{"id":156879,"date":"2025-11-24T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:45:07","slug":"strictly-christmas-special-reveals-second-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156879\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Christmas Special reveals second contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Saints singer, Celebrity MasterChef finalist, and entrepreneur Melanie Blatt has been revealed as the second contestant on this year&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special on BBC One, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2025\/1121\/1545259-strictly-christmas-special-reveals-first-contestant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joining the previously announced Scarlett Moffatt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blatt will dance with her new professional dance partner Kai Widdrington on the show next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t have a dance at Christmas, when can you?!&#8221; said Blatt. &#8220;I&#8217;m so excited to meet Kai and start training to make this a dance to remember.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blatt was revealed as a Strictly hopeful on BBC Radio 2&#8217;s Scott Mills Breakfast Show on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Six couples will compete in this year&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, with the remaining four celebrities to be announced across this week on spin-off show Strictly: It Takes Two at 6:30pm on BBC Two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/television\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for more television news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Saints singer, Celebrity MasterChef finalist, and entrepreneur Melanie Blatt has been revealed as the second contestant on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-156879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156879","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=156879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}