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Strictly Come Dancing presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are to leave the show.

“We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream. We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time,” the pair wrote in a joint statement on Instagram.

“We will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show.”

Daly has presented since the first series 21 years ago. Winkleman joined in 2014, having hosted Strictly’s sister show It Takes Two since 2004.

The duo called the show’s crew “the most brilliant team” who they would “miss every day”.

“We will cry when we say the last ‘keep dancing’ but we will continue to say it to each other.

“Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza,” they added.

One of the BBC’s highest-rated shows, Strictly Come Dancing launched in 2004. It was originally hosted by Daly and Sir Bruce Forsyth, who stepped down in 2014.