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I’ve only just realised that Claudia wears a wig

264 replies

Allthegoodhorses · 15/10/2025 21:35

Watching the traitors and her hair is not real.. cue everyone saying differently but it doesn’t even look like hair at this stage. It’s stiff, sticky and doesn’t move like normal hair..

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Umy15r03lcha1 · 16/10/2025 01:51

Ingles2 · 15/10/2025 21:52

I don't know about the hair, but the fake tan is verging on cultural appropriation 😬

Which culture are you talking about? Orangutans??

Umy15r03lcha1 · 16/10/2025 01:58

Libertylawn · 15/10/2025 23:39

She’s Jewish, lots of Jewish ladies wear wigs. I’m Catholic but I can see a lot of pluses. You never have to meet your hairdresser and do chit chat for a start. Plus a nice warm head without a hat.

Some religious Jewish ladies wear wigs. Not all Jewish ladies

Chickensky · 16/10/2025 02:27

Anjo2011 · 15/10/2025 22:58

Her fringe was a totally different colour and texture to the rest of her hair when she was on Strictly last weekend, it was in a ponytail. I’m not sure it’s a wig but there are definitely hair pieces/extensions going on.

TV that we watch isn't sequential, so she wouldn't be recording Traitors at the same time as Strictly. Traitors was recorded a few months ago. Sorry to pick up on this but it does boggle my mind little.

CrystalSingerFan · 16/10/2025 02:33

landlordhell · 15/10/2025 22:07

Of who?Oompaloompas?

Judith Chalmers?

(I remember seeing her in real life once, at some film premiere in Leicester Square. She was quite startlingly orange.)

MinnieBaldock · 16/10/2025 05:34

Well she does that anti dandruff shampoo ad so I don't think it's a wig.
Wish I had thick hair like hers.

Conniebygaslight · 16/10/2025 06:23

Sal820 · 15/10/2025 21:42

She's very open about fake tanning 3 times a week so I don't know why she'd lie about wearing a wig. Motzi wears all sorts of amazing wigs.

Motzi,s wigs are amazing! 😀

DonaldJohnTrump · 16/10/2025 06:27

Allthegoodhorses · 15/10/2025 21:44

I posted about her orangeness last time the traitors were on and got lambasted.. apparently I was out of order but Donald is allowed to get ridiculed for it. I don’t like Donald and love Claudia but honestly she looks a bit ridiculous these days despite her ‘embracing’ it.

Edited

She adores me bigly, and that why she is emalate imulat mulatte copying my style (which, by the way, is perfectly natural) She has just not got my beautiful hair right yet.

GreyChicken · 16/10/2025 06:45

PracticallyPeapod · 15/10/2025 22:41

This has been discussed before in here and I stand by the comment I made then.

The Fringe is a hairpiece. It’s too thick. And in the ponytail for the round table it looked a bit weird. So that’s some additional new evidence that I just gathered today.

I have had a heavy fringe exactly like Claud in the past so it definitely is more likely to be real. It's a deep fringe taken from quite far back, you need naturally thick hair (which she has).

Itsnotawig · 16/10/2025 06:48

Name changed for this for obvious reasons. Claudia was a mum at school at the same time as one of my DC. I can confirm that IRL she does wear that much fake tan. Her hair is definitely not a wig. She does often use the tube to get around London and you would be unlikely to recognise her as she doesn’t wear ‘look at me’ clothes, keeps herself to herself, is very slight and probably a bit shorter than you might think. DH did not recognise her at all. She’s also very lovely and always offered to get another drink/coffee/biscuit etc for whoever she was chatting with from the refreshments if she was going for herself.

I can see from last night’s episode of The Traitors why the really shiny hair might cause someone to think her hair is unreal but it’s more likely to be products, a great stylist and lighting. But even if she did, it’s not really anyone else’s business is it?

LupaMoonhowl · 16/10/2025 06:48

Hanschristiananderson · 15/10/2025 21:41

Why can’t she cut her fringe?!!

