{"id":313623,"date":"2026-02-23T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:33:11","slug":"laois-rose-picks-up-first-perfect-score-in-dwts-ireland-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313623\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Rose Picks Up First Perfect Score In DWTS Ireland History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 23 February 2026 14:19\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699c61d913c88.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: Instagram\/@katelyncummins <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Katelyn Cummins scored a perfect score of 50 yesterday evening.\n        <\/p>\n<p>History was made last night in Dancing with the Stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s 100th episode coincided with a historic moment, as Midlands contestant Rose of Tralee Katelyn Cummins and her partner Leonardo Lini secured the first-ever score of 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Westlife star and former presenter on the show Nicky Byrne featured as a guest judge, providing extra points for every contestant.<\/p>\n<p>Tullamore&#8217;s Tol\u00fc Makay and Maciej Zieba, delivered a near-perfect score of 49.<\/p>\n<p>While both are safely through to the next round, Fair City&#8217;s Stephanie Kelly departed after losing in a dance-off against Jordan Dargan.<\/p>\n<p>The Laois Rose says she&#8217;s appreciates the generous feedback considering how challenging she finds each routine:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Our reporter Philip Keegan spoke with Fr Ray who is a past contestant from Tyrellspass and attended the 100th episode last night:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 23 February 2026 14:19 Photo Credit: Instagram\/@katelyncummins Katelyn Cummins scored a perfect score of 50 yesterday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-313623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-news","13":"tag-laois","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-radio","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313623","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=313623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}