{"id":12173,"date":"2016-01-22T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2016-01-22T22:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T22:03:40","slug":"anita-rani-to-compete-against-strictly-winner-jay-mcguiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/anita-rani-to-compete-against-strictly-winner-jay-mcguiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Rani To Compete Against Strictly Winner Jay Mcguiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly Come Dancing fans will have another chance to see the newly crowned Strictly winner, Jay McGuiness and his dance partner Aliona Vilani, on the Live UK Tour starting on Friday 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0January at Birmingham Barclaycard Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly Champion Jay will be joined on the dance floor by runner-up Georgia May Foote, Anita Rani, Helen George, Ainsley Harriott,\u00a0Frankie\u00a0Bridge\u00a0and Jake Wood. This completes the line-up for the tour, along with the new tour host Mel Giedroyc and TV judges Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood (who also directs the tour) and Bruno Tonioli for the 30 datelive extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Champaneri got to meet the stars of the show at\u00a0Birmingham\u2019s Strictly photocall at Barclaycard Arena, the\u00a0first date of the tour. \u00a0BBC Presenter Anita Rani is again partnered with the sexy\u00a0Gleb Slevchenko and is looking forward to being back in\u00a0Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0year\u2019s full line-up is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>JAY MCGUINESS AND ALIONA VILANI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GEORGIA<\/strong><strong>\u00a0MAY FOOTE AND GIOVANNI PERNICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANITA RANI AND GLEB SAVCHENKO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HELEN GEORGE AND ALJA\u017d SKORJANEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AINSLEY HARRIOTT AND NATALIE LOWE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FRANKIE<\/strong><strong>\u00a0BRIDGE\u00a0AND KEVIN\u00a0CLIFTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JAKE WOOD AND JANETTE MANRARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arena audiences will experience all of Strictly\u2019s glitz, glamour and breathtaking choreography, right in front of their very eyes. Strictly Come Dancing fans get to watch their favourite dancing couples compete live for votes and the all important feedback of the judges in the arenas. The audience members can then vote themselves via their mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The tour opens at the Barclaycard Arena,\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0on 22 January 2016.\u00a0 It will then visit the biggest entertainment venues across the\u00a0UK: Sheffield Arena,First Direct Arena Leeds, Manchester Arena, Liverpool\u2019s Echo Arena, Metro Radio Arena in\u00a0Newcastle, The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Nottingham\u2019s Capital FM Arena, The SSE Arena in Wembley, before culminating at The O2,\u00a0London\u00a0on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly Come Dancing fans will have another chance to see the newly crowned Strictly winner, Jay McGuiness and his dance partner Aliona Vilani, on the Live UK Tour starting on Friday 22nd\u00a0January at Birmingham Barclaycard Arena. Strictly Champion Jay will be joined on the dance floor by runner-up Georgia May Foote, Anita Rani, Helen George, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}