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CLAUDIA Winkleman left a contestant on The Wheel sobbing with an emotional promise after a show blunder.

The Strictly Come Dancing co-host was on the BBC One show hosted by Michael McIntyre alongside a number of other famous faces.

Claudia Winkleman left a contestant on The Wheel sobbing after an emotional promise
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Claudia Winkleman left a contestant on The Wheel sobbing after an emotional promise
Antonia hoped to buy a wedding dress if she won the show, but Claudia said she would buy it for her regardless
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Antonia hoped to buy a wedding dress if she won the show, but Claudia said she would buy it for her regardless

In the latter stages of the game, Claudia was chosen to help contestant Antonia with a question about video games.

Claudia, 49, immediately admitted she knew nothing about video games, and drew a blank when she saw the question asking which character was not a ghost in the classic Pac-man arcade game. 

The question was worth £21,500, and Antonia told Michael it would "go a long way", as she wanted to visit her family in Australia, and she had a wedding dress to buy.

Looking at the four options, Inky, Winky, Blinky and Pinky, Claudia said: "I feel so terrible, I do not know the answer to this. What is your gut?"

Antonia said she thought it might be Inky, but added: "I genuinely have no clue [what the answer is]."

As they waited for the correct answer to be revealed, Claudia said: "You and I are going to go wedding dress shopping, can we just decide that?

"I am going to buy you a wedding dress because I don't think that's the right answer." 

Antonia immediately started wiping tears from her eyes at Claudia's kind gesture.

Claudia joked: "Mine was disgusting so I won’t lend it to you, but that’s what we’re going to do.

"We'll get you a new one, that's what we'll do." 

When the answer turned out to wrong, with the correct answer being Winky, Claudia reassured her again: "Don't worry, we are going [wedding dress] shopping."

The star was a woman of her word, and after the show, she did take Antonia shopping and paid for her dream wedding dress, sharing a picture of the happy moment on social media.

Claudia was a woman of her word and did buy Antonia her dream gown
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Claudia was a woman of her word and did buy Antonia her dream gown

The Wheel airs Saturdays on BBC One.

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