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For this years Comic Relief, 9 celebrities climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to help raise money for Comic Relief. The celebrities were Gary Barlow (who came up with the idea), Chris Moyles, Ben Shephard, Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Fearne Cotton, Denise Van Outen and Alesha Dixon.

Everyone made it to the summit including all the camera crew, doctors, porters etc. In total I think Chris Moyles said there were about 140 in total. Everyone did brilliantly well. Its something like 1 in 3 or 4 usually dont make it so for every single person to make it to the summit is brilliant!

One of the stars of the climb was Fearne who was really ill for a couple days but she pulled through. All the celebs came across as really nice people and from what I have read and heard Chris Moyles (who I am a big fan of) came across well and managed to convince some people who didnt previously like him that he was basically a really nice funny bloke. It was also great that Gary himself made it up. He was suffering from a bad back and at some points during the climb it looked like he wouldnt make it.

While watching the program – which you can still watch again in the iPlayer – we got to hear more of Alesha’s brilliant laugh. She has possibly the best laugh EVER!! Also, Cheryl Cole moaned quite abit – so much in fact that after a few days she had a go at herself and said she was sick of her own voice!! LOL!!

Watching the program you saw that Ben Shephard was really competitive and Denise Van Outen looked great throughout the “adventure” makeup or no makeup. Chris himself lost loads of weight. From the start of his training to return he lost about 2 stones. It was quite a sight at the start of the program when they had the medical you saw the naked big hairy belly of Chris!!

One other thing I have to mention from watching the program is what an amazing job the porters do. They climb all the big heavy things, provide support, set up the camp etc. This isnt just for celebs – if anyone goes climbing Kilimanjaro they get the porters. They are all paid so without “tourists” they would be out of a job.

At the end of the day, by going up Mount Kilimanjaro they have helped raise awareness of malaria and its problem in Africa. Some people have been asking how much it all cost for the celebs to climb the mountain – BT paid for it all and every single penny which was raised is going to Comic Relief.

The view when they got to the top was amazing!! Especially when the first group got to the top when the sun was rising. Makes me want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro! I wish the program was longer than 1 hour – maybe there will be a DVD which is longer with lots of extras. I would buy it!!

The amount of money raised was stunning! Radio 1 listeners themselves raised about £1.5m. The total including the money raised from the BT talking clock was about £3.3m. I think the total has increased a lot in the last 24 hours since the program was on TV. BRILLIANT!!!

Comic Relief night

I have watched most of the night. Some of the things I didnt find very funny – for example I seem to be the only one not to get Al Murray or Ricky Gervais (and to a certain extent Little Britain). I did really enjoy The Royle Family which was very funny. It had the brilliant line “Open the window to let the smell of your Dad’s balls out”. LOL!

The Apprentice (although once again Sir Alan made the wrong decision – should have fired Gerald) was good too and surprisingly I liked the James Cordon bit. Not a fan really of Gavin and Stacy and didnt like him on the Brits but I thought the England football team & Smithy bit was pretty funny. I found some of the jokes very funny especially the joke on John Terry and his crying!! As a United fan I loved it! (Making it even better was seeing Becks (United legend) laughing when he told the joke).

Heres the clip:

The total so far is a brilliant £54,690,437!!! Last year the total was a record itself (£40m). Not sure if this was the total at the end of the night or the “whole” total. There is still over an hour to go till the TV program finishes and then you can still donate afterwards.