{"id":662332,"date":"2026-10-22T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662332\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:30:15","slug":"andy-burnham-to-become-first-pm-to-appear-on-gogglebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662332\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham to become first PM to appear on Gogglebox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham is set to appear on Channel 4&#8217;s Gogglebox, becoming the first British prime minister to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Burnham will watch the television shows of the week in a special charity episode on Friday alongside the mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram.<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for the programme shows &#8220;good friends Andy and Steve&#8221; talking about crisps inside No 10.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Burnham is no stranger to light-hearted media appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He has ranked pub snacks in a video alongside UK Chancellor John Healey and been quizzed about his career while on a stepladder.<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK leader Nigel Farage appeared in a Gogglebox spin-off in 2014 while leader of Ukip.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if it was unfair for Mr Burnham to appear on the show without the leaders of other parties, a spokesman for Mr Farage said: &#8220;Nigel has done it before and would happily do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham is set to appear on Channel 4&#8217;s Gogglebox, becoming the first British prime minister to do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-662332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662332","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=662332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}