{"id":174078,"date":"2025-09-27T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174078\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:23:09","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-2025-ex-footballer-karen-carney-makes-history-at-top-of-leaderboard-in-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174078\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing 2025: Ex-footballer Karen Carney makes history at top of leaderboard in week one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amber Davies wins Motsi’s heart with connection to Nikitapublished at 21:17 BST<\/p>\n

21:17 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Adam Goldsmith
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"Amber\"<\/p>\n

Late replacement Amber Davies – filling in for the injured Dani Dyer – admits she has no ballroom experience as she meets partner Nikita Kuzmin. <\/p>\n

“Flipping hell, lots to think about,” she says as she’s twirled in a training session.<\/p>\n

The pair perform to Adele’s When We Were Young as they waltz into their first week.<\/p>\n

There are cheers from the audience as the pair synchronise their gliding across the floor, and there’s plenty of eye contact.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t think this would be my Saturday night,” a breathless Amber tells Tess as she heads over to the judges.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Anton says he’ll judge the star on how she performed, and tells her that he sees “enormous potential”.<\/p>\n

“You are naturally blessed with the neck of a flamingo… long elegant lines which you can’t buy,” Craig comments.<\/p>\n

Motsi, meanwhile, says she loves the “connection” between the couple, calling them a “dynamite package”.<\/p>\n

Here’s the judges’ marks: <\/p>\n

Craig: 7<\/p>\n

Motsi: 7<\/p>\n

Shirley: 7<\/p>\n

Anton: 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amber Davies wins Motsi’s heart with connection to Nikitapublished at 21:17 BST 21:17 BST Adam GoldsmithLive reporter Late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-174078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}