{"id":370208,"date":"2025-08-24T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370208\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:02:15","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-to-introduce-huge-change-to-format-in-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370208\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing to introduce huge change to format in new series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Strictly Come Dancing is gearing up for a &#8220;switch-up week&#8221;, where celebrities will trade their regular dance partners for another professional. This one-off episode is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC<\/a> series, set to begin next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The concept was first introduced by Ireland&#8217;s Dancing With The Stars in 2019, following its success in America. Fans were able to vote for switch-ups by visiting the website and choosing a celebrity to pair with a professional dancer of their preference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Strictly pro-dancer Kai Widdrington, 30, experienced this swap firsthand while participating in the Irish version in 2020, where he was paired with TV presenter Brian Dowling, 47, for a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/pig-left-mosque-door-community-070640540.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pig&#039;s head left at door of mosque;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pig&#8217;s head left at door of mosque<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An insider told The Sun on Sunday: &#8220;A switch-up week is a great way to spice up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Strictly Come Dancing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>. Fans will be able to vote for which celebrity they want to see dance with their favourite professional dancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, they also warned: &#8220;It could also ruffle some feathers as the celebrities may have amazing chemistry with their current partner. Even just switching for one week could disrupt their flow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The dance series will commence on Saturday, September 20, with the usual pre-recorded launch show as celebs are paired with pros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing is gearing up for a &#8220;switch-up week&#8221;, where celebrities will trade their regular dance partners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[4080,129591,129588,67046,77,129590,129589,1888,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-370208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dance-partners","10":"tag-dance-series","11":"tag-dancing-with-the-stars","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kai-widdrington","14":"tag-professional-dancer","15":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115084823686445541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}