Strictly Come Dancing’s Claudia Winkleman looks unrecognisable without her iconic fringe or eyeliner.
The star is instantly known by her signature eyeliner and fringe, but it seems she hasn’t always had that style. The 51-year-old is most often seen rocking her blunt fringe along with lashing of eyeliner, bronzer and a nude matte lipstick.
It looks as though the presenter hasn’t got any plans to change up her looks anytime soon as, Claudia told the Mirror back in 2021: “When I’m orange, I feel better”.
She explained that she got her makeup look from her mum, journalist and editor Eve Pollard. She said that they both love “an orange glow”.
Claudia said: “Like me, my mum loves an orange glow, so I remember her swirling huge brushes of orange over her face and thinking it was the most glamorous thing ever.”
However, unearthed photos of the celeb from 2001 show Claudia with less makeup and no fringe. The photo was taken as she filmed Holiday on a Shoestring, but her signature look wasn’t present.
She has admitted in the past that she isn’t the best at looking after her skin and will often go to bed with her makeup on, not washing it off until the next day.
She said: “I go to bed with my make-up on, it makes me have better dreams. Then I wake up, do the school run, have a nap, then I’ll shower and take my make-up off. With my hair, I don’t even dry it. If I’m pushing the boat out I might brush my fringe.”
Claudia has described her iconic look as “armour” when it comes to her job. She explained that it “desexualises” her, saying that she’s “winning” with her style.
She told the Cheltenham Literature Festival: “If you’ve got a fringe and been spray-painted, you’re winning… it totally desexualises you. I don’t want to be sexually attractive, I don’t want to be cute or sexy. I want to be Yves in Lyons. It helps with ageing. My face is falling off… I don’t care.
“I love getting old but I will still be the orange one with the fringe. I’ve got three pairs of the same black jeans, plain sweaters, a fringe, orange face, black eyes, white mouth like I’ve kissed a bottle of Tippex, and I’m good to go.”
Claudia first joined as the Strictly host back in 2010 when she became co-host of the Sunday night results show with Tess. In 2014, her role on Strictly Come Dancing expanded to presenting the main show, following the departure of Bruce Forsyth.
She waits upstairs with the contestants, ready to greet them when they have performed their routines. She’ll then have a chat to them before introducing the judges’ scores of the evening.
