A friend of mine doesn’t like Claudia Winkleman. Hates her, in fact. (She’s too “knowingly quirky”, apparently.) It is such a rogue opinion that I never seem to be able to retain the information in my brain. Every time her name crops up – and it does more than you’d think, what with the presenter’s prime gigs co-hosting the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and latterly as the face of the phenomenally popular strategy gameshow The Traitors – he professes his disdain once more and I gape at him afresh as if it’s my first time hearing it.
“But how can you not like Claudia Winkleman?” I always ask, aghast. “She’s practically a national treasure!”
