{"id":156990,"date":"2025-11-27T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156990\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:58:10","slug":"strictly-star-la-voix-lands-huge-new-role-after-being-forced-to-quit-bbc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156990\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly star La Voix lands huge new role after being forced to quit BBC show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> star La Voix is set to play Miss Hannigan in the UK and Ireland tour of Annie<\/a> the musical. <\/p>\n

This casting follows the drag performer, real name Christopher Dennis, pulling out of the BBC One dancing competition due to an injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 45-year-old, a runner-up on RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK in 2024 and a semi-finalist on Britain\u2019s Got Talent in 2014,<\/a> is featured in a poster for the musical, wearing a grey and red wig and a necklace full of keys.<\/p>\n

The tour will open at New Wimbledon Theatre on 23 May next year, with La Voix starring in productions across London, Birmingham, Manchester, Plymouth, and Canterbury.<\/p>\n

Casting for Miss Hannigan from Cardiff onwards will be announced soon. Further shows are planned for cities and towns, including Milton Keynes, Blackpool, Newcastle, Dublin, Bristol, Nottingham, and Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Annie, set in 1930s New York, follows a young girl living in Miss Hannigan\u2019s orphanage whose luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas with famous billionaire Oliver Warbucks, played by Alex Bourne.<\/p>\n

From 12 December, La Voix will also be seen in Wycombe Swan\u2019s Jack And The Beanstalk pantomime, also starring BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills.<\/p>\n

\"ChristopherChristopher Dennis, who was paired with dancer Aljaz Skorjanec on this year\u2019s series of Strictly, withdrew recently after an injury to their foot (BBC)<\/p>\n

The drag artist, who was paired with dancer Aljaz Skorjanec on this year\u2019s series of Strictly, withdrew recently after an injury to their foot.<\/p>\n

In a post to Instagram on Saturday, La Voix said: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely devastated to be withdrawing from Strictly Come Dancing. This isn\u2019t the glittering exit I ever imagined, and it breaks my heart to feel like I\u2019m letting people down.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy spirit wanted to keep dancing but my foot has other ideas. Thank you for every cheer, every vote, and every sparkle of support \u2013 it\u2019s meant the world to me. This isn\u2019t the ending I imagined, but I\u2019ll cherish this forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for Annie are on sale now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-156990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}