{"id":590781,"date":"2026-07-17T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/590781\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:38:24","slug":"fearne-cotton-told-off-by-vatican-guard-for-breaking-strict-rule-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/590781\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearne Cotton told off by Vatican guard for breaking strict rule | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/fearne-cotton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fearne Cotton<\/a> has revealed that she was told off by a guard at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/vatican\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican<\/a> after she broke a strict rule.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on her Happy Place podcast, the 44-year-old recalled that during a recent trip to Italy, she was \u201cdesperate\u201d to take a picture of The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got massively reprimanded, shouted at by a very burly Italian security guard, which should have freaked me out and made me go, \u2018Oh god, I\u2019m so sorry,\u2019 but instead, I wanted to go, \u2018F*** off!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said she was \u201cso riled\u201d after the incident, adding that she didn\u2019t understand what the problem was.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors cannot take photos in the Sistine Chapel, as conservators cite that constant camera flashes can degrade the artworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fearne Cotton has revealed that she was told off by a guard at the Vatican after she broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[394,250425,250426,250424,74056,27125,18,4507,235967,235971,117,34476,34477,226491,250423,789,19,194883,17,68495,19456,194887,54628,194886,432,249569,4335,119,25142,235968,1543,215997],"class_list":["post-590781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-eire","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-entertainment","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-ie","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-ireland","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-usa","tag-world-sports-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590781","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=590781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}