{"id":792578,"date":"2026-10-05T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792578\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:44:12","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-2026-who-was-the-first-celebrity-to-leave-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792578\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing 2026: Who was the first celebrity to leave the show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the dance-off, it was time for the four judges to cast their votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judges Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all chose to save Jaime and Carlos, meaning that Chris and Amy became the first couple to leave the show<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Revel Horwood &#8211; who was the judge with the deciding vote this week &#8211; said that he would have also saved Jaime and Carlos if he had needed to vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first results show from Movie Week also featured a performance from Matilda The Musical, with the four young performers who play Matilda singing the song &#8220;Quiet&#8221; alongside composer Tim Minchin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Strictly Professionals also took to the floor with a routine inspired by the film The Devil Wears Prada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Strictly returns to our screens this weekend, when the remaining fourteen couples will take to the dance floor once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What do you think of the new-look series so far? Who&#8217;s your favourite celebrity? Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the dance-off, it was time for the four judges to cast their votes. Judges Shirley Ballas, Motsi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792578","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=792578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}