{"id":548127,"date":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","slug":"x-factor-star-joe-mcelderry-thrilled-with-national-panto-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548127\/","title":{"rendered":"X Factor star Joe McElderry &#8216;thrilled&#8217; with national panto award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joe McElderry has said he was thrilled to be named the &#8220;best magical being&#8221; at the UK Pantomime Awards 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Shields singer, who won X Factor in 2009, was recognised for his role as the Spirit of the Ring in Aladdin at Newcastle Theatre Royal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Best magical being, I think that&#8217;s the nicest thing I&#8217;ve ever been called in this industry,&#8221; McElderry joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said pantomime was so important for introducing the younger generations to theatre and performance, adding: &#8220;We just feel lucky that we get to do it as a job.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe McElderry has said he was thrilled to be named the &#8220;best magical being&#8221; at the UK Pantomime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548127","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\/548127","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=548127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}