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Claudia Winkleman looks unrecognisable without her trademark heavy fringe and eyeliner in a throwback snap from when she was a student.
The Celebrity Traitors presenter, 53, attended Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University in the early 1990s.
With lighter and curlier hair she looked worlds away from her well-known appearances on TV where she sports her glamorous and tanned look.
Claudia, who was just 18 at the time, can be seen with long dark hair and no heavy eye make up as she sits in the front row of the matriculation photo.
The Strictly host studied History of Art at the prestigious university and graduated with an MA in the subject.
In the snap she sat among her fellow students in a pair of white jeans and navy knitted jumper.
Claudia Winkleman looks unrecognisable without her trademark heavy fringe and eyeliner in a throwback snap from when she was a student
The Celebrity Traitors presenter, 53, attended Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University in the early 1990s
With lighter and curlier hair she looked worlds away from her well-known appearances on TV where she sports her glamorous and tanned look
The throwback snap comes as the BBC are reportedly fast-tracking Claudia’s new chat show.
They are thought to want to start filming following her final Strictly show and before the next series of The Traitors starts.
The star has impressed BBC bosses following having huge success hosting The Celebrity Traitors and has cleared her diary by not returning to host Channel 4’s quiz One Question.
The new show will see Claudia interview a number of A-list stars and will air on Friday nights starting as early as March next year.
The BBC have yet to decide on a working title but are hoping the talk show will air for at least two months.
A TV insider told The Sun: ‘If ever proof were needed that Claudia is now very much the BBC’s golden girl following the huge success of The Celebrity Traitors, then this is it.
‘Given that Strictly started in September, it means that by the time her new chat show concludes she will have been on our screens almost constantly for eight months.
‘And they’re some of the biggest TV successes the BBC has ever seen – with the chat show expected to enjoy equally huge ratings when it debuts.’
Claudia, who was just 18 at the time, can be seen with long dark hair and no heavy eye make up as she sits in the front row of the matriculation photo
Claudia will host the Celebrity Traitors final on Thursday before concluding her final Strictly Come Dancing in December after hosting the show with Tess Daly for 11 years.
Despite not returning to host One Question, which has run for two series on Channel 4, she is set to return to host a fourth season of Channel 4 show, The Piano.
Claudia already has a busy year ahead as she will then go straight on to filming the fifth series of The Traitors at Ardross Castle around May.
If the BBC commission a second series of The Celebrity Traitors they are likely to film it in the spring – directly after the non-celebrity version.
Daily Mail have contacted Claudia’s representatives for comment.
It comes as it was revealed that the Celebrity Traitors is being watched by a whopping one in four adults as incredible viewing figures for the BBC series have been revealed.
The throwback snap comes as the BBC are reportedly fast-tracking Claudia’s new chat show after she quit Strictly alongside Tess Daly last month
The show has well and truly captured the attention of a streaming obsessed population with it’s starry version of the tried and tested formula.
It has been revealed that 14million of the 55million over-18s in the UK have tuned in to each episode since the series started in early October.
Meanwhile 6.5million watched the live launch show and once catch-up numbers were added it reached 14.3million viewers.
13.8 people watched episode two, 13.4million watched episode three and 13.1million watched episode four, reports The Sun.
