{"id":414658,"date":"2026-02-08T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:40:09","slug":"utv-legend-julian-simmons-i-fear-id-fall-foul-of-the-pc-brigade-if-i-was-still-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414658\/","title":{"rendered":"UTV legend Julian Simmons: \u2018I fear I\u2019d fall foul of the PC brigade if I was still on TV\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\">Retired broadcaster tells chat show he sometimes misses UTV but loves his \u2018amazing\u2019 new life as a DJ\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Julian Simmons in Belfast (Photo by Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8e954f42-e0f1-4fd0-badc-a16d443ce42e.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)\">Julian Simmons in Belfast (Photo by Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)<\/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)\">Julian Simmons reckons he wouldn\u2019t get away with his famous mocking introductions to Coronation Street in the politically correct world of today.<\/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)\">\u201cI expect \u2018Disgusted of Ballyholme\u2019 would be on the phone about it all the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired broadcaster tells chat show he sometimes misses UTV but loves his \u2018amazing\u2019 new life as a DJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1334,6491,96,16670,56,54,55,19970],"class_list":{"0":"post-414658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ivan-little","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-utv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414658","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=414658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}