{"id":351487,"date":"2026-01-04T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:23:08","slug":"bedford-boy-14-recalls-wicked-big-moment-with-ariana-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351487\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford boy, 14, recalls Wicked &#8216;big moment&#8217; with Ariana Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyne had always wanted to train in performing arts and make it his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to dance, I want to do something in London, I want to do musical theatre and then films,&#8221; he continued. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope I&#8217;ll then be spotted in theatre and get known. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being in Wicked has taught me you need to show up, you need to go for it, and you can&#8217;t just be like the others, you need to be yourself, and proud of it, and excel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It made me get noticed and have hope for the future, that having such a small role can lead to something bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had been offered other opportunities but wanted to focus on his GCSEs, which included dance and drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyne had always wanted to train in performing arts and make it his career. &#8220;I want to dance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-351487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351487","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=351487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}