Winkleman won a Bafta award in 2023 for her deadpan work on The Traitors, which returns in the New Year.

Alan Carr won the recent celebrity version, with the final episode being watched by a peak audience of 12 million, according to the BBC.

Until the success of the show, Winkleman was best known for co-presenting BBC One’s flagship celebrity dance contest, to which she has been bringing her warmth and wit in one form or another since 2004.

She first presented its spin-off show, It Takes Two, then began co-presenting the Sunday night results show alongside Daly in 2010.

It was 2014 when the pair first presented the main Saturday night show together, with Winkleman filling the big shoes of Bruce Forsyth.

The presenting duo announced in October that they will both be leaving at the end of the current series, with the Christmas Day special marking their final appearance.

“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,” they wrote in a joint statement on Instagram.

Last month Daly was honoured by the King, whose wife, Queen Camilla, last year revealed: “We all watch it. I’m one of Strictly’s greatest fans.”

Winkleman’s sister, Peep Show actress Sophie Winkleman, became a member of the Royal family herself after marrying Lord Frederick Windsor.