{"id":475979,"date":"2026-03-14T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:13","slug":"simon-cowell-the-next-act-contestant-sam-meyer-joins-hollyoaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475979\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell: The Next Act contestant Sam Meyer joins Hollyoaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A singer, who recently starred in Netflix&#8217;s Simon Cowell: The Next Act, said he was &#8220;buzzing&#8221; to join the cast of Hollyoaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Meyer will be completing the new family unit on the popular Channel 4 soap alongside former Emmerdale actor Matthew Wolfenden, and Rebecca Ryan and Lewis Walton, who have both starred in Coronation Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Keanes are set to move into the Chester village this Spring with a hidden connection to another Hollyoaks family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meyer, who narrowly missed out on the chance to join the band December 10 on the Netflix show, said: &#8220;I am absolutely buzzing to say that I am joining the cast of Hollyoaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A singer, who recently starred in Netflix&#8217;s Simon Cowell: The Next Act, said he was &#8220;buzzing&#8221; to join&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475979","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=475979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}