{"id":558716,"date":"2026-04-30T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:01:08","slug":"bob-mortimer-and-paul-whitehouse-saddened-by-death-of-gone-fishing-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558716\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse saddened by death of Gone Fishing dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark said: &#8220;Ted was a much-loved family pet as well as a treasured companion to Paul and Bob on Gone Fishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He took fame in his little stride and loved nothing better than messing around on the riverbanks, nicking Jammie Dodgers from Bob and bait from Paul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will be sorely missed both at home and on screen. We&#8217;ll never forget him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC Two series began in 2018 and sees Whitehouse and Mortimer discuss life while fishing. It has been nominated six times for a Bafta TV award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme has been shot across the UK and Ireland, including in Norfolk, Donegal, the River Dee in North Wales and Dumfries and Galloway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clark said: &#8220;Ted was a much-loved family pet as well as a treasured companion to Paul and Bob&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-558716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558716","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=558716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}