Recognized journalist Grant Wahl received tribute in room episode third season belonging TV series Ted Lasso. This is production Apple TV A new chapter premiered every Wednesday, and the last one on April 5, titled “The Big Week” was used to honor the memory of the communicator.
Four months after his sudden death in mid Qatar World Cup 2022this series, which follows an American football manager coaching an English Premier League football team, evoked Val’s flashbacks during and at the end of the episode.
The first tribute came at minute 20:50, when in the episode Coach Beard, played by the star actor Brendan Huntholding a book in hand Shaft called “The Beckham Experiment”. All this while talking to ‘Ted Lasso’the character being played Jason Sudeikis.
The second moment that honors the life of an American journalist was at the end of the episode, in the credits of the 49th minute, when a message appears dedicating the chapter “In memory of Grant Vale”.
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Grant’s wife Celine Gonderthanked the producers and actors of the series for the gesture through a message in Twitter which will eventually become the explanatory thread of why the third season was inspired by a journalist who died in Qatar.
“There is no point in sitting and wondering why, baby… Thanks to Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and Brett Goldstein. This episode means a lot to me and my family,” he wrote.
Subsequently, Gonder explained that the third season ‘Ted Lasso’ partly inspired by the first book Grant Wahl called “The David Beckham Experiment” and provided a series of coincidences that will prove it.
Shaft and JAson Sudeikiswho is filming ‘Ted Lasso’ On the show, they were close friends and the actor even appeared on a journalist’s podcast before his death in December 2022. Three months before the fatal outcome, the communicator wrote a blog where he spoke first-hand about his trip to richmondEngland, the place that gave name and life to a fictional team that also appears in FIFA 23.
After being repatriated to the United States after his death and performing an autopsy in New York, it was determined that Wahl had died of an aortic aneurysm.
Source: La Opinion
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