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2023
Season 1, Episode 1
Claudia Winkleman hosts a Christmas special at London's Kings Cross station with Mika and Lang Lang. As the travelling crowds gather around the public piano, this unique episode catches up with pianists from the first series, who play their favourite Christmas songs. There are some celebrity surprises, secret Santa moments, a performance accompanied by Gregory Porter, and a finale led by Mika and Lang Lang
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Cast & Crew
Claudia Winkleman
(Presenter)
Mika
(Judge)
Lang Lang
(Judge)
Gregory Porter
(Musical guest)
Richard McKerrow
(Executive producer)
Ted Hill
(Series editor)
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Did You Know..
Claudia Winkleman
(Presenter)
Born:
January 15, 1972
in
London
Best Known For:
Strictly Come Dancing, and the BBC's flagship Film programme.
Early-life:
Claudia Anne Winkleman was born in London on January 15, 1972, to former Sunday Express editor Eve Pollard and publisher Barry Winkleman. Her parents split when she was three, and subsequently remarried. Her half-sister, Sophie, is an actress, and she also has a half-brother called Nicholas. Claudia grew up in the London suburb of Hampstead and attended the City of London School for Girls before studying art history at Cambridge. She considered pursuing a career as a gallery curator, encouraged by her mother who thought the media could be tough on women, but instead ended up working on TV.
Career:
Winkleman's TV career began with a job on the regional discussion programme Central Today in 1991, before graduating to Holiday on BBC One and ITV's This Morning. She worked on the infamous L!ve TV and various other digital channels before joining BBC Three's Liquid News in 2002. She also presented a Fame Academy spin-off series, and between 2004 and 2010, she presented Strictly Come Dancing's daily sister show, It Takes Two. Since then, she's fronted Art School, the Eurovision Dance Contest and part of the Sports Relief coverage, as well as her own vehicles, such as King Of. She currently co-hosts the Film programme and since 2013, she has presented The Great British Sewing Bee for BBC Two. After previously filling in as a co-host on Strictly Come Dancing when Bruce Forsyth was unavailable, she became the full-time co-host alongside Tess Daly in 2014.
Quote:
On her parents: "Nepotism is a magnificent thing. Not in the sense of 'Don't worry, love, I'll get you a job', but because they can give you advice."
Trivia:
Winkleman has lent her support to a number of charities, including Comic Relief and Refuge.
Mika
(Judge)
Lang Lang
(Judge)
Gregory Porter
(Musical guest)
Richard McKerrow
(Executive producer)
Ted Hill
(Series editor)
