{"id":796830,"date":"2026-10-09T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796830\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:36:09","slug":"hugh-bonneville-plans-suffolk-sandwich-date-with-paddington-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796830\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Bonneville plans Suffolk sandwich date with Paddington Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hugh Bonneville has said he will &#8220;definitely&#8221; spend some time chatting and enjoying a marmalade sandwich with his furry friend Paddington Bear when he visits Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British actor, who has starred in three live-action films with the beloved character, will meet up with his old pal when he promotes his children&#8217;s book in Bury St Edmunds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 62-year-old will be talking at the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival in the town, which boasts a statue of Paddington on a bench in the arc Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bonneville, who was born in Paddington, London, said the county was &#8220;very lucky&#8221; to have the Peruvian native to lend an ear to tired shoppers when they need a sit down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m definitely going to have a photo with my friend on the bench,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know he is a much treasured part of so many communities that he has visited and enjoys a sandwich on the bench and then a chat with passers-by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I should be doing the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Bonneville has said he will &#8220;definitely&#8221; spend some time chatting and enjoying a marmalade sandwich with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796830","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\/796830","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=796830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}