{"id":538152,"date":"2025-10-30T18:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:28:23","slug":"jason-manford-reveals-disaster-hours-after-best-gig-of-his-life-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538152\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Manford reveals &#8216;disaster&#8217; hours after &#8216;best gig of his life&#8217; in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comedian detailed his holiday nightmare after performing at the Co-Op Live<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2_ECR_301025_jasonmanford.jpg\" alt=\"Jason manford\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Jason Manford detailed the disaster(Image: Jason Manford\/Jam Press)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Jason Manford took to his social media as he documented a &#8220;disaster&#8221; that happened the day after a gig in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">On Friday (October 24), Jason Manford returned to his home city of Manchester as he performed a show from his new tour, A Manford All Seasons, at the Co-Op Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Unfortunately, the high from the gig didn&#8217;t last too long as the next day he took to his Instagram and documented a smashed window on his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">The 44-year-old comedian made the blunder while reversing his family car on the way to a half-term getaway.Jason had taken his wife Lucy Dyke and their three children on a trip to North Wales to celebrate one of the &#8220;best gigs&#8221; of his life in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">After fitting his children&#8217;s bikes to the back of his car, he reversed when one of the handlebars ended up smashing through the rear glass &#8211; twice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"JWPlayer_poster-image___jQGK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761848900_452_poster.jpg\" alt=\"videoHeadline\"\/>Jason Manford smashes car window with kid\u2019s bike on family holiday<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">He quipped: &#8220;Just arrived on holiday in Wales and managed to put my own back window through. The handlebars of one of the kids\u2019 bikes went straight through it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">&#8220;After the massive high of last night\u2019s show, life clearly decided to give me a quick kick in the arsebone to keep my feet on the ground.&#8221;Nothing like a bit of smashed glass to stop you getting too full of yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1_ECR_301025_jason.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Manford\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The handlebars smashed his car window(Image: Jason Manford\/Jam Press)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">In a second post, Jason posed with Gareth from National Windscreens, and wrote: &#8220;Gareth from @nationalwindscreens_official Bangor popped along to temporarily <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-weather\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">weather<\/a> proof the back door of our car!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">&#8220;Just gotta keep fingers crossed that @mercedesbenzuk sort the part out before Thursday!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">&#8220;May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour, Gareth!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comedian detailed his holiday nightmare after performing at the Co-Op LiveJason Manford detailed the disaster(Image: Jason Manford\/Jam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,90199,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-538152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jason-manford","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115464538263789811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538152","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=538152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}