{"id":198736,"date":"2025-10-14T05:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198736\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:53:08","slug":"singer-from-blackpool-who-appeared-on-bgt-with-son-dies-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198736\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer from Blackpool, who appeared on BGT with son, dies aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His son Dean also took up singing and developed his own act as a Robbie Williams tribute performer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 54-year-old, from Cleveleys, said: &#8220;He was definitely a local legend in his time \u2013 he would pack out the clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanted him to experience a big live TV audience, even though he&#8217;d retired, and when we got such a huge response on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, I was made up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt so proud of him, he knocked them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave, who was living in sheltered accommodation in Lytham, died last month from sepsis after a short illness, surrounded by family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His funeral will be held at Carleton Crematorium in Blackpool on 27 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He leaves two sons, Dean and Darren, five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and a step-great-granddaughter, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His son Dean also took up singing and developed his own act as a Robbie Williams tribute performer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-198736","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\/198736","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=198736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}