{"id":226816,"date":"2025-10-20T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226816\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:02:09","slug":"former-manx-bard-beats-the-chasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226816\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Manx Bard Beats the Chasers!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 20 October 2025 08:41\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/237872-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: ITV <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Boakesey Closs appeared on last night&#8217;s episode and walked away with \u00a325,000\n        <\/p>\n<p>A former Manx Bard on the Isle of Man has beaten the Chasers on ITV&#8217;s popular game show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boakesey Closs appeared on last night&#8217;s episode and walked away with \u00a325,000.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the show, she says she wants to use some of her winnings on her friend Helen:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The Manx Bard organisation has extended their congratulations to her describing her as\u00a0&#8216;a true champion both in poetry and in life&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 20 October 2025 08:41 Picture credit: ITV Boakesey Closs appeared on last night&#8217;s episode and walked away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,1111,3053,3054,3055,341,44,3056],"class_list":["post-226816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226816","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=226816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}