{"id":96440,"date":"2025-10-23T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:15:07","slug":"tess-daly-and-claudia-winkleman-to-leave-strictly-come-dancing-at-end-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96440\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to leave Strictly Come Dancing at end of series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The end of an era&#8217; &#8211; BBC chief content officerpublished at 12:18 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:18 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claudia and Tess hold hands in a Tango style position and smile to camera\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ec288695-1ad3-4c0a-8098-0ad562766276.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We can now bring you more from the BBC&#8217;s statement on Winkleman and Daly&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s chief content officer, Kate Phillips, calls it &#8220;the end of an era&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They\u2019ve both been such incredible hosts at the very heart of the show, their passion and dedication has gone above and beyond,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Executive producer Sarah James describes the pair as &#8220;quite simply the best duo of presenters in the business&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Strictly family is often referred to and these women are the matriarchs of that family,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have been together and supported each other for a long time &#8211; through pregnancies, births and deaths and to say we will all miss them terribly is an understatement,&#8221; she adds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The end of an era&#8217; &#8211; BBC chief content officerpublished at 12:18 BST 12:18 BST We can now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-96440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}