{"id":530720,"date":"2026-04-14T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:11:13","slug":"eddie-redmayne-fined-for-speeding-in-earls-court-20mph-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530720\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Redmayne fined for speeding in Earls Court 20mph zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Actor Eddie Redmayne has been fined after he was caught breaking a 20mph (32km\/h) speed limit in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Redmayne, known for starring in The Day of the Jackal and his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, was recorded driving his Audi at 28mph (45km\/h) on the A4 through Earls Court on 14 October last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admitted being the speeding driver but submitted the form to the police too late to avoid a criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He pleaded guilty to the offence and was ordered by Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on Wednesday to pay a \u00a31,000 fine, \u00a3130 in court costs and a \u00a3400 victim surcharge and received three penalty points on his licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Eddie Redmayne has been fined after he was caught breaking a 20mph (32km\/h) speed limit in London.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530720","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=530720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}