{"id":637935,"date":"2026-06-14T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:16:16","slug":"blackpool-clown-honoured-by-king-has-best-job-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637935\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool clown honoured by King ‘has best job in the world’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A clown who has been entertaining audiences in Blackpool for more than 30 years has been included in the King’s Birthday Honours.<\/p>\n

Laci Endresz – who performs as Mooky the Clown – has been given a British Empire Medal (BEM) for circus entertainment. <\/p>\n

He described his life as a clown at Blackpool Tower’s circus as being his “calling in life” and “better than any job in the world”.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Radio Lancashire<\/a>: “There is no feeling in the world like that when you have some people come up to you after the show and say, ‘We have been going through a tough time and for two hours we have forgotten about everything in our lives’.”<\/p>\n

Endresz was born into a circus family, first performing as a clown in his family’s show at the age of four.<\/p>\n

He joined Blackpool Tower Circus began in 1992, taking on the role of Mooky the Clown in 1999.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Blackpool Tourism said that since then he had starred as the headline act in every season for an astonishing 27 consecutive years, never missing a single show.<\/p>\n

In addition to performing in more than 350 shows each year, he writes and directs the entire circus production.<\/p>\n

Endresz said he was “humbled” to receive the BEM, which was “so special for me and my family”.<\/p>\n

Kate Shane, managing director of Blackpool Tourism Ltd, said: “This award shines a spotlight on a rarely recognised art form and I couldn’t think of anyone more deserving of this honour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A clown who has been entertaining audiences in Blackpool for more than 30 years has been included in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637935","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=637935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}