Tess Daly replaced on Strictly by unlikely host after enormous life change
ok.co.ukTess 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.
However many fans won't remember that Tess had brief hiatus in series 2, when she took a break to give birth to her daughter, Phoebe, now 19-years-old.Tess missed the first half of the second series and Natasha Kaplinsky, the winner of the previous and first series, took her place for these episodes.
Natasha, a newsreader and television presenter, won the first series of Strictly Come Dancing with her professional partner, Brendan Cole.
She then returned in Series 2 to join Bruce Forsyth in presenting the show for the first few weeks, whilst Tess was on maternity leave In more recent years, newsreader Natasha revealed she was "forced" to take part in the BBC TV hit.
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