{"id":300658,"date":"2026-02-16T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:19:08","slug":"niamh-kavanagh-has-a-new-lease-of-life-after-dwts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300658\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Kavanagh has a new lease of life after DWTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singer Niamh Kavanagh has said that competing on Dancing with the Stars has given her a new lease of life and she is looking forward to what’s ahead.<\/p>\n

The Eurovision winner and her professional dance partner Stephen Vincent lost out in the dance-off on Sunday night’s show<\/a>, but the Dubliner said it had been “such a beautiful experience” that she would “miss everybody”.<\/p>\n

“I think the most important thing I’ve learned is how joyful it is,” she said of pushing herself out of her comfort zone on DWTS.<\/p>\n

Having told herself for 40 years that she “couldn’t dance”, Kavanagh said she would now “urge as many people as possible to find their joy in dance” and “feel like a million dollars”.<\/p>\n

“I feel considering where I started, I became much better than I ever thought I would be,” she smiled.<\/p>\n

\"Eurovision
\nNiamh Kavanagh described her professional dance partner Stephen Vincent as “magnificent”<\/p>\n

Kavanagh said DWTS had reminded her that if you do something “with your full heart and you just give it your best, nothing is ever not worth doing then”.<\/p>\n

“If nothing else, it has reawakened that in me,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“I have to admit, I was starting to sit on the sofa thinking, ‘That’s grand. I’ll just do the things I’m good at’.<\/p>\n

“I am so excited to think what I might do next because I have found that energy that I always used to have. I was curious in the world. And I always had it, and I just was getting a bit relaxed, I’m not going to lie.”<\/p>\n

“My poor husband is slightly nervous!” she concluded on her future plans. “I haven’t been home for a few weeks!”<\/p>\n

Next Sunday is the hundredth episode of the show.<\/p>\n

Dancing with the Stars, Sundays, RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player<\/a>, 6:30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Niamh Kavanagh has said that competing on Dancing with the Stars has given her a new lease…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-300658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300658","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=300658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}