Strictly hosts reveal departure from show

STRICTLY Come Dancing hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly have announced they are leaving the BBC dance programme.

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In a joint statement shared on Instagram on Thursday, the co-hosts, who have fronted the series together since 2014, said they would be leaving the show at the end of the current series.

"We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream," they said.

"We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.

"We will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show.

"They're the most brilliant team and we'll miss them every day.

"We will cry when we say the last 'keep dancing' but we will continue to say it to each other.