MIRANDA Hart has held secret talks with Strictly a couple of sensational TV return in Claudia Winkleman’s position.
BBC execs consider the pair’s humour relaxes stars.
Superfan Miranda was final on our screens in early 2025.
Bosses see her as a super host for the Clauditorium, the balcony the place {couples} chill and chat after dancing.
A supply stated: “Miranda signing for Strictly can be an enormous coup for the BBC.
“The feeling is that her fashion of comedy is similar to Claudia’s sense of humour, making her an ideal replacement.
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“She’s also one of very few people in the entertainment world who is widely known and recognised by just her first name.”
Claudia, who stop final 12 months alongside co-host Tess Daly, was a fan favorite for her humorous chats with pressured stars.
The supply added: “Bosses talked about Miranda working with the primary presenters however her job can be speaking to the celebs, dancers and judges.
“They need somebody who can deliver a comedy factor to the position.
“Miranda has been loyal to the BBC throughout her TV career.”
The much-loved star has not been a daily on TV for greater than ten years.
Her self-titled BBC sitcom ran from 2009 to 2015, and from 2012 she starred as Call The Midwife’s Chummy.
In 2011 she and Claudia took half in a MasterChef sketch for Red Nose Day.
Last October she shared her love of Strictly and unhappiness at Claudia and Tess’s exits. Miranda stated: “That is the ability of television at its finest.
“When a show becomes one that brings happiness to millions, brings families and friends together to watch as a weekly routine, it’s extraordinary.”
In October 2024 Miranda launched autobiography I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. It revealed her battle with power fatigue after a 2020 analysis of Lyme disease.
She had unknowingly lived with the bacterial an infection since she was 15.
Miranda admitted: “I couldn’t work because I became ill. I tried to keep going before the diagnosis and it didn’t go well . . . I was so unwell, but I hated having to stop.”
In 2024’s Strictly she usually popped up in the viewers or rehearsal room in assist of her pal Sarah Hadland who was paired with Vito Coppola.
Back then Sarah informed The Sun on Sunday: “Miranda messages me most days about my expertise and he or she is loving it.
“She said she feels like she is sort of doing it through me.”
Vito stated: “Miranda has been with us since day one. It is me, Sarah and Miranda.”
Miranda filmed a section for that sequence’ Icons Week, joking: “I’m here at Sarah and Vito’s training room and like all great choreographers, I’m wearing a black turtleneck and carrying a small dog with me.”
Surprising the pair at rehearsals, Miranda stated: “Shall we get to work?”
After watching their cha-cha-cha, Miranda stated: “It was amazing. I feel really lucky, like I’ve won a prize!”
And she quipped: “I did see a few mistakes but that’s fine.”
Miranda and her sitcom co-star Patricia Hodge had been additionally in the viewers for Musicals Week to assist Sarah.
And Miranda filmed sketches for social media with Strictly: It Takes Two host Janette Manrara.
During that 2024 sequence Claudia stated of her pal: “This is an official message to Miranda Hart.
“Your wonderful friend Sarah Hadland is dancing in exactly 27 minutes 55 seconds.”
Last August Miranda quipped on her Instagram that she was becoming a member of the Strictly line-up.
Humming the theme tune, she stated: “Hello to you, nicely I’ve information.
“No, that’s a joke, that really was a joke or was that a double bluff? No, it was a joke. Please, it was a joke. Oh gosh what have I done? No.”
She added: “The menopausal mounds in this body is not ready for any sort of dancefloor let alone on national television. No one is ready for that.”
Miranda, who wed surveyor Richard Fairs in 2023, final appeared on TV for Michael McIntyre’s Big Show on BBC1 in February 2025.
As a part of the Remember Me? section she was reunited with her childhood crush Vere.
Strictly bosses are eager to have three new presenters for the subsequent sequence, one male — presumably Bradley Walsh, Rylan Clark or Johannes Radebe — a feminine, prone to be Emma Willis or Zoe Ball, and a feminine comic in the Clauditorium.
A BBC spokesperson stated final evening: “Plans for Strictly Come Dancing 2026 will be confirmed in due course.”
