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It marks a return to the show for Erivo, who was a guest judge for two weeks in 2021, and it sparked a big reaction on social media.<\/p>\n
“I loved how much she boosted the confidence of every contestant,” wrote one X user, external<\/span><\/a>, while another, external<\/span><\/a> said she would have “cried tears” if Erivo had told her she “was fab”.<\/p>\n Erivo wasn’t the only nod to Wicked during Saturday night’s show.<\/p>\n The opening dance routine for movie week was inspired by the film’s forthcoming sequel, Wicked: For Good, which hits cinemas next month.<\/p>\n The female professional dancers wore black dresses like the film’s Wicked Witch of the West, while the men channelled their inner Prince Fiyero.<\/p>\n Set against a green and blue backdrop, the number was theatrical, dramatic and\u2026 a bit spooky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It marks a return to the show for Erivo, who was a guest judge for two weeks in 2021, and it sparked a big reaction on social media. “I loved how much she boosted the confidence of every contestant,” wrote one X user, external, while another, external said she would have “cried tears” if Erivo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2084633,"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":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Strictly-Celebs-starstruck-as-Wickeds-Cynthia-Erivo-soars-into-Movie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084632","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=2084632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084634,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084632\/revisions\/2084634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}