{"id":237114,"date":"2025-11-01T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237114\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T03:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:39:12","slug":"the-celebrity-traitors-star-joe-marler-smashing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237114\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors star Joe Marler &#8216;smashing it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fin Baxter, who was Marler&#8217;s understudy for Harlequins and the national team, said: &#8220;It is quite cool to see rugby players transitioning into mainstream TV shows.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As performance director for Team England Rugby, a group that represents players&#8217; interests, Marler spent time with the squad at their Surrey base during the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old, whose 15-year professional rugby career ended in 2024, has not revealed to the squad where he finishes in the final, which will be aired on BBC One on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baxter said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he has told anyone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He told former player Danny Care he has gone quite far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is brilliant to see him just being himself.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fin Baxter, who was Marler&#8217;s understudy for Harlequins and the national team, said: &#8220;It is quite cool to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-237114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237114","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=237114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}