{"id":227164,"date":"2025-10-26T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227164\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:31:09","slug":"fans-at-strictly-studio-in-elstree-suggest-replacement-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227164\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans at Strictly studio in Elstree suggest replacement hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Strictly Come Dancing fans waiting to watch the show live have been speculating about who might replace Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly as hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair announced on social media on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz0x1lr7j92o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they had decided to step down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alesha Dixon and Zoe Ball are among the names suggested as possible new presenters by fans outside Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Betty Stefanou, 66, from Letchworth, Hertfordshire, said: &#8220;It would be nice if Anton wasn&#8217;t a judge. Maybe he could present with Alesha Dixon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing fans waiting to watch the show live have been speculating about who might replace Claudia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227164","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\/227164","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=227164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}