{"id":125911,"date":"2025-09-07T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125911\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:46:08","slug":"jonathan-bailey-plans-break-from-acting-to-focus-on-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125911\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Bailey Plans Break From Acting To Focus On Nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter a busy few years on screen, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jonathan-bailey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jonathan Bailey<\/a> is taking a step back from Hollywood to focus on a cause close to his heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Emmy nominee recently announced that he plans to \u201cstop acting for a bit\u201d in 2026 as he prepares to focus more energy on The Shameless Fund, the LGBTQ charity Bailey launched last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been working solidly for about three years now, which has been amazing and mind-blowing,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/jonathan-bailey-had-to-fake-an-nhs-eye-test-to-get-those-hot-little-glasses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">British GQ<\/a>. \u201cBut with everything happening in the world right now, I\u2019m going to stop acting for a bit next year and just focus on The Shameless Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOver the next few months, I\u2019ll be focusing on staffing and making sure we get all the right people in all the right places,\u201d added Bailey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nonprofit\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nonprofit\" data-tag=\"nonprofit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nonprofit<\/a> last June, Bailey has raised money with celebrity and brand partnerships, including his \u201cDrink Your Milk\u201d t-shirt designed by Loewe and his \u201cSlutty Little Glasses\u201d inspired by his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jurassic-world-rebirth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jurassic World: Rebirth<\/a> character, raising money for non-profits around the world to end anti-LGBTQ laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s this statistic: out of every \u00a3100 raised in the UK, only 1p goes to the LGBTQ+ community,\u201d said Bailey. \u201cYou really have to dig to find solutions, and I genuinely think The Shameless Fund is exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBailey\u2019s upcoming break will follow his press tour for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wicked-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>, the second installment of the movie musical adaptation, which premieres Nov. 21 in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a busy few years on screen, Jonathan Bailey is taking a step back from Hollywood to focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,57981,69319],"class_list":["post-125911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jonathan-bailey","tag-nonprofit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125911","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=125911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}