{"id":457940,"date":"2025-09-28T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457940\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:11:10","slug":"did-you-watch-strictlys-first-live-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457940\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you watch Strictly&#8217;s first live show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the first live episode of Strictly Come Dancing, Karen Carney, a former Lioness and football pundit, stunned judges with a jive, ending the night on a high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen and her partner Carlos Gu topped the leader board with 31 points out of a possible 40. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Actor Lewis Cope and Katya Jones followed with 28 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Actor Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin tied third with former footballer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and his partner Lauren Oakley, with 27 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c20e5e5xgdeo\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Davies<\/a> had a very limited time to rehearse after stepping in after Dani Dyer was forced to pull out.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first live episode of Strictly Come Dancing, Karen Carney, a former Lioness and football pundit, stunned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-457940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115282095936991795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457940","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=457940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}