{"id":791993,"date":"2026-07-10T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:50:12","slug":"dearalices-james-announces-he-is-leaving-the-group-in-heartfelt-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791993\/","title":{"rendered":"dearALICE&#8217;s James Announces He Is Leaving The Group In Heartfelt Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>dearALICE\u2019s James has announced his departure from the group.<\/p>\n<p>James officially debuted as a member of dearALICE, a five-member boy group formed by SM Entertainment and British television production company Moon&amp;Back Media, at the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On July 9 local time, James took to Instagram to share that he had decided to leave the group, writing, \u201cAfter a lot of thought, and with so much gratitude for everything this journey has given me, I feel now is the right time for me to move on from dearALICE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 full letter can be found below:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1144\" height=\"1041\" data-id=\"1853545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/James-Letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853545\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1048\" data-id=\"1853546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/James-Letter-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853546\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1139\" height=\"1036\" data-id=\"1853547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/James-Letter-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853547\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1037\" data-id=\"1853548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/James-Letter-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853548\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1134\" height=\"1032\" data-id=\"1853549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/James-Letter-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853549\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Wishing James all the best in his future endeavors!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viki.com\/tv\/41617c?utm_source=soompi&amp;utm_medium=celeb&amp;utm_campaign=dearalices-james-announces-he-is-leaving-the-group-in-heartfelt-letter&amp;utm_content_id=1853543wpp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1409760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/July-Soompi-Banner-Bittersweet-Love.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"130\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"dearALICE\u2019s James has announced his departure from the group. James officially debuted as a member of dearALICE, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,279544,75,10070],"class_list":["post-791993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dearalice","tag-entertainment","tag-kpop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791993","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=791993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}