{"id":387058,"date":"2026-01-24T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:37:08","slug":"olivia-dean-receives-surprise-elton-john-call-on-pembrokeshire-camping-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387058\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Dean receives surprise Elton John call on Pembrokeshire camping trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dean was asked about the &#8220;starry feedback&#8221; while appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002pwmz\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Graham Norton Show last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was on a camping trip in Wales, in Pembrokeshire, and I was cooking sausage and beans on a little gas stove,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Someone from my team said &#8216;you might get a phone call from Elton John today&#8217; and I said &#8216;oh gosh&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Dean nearly didn&#8217;t get to speak to the star, as she declined his first call in a panic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It rang and it was a FaceTime and I said &#8216;no &#8211; I&#8217;m not ready&#8217;,&#8221; she recalled, as fellow chat show guests Idris Elba, Martin Freeman, Erin Doherty and Wunmi Mosaku laughed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then I was like, &#8216;oh no, I should have picked up&#8230; I&#8217;ve missed it&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Sir Elton called back, and told her: &#8220;I&#8217;m really proud of you, and it looks like you&#8217;ve worked really hard and you&#8217;re ready now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I just said thank you, and then I collapsed on the floor [like a] starfish.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean was asked about the &#8220;starry feedback&#8221; while appearing on The Graham Norton Show last week. &#8220;I was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-387058","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\/387058","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=387058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}