{"id":816403,"date":"2026-10-28T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816403\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:44:11","slug":"mum-quit-law-to-voice-characters-on-netflix-show-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816403\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum quit law to voice characters on Netflix show, Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A mum says she left her late-night legal career behind for voiceover work from home where she can care for her children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily McGonagle started her working life as a lawyer in the capital, often finishing at 03:00, but started to question whether she could sustain it long term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After having children, she decided to seek something &#8220;more flexible&#8221; than her daily commute from Colchester to Canary Wharf, and pivoted to voiceover work in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 42-year-old voices eight characters for the children&#8217;s television series Spike, which premiered on Netflix on 12 October and is its number one children&#8217;s show on the site in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cartoon began as a preschool animation on YouTube called Fire Spike!, which was about the adventures of a dragon and his friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was created by a Lithuanian company called Bored Panda, founded in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When McGonagle joined the team, it had &#8220;less than 1,000 subscribers and minimal views&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It now has 1.25m subscribers and was the seventh most-watched Netflix show globally in its first week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s insane,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mum says she left her late-night legal career behind for voiceover work from home where she can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816403","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\/816403","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=816403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}