{"id":791362,"date":"2026-07-10T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791362\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:49:08","slug":"ann-widdecombe-brexit-backing-former-minister-turned-strictly-star-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791362\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Widdecombe: Brexit-backing former minister turned Strictly star &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE4zYXFLUDkwZnp6V082VHFYenVtVFpDOTVYSXFlN1ZzbWk0NENvWmJ4TkJHUzhZQjlhZWg2WGdONTFKYlJnQ0xXcE5WSnJueFlNTWVnUld0QjFOQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ann Widdecombe: Brexit-backing former minister turned Strictly star<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1veHA0R3FZMlhDdlFpOGljTjlwcjlTb1l1OWJRMXBOdHRvWFlINFlXLUFqdUdqLTFMT25BU0RYSDRVQXFzMXVuS0R5U2R6NTlFOTdLaDdibUNNdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxOQm9xbkxQb3c3S0JUQnJfVmsxRl9ERE5CVk1ncTdqZHZKTUJYVWZsdzY0OHcteUVUQUtoTnZ0YUpyX1JVcTlzYUhfeS10S3dGWU84V2I5QzI5WnRHamEtRTlwNmFRa1FUV3NiSkRwRVlINTRhMFdyNnppUHRNc0xXUVEwT2xqX1Z4V2NQUWs4aTFvdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ann Widdecombe and I could never be friends. But I still admired her strength<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1gFBVV95cUxNQ2hvTEtTUjZWTHM0dVU0dTVLOVlNb0N5aXBHZjhqSGdlVXlidHN0bnFhV0trdEtJaXFoS2VIc2FsRnBPSDMyOUVkSHlyenhiZG5aMVpoSHVaWlBfQ21hckpTR0pLWlVJaERUYm9FbDQtRHFOT3pCVlNoUmRWcHFoeFN0OWVONjVQMzQtTHJPZHdfRndQVTVxZjZpbDF2V2pDUjFubWRQZEx2UjFnUTdZSnkyNE1hR284SUFRdU8xdHZkanppLXg3YTBxSmJubkFMTlh2MTZR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Formidable former Tory politician Ann Widdecombe dies, 78<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Australian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxOWjh5NGRDcy1BUkxQV0FfTGVmd3dIYzR6OFFfb3p3NlBzcUpHRG9WQ2tnYzZZSlN1c1JycDZ0b3dpQUc4QlRKOFhHTUplUkdtcGlhMlVuUUNXZGZkNS1FRUFfMk5kR1hVazlEWVRteTI1T0lib01PcDBGS1YtNzhnRjdHYWR2WnpYdVF4d0pKMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ann Widdecombe obituary: forthright MP and Strictly star<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann Widdecombe: Brexit-backing former minister turned Strictly star&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCFormer Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCAnn Widdecombe and I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-791362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}