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Claudia Winkleman

English television presenter (born 1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman is an English broadcaster. She co-presented the BBC One dance competition Strictly Come Dancing (2010–2025) and hosts the BBC One reality series The Traitors (2022–present), the latter of which won her a BAFTA award in 2023. She hosted the Saturday mid-morning show on BBC Radio 2 from 2020 to 2024. Winkleman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting.

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The public source identifies “Claudia Winkleman” as english television presenter (born 1972). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Claudia, Winkleman and English.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2025, 2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Claudia, Winkleman and English providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Claudia Winkleman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.