{"id":12979,"date":"2025-07-21T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12979\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:58:18","slug":"film-star-miranda-richardson-prepares-for-norfolk-coastal-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12979\/","title":{"rendered":"Film star Miranda Richardson prepares for Norfolk coastal swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richardson is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05r01rx\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a twice-Oscar nominated star<\/a> known for her role as Rita Skeeter in three of the Harry Potter films &#8211; as well as Damage, Sleepy Hollow and Made in Dagenham, and TV&#8217;s Blackadder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 67-year-old WWF ambassador said: &#8220;I wanted to take on this swim with my willing chum Maggie as a challenge for both mind and body. But it&#8217;s also about raising awareness of the beauty and fragility of our natural habitats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re swimming in an area of Norfolk where saltmarsh, freshwater and sea all meet &#8211; an extraordinary habitat that shows just how connected everything is and reminds us how vital it is to protect and restore these links across our landscapes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair have been performing together in the Amazon Prime series Good Omens, starring David Tennant and Martin Sheen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are keen to raise the profile of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgn9gg990no\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWF&#8217;s <\/a>A Prescription for Nature campaign, that encourages people to get their daily dose of nature for personal wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson is a twice-Oscar nominated star known for her role as Rita Skeeter in three of the Harry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-12979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}