{"id":784526,"date":"2026-09-27T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784526\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:50:08","slug":"strictlys-motsi-mabuse-issues-playful-warning-to-josh-widdicombe-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784526\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly\u2019s Motsi Mabuse issues playful warning to Josh Widdicombe | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/motsi-mabuse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Motsi Mabuse<\/a> playfully admonished new host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/josh-widdicombe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Widdicombe<\/a> during his first live broadcast on Saturday night (26 September).<\/p>\n<p>Craig Revel Horwood was delivering his critique of Dame Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon&#8217;s routine when his fellow judge confirmed she shared his assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian then jested that it was time to hear from Shirley Ballas, prompting Mabuse to quip: &#8220;Are we going to be friends or enemies? You choose now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Widdicombe was making his live hosting debut alongside co-presenters Johannes Radebe and Emma Willis, taking over from Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse playfully admonished new host Josh Widdicombe during his first live broadcast on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,258010,258011,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-optamatchid2685377","tag-optauuid5a46wxu10t5b74s9ygfex4dg4","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784526","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=784526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}