{"id":37747,"date":"2025-09-23T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/37747\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:11:09","slug":"james-van-der-beek-pulls-out-of-dawsons-creek-reunion-amid-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/37747\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek pulls out of Dawson\u2019s Creek reunion amid cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI won\u2019t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theatre for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Van Der Beek announced the \u201cridiculously overqualified\u201d Lin Manuel Miranda will be replacing him in the table read, \u201csomeone my kids would consider an upgrade over me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">His wife Kimberly Van Der Beek confirmed the rest of the family will still be attending the event in a comment responding to a fan, according to People.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">The couple share six children together \u2013 Olivia, Joshua, Annabel, Emilia, Gwendolyn and Jeremiah Van Der Beek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">The charity event will be held today at New York\u2019s Richard Rogers Theatre \u2013 where Miranda starred in the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">James Van Der Beek humorously acknowledged the coincidence in his post, writing Miranda \u201calready knows how to get to the theatre. So that\u2019s convenient\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">It is set to be attended by several other stars of the show, including original key cast members Williams, Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Holmes and Jackson are set to reunite on screen in upcoming project Happy Hours, which will see Holmes direct her former Dawson\u2019s love interest and real-life ex-boyfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI won\u2019t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theatre for showing up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[534,5837,34690,2534,13982,34692,34691,34689,156,14054,111,139,69,1118,3111,26525,28221,34693,11427],"class_list":["post-37747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amid","tag-battle","tag-beek","tag-cancer","tag-continues","tag-creek","tag-dawsons","tag-der","tag-entertainment","tag-james","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-pulled","tag-pulls","tag-reunion","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747","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=37747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}