Claudia’s big 5-0! I’m Alice (Cooper) in the Looking Glass
Known for glossy locks and panda eyes as much as presenting, Claudia Winkleman is ‘fine’ with turning 50 – and resembling an ageing rocker…
Frequently hilarious BBC Radio 2 presenter Claudia Winkleman – famed for her smudged black eyeliner, choppy fringe and obsession with fake tan – has said she ‘can’t wait to be 50’ and ‘loves getting older’.
The 49-year-old, who never lets us down with her unique take on life, added that her hope was to resemble ‘rockers like Gene Simmons or Alice Cooper’ when she gets older – and that she’s not a bit concerned with looking ‘young and bouncy and fresh’.
Speaking to the Women’s Health Going for Goal podcast,
Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia – who turns 50 next January – explained she’d been brought up to believe her looks were the least interesting thing about her.
‘It’s not that I want time to go fast, but I’m absolutely fine with it, and I’ll still look the same,’ she mused.
‘I was brought up in a house without mirrors… What I look like, how I’ve done my eyeliner – that’s not the shiz, the stuff is the inside, the chat, the brains, the laughs, the loyalty, the kindness, the cooking an extraordinary roast chicken.
‘ What you look like is the least interesting thing about you, it’s got to be, because it is all going to fall apart, and I hope I’ve passed that on to my kids as well.’
Speaking previously about her unique style, mum-of-three Claudia – whose own mother is journalist Eve Pollard – said of her glossy black locks, ‘An actual hair genius cuts my hair. He’s called Michael Charalambous and his salon is Nyumba in London. He gives me that “Has she just woken up?” hair that I love.’
And what of the signature eyeliner? She previously explained, ‘ Well, I do it extremely fast – which is why it looks like my four-year-old has done it. I want it to look like it’s five days old. Not neat, not clean and not perfect – that’s an eyeliner crime.’
Once admitting she’s naturally so pale she’s ‘ blue’, Claudia is also a bit of a fake tan addict.
‘ When orange, I feel better’, she said. ‘Fake tan is amazing. That whole “pale is interesting” is, quite frankly, not very interesting.
‘Krystle in Dynasty was never ever pale. She was often in sequins and often chucked in a pool. But she wasn’t pasty.’
Claudia, don’t ever change…!
‘I want my eyeliner to look like it’s five days old – not neat’