\n<\/aside>\nHead played Rupert Mannion, the vengeful and unfaithful ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham\u2019s Rebecca Welton, across the first three seasons of \u201cTed Lasso.\u201d<\/p>\n
His character was the previous owner of the fictional English soccer team AFC Richmond, which Welton took over after their divorce. He later owned a rival \u2014 and non-fictitious \u2014 team, West Ham United.<\/p>\n
Keeley Hazell, who played the wife to Head\u2019s character, also shared a touching tribute to the late actor via her Instagram Stories Friday. <\/p>\n
She posted side-by-side photos of herself and Head smiling next to each other while on the set of the U.K. based comedy series. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy onscreen husband. What an honor it was to work alongside you. My thoughts are with your family and your daughters, who you loved so much,\u201d she wrote alongside the heartbreaking memories.<\/p>\n
Their co-star Jeremy Swift also penned a brief message honoring Head. In an Instagram post shared Friday, he wrote, \u201cGoodbye Tony, we adored you, Rest in Peace my friend,\u201d next to a selfie of the stars. <\/p>\n
This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cTed Lasso\u201d cast is paying tribute to Anthony Head after the beloved actor\u2019s sudden death at age 72. Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent on the Apple TV series, shared a photo of Head to his Instagram Stories and called his co-star \u201ca brilliant actor who played the worst person in the world.\u201d Goldstein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2447126,"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":[25317,22062,24003,21741,346410,21913],"class_list":["post-2447125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-apple-tv","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-tributes","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ted-Lasso-cast-honors-co-star-Anthony-Head-after-his-sudden.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447125","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=2447125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447127,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447125\/revisions\/2447127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}