{"id":245956,"date":"2025-10-23T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:36:09","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-hosts-tess-daly-and-claudia-winkleman-to-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245956\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cStrictly Come Dancing<\/a>\u201d presenters Tess Daly<\/a> and Claudia Winkleman<\/a> have announced their departure from the BBC series.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a video posted to both their Instagram accounts, the pair revealed they had made the joint decision to leave the show. \u201cThere have been some rumblings, and we want you to hear this from us,\u201d Winkleman began. \u201cAfter 21 wonderfully joyful years on \u2018Strictly,\u2019 we have decided that the time is right to step aside and pass on the baton,\u201d Daly continued. <\/p>\n

\n\tDaly has presented the dance competition series since its start in 2004, whereas Winkleman joined as her co-host in 2014 when Sir Bruce Forsyth left the show. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have loved working as a duo and hosting \u2018Strictly\u2019 has been an absolute dream. We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time,\u201d they continued in the video\u2019s caption. \u201cWe will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show. They\u2019re the most brilliant team and we\u2019ll miss them every day. We will cry when we say the last \u2018keep dancing\u2019 but we will continue to say it to each other. Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDaly added in her own statement on Instagram: \u201cThis isn\u2019t a goodbye to glitter, sequins or Saturday night sparkle (I could never say goodbye to those!). \u2018Strictly\u2019 will forever hold a special place in my heart \u2014 but it does feel like the right time to hand over the reins.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 23rd season of \u201cStrictly Come Dancing\u201d is currently airing on the BBC, with its finale set for Dec. 20. Daly and Winkleman will continue to host the show through the end of this season, and then the hunt will be on for the BBC to find new presenters. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always believed it\u2019s best to leave a party before you\u2019re fully ready to go and I know the new hosts will be magnificent, I look forward to watching them take \u2018Strictly\u2019 to new heights,\u201d Winkleman added in a separate post. \u201cAs for Tess \u2014 I\u2019m so so lucky I got to stand next to you. You\u2019re funny, kind, whip smart and a true friend and I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cStrictly Come Dancing\u201d presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman have announced their departure from the BBC series. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[134589,88,122808,134590,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-245956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-claudia-winkleman","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","11":"tag-tess-daly","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}