The young Elvis is driven to care home gigs by his mother, Katie Goddard, because he has not yet passed his test. <\/p>\n
“I think it’s brilliant. I don’t know where he gets it from,” said the 42-year-old.<\/p>\n
“Watching him in front of 5,000 people, it felt a bit surreal, it’s like, that can’t be my son.<\/p>\n
“When they’re at college, you’ve got that pressure of they’ve got to go to college, they’ve got to do this, they’ve got to think of the future.<\/p>\n
“But it comes to a point, because of some nasty bit of bullying going off, where you have to have his best interests at heart and live for now.<\/p>\n
“And that’s what he’s doing and he’s having a brilliant time and we’re all having a brilliant time with him.”<\/p>\n
And Lewis’s message to others being bullied for pursuing an unconventional passion?<\/p>\n
“Don’t do what I did the first time, where I gave up,” he said. “Which was the biggest mistake.<\/p>\n
“I think the best thing you could do, if you know it’s a dream you want, is to follow it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The young Elvis is driven to care home gigs by his mother, Katie Goddard, because he has not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-594844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594844","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=594844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}