{"id":300238,"date":"2025-12-05T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:07:16","slug":"strictlys-balvinder-sopal-wants-gillingham-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300238\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly&#8217;s Balvinder Sopal wants Gillingham votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sopal and Caillon won their fifth dance-off on Sunday, putting fellow actor Alex Kingston out of the competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The actor, who has played Suki Panesar in EastEnders since 2020, was born and bred in the Medway towns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I love where I come from. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just want to be able to represent Gillingham and the Medway towns in this competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m proud of where I come from. Let&#8217;s do this for Medway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sopal added on Instagram that she had &#8220;come back fighting&#8221; after finishing in the bottom two so many times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Your investment in us means more than anything in the world,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Your gorgeous messages of support humbles my heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sopal and Caillon won their fifth dance-off on Sunday, putting fellow actor Alex Kingston out of the competition.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-300238","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\/300238","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=300238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}