{"id":225479,"date":"2025-10-25T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225479\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:12:11","slug":"stefan-dennis-watches-from-strictly-come-dancing-audience-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225479\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Dennis watches from Strictly Come Dancing audience | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Dennis supported his Strictly Come Dancing opponents from the live audience after a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/tv-radio\/stefan-dennis-leaves-strictly-calf-injury-b2848780.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> serious calf injury<\/a> forced him to pull out of the competition. <\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old actor\u2019s injury is preventing him from boarding a plane home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> until next month. He announced he was forced to leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> dance show earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStefan and Diane had to sadly withdraw from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/competition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">competition<\/a> this week as Stefan sustained an injury. He&#8217;s here with us tonight,\u201d said host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/claudia-winkleman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claudia Winkleman<\/a> during Saturday\u2019s show. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of love to you, Stefan, from all of us right now,\u201d she said as the audience cheered in support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephan Dennis supported his Strictly Come Dancing opponents from the live audience after a serious calf injury forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-225479","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\/225479","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=225479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}