{"id":696828,"date":"2026-07-17T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696828\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:22:08","slug":"comedian-lucy-beaumont-ditches-tv-quizzes-for-grandads-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696828\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Lucy Beaumont ditches TV quizzes for grandad&#8217;s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Comedian Lucy Beaumont says she has given up competing on TV quizzes because she keeps embarrassing her grandad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stand-up comic, who is originally from Hull, has appeared on several game shows including Celebrity Mastermind, The Weakest Link and Michael McIntrye&#8217;s The Wheel, where she lost contestants large amounts of money several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beaumont said while she describes herself as &#8220;an intelligent person&#8221;, she &#8220;just can&#8217;t retain knowledge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said her grandfather&#8217;s neighbours, in South Cave, East Yorkshire, &#8220;watch everything I do&#8221; and she felt like she was &#8220;letting down&#8221; the village. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Lucy Beaumont says she has given up competing on TV quizzes because she keeps embarrassing her grandad.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696828","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\/696828","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=696828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}