{"id":504779,"date":"2026-03-31T07:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:28:18","slug":"stormzy-made-surprise-appearance-in-basingstoke-at-bcot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504779\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormzy made surprise appearance in Basingstoke at BCoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Rapper Stormzy turned heads when he showed up at a Ronin Fightshow at Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) on Saturday, March 28, to watch a family member compete.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Performing at the event was 11-year-old DJ Chicken Nugget, aka Chester Haddock, who played a Stormzy set.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Stormzy with DJ Chicken Nugget (Image: Terri Haddock)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Terri Haddock, Chester\u2019s mum, said: \u201cStormzy turned up and Chester did his garage set and he was sat three rows in front.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe had no idea that Stormzy was going to be here, he was clapping him and cheering him, it was just crazy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said that after his set, Stormzy met Chester outside and was \u2018so positive\u2019 to him, telling him that he was amazing and to \u2018never give up your dream.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a post on Instagram, Chester wrote: &#8220;Words can\u2019t explain how grateful I am to you for giving me the time of day on Saturday. I am always super grateful for anything I get the opportunity to do, but this has got to top everything.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He was so kind and said some really lovely words to me that I will honestly remember for my lifetime. I can&#8217;t actually believe this happened to little 11-year-old me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Stormzy turned heads when he showed up at a Ronin Fightshow at Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-504779","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\/504779","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=504779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}