{"id":161458,"date":"2025-09-26T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161458\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:34:12","slug":"amber-davies-actress-and-podcaster-joins-strictly-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161458\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Davies: Actress and podcaster joins Strictly line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amber Davies, who is an actress, West End star and former Love Island winner is to replace Dani Dyer in the Strictly Come Dancing line-up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TV personality Dyer had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c98d6z1j9neo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdraw from the show<\/a> earlier this week after breaking her ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies, who is also a podcaster, will make her Strictly debut on Saturday &#8211; the first live show of the series &#8211; and will be dancing the waltz with Nikita Kuzmin, having just started rehearsals with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She won Love Island in 2017 and has since had roles in musical theatre, including in Pretty Woman, 9 to 5: The Musical, and The Great Gatsby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amber Davies, who is an actress, West End star and former Love Island winner is to replace Dani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-161458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}