{"id":29665,"date":"2015-03-15T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/?p=29665"},"modified":"2015-03-15T18:17:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:17:05","slug":"michael-flatley-turns-to-david-beckham-after-losing-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/showbiz\/michael-flatley-turns-to-david-beckham-after-losing-his-father-29665","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flatley turns to David Beckham &#8211; after losing his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord of The Dance star Michael Flatley has turned to David Beckham, after the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p>The Riverdance star confirmed this week that his dad passed away on Friday, and said his dad was his &#8220;hero&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a\u00a0photo of the pair online Michael thanked footballer David Beckham for being there for support during a tough week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-postlong-pic wp-image-29610\" src=\"https:\/\/media.goss.ie\/uploads\/2015\/03\/michael-dad-620x760.jpg\" alt=\"michael dad\" width=\"620\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Mourning: Michael said he is &#8220;heart broken&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks for your support at this time David. You&#8217;re a true friend and a proper gentleman. God bless. Michael.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s show Lord of The Dance: Dangerous Games is continuing, with Saturday night&#8217;s show dedicated to his dad.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the star confirmed Michael will continue with his shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not wanting to let down the cast and audience, Michael performed as scheduled last night and will continue to do so for the next few evening performances.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-post-pic wp-image-11643\" src=\"https:\/\/media.goss.ie\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Michael-Flatley-amp-Company-Lord-Of-The-Dance-Dangerous-Games-London-Palladium-Photo-By-Brian-Doherty-620x434.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Flatley &amp; Company - Lord Of The Dance - Dangerous Games - London Palladium - Photo By Brian Doherty\" width=\"620\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Still going: Michael doesn&#8217;t want to stop the show | BRIAN DOHERTY<\/h6>\n<p>&#8220;However, he will need to go to Chicago at some point next week for the wake. He doesn&#8217;t want to disappoint anyone, but hopes people will understand his need to be there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael is distraught. They were very, very close and he really looked up to his father, so he is really shattered by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Riverdance star says David has been a &#8216;true friend&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[531,790],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}