{"id":124195,"date":"2025-09-06T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124195\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:13:08","slug":"radio-2-in-the-park-live-updates-from-chelmsford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124195\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 2 in the Park: Live updates from Chelmsford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans travel to see their favourite performerspublished at 12:05 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>12:05 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelly has short brown hair and is wearing glasses and a red T-shirt that says &quot;I heart Rylan&quot;. She is standing in front of rows of small metal barriers.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5dfda340-ef10-48ee-9d56-2f49460d1180.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3409\" height=\"1918\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Any guesses for who Kelly from Bristol wanted to see last night?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio 2 presenters Vernon Kay, Scott Mills and Rylan all kicked off the festival last night with a buzzing DJ party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s fair to say 45-year-old Kelly, who travelled down from Bristol, wouldn&#8217;t have missed it for the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I\u2019m happy because I feel like I\u2019m in Rylan land,&#8221; she said on her first trip to Essex on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gill Melder has short brown hair and is smiling while wearing a red dress with white detailing. She is standing in front of small metal barriers.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0343c35c-5660-457d-a9ce-27422195d9f5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2608\" height=\"1467\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gill Melder came to see DJ Spoony with her friend, Alison Moore<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michelle Visage and DJ Spoony were also bringing the tunes, but some fans in the crowd forgot a vital instrument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We forgot our wooden spoons, we&#8217;re gutted,&#8221; said Gill Melder, who travelled from Chadwell Heath, east London, to see (and wave the cutlery at) DJ Spoony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans travel to see their favourite performerspublished at 12:05 British Summer Time 12:05 BST Image caption, Any guesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-124195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}