Eve Pollard Jokes About Claudia Winkleman’s ‘Orange Face’ Makeup

Claudia Winkleman’s mother Eve Pollard has poked fun at her daughter’s ‘orange face’.

During an appearance on Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 show on Monday the author, 81, revealed that the Strictly host, 53, uses her fake tan and lashings of mascara as a ‘uniform’.

Host Vanessa, 63, described Claudia’s look as the ‘most frequently discussed make-up in this country’ to which Eva cheekily asked: ‘The orange face?’.

The TV star’s kooky eye make-up and fringe was also brought up and her mum said:  ‘It’s a uniform I think it’s a funny way it is.’ 

‘I think she’s come across it, she didn’t start like that and it’s a uniform and it suits her and it works and that’s it. It makes life simple for her’.

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Eve went on to reveal her daughter does at times try a more subdued appearance when not on air, but said the trademark look was now ‘part of who Claudia Winkleman is’. 

It comes after The Traitors host revealed she’s turned to two household items back when she was first trying to achieve her ‘orange’ complexion. 

Claudia admitted she’d used Bisto gravy granules and her friends’ reused tea bags instead of fake tan. 

Claudia appeared on Radio Four’s Women’s Hour with Emma Barnett when she confessed to the bizarre beauty hack. 

Discussing what they do with tea bags once they’ve made cups of tea, Claudia revealed one her friends at university used to put them in ramekin so they could use them later as a self tanner. 

‘I’m going back to university here, when everything was reused, and I mean everything.’

While Emma suggested a tea bag could be reused for their next brew, the Strictly presenter added: ‘Or fake tan because I’ve done that before.’

As Emma was stunned, Claudia elaborated: ‘Of course I have, and Bisto, listen needs must, needs must.’ 

Claudia said she puts her old tea bags in the sink which drives her husband Kris ‘mad’. 

She previously confessed her tan is so thick she has to scour it off with a kitchen sponge. 

If you use the amount of spray tan I do, you need to scour it off with a kitchen utensil,’ she revealed on the In The Bathroom beauty video blog.

‘If you were using a Dulux colour chart, if there was one on there that said tangerine, right at the bottom, the one where you say, “That’s going to be too much for our walls”, it’s not too much for me. Put it on.’

She said her addiction to tanning started while she was a History of Art student at New Hall College, Cambridge.

She said: ‘I’d rented a sunbed for a whole term in tiny halls of residence … it was so unhealthy when I think back now.’

But the TV presenter revealed she now has someone come to her home to apply her spray tan in a pop-up tent.

‘I never get on the sunbed now,’ she said. ‘My body no longer recognises the actual sun.’

And although it is seen as a cardinal sin by skin specialists, Claudia said she always sleeps with her make-up on.

She added: ‘I’ve never once taken my make-up off before I go to bed.’