{"id":546776,"date":"2026-04-23T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:14:12","slug":"elle-edwards-dad-says-documentary-film-success-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546776\/","title":{"rendered":"Elle Edwards&#8217; dad says documentary film success &#8216;bittersweet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards said: &#8220;I&#8217;d swap all this to have Elle back here &#8211; if it hadn&#8217;t have happened, none of this would have happened, so it&#8217;s a bittersweet pill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But lots of people have reached out because of the film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">May was on his own walk from Land&#8217;s End to John O&#8217;Groats to raise awareness about gun and knife crime when Edwards contacted him, and they began to share their journey trekking thousands of miles across the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film captures their blossoming friendship and the challenges they face along the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I look back in that timeframe, it happened so quick, literally within days of Elle passing away,&#8221; Edwards said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">May had set off on his journey after her funeral, before Edwards joined him in Worcester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later, here were &#8220;1,000 people walking behind us&#8221; through Liverpool to the Pier Head as part of the walk, and the wider campaign against gun and knife crime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And we&#8217;re now in Beverley Hills, the journey just keeps going,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwards said: &#8220;I&#8217;d swap all this to have Elle back here &#8211; if it hadn&#8217;t have happened, none&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546776","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=546776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}