{"id":8932,"date":"2011-02-08T16:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/08\/jimi-transforms-into-idol-freddie-mercury\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:45:50","slug":"jimi-transforms-into-idol-freddie-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/08\/jimi-transforms-into-idol-freddie-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimi transforms into Idol Freddie Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Actor snapped by Boy George for Hepatitis C campaign<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"347\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/JimiMistryFreddieMercury.jpg\"\/>IT was a case of \u2018stars in his eyes\u2019 for actor Jimi Mistry as he poses as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 38-year-old actor posed as his childhood icon for a series of photos taken by former Culture Club man Boy George as part of a campaign to urge the British public to get tested for liver disease hepatitis C.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mistry \u2013 who will hit our screens this month in \u2018West is West\u2019 \u2013 was joined by other well-known figures including Gavin &amp; Stacey actor Mat Horne who posed as Adam Ant and Sadie Frost who transformed into Madonna. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking at the press launch Jimi said: \u201cI suddenly embodied the spirit of Freddie; I started standing with my chest out but as soon as the moustache went on it all seemed to fall into place. The crown, the raised fist, I was there. It was fantastic. To be photographed by an icon being my icon was quite a memorable day.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The pictures will go on auction next month<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor snapped by Boy George for Hepatitis C campaign IT was a case of \u2018stars in his eyes\u2019 for actor Jimi Mistry as he poses as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. &#13; The 38-year-old actor posed as his childhood icon for a series of photos taken by former Culture Club man Boy George as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}