{"id":385219,"date":"2026-01-23T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385219\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:18:08","slug":"gavin-and-stacey-star-rob-brydon-to-become-a-childrens-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385219\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon to become a children&#8217;s author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon has begun a new venture as a children&#8217;s author, with his debut fiction book set to be published later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh actor and comedian was inspired by his family pet to write The Cat in The Cupboard &#8211; a story told entirely in rhyme, which follows Crumble the cat on his daring garden adventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brydon said he had long made up stories and songs &#8220;for my own enjoyment&#8221; and was excited to share this with others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really hoping [the book] fires the imagination of both young readers and the adults reading to them, creating opportunities for shared moments of reading pleasure,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon has begun a new venture as a children&#8217;s author, with his debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-385219","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\/385219","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=385219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}