The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman reveals surprising item she takes 'everywhere' with her

The Traitors host, 52, has revealed she can’t “abide” water and that her libation of choice is Ribena.

In fact, the Strictly Come Dancing favourite is such a fan of the blackcurrent flavoured drink that she carries around a bottle of concentrate “everywhere”.

Appearing on the latest episode of Kathy Burkes’ Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake podcast, she even whipped it out and offered to make a glass for the stunned comedienne.

“I take it everywhere because I can't abide water. I won't have it. No, thank you, madam,” Winkleman explained.

The health benefits of plain water are well-documented and it’s recommended that you consume 2 to 2.5 litres a day.

With this in mind and pointing out Winkleman’s shiny hair and great skin for which she is frequently lauded, Burke, 60, clearly wasn’t buying that she favoured squash.

She said: “But see, you've got such shiny hair. I just don't understand. Great skin and they always say it's sort of water drinking.”

Dismissing the notion from her own experience, Winkleman insisted: “That's just not true.

Elsewhere in the podcast, the mum-of-two recalled once dancing a drunken conga with singer Rick Astley.

Hailing the Never Gonna Give You Up hit-maker as “f***ing tremendous”, she recalled: We were doing Strictly in Blackpool, and for some reason, in the audience was Peter Kay. Rick Astley had been performing, and I want to say Dean Gaffney, but maybe that's just my fantasy.

“And we ended up getting drunk in the bar of a hotel that we always stay at called The Big Blue.”

She continued: “I ended up doing the conga through the kitchen using a pizza slice as almost a steering aid. [...] But I was using it to help with the conga and you can never be grumpy if you have either taken part or, or during a conga.”

Where There's A Will, There's A Wake is available wherever you get your podcasts.