{"id":2280845,"date":"2026-02-13T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280845"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:13:53","slug":"the-masked-singer-pays-tribute-to-james-van-der-beeks-griffin-following-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-masked-singer-pays-tribute-to-james-van-der-beeks-griffin-following-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Masked Singer\u2019 Pays Tribute To James Van Der Beek\u2019s \u201cGriffin\u201d Following His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Van Der Beek<\/a> died on Wednesday, February 11, at the age of 48 after a long battle with colorectal cancer, and tributes to his memory have been pouring in.<\/p>\n

On the night that Van Der Beek\u2019s death was confirmed by his family, The Masked Singer paid tribute to the actor with a touching title card at the beginning of the episode.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn loving memory of our \u2018Griffin<\/a>,’\u201d read the card.<\/p>\n

Van Der Beek was one of the contestants of Season 13 of the Fox reality competition. The actor was \u201cGriffin\u201d and was unmasked during the sixth episode of the season. During his time on the show, which aired at the beginning of 2025, he performed songs like \u201cRewrite the Stars,\u201d Rihanna<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDisturbia<\/a>,\u201d John Denver<\/a>\u2019s \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads,\u201d and Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s \u201cI Had Some Help.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/a> alum had been open about his cancer diagnosis,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Van Der Beek died on Wednesday, February 11, at the age of 48 after a long battle with colorectal cancer, and tributes to his memory have been pouring in. On the night that Van Der Beek\u2019s death was confirmed by his family, The Masked Singer paid tribute to the actor with a touching title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2280846,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2280845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/2026\/02\/\u2018The-Masked-Singer-Pays-Tribute-To-James-Van-Der-Beeks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280845","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=2280845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280847,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280845\/revisions\/2280847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}