Claudia Winkleman arrives for The Traitors final - after revealing she tried to end show

The long-awaited last of The Traitors airs tonight, and Claudia Winkleman was seen astatine the BBC Studios, flashing a grin with the cognition of who claims victory

The Traitors big Claudia Winkleman has been spotted entering the BBC studios up of tonight’s expansive finale.

While she and the competitors person been isolated successful the Scottish Highlands for the past fewer weeks, they headed to London successful beforehand of tonight’s show, which volition spot the victor announced. Claudia, 53, looked arsenic chic arsenic ever, maintaining her gothic benignant but swapping retired her wellies for achromatic heeled boots.

The Strictly Come Dancing presenter teamed the boots with skintight achromatic trousers, and a flouncy achromatic blouse beneath a achromatic jumper and jacket. Claudia clutched a container nether her limb arsenic she entered the studios, and stopped to springiness the cameras a coy grin - with the TV prima already knowing who’s won the prize pot.

Claudia is present synonymous with The Traitors, but revealed past period that she turned down the show erstwhile archetypal asked, disquieted that filming successful the Highlands wouldn’t acceptable with her homebody lifestyle.

Speaking to Gabby Logan connected her podcast The Mid Point, Claudia shared: “The Traitors is thing that I initially turned down, due to the fact that you cognize I don’t similar leaving my furniture oregon the kids, and they were like, ‘Would you spell to Scotland for 3 and a fractional weeks?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t deliberation so.’ And past I watched the Dutch version. I became truthful obsessed, I sent an email to Kate Phillips - who offered maine the job, works astatine the BBC - saying, ‘I booked a train, I privation to bash this much than anything.’”

The parent of 3 gushed: “Because it is simply a privilege to ticker the science and the gameplay up close. And those roundtables wherever - you mightiness not person seen it - but there’s a roundtable astatine the end. Where - and I benignant of vanish into the wall, each the cameras are hidden - to basal successful determination 11 times oregon nevertheless galore it is and ticker radical effort to enactment it retired is an honour. It’s the thrill of my life.”

Even aft falling successful emotion with the show, Claudia past disquieted that it mightiness beryllium a one-hit wonder, and should beryllium left connected a precocious aft conscionable 1 season. She recalled to Gabby: "I said to Kate, I said to our bosses, I was like, 'We've done it erstwhile and it did well, but I don't deliberation we should bash it again,’ to which they conscionable leaned implicit and took my somesthesia [and said] 'We're doing it again.’"

Despite Claudia’s concern, The Traitors has go hugely popular, and won plentifulness of accolades including 2 National Television Awards for Most Popular Reality Competition.

Claudia admitted that she didn’t cognize whether the 3rd innings would beryllium arsenic well-received again, and told Grazia magazine earlier this month: "We didn’t foresee this. We went to Scotland with the astonishing radical who marque it and a brace of reddish fingerless gloves and gave it our champion shot. I deliberation radical similar it due to the fact that the science is bonzer - conscionable watching radical enactment retired whether they’re being lied to. The dynamics consciousness addictive. I’m wholly obsessed."

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