{"id":325137,"date":"2025-12-19T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325137\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:08","slug":"strictly-amber-davies-praised-by-teacher-ahead-of-shows-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325137\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly: Amber Davies praised by teacher ahead of show&#8217;s final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies replaced Dyer just before the first show was televised and was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20gdy5kxd0o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subject to online criticism<\/a> that her background in performing arts gave her an advantage over other contestants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Jones said the performer&#8217;s experience in the West End did not guarantee that she would be successful in the ballroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s been a leading lady [in musical theatre], but leading ladies don&#8217;t usually do all that [choreography],&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The teacher added that she felt some of the comments towards Davies had been unfair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People forget she&#8217;s missed all those weeks of basic ballroom skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I take my hat off to her. Some of those moves [on Strictly] have been quite scary, when she&#8217;s thrown around the place, and I think she&#8217;s done amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davies replaced Dyer just before the first show was televised and was later subject to online criticism that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-325137","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\/325137","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=325137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}