{"id":629898,"date":"2026-09-19T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:54:10","slug":"new-strictly-hosts-make-debut-as-celebrity-pairings-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629898\/","title":{"rendered":"New Strictly hosts make debut as celebrity pairings revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

First five celebrities chat fake tan and… woodworking ahead of pairingpublished at 20:02 BST<\/p>\n

20:02 BST<\/p>\n

\"Dancers\"<\/p>\n

Our first five celebrities to find out their professional partners are Lacey Turner, Dani Dyer, Melanie Walters, Dame Sarah Story and Jaime Winstone.<\/p>\n

Chatting to the presenters before they head into the lions’ den (ballroom), we find out that one celebrity has been a bit distracted on set. <\/p>\n

“I found a little wood workshop,” says actress Lacey Turner. “I was over the moon I’ve been in there loads.” <\/p>\n

Conspiratorially, Josh Widdicombe asks Dame Sarah Storey which fake tan shade she opted for. The answer: “venetian glow”. <\/p>\n

“I went ‘venetian glow’ as well,” exclaims Widdicombe. <\/p>\n

And there’s an emotional moment when Dani Dyer – who had to drop out of last series after an injury – shares that she locked herself in her room “for days” afterwards. <\/p>\n

“I was devastated, I was heartbroken,” she says. “So when they asked me to come back, I was like yes please.”<\/p>\n

We’re all waiting to see if Dyer gets reunited with her partner from last year, Nikita Kuzmin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First five celebrities chat fake tan and… woodworking ahead of pairingpublished at 20:02 BST 20:02 BST Our first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-629898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629898","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=629898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}