Claudia Winkleman has confessed that she feels she is not cut out for her new BBC chat show. The Claudia Winkleman Show launched in March, marking the Traitor's host's first ever talk show, but she has admitted she initially turned down the opportunity over a decade ago because she didn't think she was good at it.
Speaking about the programme, which has featured guests including Niall Horan, Lisa Kudrow and Jeff Goldblum, Winkleman said: 'Oh... I am so bad at it.' She revealed that she said no to the idea 15 years ago when Graham Stuart, who runs So Television with Graham Norton, first approached her. 'I was like ‘I am not good at that’,' she said, before adding that Norton encouraged her to reconsider.
Winkleman said she probably took on the show 'because of ego', but admitted it has become easier as she has relaxed. 'I started it and I didn't like it and now I do quite like it, the more relaxed I got. But it is nerve wracking,' she said.
The first episode of the series was met with mixed reviews, and Winkleman previously joked about it on the Heart Radio Breakfast Show, calling it 'awful'. She told hosts Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston: 'The first one was so awful.' She later quipped: 'I suggest people don’t watch [it]. There’s only a few more, let's pretend it never happened.'
The first season of The Claudia Winkleman Show is set to conclude next week with a compilation episode. The sixth episode aired on April 17, featuring guests Dan Levy, Cush Jumbo, Phil Dunster and Josh Widdicombe.
