{"id":820546,"date":"2026-11-01T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820546\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:52:08","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-live-leaderboard-in-full-as-josh-widdicome-comes-under-fire-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820546\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing LIVE: Leaderboard in full as Josh Widdicome comes under fire on Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Best in tears tonightStrictly star Will Best was seen getting emotional while introducing his dance tonight. In a pre-recorded video he was speaking about how his family have helped him through the ups and downs of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about shows he had fronted, Will said: &#8220;Started strong, T4 and The Crash and Freshly Squeezed and everyone was like, &#8216;This is it, Will. You have made it&#8217;. Then in the space of, honestly, one month, they all got cancelled and, you know, it was scary. &#8220;You can be busy doing things and then suddenly it can all sort of go away. But, I was lucky enough to, I don&#8217;t know, get a bit of a second wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will, 41, became overcome saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of myself for not giving up, but I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to keep going if it wasn&#8217;t for, like, the friends and family that I have\u2026&#8221; Will became emotional whispering: &#8220;We&#8217;ll come back to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Best in tears tonightStrictly star Will Best was seen getting emotional while introducing his dance tonight. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[243,96,59,1598,27012,56,54,55,45624],"class_list":["post-820546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-strictly-come-dancing","tag-talent-shows","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820546","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=820546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}