Iconic Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly, has co-hosted the popular BBC dance show since it's launch in 2004, but there was one year which saw the presenter take a brief hiatus
Tess Daly has presented Strictly Come Dancing since the BBC dance show's launch back in 2004. Twenty years on, iconic Tess is still hosting, alongside Claudia Winkleman, who joined in 2014, following the departure of show legend Sir Bruce Forsyth.
In more recent years, newsreader Natasha revealed she was "forced" to take part in the BBC TV hit. She previously told The Daily Mirror: "I got completely forced and put into a corner, external. "I'd just started at BBC Breakfast and obviously the bosses at Strictly had a shopping list and a newsreader was on it and I was their easiest target. I honestly tried every single excuse not to do it. I was petrified.
Tess told of the moment when Vernon asked the doctor: "What is it?" and he replied, "It's a pink one." But joy quickly turned to worry though, as their daughter didn't cry when she was born. Nowadays Tess and her husband, radio and TV presenter Vernon Kay, aren't seen with their children too often. The couple are parents to 14 year old Amber and 19 year old Phoebe, and now their eldest daughter is an adult they only occasionally post a few images of her to social media.
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