Oct 2, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
Presenter Claudia Winkleman, and her trademark fringe, is the host of Celebrity Traitors season two. The London-born broadcaster has been a familiar face on television for more than three decades…
Stephen SmithHostTraitors and Claudia are really just the absolute perfect fit, to be honest with you.
I think she really makes that show.
15 million of us watched the finale of season one of Celebrity Traitors and season two has just begun.
At the start of the series, you see her getting really giggly because she's in on the secret, but later she treats it as if it's kind of World War III.
With My Own Kids, Celebrity Traitors is one of the few live TV programmes that they will actually be begging to watch.
Yet the concept of sitting down and watching TV to a whole generation is an anathema.
In-demand host, a survivor in the unforgiving world of TV presenting, and crisps enthusiast, it's Curtain Up on Claudia Winkleman.
Mum, Eve Pollard, edited Fleet Street tabloids and dad, Barry Winkleman, was in publishing.
I just sort of feel like I collected parents.
You know, some people like snow globes and I just like family.
So I've got brother and sister and then I've got three brilliant steps.
Her grandparents on her mother's side were Jews who fled from Central Europe to escape the Nazis.
My mum grew up in a house where there was a suitcase packed in the hall every day because they thought they might have to run and where my grandpa's pockets, he would always have cash hidden just in case that they have to run because all of their family... were killed.
So I think my mum really valued life and wanted everything to count.
He had a passion for art and often took his young daughter to the National Gallery and British Museum.
Traitors and Claudia are really just the absolute perfect fit, to be honest with you.
I think she really makes that show.
15 million of us watched the finale of season one of Celebrity Traitors and season two has just begun.
At the start of the series, you see her getting really giggly because she's in on the secret, but later she treats it as if it's kind of World War III.
With My Own Kids, Celebrity Traitors is one of the few live TV programmes that they will actually be begging to watch.
Yet the concept of sitting down and watching TV to a whole generation is an anathema.
In-demand host, a survivor in the unforgiving world of TV presenting, and crisps enthusiast, it's Curtain Up on Claudia Winkleman.
Mum, Eve Pollard, edited Fleet Street tabloids and dad, Barry Winkleman, was in publishing.
I just sort of feel like I collected parents.
You know, some people like snow globes and I just like family.
So I've got brother and sister and then I've got three brilliant steps.
Her grandparents on her mother's side were Jews who fled from Central Europe to escape the Nazis.
My mum grew up in a house where there was a suitcase packed in the hall every day because they thought they might have to run and where my grandpa's pockets, he would always have cash hidden just in case that they have to run because all of their family... were killed.
So I think my mum really valued life and wanted everything to count.
He had a passion for art and often took his young daughter to the National Gallery and British Museum.
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