{"id":201394,"date":"2025-12-20T05:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201394\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:19:13","slug":"supervalu-ad-deer-from-wicklow-is-now-a-movie-star-and-more-in-demand-than-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201394\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperValu ad deer from Wicklow is now a movie star and more in demand than Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Deermuid is apple of owner Eddie Drew\u2019s eye, having been rescued from abandonment\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deermuid the Deer at Pettitt's SuperValu, Bray, with Lily O'Toole. Photos: Leigh Anderson.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BP Deer1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Deermuid the Deer at Pettitt&#8217;s SuperValu, Bray, with Lily O&#8217;Toole. Photos: Leigh Anderson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He has been a star in some of the big film and TV productions shot in Wicklow, and last month was in Ashford Studios where an upcoming Prime Video drama series is being filmed. Deermuid the deer is in constant demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But his owner, Eddie Drew,  who runs a family-owned animal wrangling business from Kilmacanogue\u2019s Copsewood Aviaries, said Deermuid relishes Christmas above all else. That\u2019s when he really gets to show off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deermuid is apple of owner Eddie Drew\u2019s eye, having been rescued from abandonment Deermuid the Deer at Pettitt&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,93,61,60,10687],"class_list":["post-201394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201394","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=201394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}