{"id":750577,"date":"2026-02-08T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/750577\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:45:17","slug":"utv-legend-julian-simmons-i-fear-id-fall-foul-of-the-pc-brigade-if-i-was-still-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/750577\/","title":{"rendered":"UTV legend Julian Simmons: \u2018I fear I\u2019d fall foul of the PC brigade if I was still on TV\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Retired broadcaster tells chat show he sometimes misses UTV but loves his \u2018amazing\u2019 new life as a DJ\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Julian Simmons in Belfast (Photo by Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8e954f42-e0f1-4fd0-badc-a16d443ce42e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Julian Simmons in Belfast (Photo by Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Julian Simmons reckons he wouldn\u2019t get away with his famous mocking introductions to Coronation Street in the politically correct world of today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI expect \u2018Disgusted of Ballyholme\u2019 would be on the phone about it all the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired broadcaster tells chat show he sometimes misses UTV but loves his \u2018amazing\u2019 new life as a DJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[2378,4080,77,14991,16,15,17697],"class_list":["post-750577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-belfast","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ivan-little","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-utv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116035081040460194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750577","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=750577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}