Like everyone else on Thursday, I was entirely blindsided when it was announced that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman were going to leave Strictly Come Dancing at the end of the current series . As someone who started watching the show in 2014, the first year that Claudia became the official co-presenter alongside Tess, they are synonymous with the show for me . They were even more of part of the furniture for long-time fans of the show, with Tess being with the show since it first aired in 2004, with Claudia joining the family a year later in It Takes Two.

Over the past 11 years, we've grown to love their chemistry, with Claudia's antics acting as the perfect foil for straight-laced Tess. The support the pair have shown to contestants is part of the heart of the show. When La Vo

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