{"id":745276,"date":"2026-08-21T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745276\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:22:15","slug":"fans-and-stars-bow-tie-tribute-at-jimmy-cricket-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745276\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans and stars&#8217; bow-tie tribute at Jimmy Cricket funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Family, friends, fellow performers and fans of veteran comic Jimmy Cricket have gathered for his funeral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Ireland-born comedian, real name James Joseph Mulgrew, died on 3 August aged 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many mourners at Salford Cathedral responded to his family&#8217;s request to wear bow ties in a nod to one of his props, while his trademark stage wellies and bowler hat were placed at the cathedral entrance next to a book of condolence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The requiem Mass was led by his son Fr Frankiel Mulgrew, who is based at the cathedral. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family, friends, fellow performers and fans of veteran comic Jimmy Cricket have gathered for his funeral. The Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745276","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\/745276","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=745276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}