{"id":202103,"date":"2025-10-15T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202103\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:46:07","slug":"ben-elton-pays-tribute-to-droitwichs-rik-mayall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202103\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Elton pays tribute to Droitwich&#8217;s Rik Mayall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s sort of part of the DNA of the book and he&#8217;s threaded through it a great deal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My relationship with him was so\u2026I would say passionate, in as much as we had a creative meeting of minds which was explosive, and that of course can lead to frictions and can lead to difficulties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elton said it was a &#8220;complicated&#8221; relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a very close friendship and a very fractured working relationship,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As it broke away, there was a lot of pain there as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The book actually opens at his funeral because that was the first really true major tragic loss of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;He&#8217;s sort of part of the DNA of the book and he&#8217;s threaded through it a great deal,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-202103","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\/202103","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=202103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}