{"id":2278537,"date":"2026-02-12T06:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2278537"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:20:47","slug":"fans-celebrities-pay-tribute-to-late-varsity-blues-star-james-van-der-beek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fans-celebrities-pay-tribute-to-late-varsity-blues-star-james-van-der-beek\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans, celebrities pay tribute to late &#8216;Varsity Blues&#8217; star James Van Der Beek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>James Van Der Beek has died at the age of 48, his wife disclosed on Wednesday. The late actor had been battling stage 3 colorectal cancer, he revealed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Van Der Beek gained fame for starring as Dawson Leery in the popular \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d show from 1998-2003. He later had recurring roles in TV shows \u201cDon\u2019t Trust the B\u2014- in Apartment 23,\u201d \u201cMercy,\u201d and \u201cFriends with Better Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though he was mostly a TV star, Van Der Beek also starred in several movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many sports fans fondly remembered Van Der Beek for his portrayal of \u201cMox\u201d in the high school football movie \u201cVarsity Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><\/p>\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.yardbarker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Van Der Beek has died at the age of 48, his wife disclosed on Wednesday. The late actor had been battling stage 3 colorectal cancer, he revealed in 2024. Van Der Beek gained fame for starring as Dawson Leery in the popular \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d show from 1998-2003. He later had recurring roles in TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278538,"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":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Fans-celebrities-pay-tribute-to-late-Varsity-Blues-star-James.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278537","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=2278537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278539,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278537\/revisions\/2278539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}