{"id":783096,"date":"2026-09-26T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783096\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:50:09","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-youtube-creator-john-nellis-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783096\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing: YouTube creator John Nellis to compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Away from his day job of interviewing the likes of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, John Nellis has taken to a different discipline to showcase his talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The social media star, from Newcastle, County Down, has been paired with Katya Jones in this year&#8217;s series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006m8dq\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nellis quit his job as an air traffic controller four years ago and is now flying high on social media as one of the UK&#8217;s biggest sports content creators, with a combined audience of more than 20 million followers across social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC News NI has spoken to people in his hometown about how they feel about him Cha Cha Cha-ing across the famous Strictly dancefloor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of Anna Monteith&#8217;s best friends is John&#8217;s younger sister Fiona, so she has known him most of her life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s one of the most genuine people that I know, he&#8217;s bubbly, charismatic, he can talk to a room full of people and is the exact same person day and night,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is all down to his family and his upbringing and it really shines through &#8211; when he&#8217;s on stage or in his local for a pint.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Away from his day job of interviewing the likes of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, John Nellis has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783096","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=783096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}