{"id":139993,"date":"2018-06-12T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leslie-grantham-poorly-agent-confirms\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:02:25","slug":"leslie-grantham-poorly-agent-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leslie-grantham-poorly-agent-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Grantham &#8216;poorly&#8217;, agent confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      Grantham is best known for his Dirty Den role in EastEnders                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Leslie Grantham &quot;remains poorly and is being taken care of by medical staff&quot;, a representative for the ex-EastEnders actor has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation follows a story in The Sun saying the 71-year-old was &quot;gravely ill&quot; and &quot;fighting for his life&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported that Grantham - who played &quot;Dirty&quot; Den Watts in the BBC soap - had returned to the UK from Bulgaria to receive medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>His agent said a statement would be issued &quot;at the appropriate time&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Grantham moved to Bulgaria after filming TV series The English Neighbour there in 2010.<\/p>\n<figure>             Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionLeslie Grantham&#039;s first scene in The English Neighbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The actor appeared in EastEnders from 1985 to 1989, when his character was seemingly murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Dirty Den subsequently returned to Albert Square in 2003, only to be definitively killed off in 2005. <\/p>\n<p>Grantham was written out of the soap after photos emerged of him apparently exposing himself in his dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>The actor subsequently revealed he had tried to kill himself three times as a result of the scandal.<\/p>\n<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presentational grey line\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/media\/images\/76020000\/jpg\/_76020974_line976.jpg\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p>Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Grantham is best known for his Dirty Den role in EastEnders Leslie Grantham &quot;remains poorly and is being taken care of by medical staff&quot;, a representative for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}