Children In Need live show featuring Strictly and Dune stars raises £38m

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One of the show’s sketches saw the stars of Dune: Part Three, Timothee Chalamet, Jason Momoa, Anya Taylor-Joy and Zendaya, prank Rylan Clark.

Children In Need’s live appeal show, featuring appearances from the stars of Strictly Come Dancing and Dune: Part Three, has raised more than £38 million.

At the end of Friday’s show it was revealed that £38,720,170 had so far been raised for the BBC’s children’s charity.

The show saw presenters Alex Jones, Rylan Clark, Sara Cox, Mel Giedroyc and Tyler West take part in their own version of Strictly Come Dancing with the show’s professional dancers.

Jones was partnered with Aljaz Skorjanec, West with Alexis Warr, Giedroyc with Neil Jones, Clark with Amy Dowden, and Cox with Julian Callion.

Giedroyc was left out of breath as she and Jones performed a humorous routine to The Floral Dance by Sir Terry Wogan, in tribute to the show’s late presenter.

The dancers were then all awarded a 10 by a panel of child judges and Pudsey Bear.

One of the show’s sketches saw the stars of Dune: Part Three, Timothee Chalamet, Jason Momoa, Anya Taylor-Joy and Zendaya, prank Clark with three children who took charge and told the Hollywood stars what to do through an earpiece.

Instructions included the children telling Chalamet to check his phone mid-interview and tell Clark that he was “bidding on an air fryer” and is in the lead.

The sketch also saw Zendaya constantly getting Clark’s name wrong, and Chalamet telling him he was distracted by his teeth while he repetitively shook hands with him, before later stroking his beard.

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