{"id":491606,"date":"2025-10-11T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:15:15","slug":"hollywood-and-tv-stars-descend-on-edinburgh-as-major-comic-con-event-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491606\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood and TV stars descend on Edinburgh as major Comic Con event gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A number of popular Hollywood and TV stars are currently in Edinburgh as Comic Con got underway on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Comic book fans across Scotland descended on the Royal Highland Show Centre to celebrate comic books, films, tv shows and more on October 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ticket holders, who often dress up, can pose for photos with the stars and get autographs throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Set up started during the week with organisers teasing ticket holders of production, queues started building during the early hours of Saturday before the show got underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Images shared on social media shows many familiar faces in attendance including Will Mellor, Ricky Tomlinson and Tyler Mane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Join<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b>Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b><\/a><b>and get the latest news sent<\/b><b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sharing some snapshots on Instagram, the team behind Comic Con said: &#8220;Our guests are in the coach on the way here and they cannot wait to see you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They later added: &#8220;Panels are in full swing with Will Mellor and Ricky Tomlinson on the Highland Stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans have been posting selfies with their favourite stars at the event including Kat Graham and Jedward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over the past few weeks, a number of guests have sadly had to pull out of the event due to filming. Stars include Jason Isaacs, Lennie James and Dominic Sherwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Comic Con Scotland is taking place at the Royal Highland Centre from October 11 to October 12<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of popular Hollywood and TV stars are currently in Edinburgh as Comic Con got underway on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,54324,54486,162069,1102,4884,118138,69020,712,5636,162068,16,15,162067],"class_list":{"0":"post-491606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-comic-book","10":"tag-comic-con","11":"tag-comic-con-scotland","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-ricky-tomlinson","15":"tag-royal-highland-centre","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-stars","18":"tag-tyler-mane","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-will-mellor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115356902207749976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}