{"id":334118,"date":"2026-03-07T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:29:13","slug":"id-vote-for-paudie-if-i-could-says-dancing-with-the-stars-contestant-tolu-makay-of-popular-glitterball-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334118\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d vote for Paudie if I could,\u2019 says Dancing with the Stars\u2019 contestant Tolu Makay of \u2018popular\u2019 Glitterball rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tolu Makay and dance partner Maciej Zieba\u00a0received a perfect\u00a010\u00a0from each judge last week for their Charleston performance. However, she also found herself in the bottom two contestants. Photo: Kyran O'Brien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/897d337b-b4a8-4b6f-86ac-4b5b84e46a8e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tolu Makay and dance partner Maciej Zieba\u00a0received a perfect\u00a010\u00a0from each judge last week for their Charleston performance. However, she also found herself in the bottom two contestants. Photo: Kyran O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dancing with the Stars contestant Tolu Makay has said she would vote for fellow contestant Paudie Moloney if she could.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Alternative pop and R&amp;B singer Makay (29), who grew up in Tullamore, Co Offaly, was \u00adinitially focused on just surviving in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tolu Makay and dance partner Maciej Zieba\u00a0received a perfect\u00a010\u00a0from each judge last week for their Charleston performance. However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21183,93,61,60,6085],"class_list":["post-334118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334118","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=334118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}