{"id":727256,"date":"2026-08-04T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727256\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:06:12","slug":"jimmy-cricket-son-leads-tributes-to-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727256\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Cricket: Son leads tributes to comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tributes continue to be paid to the comedian Jimmy Cricket who died on Monday at the age of 80 following a short illness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Known for his trademark wellington boots, battered bowler hat and memorable catchphrases, he has been hailed as &#8220;inspirational&#8221; by some of those who knew him best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cricket&#8217;s son, Father Frankie Mulgrew, said the late comedian &#8220;saw the joy in everything, right up until his death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On Sunday he wanted the last rites twice, because like a good comedian he wanted an encore&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fr Mulgrew, who is a Catholic priest at Salford Cathedral, said his father&#8217;s faith was &#8220;really important to him and in the end he was really looking forward to going home, to going in to eternity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His purpose was to simply &#8220;inject as much joy and silliness into the world as he could and he was doing it right until the end,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes continue to be paid to the comedian Jimmy Cricket who died on Monday at the age of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727256","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\/727256","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=727256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}