{"id":727223,"date":"2026-08-04T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727223\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:24:09","slug":"greg-james-shares-his-heartbreak-after-death-of-dog-barney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727223\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg James shares his heartbreak after death of dog Barney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe our little mate has gone and it&#8217;s very real and very raw,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Radio 1 presenter Charlie Hedges took over presenting duties on the breakfast show on Tuesday as James took some time off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio 1 listeners were among those to offer their condolences, with one texting in: &#8220;Greg if you&#8217;re listening, we all love you mate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James and Mackie adopted Barney from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barney had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzpatrickreferrals.co.uk\/patient-stories\/barneys-partially-ruptured-cranial-cruciate-ligament\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously visited Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, external<\/a>, who starred in The Supervet, on a number of occasions, including to treat his arthritic joints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this year, James took on a tandem cycling challenge for Comic Relief, which saw him travel 1,000km (630-mile) through England, Wales and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To help motivate him through the challenge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/lBpc5733w2Q\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the videos he received , external<\/a>was of his dog Barney frantically barking at foxes in their garden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe our little mate has gone and it&#8217;s very real and very raw,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727223","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\/727223","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=727223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}