{"id":480978,"date":"2026-03-17T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:02:10","slug":"greg-james-reaches-york-in-comic-relief-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480978\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg James reaches York in Comic Relief bike ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio 1&#8217;s Greg James was greeted by fans of the late Long Boi as he completed the fifth day of his 630-mile tandem bike ride challenge in York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The popular duck was regularly featured on James&#8217; breakfast show after gaining fame among students at the University of York, with James donning a mourning veil when a statue of the animal, who disappeared in 2023, was erected the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James admitted it had been a &#8220;weird&#8221; day, adding: &#8220;Only a few hours ago I was on a tandem with Prince William. Now, I&#8217;m here with Long Boi and all the amazing students in York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His 1,000km cycling challenge through England, Wales and Scotland has already raised more than \u00a31m for Comic Relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio 1&#8217;s Greg James was greeted by fans of the late Long Boi as he completed the fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480978","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\/480978","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=480978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}