend in May 2018.
It Takes Two: It's been designed as a companion program to run with Strictly Come Dancing's second season, and it's still runs to date. The host, along with a group of dance experts, assorted guests, and the competitors themselves, follows a similar model to the one that Winkleman created on Fame Academy, which sees the presenter deliberating and dissecting the ins and outs of the main competition. Throughout the course of the series, the show is aired every weekday at 6:30 p.m. on BBC Two.
It Takes Two: Winkleman hosted It Takes Two from the beginning. Ex contestant Zoe Ball assumed the role as host from Winkleman in 2011.
Winkleman became co-host of Strictly Come Dancing's Sunday night results show, co-presenting with Tess Daly. Following Bruce Forsyth's departure, Winkleman's role on Strictly Come Dancing shifted to presenting the main show in 2014.