Claudia Winkleman thinks she looks just like Meat Loaf

Claudia Winkleman has joked she looks just like Meat Loaf.

The \'Strictly Come Dancing\' host spotted more than a passing resemblance to the \'Bat Out of Hell\' rocker when she started chatting to friends on Zoom during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4, she said: "My mum believed that what you looked like is not interesting.

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"So there are no mirrors in my house. In my head I think I look fine. The Zooms began and I was like, \'How interesting, Meat Loaf is in my house\'.

"I was like, \'Meat Loaf is moving in the same way as I am. Interesting\'. And then I realised it was me."

The 48-year-old TV star insisted she looks a lot like Meat Loaf, but quipped that her signature style is actually modelled on a different rock icon entirely.

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She added: "My look, and I do not know if you want to call it a look, is I like to be bright orange, bright white mouth and lots of eye make up.

"That is because I have got very bad eyesight. I cannot really see.

"Basically if it looks anything like Alice Cooper, we are winning."

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Late last year, Claudia claimed she doesn\'t remove her makeup over Christmas, and joked that anyone wanting to mimic her look should avoid "cotton wool and cleanser".

She teased: "I\'ve never taken my make-up off.

"The black smudgy mess you see on my face is layer upon layer of old eyeliner. Some of it might still be on there from the 90s.

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"At this time of year I think more is, well, more. Get some black kohl and shove it all over your eyelids... Ban cotton wool and cleanser from the 24 December and you\'ll have a ball."