{"id":1962047,"date":"2025-08-15T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1962047"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:54:14","slug":"thrones-icon-kristian-nairn-to-compete-on-strictly-come-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thrones-icon-kristian-nairn-to-compete-on-strictly-come-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Thrones’ icon Kristian Nairn to compete on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug. 15 (UPI) —<\/span> Game of Thrones<\/i> and Our Flag Means Death<\/i> icon Kristian Nairn has signed up to compete on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.<\/i><\/p>\n

“This will be a huge challenge for me physically, but I’m ready to rise to it! It’s a surreal and wonderful opportunity to shed one of my left feet!” Nairn, who is also a popular DJ and author, said in a press release Friday.<\/p>\n

The actor, 49, is known for playing Hodor on Game of Thrones<\/i> and Wee John Feeney on Our Flag Means Death<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Strictly Come Dancing<\/i> Season 23 is to premiere in September on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

Other contestants include<\/a> RuPaul’s Drag Race UK<\/i> queen La Voix and Neighbours<\/i> star Stefan Dennis, as well as Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, aka Nitro, Dani Dyer, Alex Kingston, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Balvinder Sopal, George Clarke, Chris Robshaw, Ellie Goldstein, Thomas Skinner and Vicky Pattison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aug. 15 (UPI) — Game of Thrones and Our Flag Means Death icon Kristian Nairn has signed up to compete on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. “This will be a huge challenge for me physically, but I’m ready to rise to it! It’s a surreal and wonderful opportunity to shed one of my left feet!” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1962048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[342430,330562,345878,345788,30156],"class_list":["post-1962047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dani-dyer","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-john-feeney","tag-kristian-nairn","tag-strictly-come-dancing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Thrones-icon-Kristian-Nairn-to-compete-on-Strictly-Come-Dancing.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}