Claudia Winkleman Biography
Claudia Winkleman is a television presenter, radio personality, film critic, and journalist from England. Between 2004 and 2010, she hosted Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two on BBC Two on weeknights.
How old is Claudia Winkleman? – Age
She is 50 years 15 January 2022. She was born in 1972 in London, United Kingdom. Her real name is Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman.
Claudia Winkleman Family
Winkleman comes from a Jewish family and has no full siblings. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and they remarried four years later. Eve Pollard married Nicholas Lloyd and became Lady Lloyd in 1990. Cindy Black, a children’s author, later married Winkleman’s father. Sophie Winkleman, Winkleman’s half-sister from her father’s second marriage, is an actress who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor. Her mother’s second marriage resulted in a half-brother, Oliver Lloyd.
Claudia Winkleman Husband
Winkleman married film producer Kris Thykier at Marylebone Town Hall in June 2000. The couple has three kids. Winkleman’s then-eight-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital on October 31, 2014, after her Halloween costume caught fire.
Claudia Winkleman Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $12 Million.
Claudia Winkleman House
Winkleman’s peaceful life in a posh London village – house prices start at £1.8 million. All of the advantages of living in Westminster come at an understandably high cost. Smart luxury apartment blocks compete with Georgian townhouses for the highest prices, and “cheap options” are almost non-existent in Westminster. According to Rightmove, the average house price in Westminster over the last year was £1,800,067. The majority of sales in Westminster last year were flats, which sold for an average of £1,363,672. Terraced houses sold for an average of £3,404,852, while semi-detached houses sold for £7,588,801.
Claudia Winkleman BBC Radio 2
Winkleman hosted Hot Gossip, a six-part comedy quiz series that took a humorous look at the week’s celebrity gossip, in April and May 2008. The show aired on BBC Radio 2 on a Saturday afternoon, with points awarded to those who disheveled dirt. Many famous pundits appeared on the show, including Will Smith, Phil Nichol, Jo Caulfield, Rufus Hound, and Jonathan Ross’ brother, Paul.
Winkleman’s Arts Show, broadcast on BBC Radio 2 every Friday night between 10 p.m. and midnight, featured interviews with members of the arts community, as well as reviews and debate. Winkleman filled in for Dermot O’Leary in July 2010. From 2012 to 2014, she filled in for Ken Bruce on several occasions. In April 2016, she began hosting her own Sunday night show, Claudia, on BBC Radio 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. Winkleman filled in for Steve Wright in the afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m. in June 2017.
Claudia was displaced from the schedules on Sunday in 2020 and eventually ended due to the Coronavirus pandemic. On November 23, 2020, it was announced that Winkleman had taken over Graham Norton’s Saturday mid-morning slot on BBC Radio 2.
Claudia Winkleman Writing
Winkleman began her journalism career as a travel writer, writing columns about her various international trips. She did so in The Sunday Times and The Independent, but she also contributed in a similar capacity to the free daily London paper Metro. She traveled less as her television career and family grew, and she began to write more general work, opinion-led lifestyle journalism about womanhood, sex, and relationships. She contributed to Cosmopolitan and Tatler, among other publications. She wrote a weekly column for The Independent called Take It From Me between 2005 and 2008.
Claudia Winkleman Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two was created as a companion show to run concurrently with the second series of Strictly Come Dancing, and it is still running to this day. It follows a format similar to the one Winkleman popularized on Fame Academy, with the presenter deliberating and dissecting the main competition, accompanied by a variety of dance experts, assorted guests, and the competitors themselves. Throughout the series, the show airs every weekday at 6:30 p.m. on BBC Two.
Winkleman has hosted Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two since its inception. Former contestant Zoe Ball took over as host from Winkleman in 2011. In 2010, Winkleman joined Tess Daly as co-host of Strictly Come Dancing’s Sunday night results show. Following the departure of Bruce Forsyth in 2014, Winkleman’s role on Strictly Come Dancing expanded to include presenting the main show.
Claudia Winkleman TV Shows
♦ 1997 – Tricky
♦ 1997 – Talking Telephone Numbers
♦ 1998 – God’s Gift
♦ 2002–2004 – Liquid News
♦ 2003–2005, 2007 – Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
♦ 2004–2010 – Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two
♦ 2004 – HeadJam
♦ 2004 – Three’s A Crowd – Presenter
♦ 2005–2007 – The House of Tiny Tearaways
♦ 2007–2008 – Eurovision Dance Contest
♦ 2008 – Eurovision: Your Decision
♦ 2008 – Glamour Girls
♦ 2009–2015 – Comic Relief
♦ 2009 – Hell’s Kitchen
♦ 2010–2018 – Sport Relief
♦ 2010–2016 – Film…
♦ 2012–present – Strictly Come Dancing