{"id":408294,"date":"2026-04-20T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:41:13","slug":"starstruck-hollywood-star-enjoys-night-out-in-limerick-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408294\/","title":{"rendered":"Starstruck: Hollywood star enjoys night out in Limerick city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A POPULAR American stand-up comedian and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/234\/arts-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> actor<\/a> most famously known for his role in The Hangover film series has been spotted in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Jeong who played Leslie Chow in The Hangover enjoyed a night out in Limerick city on Thursday. He spent some of his evening in Hamptons Bar &amp; Grill and happily posed for photos with staff and local students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacinta Khan, Sales &amp; Marketing Manager for The Savoy Collection said they were &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to welcome Ken Jeong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our team were absolutely delighted to look after him and ensure he had a fantastic Hamptons\/Limerick welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/music\/2063092\/amazing-genre-defying-repertoire-grammy-winner-to-headline-limerick-gala-concert.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Amazing, genre-defying repertoire&#8217;: Grammy winner to headline Limerick gala concert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken has also appeared in the films Knocked Up, Role Models, The Duff, Ride Along 2, Crazy Rich Asians and KPop Demon Hunters which became the most-watched original title in Netflix history with over 500 million views. He is also well-known for his role as Ben Chang in the sitcom Community.<\/p>\n<p>He is a licensed doctor in California but stopped practicing in favour of his acting career.<\/p>\n<p>Ken appears as a panelist on the American version of the singing competition show The Masked Singer and appeared on the first series of the British version.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A POPULAR American stand-up comedian and actor most famously known for his role in The Hangover film series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,44,812],"class_list":["post-408294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-city","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408294","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=408294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}