{"id":13541,"date":"2025-12-08T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13541"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:12:15","slug":"hugh-laurie-says-dad-would-have-hated-fake-version-of-doctor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13541","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Laurie says \u2018dad would have hated\u2019 \u2018fake version\u2019 of doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"312\">Despite earning $700,000 per episode on <em data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"110\">House<\/em>, Hugh Laurie admits he feels like a fraud. Playing a \u201cfake doctor,\u201d he regrets not pursuing real medicine like his father hoped. Laurie says his dad \u201cwould have hated\u201d the shortcut he took into acting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"637\">Born in 1959, Laurie once planned to row in the Olympics and then attend medical school, following his father\u2014an Olympic gold medalist and respected physician. But joining the Cambridge Footlights comedy troupe changed his path, leading to a successful TV and film career alongside names like Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"812\">His role as Dr. Gregory House made him a worldwide star, though the pressure took its toll. After <em data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"744\">House<\/em> ended in 2012, Laurie continued acting, even playing doctors again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"924\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Still, he carries guilt: \u201cI ended up a fake version of a doctor\u2026 I took shortcuts. Dad would have hated that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bnhf2TQl-xj\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1000&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com&amp;rp=%2Fcelebrity%2Fhouse-actor-hugh-laurie-says-dad-would-have-hated-fake-version-of-doctor-instead-of-real-one%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawOjuepleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFNb2ZnbGgxSGo4bGVsM0xJc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4OD#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1631.2999999523163%7D\" height=\"679\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite earning $700,000 per episode on House, Hugh Laurie admits he feels like a fraud. Playing a \u201cfake doctor,\u201d he regrets not pursuing real medicine like his father hoped. Laurie says his dad \u201cwould have hated\u201d the shortcut he took into acting. Born in 1959, Laurie once planned to row in the Olympics and then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13541\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hugh Laurie says \u2018dad would have hated\u2019 \u2018fake version\u2019 of doctor&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13544,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions\/13544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}