{"id":41348,"date":"2021-09-03T19:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41348"},"modified":"2021-09-03T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:48:58","slug":"dermot-oleary-to-be-a-guest-announcer-on-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41348","title":{"rendered":"Dermot O\u2019Leary to be a guest announcer on Metrolink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years during special events Manchester Metrolink have had a number of guest announcers for on-stop announcements and with Soccer Aid taking place on Saturday 4<sup>th<\/sup> September there will be another \u2013 Dermot O\u2019Leary. The television presenter is hosting the event and will also be lending his voice to some pre-recorded announcements.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Soccer Aid takes place at Manchester City\u2019s Etihad Stadium on Saturday 4<sup>th<\/sup> September and will see a number of celebrities taking part. This will include Olly Murs, Usain Bolt and Paddy McGuinness as well as former footballers Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes and Pablo Zabaleta.<\/p>\n<p>Metrolink is an excellent way to get to the event with the Etihad Campus stop located close to the stadium. And you may even be able to travel by the Soocer Aid tram with 3070 carrying a vinyl wrap advertising livery.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Vaughan, TfGM\u2019s Head of Metrolink, said: \u201cWe\u2019re really excited to see Soccer Aid back in Manchester. It\u2019s great for us to have Dermot making announcements on Metrolink, and I\u2019m sure our passengers will enjoy hearing his familiar voice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years during special events Manchester Metrolink have had a number of guest announcers for on-stop announcements and with Soccer Aid taking place on Saturday 4th September there will be another \u2013 Dermot O\u2019Leary. The television presenter is hosting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41349,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348\/revisions\/41349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}