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- Sophie Ellis-Bextor will endeavor to move for 24 hours in a Kitchen Disco Danceathon during the current year’s Radio 2 Children in Need Challenge.
The vocalist’s web-based Kitchen Disco meetings became famous for raising individuals’ spirits. During 2020’s lockdown, as she sang under a sparkle ball encircled by her five kids. “Would I be able to continue to go for an entire 24 hours? I’m certain I can with the help of Radio 2’s audience members,” she said.
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The test was declared on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 breakfast show, and the station’s head Helen Thomas said the multiplatinum-selling. Artist had “inspired everybody and spread such a lot of bliss over these beyond the year and a half.”
She added: “So what better way of keeping the country engaged than with a drawn-out Kitchen Disco Danceathon for Children In Need. Radio 2’s association with the cause has raised more than £50m during the most recent ten years, she said.
Ellis-Bextor is following on last year’s test by Joe Wicks, who raised more than £2.5m with 24 hours of consistent PE.
Her test will follow North West Tonight’s climate moderator Owain Sophie Wyn Evans. Who will drum continually for 24 hours at different spots in Salford’s MediaCityUK on 12 November, including the Philharmonic Studio. Where individuals from the ensemble join him.
He will begin on Breakfast at 08:35 on Friday and end 24 hours after the fact on a similar program.
Kids in Need’s CEO Simon Antrobus said: “The beyond a year and a half have been amazingly troublesome. And have unfortunately made the existences of kids and youngsters confronting hindrance that a lot harder. We need to guarantee no kid feels alone and that each kid is upheld to flourish.”