Kai Widdrington

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Dancing with the Stars: Mary Kennedy with John Nolan on her final night on the show. Photograph: Kyran O’Brien
Dancing with the Stars: Mary Kennedy eliminated in knuckle-whitening conclusion

It’s an evening of high drama on Dancing with the Stars as Mary Kennedy becomes the sixth contestant to be eliminated from the competition. She receiv(...)

Dancing with the Stars: Fr Ray Kelly and Kylee Vincent in rehearsals before the show. Photograph: Tom Honan / The Irish Times
Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’

Dancing wih the Stars has been a ratings juggernaut for RTE since it first aired four years ago. But what's it like to put an episode together(...)

Fr Ray Kelly with pro dancer Kylee Vincent. Photo Credit: Kyran O’Brien Photography
Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farce

Sweaty palms, racing pulses, melting heats. Either it’s the first meeting of a new Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition or we’ve reached Valentine’s Week o(...)

Between the spread of coronavirus and the savage onset of Storm Ciara, the removal of Simon Cowell’s talent contest from television screens, for one year at least, has slipped through the news cracks. Photograph: Eamonn McCormack/Getty Images
‘Rested’ X Factor is struggling for its ‘why’ factor

The ambitious but nervous hopefuls, their dignity on the line, stand under the harsh lights, waiting to hear if they have met the approval of the voti(...)

Glenda Gilson and Robert Rowinski during the live show of Dancing with the stars. Photograph: Kyran O’Brien
Dancing with the Stars: Glenda Gilson sinks like Titanic

There are miracles, and then there is Fr Ray Kelly’s ongoing participation in Dancing with the Stars. He somehow survives again this week despite a pu(...)

Cliona Hagan and Robert Rowinski got the top score of 21 on week two of Dancing With The Stars. Photograph: Kyran O’Brien
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Nah nah’ from judges leaves 18-year-old Demi Isaac Oviawe in tears

Tears, twirls and tangos all make an appearance as week two of Dancing with the Stars sees the female contestants competing in earnest for the first t(...)

Anna Geary: the bookies’ favourite. Photograph: Kyran O’Brien/RTE
Dancing with the Stars: who’s going to win?

Since January, RTÉ’s Dancing with the Stars has had the “Glenroe Effect” of a Sunday evening, with the start of the show indicating that your weekend (...)