{"id":190834,"date":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190834\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","slug":"why-only-fools-and-horses-car-was-part-of-ricky-hattons-funeral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190834\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Only Fools and Horses car was part of Ricky Hatton’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of people lined the streets of Manchester to pay tribute to boxer Ricky Hatton, with a very recognisable car leading the funeral procession. <\/p>\n

The yellow Reliant Regal on a flatbed truck, used on the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, led the procession of funeral cars<\/a> as it made its way from Hyde to Manchester Cathedral. <\/p>\n

The boxer had long been a huge fan of the show, buying the original van, which is adorned with Trotters Independent Traders decals, for nearly \u00a34,000 to drive himself. <\/p>\n

LIVE: Liam Gallagher among mourners at Manchester Cathedral for Ricky Hatton’s funeral<\/a><\/p>\n

He also owned other memorabilia from the show and was among fans who lined up to meet David Jason, who played Del Boy, in 2020. <\/p>\n

His love of the show was well known among his fans and community, with people leaving memorabilia from the show, alongside Guinness cans and Manchester City shirts – Hatton’s beloved football club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people lined the streets of Manchester to pay tribute to boxer Ricky Hatton, with a very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190834","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=190834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}