{"id":348884,"date":"2026-03-26T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348884\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:48:11","slug":"elton-john-reunites-with-rocketman-star-taron-egerton-on-79th-birthday-elton-john-taron-egerton-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348884\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Reunites with \u2018Rocketman\u2019 Star Taron Egerton on 79th Birthday! | Elton John, Taron Egerton | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/taron-egerton\/\" title=\"Taron Egerton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taron Egerton<\/a> is surprising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elton-john\/\" title=\"Elton John\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elton John<\/a> on his birthday!<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday (March 25), the 36-year-old Kingsman actor reunited with the EGOT winner to celebrate the \u201cTiny Dancer\u201d singer\u2019s 79th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026\u201cRocket Man squared \ud83d\ude80 A brilliant birthday surprise having @taron.egerton join us for lunch,\u201d Elton wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eltonjohn\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eltonjohn&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> along with a photo of himself and Taron sitting with their arms over each other\u2019s shoulders at a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you @davidfurnish for making today and every day feel special,\u201d Elton continued, \u201cand to all of you for the love, messages and support \ud83d\udc99\u2728\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the comments section, Elton\u2018s longtime friend collaborator Bernie Taupin wrote, \u201cAgh that is so great\u2764\ufe0f\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you forgot, Taron portrayed Elton in the 2019 biopic Rocketman. For his portrayal of the music icon, Taron won a Golden Globe award.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/04\/07\/madonna-elton-john-say-they-finally-buried-the-hatchet-after-years-long-feud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major update<\/a> on Elton\u2018s years-long feud with Madonna.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taron Egerton is surprising Elton John on his birthday! On Wednesday (March 25), the 36-year-old Kingsman actor reunited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-348884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348884","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=348884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}