TV celebrities strip for cancer charity

TV celebrities strip for cancer charity
TV celebrities strip for cancer charity

TV dance judge Bruno Tonioli has put the streak into Strictly - by stripping off for charity. The flamboyant BBC1 dance judge joined a host of celebrities including Strictly Come Dancing colleague Camilla Dallerup, Watchdog host Julia Bradbury and Apprentice star Kate Walsh to bare all. Soccer star Sol Campbell also got his kit off for the Give Up Clothes for Good campaign, as did cuddly star Christopher Biggins. The stars posed for the shots in a bid to get members of the public to strip their wardrobes to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Give Up Clothes for Good - which is supported by discount retailers TK Maxx and HomeSense - is a nationwide clothing and homeware collection scheme helping in the fight to beat childhood cancers. The campaign, which launched on Sunday and runs to April 25, has been held every other year since 2004. In 2008 it raised £3.2 million worth of donations for the charity's life-saving research and this year aims to raise even more. Ex-Atomic Kitten star Liz McLarnon, Channel 4's A Place In The Sun host Jasmine Harman, former EastEnders actress Lucy Benjamin, actor Jeremy Sheffield and cricketer Jimmy Anderson have also shed their clothes for the cameras. Tonioli said: "I really enjoyed taking part in this shoot and was glad to Give Up Clothes for Good to help Cancer Research UK beat childhood cancer. I hope everyone else feels the same and I encourage the nation to open up those closets; reach for those hidden marvels, and donate your fabulous items of clothing and homeware to TK Maxx and HomeSense stores."

Bruno Tonioli

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.