{"id":135815,"date":"2010-01-04T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=87197"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:55:47","slug":"david-beckham-%e2%80%9cthe-simpsons%e2%80%9d-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135815","title":{"rendered":"David Beckham \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d Snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/David-Beckham-Has-Asthma-500x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"David-Beckham-Has-Asthma\" width=\"500\" height=\"603\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-80749\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Beckham missed out on the chance to get animated for <em>The Simpsons<\/em> after series producers determined the soccer star wasn&#8217;t famous enough for U.S. audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?!<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-87197\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The L.A. Galaxy star was in talks to appear as a yellow character on the long-running cartoon but executive producer Al Jean eventually snubbed him after deciding the cameo wouldn&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I had to phone David Beckham to tell him sorry. I didn&#8217;t think he was a big enough star for an American audience. I get a lot of grief about that. Some people got angry about it and told me, &#8216;I bet you would have put (former professional soccer star) George Best on!&#8217; But I would have turned him down too.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>British celebrities to have guest starred on <em>The Simpsons<\/em> include Ricky Gervais, Emily Blunt, and Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x-GttfS_7VNLib1w3lOpy4yKezU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x-GttfS_7VNLib1w3lOpy4yKezU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x-GttfS_7VNLib1w3lOpy4yKezU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x-GttfS_7VNLib1w3lOpy4yKezU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham missed out on the chance to get animated for The Simpsons after series producers determined the soccer star wasn&#8217;t famous enough for U.S. audiences. Huh?! The L.A. Galaxy star was in talks to appear as a yellow character on the long-running cartoon but executive producer Al Jean eventually snubbed him after deciding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}