{"id":340253,"date":"2026-03-11T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340253\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:20:10","slug":"pat-stacey-paudie-has-the-dancing-skills-of-a-kitchen-chair-if-he-wins-it-makes-a-mockery-of-rtes-dancing-with-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340253\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Stacey: Paudie has the dancing skills of a kitchen chair \u2013 if he wins, it makes a mockery of RT\u00c9\u2019s \u2018Dancing With the Stars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The well-worn joke is an insult to the celebrities and professionals who put a lot of hard work into their routines, only to see it tossed into the bin\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paudie Moloney with his pro dance partner Laura Nolan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/837fb402-455e-4c13-8b91-7bb17f8b053f.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)\">Paudie Moloney with his pro dance partner Laura Nolan<\/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)\">To borrow a line from Logan Roy in Succession, the viewers voting on RT\u00c9 One\u2019s Dancing With the Stars \u201care not serious people\u201d.<\/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)\">If they were, they wouldn\u2019t have voted Paudie Moloney from The Traitors Ireland through to next Sunday\u2019s final at the expense of more capable contestants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The well-worn joke is an insult to the celebrities and professionals who put a lot of hard work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21183,93,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-340253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340253","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=340253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}