BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Claudia Winkleman makes The Traitors admission ahead of new series

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Claudia Winkleman has made an admission about her position on The Traitors as she prepares to ditch the sequins for a black cloak once more.

The reality show became a runaway hit last year and is set to return for a second series next month (January). The Strictly Come Dancing star will return to hosting duties for the second series on BBC One from January 3, with 22 contestants battling it out at a Scottish castle in the psychological game show that gripped viewers last year.

Claudia has since been heard promising an “ultimate game of treachery for a life-changing cash prize” in the first trailer for season two which comes after she won the Bafta for best entertainment performance last year, while the show won best reality and constructed factual programme. READ MORE: Ryan Thomas sends sweet message to fiancee Lucy Mecklenburgh after 'first' as fans jump to defence over daughter READ MORE: The latest news from the Manchester Evening News But the 51-year-old has confessed she originally declined to present the show to prioritise her family life. "I wasn’t keen on leaving home for three weeks, so initially I said, ‘I don’t think so, but thank you’," Claudia has told the Radio Times. "They then sent me the original Dutch version.

I watched the first four episodes in one sitting, told the kids to make their own tea and then begged the BBC to let me be part of it. "I’m used to being a cheerleader and a helper, so it felt very odd being so cold.