Downings man Eric Roberts has survived an extra-competitive week on RTE\u2019s Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n
The Ireland AM presenter and his pro partner Arianna Favaro danced a super smooth Cha-cha-cha to \u201cWaffle House\u201d by the Jonas Brothers, receiving 32 points.<\/p>\n
The contestants then split into two teams to compete in a group\u00a0dance. On Team Jennifer was Jennifer and James, Eric and Arianna, Jordan and Rebecca, Paudie and Laura, Philip and Daniela. They danced\u00a0to \u201cRelight my Fire\u201d by Take That.<\/p>\n
Over on on Team Laura, Laura and\u00a0Robert, Katelyn and\u00a0Leonardo, Niamh and\u00a0Stephen, Stephanie and\u00a0Ervinas, Tolu and\u00a0Maciej\u00a0danced to \u201cSpice Up Your Life\u201d by The Spice Girls. Team Laura\u00a0was the winner with 39 points.<\/p>\n
Singer Niamh Kavanagh became the fifth celebrity to be eliminated from the competition on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
Next week is\u00a0the 100th\u00a0episode of\u00a0Dancing\u00a0with the Stars,\u00a0airing on Sunday\u00a022 February\u00a0from 6:30pm on RT\u00c9 One\u00a0and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n
Eric cha-cha-chas his way into another week on Dancing with the Stars! was last modified: February 16th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downings man Eric Roberts has survived an extra-competitive week on RTE\u2019s Dancing with the Stars. The Ireland AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-301088","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\/301088","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=301088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}