{"id":255482,"date":"2025-11-10T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255482\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:07:09","slug":"ardal-ohanlon-father-ted-star-fell-asleep-on-stage-at-belfast-gig-it-was-a-bizarre-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255482\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardal O&#8217;Hanlon: Father Ted star \u2018fell asleep on stage at Belfast gig\u2019:\u00a0&#8216;It was a bizarre experience\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ardal O&#8217;Hanlon promises to be wide awake for upcoming show at the Waterfront\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ardal O'Hanlon performing at the Electric Picnic last year (Photo by Debbie Hickey\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/da675c04-b989-4d22-8488-a335396ed7fb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ardal O&#8217;Hanlon performing at the Electric Picnic last year (Photo by Debbie Hickey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ardal O\u2019Hanlon has promised he will be on his best behaviour before a Belfast stand-up show on Sunday after he fell asleep during a previous gig following an \u201cout-of-body experience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The comedian and actor, best known for playing Father Dougal in Father Ted, admitted he had been partying too hard the night before the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ardal O&#8217;Hanlon promises to be wide awake for upcoming show at the Waterfront Ardal O&#8217;Hanlon performing at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1334,6491,6933,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-belfast","tag-celebrities","tag-derry-girls","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255482","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=255482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}