{"id":151709,"date":"2025-11-21T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151709\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:41:07","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-star-arrested-on-suspicion-of-rape-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151709\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing star \u2018arrested on suspicion of rape\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A star of the BBC\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing television show has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Sun reported that a man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in October over an alleged incident last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The alleged victim was not a contestant or professional dancer, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hertfordshire Police confirmed the arrest and said inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The force told the Sun: \u201cA man was released on police bail under investigation having been arrested in London on Monday October 13th on suspicion of rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe allegations relate to an incident which happened in Hertfordshire during 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMeanwhile, inquiries by officers from Hertfordshire constabulary\u2019s public protection team will continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGiven the nature of the allegations, it would be inappropriate to make any further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A BBC spokesperson said: \u201cIt would not be appropriate to comment on an ongoing police investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It comes after another male star of the BBC show was arrested in August on suspicion of rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man in his 30s, who has not been named, was also detained over a separate alleged offence of \u201cnon-consensual intimate image abuse\u201d. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A star of the BBC\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing television show has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of rape.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1578,42,43,40,38,41,39,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-151709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}