{"id":243180,"date":"2025-11-04T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243180\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:21:12","slug":"huge-bbc-star-throws-hat-in-ring-for-strictly-host-job-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243180\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge BBC star throws hat in ring for Strictly host job | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> star has publicly expressed an interest in replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zoe-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Ball<\/a> made the admission during her Dig It podcast episode with Jo Whiley, released on Wednesday (29 October).<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether she would like to do the job, the BBC Radio 2 broadcaster replied, &#8220;I think everyone would like to do that job,&#8221; praising the dance competition for &#8220;bringing so much joy to people&#8217;s lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s going to want that job. There will be queues going around the block.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ball was a contestant on the third series and went on to host It Takes Two. She also stepped in to host the main show while Winkleman was on leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A huge BBC star has publicly expressed an interest in replacing Strictly Come Dancing hosts Tess Daly and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-243180","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\/243180","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=243180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}