{"id":147508,"date":"2025-11-22T03:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147508\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:29:08","slug":"louis-tomlinson-donates-9k-to-help-former-one-direction-bodyguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147508\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Tomlinson donates $9k to help former One Direction bodyguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI can\u2019t thank him enough. Wow. I wasn\u2019t expecting that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI sent Louis a text personally saying thank you. All the boys from One Direction mean the world to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI met up with all the lads again at Liam\u2019s funeral exactly a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was the saddest time ever but a lovely reunion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Mahon\u2019s friend Tracy Trigg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/save-prestons-legs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/save-prestons-legs\">set up a GoFundMe page<\/a> to save her pal\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">After Tomlinson\u2019s donation, more donations have flooded in and the total passed \u00a311,000 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Mahon said he \u201cdesperately\u201d needs a second operation to avoid having to live the rest of his life with pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy dad organised for me to see an expert in Madrid who did his knees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe phoned my father after the op and told him, \u2018We just did life-saving surgery on your son\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAfter the operation, it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders but now I desperately need this second operation to have a chance of living out my years without pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Mahon said he is only asking for donations because he has \u201cnothing left\u201d in the bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve never asked for money but I\u2019ve got nothing left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy family finances have been exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI can\u2019t thank him enough. Wow. I wasn\u2019t expecting that. \u201cI sent Louis a text personally saying thank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36714,98757,65092,12124,31406,49479,98756,156,2740,295,5838,89195,22050,111,139,69,5270,86744,6290,61,47007],"class_list":["post-147508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-36714","tag-98757","tag-9k","tag-bodyguard","tag-direction","tag-donated","tag-donates","tag-entertainment","tag-former","tag-fund","tag-help","tag-lifesaving","tag-louis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-singersongwriter","tag-surgery","tag-to","tag-tomlinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}