{"id":58040,"date":"2026-08-04T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/greg-james-shares-his-heartbreak-after-death-of-dog-barney\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:15:46","slug":"greg-james-shares-his-heartbreak-after-death-of-dog-barney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/greg-james-shares-his-heartbreak-after-death-of-dog-barney\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg James shares his heartbreak after death of dog Barney"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“I can’t believe our little mate has gone and it’s very real and very raw,” he added.<\/p>\n

“He was the best.”<\/p>\n

Fellow Radio 1 presenter Charlie Hedges took over presenting duties on the breakfast show on Tuesday as James took some time off. <\/p>\n

Radio 1 listeners were among those to offer their condolences, with one texting in: “Greg if you’re listening, we all love you mate.” <\/p>\n

James and Mackie adopted Barney from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in 2019.<\/p>\n

Barney had previously visited Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, external<\/span><\/a>, who starred in The Supervet, on a number of occasions, including to treat his arthritic joints.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, James took on a tandem cycling challenge for Comic Relief, which saw him travel 1,000km (630-mile) through England, Wales and Scotland.<\/p>\n

To help motivate him through the challenge, one of the videos he received , external<\/span><\/a>was of his dog Barney frantically barking at foxes in their garden. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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“I can’t believe our little mate has gone and it’s very real and very raw,” he added. “He was the best.” Fellow Radio 1 presenter Charlie Hedges took over presenting duties on the breakfast show on Tuesday as James took some time off. Radio 1 listeners were among those to offer their condolences, with one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[16223,715,412,9600,15109,2112,1228],"class_list":["post-58040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-barney","tag-death","tag-dog","tag-greg","tag-heartbreak","tag-james","tag-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58040","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=58040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58042,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58040\/revisions\/58042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}