{"id":12361,"date":"2022-10-07T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/07\/strictly-come-dancing-ellie-simmonds-heart-touched-by-support\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:57:10","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-ellie-simmonds-heart-touched-by-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing: Ellie Simmonds&#8217; &#8216;heart touched&#8217; by support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Paralympian swimmer turned Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ellie Simmonds says her heart has been touched by the public&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She says messages in the street have meant &#8220;so, so much&#8221; as she goes on a journey not just with her dance partner but the &#8220;dwarfism community, disability community, or anyone different&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Nikita Kuzmin, with whom the West Midlands sports star performs on BBC One, says their dancing is challenging the concept of normal, and &#8220;normality&#8217;s whatever we make it&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Strictly Come Dancing continues at 18:30 BST on Saturday on BBC One and on iPlayer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-63167423?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Paralympian swimmer turned Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ellie Simmonds says her heart has been touched by the public&#8217;s support. She says messages in the street have meant &#8220;so, so &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}