{"id":777734,"date":"2026-09-21T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:10:10","slug":"strictly-come-dancings-melanie-walters-backed-by-gavin-and-stacey-co-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777734\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing&#8217;s Melanie Walters backed by Gavin and Stacey co-stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So, it&#8217;s now me, Melanie Walters, which is not what I&#8217;m used to putting out there, because I&#8217;m quite a private person. I just thought, &#8216;no, let&#8217;s tick that box&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And basically, I really want to learn to dance properly. Always have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Getting weekly masterclasses. You couldn&#8217;t ask for anything better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walters starred in Gavin and Stacey from its launch in 2007 and reprised her role for a 2024 Christmas special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her television work also includes roles in Coronation Street, Beyond Paradise, Being Human, Hollyoaks, Biff And Chip, and Doc Martin, while her film credits include Submarine, Resistance, High Tide and Save The Cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On stage, she has appeared in productions such as The Importance Of Being Earnest, Blood Brothers, Twelfth Night, Educating Rita and What&#8217;s New Pussycat?.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also recently appeared in two series of the BBC&#8217;s crime mystery series Death Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;So, it&#8217;s now me, Melanie Walters, which is not what I&#8217;m used to putting out there, because I&#8217;m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777734","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=777734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}