{"id":519687,"date":"2026-04-08T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:12","slug":"gladiators-star-barney-walsh-banned-from-driving-after-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519687\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladiators star Barney Walsh banned from driving after speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gladiators presenter Barney Walsh has been handed a six-month driving ban after breaking a temporary 50mph speed limit on a motorway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old was behind the wheel of his black Mercedes-Benz SUV when he was caught driving at 58mph in a 50mph stretch of the M4 near Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident happened on 27 October at junction 19 westbound, where a temporary maximum speed restriction was in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawyer Gwyn Lewis &#8211; representing Walsh who did not attend the hearing at Romford Magistrates&#8217; Court due to work commitments &#8211; said a disqualification was &#8220;inevitable&#8221; due to his client already having nine points on his licence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gladiators presenter Barney Walsh has been handed a six-month driving ban after breaking a temporary 50mph speed limit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-519687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519687","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=519687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}