{"id":241043,"date":"2026-01-12T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:05:10","slug":"eric-trots-onwards-as-comic-michael-fry-is-the-first-celeb-to-exit-dancing-with-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241043\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric trots onwards as comic Michael Fry is the first celeb to exit Dancing with the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal\u2019s Eric Roberts has danced past the first elimination of RTE\u2019s Dancing with the Stars on week two.<\/p>\n<p>The Downings TV presenter and partner Arianna Favaro last night performed\u00a0a smooth Foxtrot to Daisies\u00a0by Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n<p>They scored\u00a022\u00a0points.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian and actor Michael Fry, whose mum hails from Donegal, became the first celebrity to be eliminated from the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside pro dancer\u00a0Kylee\u00a0Vincent,\u00a0Michael\u00a0received the lowest combined total from judges\u2019 scores and public votes.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said:\u00a0\u201cI had the best time, and I was really scared, but I wanted to do\u00a0it\u00a0and I did it scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next week is the much-anticipated Movie Week special airing on Sunday 18 January from 6:30pm on RT\u00c9 One.<\/p>\n<p>Eric trots onwards as comic Michael Fry is the first celeb to exit Dancing with the Stars was last modified:  January 12th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal\u2019s Eric Roberts has danced past the first elimination of RTE\u2019s Dancing with the Stars on week two.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-241043","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\/241043","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=241043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}