Claudia Winkleman
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Claudia Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is a British television presenter.
She is the daughter of the former editor of the Sunday Express, Eve Pollard, and began her education at the City of London School for Girls in the Barbican and later graduated from Cambridge University with an MA Hons in History of Art.
Claudia Winkleman first appeared on local television, presenting the discussion programme Central Weekend. From there she has gone on to appear in a variety of formats demonstrating great flexibility. These include Talking Telephone Numbers, The National Lottery, God's Gift, Trading Up, Fan-o-rama, We Are Family, Toilets and most recently as the fanzine presenter on reality programme Fame Academy. She has also made guest appearances on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You and The Wright Stuff. A long stint on BBC's Holiday (1992 onwards), culminated in a spin off prime time special in which she travelled the world in 34 days reporting from Japan, India, Costa Rica and Dubai. These experiences have led the presenter to become a regular travel writer, working for the Sunday Times, The Independent and Metro. She is also a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan.
From 2003 to 2004 she hosted the BBC3 digital television entertainment show Liquid News. In October 2004 she began presenting the BBC2 fanzine show Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two and hosted End of Story on BBC3.
Claudia is married to PR Guru Kris Thykier. Their first child, Jake was born in March 2003.