Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to step down as Strictly Come Dancing hosts

Strictly Come Dancing hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly have announced they are leaving the BBC dance programme.

In a joint statement shared on Instagram on Thursday, the co-hosts said they would be leaving the show together at the end of the current series.

“We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream,” they said.

“We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.

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“We 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’re the most brilliant team and we’ll miss them every day.

“We will cry when we say the last “keep dancing” but we will continue to say it to each other. Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza.”

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