BAFTA-winning presenter Claudia Winkleman has been on our screens since the early 1990s, and married her husband Kris Thykier shortly after the turn of the millennium.
Best known as the co-presenter of Strictly Come Dancing, her popularity has soared in recent years following the launch of BBC One reality show The Traitors and Channel 4’s The Piano, the final of which is on tonight (May 25).
The official lineup of Celebrity Traitors’ first series is out now. It features some of the most colossal names in contemporary British TV, including Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross.
Her least favourite presenting gig was on the Channel 4 comedy panel show King Of, of which even her parents didn’t approve. Can’t win ’em all, hey Claud?
Claudia’s popularity has increased since The Traitors (Credit: Splashnews.com)
Claudia Winkleman’s biggest turn-off with husband Kris
The superstar TV presenter appeared on the Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble and James Acaster in 2020, and the atmosphere of jovial bonhomie loosened her tongue.
Each episode, Ed and James ask their guest whether they would serve still or sparkling water at their dream restaurant. What came next took them by surprise.
I won’t have it.
“I don’t like or believe in water, I won’t have it,” she said. “If you’re walking towards my table and there’s a water glass, it’s a solid ‘no’. I’ve never knowingly had water,” she joked. “I don’t like it. I won’t have it around.
“My husband drinks great amounts of water and I really like him but it’s problematic. He’s glugging. Don’t touch me,” she said. “‘Claud, take your bra off.’ I don’t think so – you should be ashamed of yourself.”
Claudia certainly has a sense of humour. She once said her look was based on that of a hypothetical mature French university student (Credit: ITV)
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