{"id":766282,"date":"2026-09-10T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766282\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:09","slug":"young-spider-man-fan-with-rare-condition-finally-gets-to-meet-his-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766282\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Spider-Man fan with rare condition finally gets to meet his hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A nine-year-old boy from Glasgow who has a rare genetic condition was left &#8220;starstruck&#8221; after finally getting to meet his hero, the &#8220;real&#8221; Spider-Man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Noah Connell was born with Pierre Robin Syndrome which resulted in facial abnormalities which cause problems with feeding and breathing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is a huge fan of the Marvel superhero and although he managed to meet actor Tom Holland&#8217;s stunt double in costume during filming in Glasgow, he has finally met the man himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Noah had previously been left disappointed after being invited to the premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day in London, but failed to meet his hero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Noah, who uses a wheelchair, was born with a small neck, large tongue and small airway so has to be fed through a tube and uses an app on his iPad to speak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mum Jade told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m00315vk\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC&#8217;s Radio Scotland Breakfast<\/a> programme: &#8220;He is the happiest wee boy you&#8217;ll ever meet. He literally steals the hearts of everybody. Everybody loves him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nine-year-old boy from Glasgow who has a rare genetic condition was left &#8220;starstruck&#8221; after finally getting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766282","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=766282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}