Claudia Winkleman reveals her son begged her to quit Strictly Come Dancing but she had the perfect reply

CLAUDIA Winkleman’s son demanded that she quit ’embarrassing’ Strictly Come Dancing.

The host of the hit BBC show had the perfect response to her son’s pleas.

Claudia shares Jake, 21, Matilda, 17 and Arthur, 12 with her film producer husband Kris Thykier.

She told : “He said to me, ‘Mum, you have got to stop doing Strictly, it’s so embarrassing and my teacher has mentioned it’. I just went ‘See those trainers, Jake?’ He was like ‘OK, sorry’”.

Claudia picked up her Outstanding Achievement Award at the Edinburgh TV Festival last week.

But modest Claudia insisted that her job is easy because the shows she work on are so good.

“The Traitors and Strictly and The Piano are so strong anybody could host them.

“It doesn’t mean I’m not unbelievably grateful, but it’s just as luck would have it I’ve fallen into them.”

She joked that with Strictly all she does is “paint herself orange” and “read out loud”.

Claudia’s career started after she did a favour for a uni friend on L!ve TV – a TV station run by The Mirror between 1995 and 1999.

She had grown up watching her hard-working parents Barry Winkleman and Eve Pollard.

Eve made history as the first female editor of a national newspaper when she took over at the Sunday Mirror in 1987 – earning herself the titles of OBE and Lady.

Her mum had warned Claudia against journalism, telling her that it was “really hard for a woman”.

Claudia said that she remembered how her hard-working mum would come home from work and put her and her brother Oliver to bed.

Eve would then go back to work, telling her children to call her if they needed her – adding that it didn’t matter if she was with a politician, she would answer.

Her dad Barry worked in publishing and separated from Eve when Claudia was just three years old.