{"id":518892,"date":"2026-03-06T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:43:10","slug":"corrie-legend-speaks-out-as-he-exits-show-after-37-years-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518892\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrie legend speaks out as he exits show after 37 years | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/coronation-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coronation Street<\/a> icon Charles Lawson has spoken out after his character, Jim McDonald, died on Monday\u2019s (2 March) episode, 37 years after he first joined the show.<\/p>\n<p>The actor first appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/coronation-street-beverley-callard-breast-cancer-video-b2915842.html\" title=\"Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard reveals breast cancer diagnosis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the long-running soap opera<\/a> from 1989 to 2000, then returned several times between 2003 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson sent a message to fans following his exit, saying: \u201cFor all you people who supported me and the character over the years here, all the very best. We had a great run, and I&#8217;m very, very proud of the character we created. Cheerio.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street icon Charles Lawson has spoken out after his character, Jim McDonald, died on Monday\u2019s (2 March)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-518892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518892","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=518892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}