{"id":665004,"date":"2026-05-12T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665004\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:24:11","slug":"pudsey-bear-breaks-40-years-of-silence-for-mental-health-campaign-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665004\/","title":{"rendered":"Pudsey Bear breaks 40 years of silence for mental health campaign | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Pudsey Bear speak for the first time in 40 years as part of a campaign designed to help children talk about their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2026, the iconic yellow bear spoke to 11-year-old Dexter about the importance of talking about your feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look worried,\u201d he says to Dexter in the short film titled Pudsey Finds His Voice. \u201cYou look like you might need someone to talk to. Maybe I can be that someone,\u201d he tells the 11-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/children-in-need\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Children in Need<\/a> mascot last spoke in 1985 and until now, has remained mute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to Pudsey Bear speak for the first time in 40 years as part of a campaign designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[264203,10972,64,63,310538,310534,36143,310536,310535,137,11013,138966,2557,244207,514,515,8212,202350,310531,310537,13198,102489,2020,588,310532,8824,310533,39447,139077,310539],"class_list":["post-665004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-antonin-kinsky","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bestpix","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-eight-finals","tag-first-leg","tag-health","tag-horizontal","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-madrid","tag-match-sport","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-photography","tag-sadness","tag-scoring","tag-scoring-a-goal","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-player","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports-team","tag-stadium","tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-union-of-european-football-associations","tag-wanda-metropolitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665004","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=665004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}