{"id":552248,"date":"2026-07-31T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:48:09","slug":"the-chase-host-bradley-walsh-wishes-ashburton-woman-doris-wakelin-a-happy-109th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552248\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chase host Bradley Walsh wishes Ashburton woman Doris Wakelin a happy 109th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BradleyBradley Walsh has sent her a video message for six years running.<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy, happy, happy birthday darling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to get out to see ya; I keep talking about coming to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really really hope to see you soon. Lots of love to you all out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video ended with Walsh blowing a kiss to the camera and a final message. <\/p>\n

\u201cKeep going Doris \u2013 The Chase is on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ForFor the past six years,\u00a0Bradley Walsh has sent a personalised happy birthday message to Doris Wakelin.<\/p>\n

Receiving a personal happy birthday from a celebrity once is an exciting experience. <\/p>\n

However, this wasn\u2019t the first time Walsh has reached out. <\/p>\n

For the past six years, Walsh has sent a personalised happy birthday<\/a> message to the self-professed \u201cBradley groupie\u201d.<\/p>\n

The mother-of-seven may even be the gameshow host\u2019s biggest fan.<\/p>\n

She previously told 1News she watched the show twice a day without fail.<\/p>\n

\"BradleyBradley Walsh sent a birthday message to Kiwi fan Doris Wakelin when she turned 107. Photo \/ TikTok<\/p>\n

Walsh, who is also known for his roles on Coronation Street, Law and Order: UK and Doctor Who, mentioned that NZ was on his \u201cbucket list\u201d in a video to Wakelin on her 105th birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope one day we meet. I really do … always remember, girl, The Chase is on,\u201d Walsh said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradley Walsh has sent her a video message for six years running. \u201cHappy, happy, happy birthday darling. \u201cI\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[271024,38265,6325,2565,6928,430,9436,60969,156,39197,5269,51500,12022,194,6096,111,139,69,10903,13743,1305,223,271023,52690,24529,1354],"class_list":["post-552248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-109th","tag-ashburton","tag-birthday","tag-bradley","tag-celebrating","tag-celebrities","tag-chase","tag-doris","tag-entertainment","tag-extraordinary","tag-game","tag-happy","tag-host","tag-kiwi","tag-message","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-popular","tag-sent","tag-show","tag-the","tag-wakelin","tag-walsh","tag-wishes","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552248","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=552248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}