Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are hanging up their dancing shoes. After presiding over the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom for 21 and 11 years respectively, the presenting duo will depart the show when the current season ends in December, they confirmed today in a video shared on Instagram.
With Claud dressed in black and Tess in white, like a sort of light entertainment yin and yang, the colleagues said that they’d decided that the time was right to pass on the “very sparkly baton” to new blood. “We have loved working as a duo, and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream,” they said in a joint statement that accompanied their video. “We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.”
