Claudia Winkleman

Claudia Winkleman
Winkleman at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards
Born	Claudia Anne Winkleman (1972-01-15) 15 January 1972 (age 45) London, England
Residence	Westminster, London, England
Occupation	Television presenter, film critic, radio personality, journalist
Years active	1991–present
Known for	Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two (2004–10) Comic Relief (2009–) Sport Relief (2010–) Strictly Come Dancing (2012–) The Great British Sewing Bee (2014–)
Spouse(s)	Kris Thykier (m. 2000)
Children	3
Parent(s)	Eve Pollard
Relatives	Nicholas Lloyd (stepfather) Sophie Winkleman (half-sister)

Claudia Anne Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is an English television presenter, film critic, radio personality, and journalist, best known for her current work with the BBC.

Since 2010, she has co-presented Strictly Come Dancing's main results show on Sunday nights with Tess Daly on BBC One and since 2014 has been a main co-host alongside Daly on the Saturday night live shows, due to the departure of Sir Bruce Forsyth. Between 2004 and 2010, Winkleman presented Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two daily on BBC Two, but was replaced in 2011 by Zoë Ball.

Winkleman is also the presenter of Film..., where she replaced Jonathan Ross after his move to ITV in 2010. She was the co-presenter of Let's Dance For Comic Relief for its first two series in 2009 and 2010. She co-hosted the show with Steve Jones. She has often hosted the Comic Relief and Sport Relief annual telethons on BBC One. Since April 2013, she has presented the BBC Two series The Great British Sewing Bee.

Winkleman was born in London to a Jewish family, the daughter of Eve Pollard, former editor of the Sunday Express, and Barry Winkleman (born 1939), former publisher of The Times Atlas of the World. Her parents divorced when she was three, and both remarried in 1979. Her mother married Sir Nicholas Lloyd, former editor of the Daily Express, and her father married children's author Cindy Black.