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Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield among stars putting pants on their heads for 4-year-old boy with cancer-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro
All for a good cause!
Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield got their pants out for charity (Picture: Instagram)
Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield have been posing in their pants – but it’s all for a good cause!
The daytime duo joined stars sharing pictures of themselves with pants on their heads to support leukaemia charities after Zoe Ball’s four-year-old nephew was diagnosed with the disease.
The initiative was set up by BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe’s sister Hannah Peckham, a school friend of ITV This Morning’s Holly, whose son Bodhi has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
It calls on social media users to don underwear as a hat and share images with the hashtag #PantsToLeukaemia, inspired by a photograph Hannah shared with her friends.
After Bodhi’s diagnosis in November, Hannah ‘set up a little group chat to keep our friends updated.’
‘It was Bodhi’s fourth birthday on Thursday and he was admitted to the hospital again on Friday, so we had to cancel his superhero birthday party on Sunday,’ she told the PA news agency.
Zoe Ball happily got involved for her nephew (Picture: Instagram)
Schofe joked that he looked like a chef with his pants on his head (Picture: Instagram)
‘I was updating the group and snapped a picture of Bodhi, and like a typical four-year-old he was wearing his socks, and vest and then had his pants on his head.
‘All of the group replied in solidarity, with their pictures, and no one in there really knows each other so it was really nice.’
Hannah reckoned the initiative could be a ‘good way to raise some money and take our minds off of it.’
Hannah Peckham’s son, Bodhi, was diagnosed with cancer last year (Picture: Instagram)
‘It is wonderful to see people getting involved,’ she exclaimed.
She added that those wanting to get involved should take a picture of themselves or someone else with pants or a ‘brief bonnet’ on their head.
Participants then donate to a leukaemia charity such as Leukaemia UK, Young Lives or Rocking Horse, and make a post explaining what they are doing and tagging friends asking them to get involved.
Countless stars have since got involved in the social media movement (Picture: Instagram)
Participants are encouraged to pose with pants on their head and make a donation (Picture: Instagram)
Hannah has asked Instagram users to tag her handle, @h.j.peckham, and use the hashtags #PantsToLeukaemia, #PostYourPants, #LeukaemiaIsPants, or #TeamBodhi.
Holly donned a pair of white briefs and pouted for her post and nominated Emma Bunton, Gok Wan, Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary and friend Phil.
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Happily joining the trend, Phillip shared an Instagram Story adorned by a pair of white Calvin Klein boxers, which he joked made him ‘look like a chef’, tagging and nominating fellow celebrities Oti Mabuse, Josie Gibson and Rochelle Humes to do the same.
Dozens of fellow social media users have also followed suit after Zoe shared a description of the initiative on her breakfast show on BBC Radio 2.
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