{"id":160100,"date":"2025-09-25T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160100\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:09:07","slug":"ryan-reynolds-thanks-essex-charity-for-helping-15-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160100\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds thanks Essex charity for helping 15-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The special message was inspired by Aiden&#8217;s mother, Sarah, who described Reynolds as a &#8220;good friend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ryan appreciated everyone that helped get Aiden through his darkest days and was very happy to do a shout out,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aiden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c776yyegp31o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ashes were scattered on Wrexham&#8217;s pitch<\/a> after his death and the family were presented with a tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Southgate, the founder of Gold Geese, said she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t believe&#8221; it when she saw Reynolds&#8217; message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aiden was an absolute legend of a person. He was kind and funny and really into his gaming and loved Wrexham AFC,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know he would have absolutely loved to see my jaw drop when I got a video message from Ryan Reynolds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aiden&#8217;s legacy and memory live on, forever,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The special message was inspired by Aiden&#8217;s mother, Sarah, who described Reynolds as a &#8220;good friend&#8221;. &#8220;Ryan appreciated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-160100","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\/160100","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=160100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}