{"id":57971,"date":"2026-08-03T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/comedian-jimmy-cricket-dies-aged-80\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:24:51","slug":"comedian-jimmy-cricket-dies-aged-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/comedian-jimmy-cricket-dies-aged-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Jimmy Cricket dies aged 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Comedian Jimmy Cricket has died aged 80 after a short illness, his family said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement posted to social media they said Cricket spent his last few days surrounded by his family, love, laughter and songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The comedian, from Northern Ireland, became a household name in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/10628994\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">BBC News App<\/i><\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">. You can also follow <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCBreaking\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">@BBCBreaking on X<\/i><span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> to get the latest alerts.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c70g94zr1zgo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Jimmy Cricket has died aged 80 after a short illness, his family said. In a statement posted to social media they said Cricket spent his last few days surrounded by his family, love, laughter and songs. The comedian, from Northern Ireland, became a household name in the 1970s. This breaking news story is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2180,892,3701,1017,7707],"class_list":["post-57971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-aged","tag-comedian","tag-cricket","tag-dies","tag-jimmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57973,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57971\/revisions\/57973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}