{"id":2205449,"date":"2025-12-19T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2205449"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:48:30","slug":"today-james-van-der-beek-addresses-weight-loss-at-dawsons-creek-reunion-amid-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/today-james-van-der-beek-addresses-weight-loss-at-dawsons-creek-reunion-amid-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Today\u2019: James Van Der Beek Addresses Weight Loss at \u2018Dawson\u2019s Creek\u2019 Reunion Amid Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Nearly three months after missing the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0676300\/\">Dawson<\/a>\u2019s Creek reunion, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004735\/\">James Van Der Beek<\/a> sat down with Today\u2018s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4411797\/\">Craig Melvin<\/a> to give an update on his cancer battle, family life, and more. \u201cI feel a little bit better every month. It\u2019s required more of me, more patience, more discipline, more strength than I knew I had,\u201d the actor shared in a prerecorded package on the Friday, December 19, episode of Today. \u201cI knew I was strong. I didn\u2019t know I was this strong.\u201d Van Der Beek announced in November 2024 that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer. While the diagnosis shocked him, it also gave him a new perspective on life.<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three months after missing the Dawson\u2019s Creek reunion, James Van Der Beek sat down with Today\u2018s Craig Melvin to give an update on his cancer battle, family life, and more. \u201cI feel a little bit better every month. It\u2019s required more of me, more patience, more discipline, more strength than I knew I had,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2205449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018Today-James-Van-Der-Beek-Addresses-Weight-Loss-at-\u2018Dawsons.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205451,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205449\/revisions\/2205451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}