Craig Revel Horwood reacts to Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman’s Strictly exit: ‘It’s a good thing’

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Craig Revel Horwood reacts to Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman's Strictly exitSOURCE: Loose Women/ITV

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00:00We have to start with the shock.

00:02We were all shocked.

00:03We were all in make-up.

00:05Claudia, Ted.

00:06Did you know?

00:06No.

00:0710 o'clock this morning, like everyone else, I found out.

00:10Wow.

00:11On social media?

00:12Yeah, social media.

00:13Well, everything pings up now, doesn't it?

00:15So my watch went ping, and there it was.

00:18I went, what's this?

00:20No, I was shocked, surprised.

00:22Who was the first person you called?

00:24Sorry?

00:24Who was the first person you called?

00:26My manager.

00:26Oh, my God.

00:28I'm really good.

00:30An autocue.

00:31Boom, boom, boom.

00:32I was saddened.

00:34Yeah.

00:34You know, it was a shock, and I really loved them.

00:37I mean, obviously, I have been working on the show at the beginning,

00:41with the gorgeous Tess, you know, since May 2004,

00:46and it's the end of an era.

00:47Yeah, it is.

00:47But I know that people need to move on as well,

00:50and I get that, you know.

00:51So I wish them all the luck and, you know, everything,

00:56every good wish in the world, because we are just going to love

00:59seeing this out now until Christmas, you know,

01:02but it is going to be a little bit of a...

01:03It's going to feel happy, right?

01:04It's going to be, like, bittersweet, and, like, you're going to miss them.

01:07Well, yeah, but, you know, I celebrate people moving on.

01:10I mean, we do it in the theatre all the time.

01:11Yeah.

01:12You know, and I think it's always a good thing as well,

01:15personally, for people to move on.

01:16It's a good thing.

01:17You know, and then, the show's just a good thing.

01:20You

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