{"id":141438,"date":"2025-10-23T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141438\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:11:11","slug":"claudia-winkleman-and-tess-daly-announce-they-are-leaving-strictly-come-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141438\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly announce they are leaving Strictly Come Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Strictly Come Dancing<\/strong> hosts <strong>Claudia Winkleman<\/strong> and <strong>Tess Daly<\/strong> have announced they are <strong>leaving<\/strong> the BBC dance programme.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement shared on Instagram on Thursday, the co-hosts, who have fronted the series together since 2014, said they would be leaving the show together at the end of the current series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"960\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvNWNhMDhlMTFlYTQ5YTAxOGM4MzFlZGZiMjhkMjc0YjJZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOell4TWprM05qSXlcXFwvMi44MjA1MzE2Ny5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiOTYwXCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6IjZkNjczZDQ3MTFiZDk5NTFiMDJkZDM4NGJjYmNkNTEzMTdiM2RhODgifQ==\/claudia-winkleman-and-tess-daly-announce-they-are-leaving-strictly-come-dancing.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Strictly Come Dancing 2025\" data-title=\"Strictly Come Dancing 2025\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Media\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Media\" data-credit=\"Guy Levy\/BBC\" data-usage-terms=\"PICTURE DESK USE ONLY. NO SALES. HANDOUT\"\/>Claudia Winkleman(left) and Tess Daly during the live show of Saturday\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing show on BBC1.\u00a0 (Guy Levy\/BBC\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re the most brilliant team and we\u2019ll miss them every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will cry when we say the last \u201ckeep dancing\u201d but we will continue to say it to each other. Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"872\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvYmM2YThiZmU1YWVkZmRjYzBmODYwMWMyZDliYTcwZWVZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOell4TWprM05qVXhcXFwvMi44MDY0MTQ0NS5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiODcyXCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6IjM2OTBkOTM1ZTg4ZWVmM2M4YzI4ZDk3NjQ1Mjg0OTE4ZmQ4OWNmZjcifQ==\/claudia-winkleman-and-tess-daly-announce-they-are-leaving-strictly-come-dancing.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"King\u2019s Birthday Honours list 2025\" data-title=\"King\u2019s Birthday Honours list 2025\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Ian West\" data-usage-terms=\"FILE PHOTO.\"\/>Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly, who have been made MBEs (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the King\u2019s Birthday Honours list, for services to Broadcasting. Issue date: Friday June 13, 2025. (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Daly, 56, presented the series since it first launched in 2004 alongside the late Sir Bruce Forsyth, while Winkleman, 53, fronted its weekday companion show, It Takes Two.<\/p>\n<p>The TV presenter eventually moved on to host the Sunday night results show alongside Daly and joined the main show every Saturday from 2014, after Sir Bruce stepped down.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King\u2019s Birthday Honours\u00a0for their services to broadcasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly have announced they are leaving the BBC dance programme.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-141438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115425777260530491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}