Overview
- The longtime co-hosts announced on Instagram that they will step down together at the end of the current series, calling the job a dream and saying the timing feels right.
- BBC executives confirmed the decision, praised their contribution, and said their last appearance together will be the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special on BBC One and iPlayer.
- Daly has fronted the show since its 2004 launch with Bruce Forsyth, while Winkleman moved from It Takes Two to co-host the main programme from 2014.
- They will continue to present throughout the remainder of this year’s run before signing off at Christmas.
- Successors have not been announced, though Winkleman said she knows the new hosts and expects they will be “magnificent,” and tributes from dancers, alumni and fans have poured in.