Now in it’s 21st series, Strictly Come Dancing, and, with it, the show’s co-presenter Claudia Winkleman, has become as much a part of Christmas as carols and crackers. With her famous eye-sweeping fringe, orange fake tan (her words) and quick humour, the 51-year-old says this is the decade where she’s really found her career ‘groove’.
‘I definitely feel more grateful in my 50s – both me my family. I don’t know whether we even used that word when I was young,’ says Winkleman, who has.