The Strictly Come Dancing host isn’t seen with out her trademark look.
Claudia Winkleman is understood for her trademark look (Picture: Getty)
Strictly Come Dancing star Claudia Winkleman is understood for 3 issues – her iconic fringe, her daring eyeliner and her pretend tan. They’ve rapidly turn into her trademark, making her immediately recognisable to the general public at any time when she pops up on display – and making it simpler for her to exit in public within the ‘disguise’ of her on a regular basis look.
Some followers have prompt her entire persona is an “act”, with one Reddit person musing: “There’s positively an enormous component of it that entails leaning into a particular ‘look’ when she’s performing that makes it simpler to separate private and non-private life. Panda eyes, spray tan and fringe is her model, but it surely’s additionally a kind of uniform that she wears for work.”
She went make-up free for a radio interview (Picture: BBC)
However there have been a couple of events over time the place Claudia seems unrecognisable with out her armour.
In 2025, she went make-up free – ditching her eyeliner – to bear an operation on her eyes.
Praising her physician on Instagram, she wrote on the time: “This wonderful human makes me see. He’s operated on my eyes earlier than and he did it once more at the moment. No eyeliner for weeks and I sleep in goggles (no phrases) however I’m eternally grateful.
“Do NOT zoom in on my left eye – it’s wonky. Thanks Julian. I paid for the therapy, this isn’t an advert. I simply love him. It’s very doable I’m nonetheless a bit sedated. Evening night time.”
On one other event, Claudia was seen bare-faced throughout an interview with the now sacked Radio 2 host Scott Mills, selling The Traitors.
Claudia did an impression of a horse, and there was no darkish eyeliner in sight as she chatted away.
She as soon as sported blonde highlights (Picture: Getty Pictures)
Claudia hasn’t at all times had an extended fringe (Picture: Getty Pictures)
A throwback clip from 1996 confirmed Claudia with out her well-known fringe – and she or he seemed completely totally different. As a substitute of her darkish brunette tresses, the chat present host had lighter brown hair, swept off her face to point out off her rarely-seen brow.
Within the early 2000s she swapped the look out for streaky blonde highlights, and was noticed in 2005 with mousy hair streaked with blonde.
She wasn’t at all times so tanned, both (Picture: Getty Pictures) Superstar information and gossip plus chosen gives and competitions Subscribe Invalid e-mail
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A 2007 photograph, in the meantime, confirmed Claudia forward of the occasions – sporting curtain bangs earlier than they have been fashionable and displaying off a triangle of her naked brow, all with out her signature tan.
Claudia didn’t have her fringe in college, both. She attended Murray Edwards Faculty at Cambridge, and in a snap taken when she was solely 18, she wore brunette curls all the way in which right down to her waist, full with a facet parting and her hair swept away from her face.
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