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Tess Daly And claudia winkelmann Hanging up your dancing shoes. after presiding strictly come dance ballroom Presenting for 21 and 11 years respectively, the presenting pair will leave the show when the current season ends in December, He confirmed this in a video shared on Instagram today,
With Claude dressed in black and Tess in white, a light-hearted recreation of Yin and Yang, colleagues said they decided it was the right time to hand over the “very shiny baton” to new blood. “We love working as a duo and hosting strictly It’s been an absolute dream,” they said in a joint statement accompanying their video. “We were always meant to be together and now feels like the right time.”
out of all strictly come dance curveball This somehow seems the most shocking of all the times we have been thrown into recent times. Certainly, the past few seasons have been marred by high-profile, bullying allegations. BBC Inquiry, a complex controversy involving a former GoCompare opera singer Wynne EvansAnd, this year, it even led to an investigation into alleged drug use by two stars. And yet, despite all the handwringing (some of it, admittedly, on my part) and despite the gleeful predictions about the impending strictly Despite the fallout, those stories never really impacted what happened on Saturday Night. The show will always go on because of the outstanding professionalism of Daly and Winkleman.
This very welcome departure, however, will mark the biggest change the show has seen in a decade or more. has been part of the daily strictly The thirty-year-old was initially hired to work with entertainment legend Bruce Forsyth from day one. Winkleman, meanwhile, has been at it almost as long: He was hired to host the weekly companion show it takes two In 2004 after the success of strictlyThe first season of, then stepped down to the main program in 2014 following Forsyth’s death.
The pair have the kind of easy rapport that’s only formed after years of working together in the stress-inducing crucible of primetime live TV, which is based on genuine friendship; Watching them, you always get the feeling that they are probably sharing Gauss when their microphones are off.
As a double act, their personalities also match. Winkleman’s wackiness probably wouldn’t work in such a traditional show strictly Dally’s her more sensible foil without him, while Dally feels warmer and looser as a presenter when she’s around Winkleman. Even their Saturday night styles seemed to attract opposites, with Winkleman’s monochrome, often androgynous get-ups more so than Daly’s dazzling gowns.
The pair have done an admirable job of carrying the show through uncertain circumstances recently, but despite the initial shock of their jointly announced departure, it’s not too hard to see why they felt it was the right time for their final dance. like working on tv colossus strictly It must have been exhausting to smile during the pandemic and then amid bad publicity and speculation.
Winkleman’s silliness probably wouldn’t work on a traditional show like ‘Strictly’ Without Daly his more sensible foil
Winkleman’s career out strictly At the same time has gone from strength to strength, thanks to the success of traitorRecently, he is Successfully applied for Graham Norton on his Friday night chat show, and I think the TV commissioners would have watched him do this with interest. Daly’s next steps seem less certain, but perhaps, after more than two decades, she just wants her winter Saturday nights back. Now, the big question looming over the show (aside from whether Cloudatorium will have to be formally renamed again) is who could possibly replace him?
Definitely strictly Executives are being bombarded with phone calls from agents of some of the biggest names in broadcasting at the moment, although I can’t help but think that maybe this is the last thing the show’s beleaguered team wants to deal with right now: lately Tess and Claude have felt like a reliable point of stability between everyone. strictly Turmoil.
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There will be speculations that it takes two Hosts Janet Manrara and Fleur East will be in line for the job (really,). Bettors have started placing bets now) But I’m not entirely sure he has the experience. Despite all the recent troubles, strictly remains the jewel in the BBC’s crown, and requires a very steady pair of hands to run it. Zoe Ball, a past it takes two The host may be a solid choice, but the presenter has also made a conscious choice to step back from high-profile programs over the years; She probably doesn’t want the stress that inevitably comes with such a role.
It will definitely be difficult to recreate the easy chemistry of this pair, at least not in times like these strictly It feels like it’s on slightly more shaky ground than usual. And yet part of the magic of the show is the fact that it doesn’t necessarily depend on one person (or two people) to run it; It is very much a group effort.
The bigger characters have already moved on from the judging panel (Bruno! Lane!) and the group of professional dancers (Ottie! Kevin!), and that hasn’t necessarily diminished strictlyappeal of. And so while Tess and Claude’s goodbye certainly marks the end of an era (and a very shitty one at that), it certainly isn’t the death knell for this always-resilient show. Perhaps this double departure will prove to be a catalyst strictly A proper makeover (one that involves more than just a spray tan).