{"id":195974,"date":"2025-10-13T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195974\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:28:09","slug":"cynthia-erivo-bursts-into-song-during-strictly-come-dancing-appearance-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195974\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo bursts into song during Strictly Come Dancing appearance | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cynthia-erivo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> burst into song as she sat between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> judges during the Movie Week episode on Saturday (11 October).<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-nominated Wicked star, 38, returned to the show for the first time since 2021 to mentor the crop of celebrity contestants.<\/p>\n<p>Erivo did not offer scores after each performance, but gave each couple feedback after they danced.<\/p>\n<p>After Motsi Mabuse sang the word &#8220;slow&#8221; as she asked Balvinder Sopal to feel the music more during her performance, Erivo shortly followed suit with her own singing of the word to rapturous applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo burst into song as she sat between the Strictly Come Dancing judges during the Movie Week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-195974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195974","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=195974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}