Claudia Winkleman’s huge success has been a long time coming – she’s earned right to let go of Strictly glitterball

IN a typically bubbly chat with Claudia Winkleman three years ago, I asked the doyenne of Strictly if she had any plans to leave the BBC dance show. “Oh no,” she replied with characteristic exaggeration. “They’d have to prise my cold, dead hands off that shiny glitterball.” Now, of course, no one took Claudia literally….