{"id":296404,"date":"2025-12-03T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:23:06","slug":"bal-sopal-and-julian-caillon-on-breaking-unwanted-strictly-record-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296404\/","title":{"rendered":"Bal Sopal and Julian Caillon on breaking unwanted Strictly record | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/balvinder-sopal-strictly-come-dancing-dance-off-julian-caillon-b2875075.html\" title=\"Strictly Come Dancing\u2019s Balvinder Sopal praised for making dig at her dance-off track record\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balvinder Sopal<\/a> and partner Julian Caillon have reacted to breaking an unwanted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> record, after they found themselves in another dance-off on Sunday (30 November).<\/p>\n<p>The pair have now won five dance offs, beating the record previously held by singer Jamelia, who was eventually eliminated in her fifth dance-off back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on BBC&#8217;s Strictly Comes Dancing: It Takes Two on Tuesday (2 December), Caillon said, &#8220;You learn more from the tough times and the challenges than you do from the good times&#8221;, before praising his partner&#8217;s resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Balvinder Sopal and partner Julian Caillon have reacted to breaking an unwanted Strictly Come Dancing record, after they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-296404","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\/296404","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=296404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}