{"id":153264,"date":"2025-11-22T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153264\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:05:07","slug":"kristen-bell-brian-cox-surprised-fox-podcast-uses-2010-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153264\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Bell, Brian Cox Surprised Fox Podcast Uses 2010 Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kristen-bell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kristen-bell_1\" data-tag=\"kristen-bell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Bell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/brian-cox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-cox_1\" data-tag=\"brian-cox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cox<\/a> were among a string of actors who were recently announced to be voicing Biblical figures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/fox-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fox-news_1\" data-tag=\"fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> Audio\u2019s The Life of Jesus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/podcast\/\" id=\"auto-tag_podcast_1\" data-tag=\"podcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast<\/a>, though they were unaware prior to Wednesday\u2019s announcement of the podcast that they were involved with the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe podcast\u2019s voice cast also includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sean-astin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sean-astin_1\" data-tag=\"sean-astin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Astin<\/a>, Neal McDonough, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies and Julia Ormond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA representative for Cox told The Hollywood Reporter, \u201cBrian recorded audio for a project over a decade ago. He was unaware that the audio would be repurposed for a new podcast series in 2025. Brian only became aware of the podcast yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBell\u2019s reps similarly told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/kristen-bell-fox-jesus-podcast-1235469633\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a> that their client was surprised by the announcement that audio she had recorded in 2010 for the New Testament audiobook The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible would be used for the Life of Jesus podcast. Her rep told Rolling Stone that she only learned of the Fox audio acquisition when her team received a request for her to appear on Fox &amp; Friends a day before the podcast was announced. Bell\u2019s rep says she never gave permission for the audiobook to be repurposed into the new series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a statement, a rep for Fox News Media said, \u201cGulfstream Studios produced the Life of Jesus Podcast from The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible, which was licensed by Fox News Audio, with full cooperation and participation by all the actors involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTHR has reached out to Astin\u2019s reps for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBell voices Mary Magdalene, while Astin portrays Matthew, McDonough voices Jesus, Cox serves as the voice of God, McDowell voices Caiaphas, Rhys-Davies is the narrator, and Ormond voices Mary Mother of God.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first 13 episodes of The Life of Jesus Podcast will be released on Nov. 30, followed by three additional drops of 13 episodes on Dec. 21, Feb. 15 and March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristen Bell and Brian Cox were among a string of actors who were recently announced to be voicing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18929,321,93,20665,61,60,21628,5596,16681],"class_list":{"0":"post-153264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-brian-cox","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fox-news","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kristen-bell","15":"tag-podcast","16":"tag-sean-astin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}