{"id":170990,"date":"2025-12-06T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:07:07","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-week-11-live-stars-set-to-shine-in-musicals-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170990\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing week 11 live: Stars set to shine in Musicals Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balvinder bounces backpublished at 19:38 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:38 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Balvinder and Julian on strictly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c37c7999-861a-40a0-82dd-d90f5d459cc2.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five dance-offs later, Balvinder and Julian are standing strong and ready to tackle Musicals Week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EastEnders actress says the song is poignant for the pair, who want to prove to the audience that &#8220;we are enough&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All gazes in the bathroom are fixated on the couple as they draw elegant circles around the dancefloor. At its end, Balvinder is heavy with emotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The whole room just went straight into you,&#8221; says Anton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It had feeling, it had emotion, you are a fighter,&#8221; Craig says in celebration of Balvinder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Long after this competition, you will always be a hero for me,&#8221; says Shirley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The feedback leaves her in tears, and gains her a warm embrace from Motsi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, were the pair able to prove themselves as they hoped for? Let&#8217;s take a look at the scores<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig: 8<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Motsi: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shirley: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anton: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Total: 35 (the pair&#8217;s highest score so far!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Motsi gives Balvinder a hug\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6731c15d-abb8-438a-80db-49b8a83a1330.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Balvinder bounces backpublished at 19:38 GMT 19:38 GMT Five dance-offs later, Balvinder and Julian are standing strong and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-170990","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\/170990","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=170990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}