Our exclusive video shows the former Boomtown Rats frontman performing Bono's line in Do They Know It's Christmas, before challenging "the creme de la creme of British acting" - Damian Damien Lewis, Dominic West and Richard E. Grant to follow suit.
"I’m doing this to help raise awareness this Christmas about the fight against the Ebola Virus," he said.
now Damian has accepted the challenge as you can see here.
Homeland actor Damian Lewis also stepped up to take Sir Bob Geldof's Band Aid singing challenge, with quite hilarious results.
The 43-year-old star's video sees him attempting to sing Bono's line from Do They Know It's Christmas before going onto nominate Hugh Grant and Jamie Theakston.
"Hello, I am a slightly hoarse Damian Lewis accepting Bob Geldof's challenge to sing Bono's famous line from the Band Aid song," he says.
"I'm going to donate £10 after this. Anyone who wants to play please donate to bandaid30.com or text AID to 70707. Here we go, here is my rendition of..."
since you know and see it all the time on the blog we still in corporation with
damian-lewis.com and so we will show you today some great pictures from last weeks
Charity day as well as pictures from last nights event.
thank you VERY much for support and help to the owner of DL.com
Save the Children UK recently held its Secret Winter Gala. The wonderful Allie Esiri was the chair of the event committee and the evening evening raised over 1 million pounds for Save the Children including matching funding from the UK government.
Damian Lewis attended the Gala with his wife Helen McCrory. Below is a short video about the Gala (with a glimpse of Damian Lewis at 0:58) as well as a few nice pics from the event.
Damian Lewis becomes the King of Karaoke before he arrives on our screens as the King of England in Wolf Hall! And, we LOVE him for it! Damian did a brilliant Karaoke to Elvis' "Burning Love" complete with FUN-tastic dance moves on ICAP Charity Day. We celebrate the King of Karaoke in pictures and film today on the fan blog!
here a little recap starting with the best twitter smiles in town....
again thank you Mr. Lewis for making our day...ah what I am saying..our week!!:-))
Damian Lewis attended the ICAP charity day today for Prostate Cancer UK. ICAP charity day has been running since 1993 and always has stars and royals work the phones on the trading floor.
source: Daily Mail
During the event, traders in fancy dresses also join celebrities on the floor to cut deals - a percentage of which goes to some of the charities supported by ICAP around the world. Here is one of them posing with Lewis :)
source: Daily Mail
source: Daily Mail
ITV news reports that Damian Lewis and Prince Harry who was also participating in the ICAP Charity
Day had a hilarious chat. You will love this!
source: Daily Mail
Prince Harry, when he bumped into Lewis: "I see another
ginger." Lewis replied:
"What's it like to be the second most famous redhead then?"
Damian also did a brilliant Karaoke to Elvis' Burning Love and showed off some dancing skills! Many thanks, Dianne Stradling, for sharing this lovely pic on Twitter!
source: @gtstuff twitter
And, time for some more fun!
source: Daily Mail
source: Daily Mail
And, Damian Lewis poses with members of the Royal Air Forces.
ICAP Charity Day has made a greater impact than we could
ever have imagined
By giving away all our revenues and commissions on just one
day each year, we have positively changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of
people less fortunate.
Thanks to the efforts of our customers, staff and suppliers,
an amazing £9.5 million/US$15.5 million was raised in 2013 bringing the total
amount over 21 years to £110 million!
Damian Lewis with lovely Sohana on BGC Charity Day, source: sohanaresearchfund.org
Damian Lewis is proud to be a Patron of the Sohana Research Fund that "exists to find a cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa - a very painful genetic skin blistering condition that leads to malignant skin cancer in young adulthood."
The fund has just started a very fun EB tongue twister challenge.
In Sohana's words "Please help me laugh by taking on the EB tongue twister challenge here and help the researchers stop the pain of EB!"
source: sohanaresearchfund.org
With two non-native speakers on the blog, DFI girls can't dare take the EB tongue twister challenge, and choose to donate to Sohana Research Fund on JustGiving here.
Dear Sohana, thank YOU for being an inspiration, and best of luck!
We reported about the BGC Charity Day and Damian Lewis' participation for Sohana Research Fund in September here.
Sharmila Collins, who started Sohana Research Fund to raise funds for research that would help her daughter Sohana, but also many, many other children living with Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB for short) is featured in Guardian today.
Sohana & Sharmila Collins, copyright: Guardian
Below is a couple of excerpts from the Guardian article by Joanna Moorhead and you can read the full article here.
My Fight to Save My Daughter's Skin Guardian, Family section, November 22, 2014 By Joanna Moorhead Sohana was born with Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa – EB for short – a condition that leaves her covered in ugly red blotches and huge blisters; it is a genetic condition in which the skin blisters and peels off at the slightest brush or knock. So fragile are those who have EB that they are sometimes called “butterfly children.” ... Sharmila, 45, started to look into how much research was being done into EB. A veterinary surgeon by training, from the earliest days of Sohana’s life she had looked up academic papers and investigated the scientific work around the world that could help children like her daughter: now, she decided to find out exactly how much money was being channelled into research into EB in Britain. “I discovered it was about £400,000 a year,” she says. “I was utterly shocked: in medical research terms, that is virtually nothing.” Far from being a blow, the realisation became a catalyst for change. “I had to start fundraising so we can fight this condition and do something for Sohana and other children who have EB,” says Sharmila.
She had never told the other parents at her children’s school how serious Sohana’s condition was: now, she decided to do that, in the hope that they would back her efforts. “They were behind me 100%,” she says. “Everyone wanted to know what they could do to help.” Among their number was the actor Damian Lewis, of Homeland fame, who pledged to help in any way he could (he has since made a short film about Sohana’s daily life, which can be seen on her website).
source: sohanaresearchfund.org
That was four years ago: today, the Sohana Research Fund – Lewis is a patron – has raised more than £2.5m and funded a trial in which 10 children were given infusions of donated bone marrow cells in the hope that they would help repair the damage to their skin, which is caused by the lack of a protein that holds the skin together.
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It’s easy to see what drives Sharmila. Sohana is a delightful child: though she is swathed in bandages and the raw, red patches on her face are all too evident, it’s clear that she makes the most of her life, enjoying secondary school (which she attends with a full-time carer, as even carrying a bag on her shoulder would cause injury) and, despite her damaged hands, playing the piano. Just like her mother, she refuses to accept that her situation will stay the same for ever. “I’ve never had a day without pain. I’ve never really had an hour without pain,” she says. “It’s not fair and it’s not easy, especially when I see other children running around and playing normally. I think how much I’d like to do that too and, one day, I really hope I might.”
We thank Sharmila Collins, a brave and determined mother that started this project, and the lovely Sohana for the wonderful and inspiring work they have done. Please visitSohana Research Fund website here for more information.
The Fund is starting a FUN tongue twister challenge today! In Sohana's words "Please help me laugh by taking on the EB tongue twister challenge here and help the researchers stop the pain of EB!"
source: sohanaresearchfund.org
Finally, we thank Damian Lewis for being a part of this inspiration! Please see the video Damian made for Sohana Research Fund in which he invites us to give to the cause. Please give.
We reported about the BGC Charity Day and Damian Lewis' participation for Sohana Research Fund in September here. We just found this sweet video in which Jack Whitehall is interviewing Damian Lewis and lovely Sohana on BGC Charity Day.
Enjoy!
And you can always visit Sohana Research Fund website here and find more information about the charity. Happy Weekend!
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