{"id":471686,"date":"2026-03-12T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:23:09","slug":"myles-smith-welcomed-home-at-surprise-luton-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471686\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Smith welcomed home at surprise Luton show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watching everything unfold was Smith&#8217;s proud mother, Deborah Smith, who described their relationship as &#8220;best friends&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She admitted she has still not come to terms with the reality of her son&#8217;s worldwide fame, touring with stars such as Ed Sheeran, but was moved by the strong local support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I&#8217;m overwhelmed, deeply appreciative&#8230; Eternally grateful, incredibly proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deborah explains that early support for her son came from local radio stations and the Luton community, and without it, &#8220;he wouldn&#8217;t be where he is today&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;They were raised Lutonians, with that comes an eclectic mix of nationalities, of cultures, of socioeconomic differences, but those differences actually make us one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coming from a background of unity, with collaboration of all of these different cultures, it enables Miles to keep his feet firmly on the ground because he knows who he is, he knows where he&#8217;s come from- Miles is a Lutonian.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watching everything unfold was Smith&#8217;s proud mother, Deborah Smith, who described their relationship as &#8220;best friends&#8221;. She admitted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471686","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=471686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}