This!!!! Makes my eyes itch looking at her 😂

opencecilgee · 16/10/2025 06:52

If it’s a wig, she has no right advertising shampoo

I think it’s jyst too black. She could do with some
caramel lights

opencecilgee · 16/10/2025 06:57

She has to use the tan because her hair is so black it would drain her. Jet black dyed hair is never flattering

LavenderBlue19 · 16/10/2025 07:05

I can't remember if it was on Strictly or Traitors, but there was definitely one show this week where her hair very obviously was a wig - it didn't fall like hair across her shoulders, it looked plasticy and stiff.

Must performers use wigs and extensions, so it wouldn't be a surprise. Maybe it used to be her natural hair but she got fed up with maintaining it as she got older?

But I have to say, people really need to be less gullible. Just because an article in a tabloid says she doesn't wear wigs, or she loves H&S, doesn't mean it's true!

Chenecinquantecinq · 16/10/2025 07:08

She's older than me definitely a wig, the way the light is on it too can tell it's a wig!

Chenecinquantecinq · 16/10/2025 07:10

Her hair is her "thing" I'd imagine as she's aged it's become harder and harder to maintain it looking so good hence wig

GreyChicken · 16/10/2025 07:10

Chenecinquantecinq · 16/10/2025 07:08

She's older than me definitely a wig, the way the light is on it too can tell it's a wig!

It's a wig because she's older than you?

That logic is daft 🤣

Chenecinquantecinq · 16/10/2025 07:12

GreyChicken · 16/10/2025 07:10

It's a wig because she's older than you?

That logic is daft 🤣

Badly worded I mean I have similar thick dark hair and despite HRT it will never look as it did a few years ago and I can see the temptation to wear a wig if your hair is your income, although I doubt she'll get any shampoo ads going forward as it has become v obvious it is a wig.

NeelyOHara · 16/10/2025 07:14

Do people on here also believe that Holly Willoughby dyes her hair from a box too? She must do! She advertises Garnier Nutrisse!
They would never lie 🤣

Stinkhorn · 16/10/2025 07:16

Allthegoodhorses · 15/10/2025 21:35

Watching the traitors and her hair is not real.. cue everyone saying differently but it doesn’t even look like hair at this stage. It’s stiff, sticky and doesn’t move like normal hair..

Who is Claudia?

Tellmewhhyy · 16/10/2025 07:20

Yesterday she looked like she had jaundice. It was bizarre

ProfessionalPirate · 16/10/2025 07:22

geoger · 15/10/2025 21:58

I think Claudia has a very good hair stylist

Or maybe a very bad one, if he/she is making her hair look wig-like 🤔

Thepeopleversuswork · 16/10/2025 07:23

Libertylawn · 15/10/2025 23:39

She’s Jewish, lots of Jewish ladies wear wigs. I’m Catholic but I can see a lot of pluses. You never have to meet your hairdresser and do chit chat for a start. Plus a nice warm head without a hat.

Orthodox Jewish women in some communities wear wigs. Claudia is Jewish but not Orthodox, her mum (and I think dad) were not from Orthodox communities. Reform/non Orthodox jews are no more likely to wear wigs than Christian or Muslim or Atheist women.

Simplestars · 16/10/2025 07:24

She does look jaundiced.
The hair does look like a wig.

Wonder how she would look without fake tan 🤔

CoffeeCantata · 16/10/2025 07:24

ThatGlimmeringSea · 15/10/2025 21:43

I think her strong stage look means she can walk around incognito the rest of the time, take the wig off and scrub her face and no one looks twice.

This makes sense! I’ve always been baffled by her horrible hairstyle. Surely she can’t be happy to look like that - she’s very attractive. Google ‘young Claudia Winkleman’ and you’ll see what I mean!

I think it’s a clever tactic. It’s a bold (if unflattering) statement look which she can then ditch in her private life and go around unnoticed by the hoi polloi.

Clarefromwork · 16/10/2025 07:27

I don’t think her hair is a wig and I reckon she may use head and shoulders but I think it’s so shiny because she dyes / glosses it so regularly.

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