{"id":237507,"date":"2025-11-01T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:00:11","slug":"strictlys-karen-hauer-speaks-out-over-harsh-choreography-feedback-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237507\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly\u2019s Karen Hauer speaks out over \u2018harsh\u2019 choreography feedback | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>\u2019s Karen Hauer has spoken out on the \u201charsh\u201d criticism she received from the judges over her choreography.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on It Takes Two on Friday (31 October) with her celebrity partner Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the professional dancer said it was a \u201cshame\u201d that the judges weren\u2019t impressed with their Argentine tango during Icons Week as she \u201cloved it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/craig-revel-horwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Revel Horwood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/shirley-ballas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Ballas<\/a> criticised the \u201cbump and grind\u201d moves used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/usher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Usher<\/a> song, with the former saying: \u201cI wasn\u2019t entirely fond of throwing all the groove stuff in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hauer suggested if the judges wanted her to choreograph a classical Argentine tango, then \u201cgive me the music and I\u2019ll do it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the assignment,\u201d Karen said. \u201cI was just a bit like\u201d, she said, pulling a face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing\u2019s Karen Hauer has spoken out on the \u201charsh\u201d criticism she received from the judges over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-237507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237507","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=237507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}