{"id":290381,"date":"2026-02-10T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290381\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:04:09","slug":"working-as-an-extra-on-tv-has-given-me-a-new-lease-of-life-at-72-years-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290381\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Working as an extra on TV has given me a new lease of life at 72 years of age\u2019"},"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\">Lillian Mellamphy from Cork has worked as an extra on film, television and advertisements for the past 10 years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'For a morning working on Fair City, you\u00a0might come away with \u20ac55,\u00a0but I was working on a film recently where I was paid nearly \u20ac700 for the week.' Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/83c637fc-bbd7-4da0-9981-c0f114a22e1a.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)\">&#8216;For a morning working on Fair City, you\u00a0might come away with \u20ac55,\u00a0but I was working on a film recently where I was paid nearly \u20ac700 for the week.&#8217; Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">\u201cAfter three months of chemotherapy in 2016, I didn\u2019t know what to do with myself.<\/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)\">I had undergone surgery and treatment for bowel cancer and thankfully, I came through it \u2013 I\u2019m one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lillian Mellamphy from Cork has worked as an extra on film, television and advertisements for the past 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25666,93,69545,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-290381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-deirdre-barry","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fair-city","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290381","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=290381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}