After Dinner Speakers: Claudia Winkleman, Vanessa Feltz, Abba Gold

Claudia has recently returned from a round the world trip for BBC’s Holiday. Winkleman’s World saw her experiencing the delights of Japan, India, Costa Rica and Dubai. In the last year she has been a regular reporter for Holiday and Holiday On A Shoestring series where she can be seen presenting a number of lively and up-beat reports. Claudia hosted the mid-week National Lottery for BBC1 for ten weeks last year where loved ones were united on screen.After graduating in 1993 from Cambridge University with an MA Hons in History of Art, Claudia started working as a fashion co-ordinator for Tatler. Television followed when Claudia appeared on the infamous Janet Street Porter’s Live TV. Since then, Claudia has developed into a broadcaster with a variety of genres. She regularly presents lifestyle and showbiz items for the hugely popular This Morning programme for ITV. While still maintaining her strong journalistic skills by contributing regularly to a variety of magazines and newspapers including Tatler and Vogue. Claudia is well known for her up front presenting on God’s Gift; the cult late night dating show on Channel Four. She has guest presented on a range of shows including Channel 5’s weekly entertainment show ‘Exclusive’ plus reporting from Hong Kong for Dream Ticket for LWT and various location reports for Soap Fever for ITV2. In 1997 she co-hosted ITV’s live primetime show Talking Telephone Numbers with Philip Schofield. Earlier this year she presented the innovative primetime time Friday night quiz show Trading Up for Channel Four.