{"id":694910,"date":"2026-07-16T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694910\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:55:09","slug":"claudia-winkleman-quits-chat-show-after-one-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694910\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Winkleman quits chat show after one series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claudia Winkleman has announced she is quitting the BBC chat show she launched earlier this year after one series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The TV presenter, who stepped down from Strictly Come Dancing last year and also hosts The Traitors, fronted seven episodes of the chat show, which was made by Graham Norton&#8217;s production company. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, Winkleman said she was &#8220;incredibly grateful to the BBC&#8221; for commissioning the programme, but had ultimately been &#8220;too nervous to enjoy it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe one day I will give it another try, but for now I already have the best jobs in the world and absolutely love the shows I&#8217;m doing,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During its seven-week run in the spring, Winkleman interviewed guests such as Lisa Kudrow, Jeff Goldblum, Niall Horan and Rachel Zegler. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ralph Fiennes, James McAvoy, Jamie Dornan, Vanessa Williams and incoming Strictly co-host Josh Widdicombe were among the other guests on the sofa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In her statement, Winkleman said: &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to the BBC for giving me the opportunity, to the guests who agreed to come and chat to me, and the production team who were simply excellent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes you have to try something to see how it fits, and I realised I was just too nervous to enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most episodes of The Claudia Winkleman Show attracted an average combined audience of between 1.5m and 2m viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudia Winkleman has announced she is quitting the BBC chat show she launched earlier this year after one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}