{"id":659369,"date":"2026-06-26T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:29:13","slug":"strictly-stars-land-new-tv-job-amid-bbc-shakeup-culture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659369\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly stars land new TV job amid BBC shakeup | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> stars have landed a new role following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/shirley-ballas-strictly-hosts-celebrity-line-up-video-b2993109.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">popular BBC show\u2019s shakeup.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the departure of hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly, several professional dancers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/strictly-dancers-shake-up-james-jordan-b2996393.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were announced not to be returning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, two stars that have survived the cull will now be taking on an additional job on another popular TV show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/amy-dowden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Dowden<\/a> and Carlos Gu will feature on Channel 4\u2019s Celebrity Gogglebox, appearing on Friday\u2019s (26 June) episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so excited,\u201d said Gu, as Dowden showed off the snacks they would be enjoying as they tuned into this week\u2019s popular television shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of Strictly Come Dancing stars have landed a new role following the popular BBC show\u2019s shakeup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[33792,96,33794,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bestof","tag-entertainment","tag-topix","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659369","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=659369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}