{"id":200095,"date":"2025-10-14T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200095\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:28:08","slug":"hugely-loved-eastenders-star-dies-aged-88-in-eastbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200095\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hugely loved&#8217; EastEnders star dies aged 88 in Eastbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tony Caunter, who played Roy Evans in EastEnders, has died aged 88, his family has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The actor played a car dealer with a love interest for Pam St Clement&#8217;s character Pat Butcher, in the British soap from 1994 to 2003. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, his family said he died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; on Monday evening at Eastbourne District General Hospital, just eight days after his wife of 63 years, Fran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said: &#8220;It is with enormous sadness that we bring the curtain down on our wonderful and hugely loved father.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Caunter, who played Roy Evans in EastEnders, has died aged 88, his family has announced. The actor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-200095","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\/200095","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=200095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}