{"id":58402,"date":"2023-12-01T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/shane-macgowan-spent-his-final-months-bingeing-on-iconic-comedy-sitcom\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T09:46:00","slug":"shane-macgowan-spent-his-final-months-bingeing-on-iconic-comedy-sitcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/shane-macgowan-spent-his-final-months-bingeing-on-iconic-comedy-sitcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane MacGowan spent his final months bingeing on iconic comedy sitcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-12-01\" datetime=\"1701423960\" pubdate=\"\">1 December 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/shane-macgowan\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,shane-macgowan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shane MacGowan<\/a> spent his final months bingeing on \u2018Father Ted\u2019 episodes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Shane MacGowan spent his final months bingeing on \u2018Father Ted\u2019 episodes<\/p>\n<p>The Pogues frontman, who died aged 65 at his Dublin home on Thursday (30.11.23) weeks before he was set to turn 66 after months of ill health, wouldn\u2019t stop watching the Channel 4 sitcom about two hapless priests stuck on bleak Craggy Island.<\/p>\n<p>His journalist wife Victoria Mary Clarke, 57, was quoted in The Sun saying: \u201cSo he wouldn\u2019t get bored we brought a little DVD player into Shane and friends have been giving him presents of classic movies on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the thing he won\u2019t stop playing is the \u2018Father Ted; boxset. Shane watches that all day long and can\u2019t stop laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fairytale of New York\u2019 Shane had been in and out of hospital several times before his death, and was first hospitalised in December 2022 suffering from viral encephalitis, which leads to brain swelling and left him in agony.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlong with amusing himself with \u2018Father Ted\u2019 re-runs, Shane also revelled in being visited by a string of music stars.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey included Bruce Springsteen,74, who visited Shane during the Irish leg of his recent world tour.<\/p>\n<p>\nShane\u2019s fellow Pogue and long-term pal Spider Stacy, 64, was also among the famous faces who dropped in on the singer.<\/p>\n<p>\nVictoria said online at the time: \u201cThe handsome @spiderstacy @poguesofficial popped in to see @ShaneMacGowan yesterday and things are looking very positive! Really hoping he can get home soon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDaniel O\u2019Donnell, 61, and Primal Scream\u2019s Bobby Gillespie, 62, also surprised Shane with visits, with Victoria posting: \u201cThank you Daniel O\u2019Donnell and Bobby G for visiting Shane MacGowan you are so kind and thoughtful it\u2019s so helpful.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cPrayers for everyone who is in hospital! And immensely grateful to all the staff!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/shane-macgowan-spent-final-months-bingeing-iconic-comedy-sitcom-1389326.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 December 2023 Shane MacGowan spent his final months bingeing on \u2018Father Ted\u2019 episodes. Shane MacGowan spent his final months bingeing on \u2018Father Ted\u2019 episodes The Pogues frontman, who died aged 65 at his Dublin home on Thursday (30.11.23) weeks before he was set to turn 66 after months of ill health, wouldn\u2019t stop watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3684,5295,3509,5294,5293],"class_list":{"0":"post-58402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-bruce-springsteen","9":"tag-daniel-odonnell","10":"tag-shane-macgowan","11":"tag-spider-stacy","12":"tag-victoria-mary-clarke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}