{"id":58487,"date":"2025-08-10T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58487\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:21:10","slug":"paul-hollywoods-brother-kicked-in-head-in-leasowe-dog-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58487\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hollywood&#8217;s brother &#8216;kicked in head&#8217; in Leasowe dog row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">TV baker Paul Hollywood has made a plea for information after his brother was apparently kicked in the head after a row with another dog walker when their pets barked at each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Great British Bake Off judge said his brother Lee &#8211; who is also a baker &#8211; was the victim of an attack in Leasowe, Wirral, at about 19:00 BST on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Merseyside Police said a man in his 50s was punched and then kicked in the face in the &#8220;nasty, unprovoked assault&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The second man &#8220;became irate&#8221; after separating the animals, attacking the other dog walker as he walked away from Links View Playing Fields, the force said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Hollywood, 59, posted on his Instagram page: &#8220;If you have information regarding this attack on Friday night, the person in question who was attacked is my brother Lee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The TV judge asked anyone with &#8220;any information&#8221; to &#8220;please&#8221; contact the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Det Insp Phil Ryan also appealed for anyone who saw the attack, or a man leaving the area, to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV baker Paul Hollywood has made a plea for information after his brother was apparently kicked in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-58487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}