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Motsi Mabuse has said she 'needed a moment' before she responded to the news that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are leaving Strictly Come Dancing.

They announced their decision to quit the BBC One dance show via a joint statement on Thursday (October 23), with their departures set to come at the end of the current series.

The co-hosts said: "We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream. We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.

"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

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