{"id":5966,"date":"2025-09-06T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5966\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:43:06","slug":"caroline-aherne-inspires-comedians-edinburgh-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5966\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Aherne inspires comedian&#8217;s Edinburgh move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A comedian has paid homage to Caroline Aherne&#8217;s inspiration for her to make a &#8220;life-changing&#8221; move from Manchester to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Nina Gilligan went to see the Mrs Merton star, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-36694598\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who died nine year ago aged 52<\/a>, at the famous Fringe festival in the 1980s and then moved to the Scottish city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She said: &#8220;I blame Caroline Aherne, rest her beautiful soul. I got to meet her and it prompted me to move to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;That is how exciting the Edinburgh Fringe is &#8211; it changed my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comedian has paid homage to Caroline Aherne&#8217;s inspiration for her to make a &#8220;life-changing&#8221; move from Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-5966","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\/5966","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=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}