{"id":304620,"date":"2025-11-21T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304620\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:00:10","slug":"brian-cox-wasnt-aware-life-of-jesus-podcast-was-for-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304620\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cox Wasn&#8217;t Aware &#8216;Life of Jesus Podcast&#8217; Was For Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough God is all-knowing, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brian-cox\/\">Brian Cox<\/a> had no knowledge his voice of the Almighty would be used for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fox-news-audio\/\">Fox News Audio<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-life-of-jesus-podcast\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-life-of-jesus-podcast\" data-tag=\"the-life-of-jesus-podcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Life of Jesus Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Golden Globe winner\u2019s rep tells Deadline that Cox was unaware of Fox\u2019s ultimate involvement with the project when he recorded his part for 2010\u2019s The Truth &amp; Life Dramatized Audio Bible: New Testament, which was originally released by Ignatius Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fox-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fox-news\" data-tag=\"fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> Spokesperson explained in a statement that \u201cGulfstream Studios produced the Life of Jesus Podcast from The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible, which was licensed by Fox News Audio, with full cooperation and participation by all the actors involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Wednesday, Fox News Audio announced the new licensing deal with Gulfstream, under which the 52-episode Life of Jesus Podcast will debut Sunday, Nov. 30 via Fox Faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHosted by Fox &amp; Friends\u2018 Ainsley Earhardt, the podcast boasts \u201cover 100 notable actors voicing characters of the Bible,\u201d including Cox as the voice of God, Kristen Bell as Mary Magdalene, Sean Astin as Matthew, Neal McDonough as Jesus, Malcolm McDowell as Caiaphas and Julia Ormond as Mary Mother of God, narrated by John Rhys-Davies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBell\u2019s rep also told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/kristen-bell-fox-jesus-podcast-1235469633\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a> that she was unaware Fox would be repurposing the podcast, for which she reportedly did not give her approval. Rhys-Davies also told the outlet he only just learned of Fox\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStill available on the Ignatius <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ignatius.com\/the-truth-and-life-dramatized-audio-bible-tldabd\/?searchid=3516773&amp;search_query=truth+and+life\">online store<\/a>, Truth &amp; Life includes a foreword from the late Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although God is all-knowing, Brian Cox had no knowledge his voice of the Almighty would be used for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60847,88,11320,158128,158129],"class_list":["post-304620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brian-cox","tag-entertainment","tag-fox-news","tag-fox-news-audio","tag-the-life-of-jesus-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}