{"id":480058,"date":"2026-05-12T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480058\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:53:13","slug":"pudsey-bear-breaks-40-years-of-silence-for-mental-health-campaign-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480058\/","title":{"rendered":"Pudsey Bear breaks 40 years of silence for mental health campaign | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Pudsey Bear speak for the first time in 40 years as part of a campaign designed to help children talk about their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2026, the iconic yellow bear spoke to 11-year-old Dexter about the importance of talking about your feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look worried,\u201d he says to Dexter in the short film titled Pudsey Finds His Voice. \u201cYou look like you might need someone to talk to. Maybe I can be that someone,\u201d he tells the 11-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/children-in-need\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Children in Need<\/a> mascot last spoke in 1985 and until now, has remained mute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to Pudsey Bear speak for the first time in 40 years as part of a campaign designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[176496,28691,206279,196316,27125,206278,18,206277,135,789,19,17,54520,27980,194887,167,502,432,86065,206274,196318,4335,196315,383,119,196314,177982,206275,49898,206276,206280],"class_list":{"0":"post-480058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-club-soccer","12":"tag-color-image","13":"tag-eight-finals","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-first-leg","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-horizontal","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-julian-alvarez","21":"tag-madrid","22":"tag-match-sport","23":"tag-mental-health","24":"tag-mentalhealth","25":"tag-photography","26":"tag-sadness","27":"tag-scoring","28":"tag-scoring-a-goal","29":"tag-soccer","30":"tag-soccer-player","31":"tag-spain","32":"tag-sport","33":"tag-sports-team","34":"tag-stadium","35":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","36":"tag-uefa-champions-league","37":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","38":"tag-wanda-metropolitano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116558876193448875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}