{"id":483073,"date":"2026-03-19T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:20:08","slug":"comic-relief-greg-james-reaches-sunderland-after-hardest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483073\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief: Greg James reaches Sunderland after &#8216;hardest day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio 1 DJ Greg James has been greeted by cheering crowds as he completed the fifth day of his 630-mile (1,000km) tandem bike ride challenge for Comic Relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it had been &#8220;the hardest day, by far&#8221; and admitted: &#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely the most exhausted I&#8217;ve ever been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crowds of people (and their dogs) greeted James as he pedalled into Keel Square in Sunderland, among them his sister and niece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will continue via Newscastle and Northumberland on Thursday as he heads over the Scottish border to Galashiels. His cycling challenge, which began in Weymouth and ends in Edinburgh, has already raised more than \u00a31.6m for Comic Relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio 1 DJ Greg James has been greeted by cheering crowds as he completed the fifth day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483073","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\/483073","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=483073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}