The stars shine for Harry Moseley charity football match
Harry Moseley was an amazing little boy. 11 years old,
suffering from an inoperable brain tumour which eventually took his life, he
achieved much bigger things than most of us maybe ever will in comparison; in
his short life he raised over £500,000 for Cancer Research, despite being very
ill himself, by selling beaded bracelets "hand made with love for all
people with cancer”. These bracelets are now widely recognised and sold as the
symbol of support for the
Help Harry Help Others charity, which continues to
grow and carry on the amazing work that he started thanks to his mum Georgie
Moseley.
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Georgie Moseley |
On Saturday (May 18th) stars from music, sport, film, TV and
radio came together at
Birmingham City Football ground to further the
fundraising activities for Help Harry Help others in a celebrity football match
dubbed 'Celeb Footy 4 Harry' (search the twitter hashtag
#celebfooty4harry to
see comments and updates from the day). What a day it was. Great turn out,
great atmosphere and most of all great fun.
Doing the day in style, myself and a few friends were kindly
given use of the box belonging to
Snatchpac Ltd (thank you very much guys!)
which gave us a great view of the action. Now, apparently the score was 12-2.
For some reason I missed about nine of these goals (oops) but what I can tell
you is that
Harvey of So Solid Crew fame had much of a hand (or foot, more to
the point) in many of these goals. Hankering after a change of career perhaps?
Who knows. Goal scorers on the day also included Derry and Charlie from X
Factor pop band
The Risk who made up the score in the winning team - Harry's
Heroes, and James Phelps and Kevin Cooper who scored the two goals for the
losing Moseley Mob.
Other notable celebs there included Brum's own culinary legend Mr Glynn Purnell, Arg, Tom and Mario from The Only Way is Essex, Sam from Made In Chelsea, former footballers Ian Taylor and Michael
Johnson, Steps' Lee Latchford-Evans, the rather lovely (and very easy on the
eye) Shane Ward along with two of my boxing heroes (yes, I like boxing)
Nathan Cleverly and Joe
Calzaghe - who after a couple of glasses of wine later on in the evening I
failed to recognise as I was talking to him. Shame on me.
After all the fun during the day, the teams came back
together in the evening to celebrate with a glass of much deserved fizz or two,
and knowing that most of these lovely guys wouldn't know where they were going,
it was only right that a few of us played escort as we moved between venues and
made them feel at home... who am I kidding. of course I wanted to be surrounded
by a host of good looking, successful guys. Who wouldn't?
Anyway, all in all the event was a success. Attendance was a fantastic 7,155 according to
Sellebrity Soccer who had a big hand in organising the event, and
from where I was standing, not only do I think this event can, and should, happen again, but it can only
get bigger.
Photos from the day (and a couple of terrible ones of me,
but with a couple of the guys) are below. To find out more about Harry, the
Help Harry Help Others charity and how you can get involved, visit
HHHO.org.uk.
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Before the match began |
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Me and my lovely girls in front of our hospitality box - thanks Snatchpac! |
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Our favourite brummie and chef extraordinaire Mr Glynn Purnell with Georgie Moseley |
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Harry's Heroes - the winning team - celebrate their win! |
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Tom Kilbey from The Only Way Is Essex |
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A delightful looking Mario Falcone from ITV's The Only Way Is Essex |
And the evening (sorry guys, I get in the way here!)
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Me and the legend that is Glynn Purnell |
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Me and the lovely Shane Ward |
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Me and MC Harvey - possibly the most confident person I have ever met! (and girls, he likes taking his shirt off... wink) |
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