{"id":258424,"date":"2025-11-12T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258424\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:24:08","slug":"strictly-star-makes-awkward-bbc-resignation-joke-during-live-show-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258424\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly star makes awkward BBC resignation joke during live show | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly Come Dancing contestant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/features\/strictly-come-dancing-la-voix-aljaz-halloween-week-b2856859.html\" title=\"Strictly Come Dancing\u2019s La Voix proved she deserves to be taken seriously in Halloween Week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Voix<\/a> left the It Takes Two studio speechless with a joke about resignations at the top of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/bbc-trump-tim-davie-speech-b2863078.html\" title=\"We must fight for our journalism, defiant BBC boss says after Trump legal threat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC<\/a> on Tuesday (11 November).<\/p>\n<p>Director-general Tim Davie and head of BBC News Deborah Turness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/trump-bbc-legal-action-panorama-edit-tim-davie-latest-news-b2862599.html\" title=\"Trump-BBC live: Nandy warns MPs against \u2018sustained attack\u2019 on BBC after US president\u2019s $1bn legal threat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigned on Sunday<\/a> (9 November) after Donald Trump threatened legal action against the broadcaster following the selective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/bbc-trump-speech-documentary-quit-b2862192.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">editing of his speech outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021<\/a> in a Panorama episode.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davie admitted the organisation had \u201cmade some mistakes that have cost us\u201d, but hit out at the BBC\u2019s \u201cenemies\u201d and urged colleagues \u201cto fight for our journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what is in store for La Voix this weekend, performer Chris Dennis joked: &#8220;Well, there is now some bigger jobs become available at the BBC beyond Strictly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing contestant La Voix left the It Takes Two studio speechless with a joke about resignations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-258424","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\/258424","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=258424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}