{"id":473436,"date":"2026-03-13T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:03:08","slug":"greg-james-radio-1-breakfast-dj-starts-comic-relief-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473436\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg James: Radio 1 Breakfast DJ starts Comic Relief challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Radio 1 presenters Matt Edmondson and Mollie King at the start line, Greg thanked banner-waving supporters for coming out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greg described the challenge ahead of him as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; but said he would &#8220;give it everything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to commit and I&#8217;m going to commit,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one of those things that needs to be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a big breakfast, and I&#8217;m ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wearing a red nose, Greg punched the air as he cycled away from the cheering crowd and headed off towards Bristol, the checkpoint for the end of day one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to Radio 1 presenters Matt Edmondson and Mollie King at the start line, Greg thanked banner-waving supporters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473436","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=473436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}