Strictly’s Claudia Winkleman set for own BBC chat show after pilot creates ‘buzz’ among Beeb bosses
STRICTLY host Claudia Winkleman is in line to get her own BBC chat show.
The presenter, 50, has filmed a pilot of The Claudia Winkleman Show with So Television, the team behind Graham Norton’s hit series.
It comes as her BBC1 psychological reality series The Traitors has been recommissioned for a second series, to be filmed in the spring.
A TV source said: “Claudia is fast becoming one of the most popular presenters on the Beeb.
“Her chat show pilot went down a storm with execs and there is a lot of buzz about it already.
“She has a razor-sharp wit and knows everyone in the industry, so she’d be perfect.”
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Despite her success, the mum-of-three, married to movie producer Kris Thykier, 50, still values her home life.
Claudia, who is the daughter of newspaper editor and TV personality Eve Pollard, 78, said: “I feel lucky for what I do but it’s a job, right?
“You take pride in it and you want to do well, but when you go home it’s all about, ‘Are we ordering a pizza or am I making a lasagne?’.
“I grew up with a newspaper editor as a mum and she never mentioned it.
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“She dealt with it and it was invisible to our lives. We would have egg and chips and watch Arsenal but we never knew what she did.
“She would just leave the house and come back in high heels smelling of perfume – she was amazing.”