{"id":192029,"date":"2025-12-19T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192029\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:42:08","slug":"british-actor-william-rush-known-for-waterloo-road-dead-at-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192029\/","title":{"rendered":"British Actor William Rush, Known for &#8216;Waterloo Road,&#8217; Dead at 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          British &#8216;Waterloo Road&#8217; Actor<br \/>\n                          William Rush Dead at 31<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              December 19, 2025<br \/>\n                            7:10 AM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251219_e76b6da920104c3abf6cdb3d954c45d7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:fb233abb-6544-4fc3-a4c8-a91e32a6ae6f\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e76b6da920104c3abf6cdb3d954c45d7_md.jpg\" alt=\"william rush shutterstock\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Rush, a British actor best known for the popular UK-based series &#8220;Waterloo Road,&#8221; has died.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic news was confirmed by William&#8217;s mom, Debbie Rush, on IG Wednesday &#8230; writing, &#8220;As a family, our hearts are completely broken, and there are no words that can truly capture the depth of our loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251219_f6cbfa65b67149a5a8d7ac6b68fb7d9d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:fb233abb-6544-4fc3-a4c8-a91e32a6ae6f\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f6cbfa65b67149a5a8d7ac6b68fb7d9d_md.jpg\" alt=\"William Rush comment instagram\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Debbie, who starred in the popular British soap &#8220;Coronation Street,&#8221; also added that up until the very end, he was thinking about others as an organ donor.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>William&#8217;s cause of death hasn&#8217;t been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He was best known for playing Josh Stevenson in the high-school drama &#8220;Waterloo Road&#8221; from 2009 to 2013 &#8212; and even appeared in other big British hits like &#8220;Grange Hill,&#8221; the original UK version of &#8220;Shameless,&#8221; &#8220;Casualty&#8221; and &#8220;Vera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was 31.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British &#8216;Waterloo Road&#8217; Actor William Rush Dead at 31 Published December 19, 2025 7:10 AM PST William Rush,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-192029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192029","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=192029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}