Claudia Winkleman has shocked fans after announcing that both she and Tess Daly are to leave Strictly Come Dancing after the latest series ends.

“We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream,” the pair said in a video statement posted on Daly’s Instagram feed.

“We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.”

They said: “We 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. They’re the most brilliant team and we’ll miss them every day.

“We will cry when we say the last ‘keep dancing’ but we will continue to say it to each other. Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza.”

Daly has presented S

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