Team: Kennedy-Hughes
Event: The Playtex MoonWalk 2010
Event Date: 15 May 2010

Emma Kennedy, Claudie Blakley, Debbie Chazen,Sarah Cawood, Caitlin Moran, Sarah Morgan, Grace Dent + Sali Hughes's Fundraising Page

My target: £20,000.00Online total: £24,896.00

Thanks for Supporting such a Great Cause!

10 Dec 09 09:51 AM
posted by Emma Kennedy

TEAM BOOBIE-DAZZLERS
From Emma
I think breasts are brilliant and for this reason I am proud to be taking part in this year's Moonwalk for Breakthrough Breastcancer.
Every female member of my family has had breast cancer and I know what a devastating disease it can be but treatment is improving and with your help we can improve screening, catch the disease early and ensure that more women survive.
I am going to be walking a marathon through the night in my bra. So please sponsor me. I will love you FOREVER.
And please give as generously as you can. Let's keep boobs bouncing.

From Sali
I love boobs - they've fed my children, given me a waist and enabled my hopeless addiction to lingerie. I OWE THEM. I'm terribly lucky in that no one in my family has suffered from breast cancer, but when my best friend Julia's mother died from it, I saw the devastation it can cause to families, and the need for more research and care. For all the reasons Emma describes above, I want to help. Anyone who knows me will know how hilariously unfit I am, and just how much pain, sweat and tears I'll be shedding in return for your hard-earned cash (I literally feel sick as I type). Please sponsor us whatever you can afford, we'll be so, so grateful.
Sali xxx

From Sarah
As a long standing fan of the films of Russ Meyer, I am extremely pro-breasts. I am also extremely anti-walking. (and cancer, obviously). If you know me, you'll know how hilarious it is I'm doing a thing that involves the exertion of energy, let alone a 26-mile walk. Imagine how funny it'll be. Me hobbling and moaning over the finish line, dying of sweat and blistered of giant flappy feet. You like that? Huh? Then enjoy a guilt-free chuckle and sponsor our lovely team. Thankyou. Sarah x


From Grace Dent
I'm walking 26 miles. Can you imagine that? No, seriously. Imagine me 'doing exercise'? I find 'being outdoors' enormously overrated. Outdoors, to me, is simply the inconvenient gap between bar stool and sofa. And let's be honest, with my knockers it's a miracle I can be vertical at all.

With this in mind I'd be enormously touched if you'd help me raise funds for breast cancer. We're tapping you up for cash for research and for stuff like machines to stop women's hair falling out during treatment, or to fund centres to make their whole cancer-journey less mindboggling HORRID. And we need to find a cure too.

When my mam was diagnosed with breast cancer it was like the end of the world for our family. It riled me that almost everyone I spoke to had experience of breast cancer too. It's an utter...(very sweary word removed for decency) and it's absolutely everywhere
That's why we're going out walking.

Please support me and my girls. We'd love it if you did. - Gracie xx Ps- if anyone's wondering what I'll do with my Walk the Walk Pink Bra when I reach the finishing line, don't worry I'm donating it to St Paul's Cathedral. They're going to throw it over the main dome in winter to stop the cold.

From Caitlin

Oh my God I can't believe Kennedy hoodwinked us all into doing this. When I was pregnant with my first daughter and, to be frank, plopping myself about labour, the midwife said "I've done two marathons and had three children. To be honest, it's easier to give birth than do a marathon."

Ever since, my two unbreakable rules have been a) contraception and b) not doing marathons. AND HERE I AM DOING A MARATHON. AND I HAD ANOTHER KID AS WELL. I SIMPLY DON'T LISTEN TO MYSELF, DO I?

Obviously this is "just" a walking marathon, but what you have to understand is that I am invariably very, very sleepy by 9.30pm, so the idea of leaving the house around then, going to Hyde Park at midnight and walking for seven hours seems absolutely frigging hideous and something that really will make me quite tetchy. Additionally, I have to admit to myself that I'm not going to do any of the training, and will just be "busking" it on the day. Good old sheer British stupidity will be keeping me going as I hobble through Chelsea at 4am, crying, and texting "I HATE YOU KENNEDY" repeatedly to Kennedy, some four miles ahead of me.

On top of all this, WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR? Hard to find the outfit that will pull off the accessory of a gigantic pink bra, worn as outer-wear. I'm sure you will agree that the pain of the style quandary ALONE is worth a bit of sponsorship. Plus, if I don't raise more than Dent, she will be intolerably smug. It's all ipso facto gazebo, really.

From Sarah Cawood

I'm so happy I managed to blag my way onto this team of fabulously talented and bloody funny women!
Last year my wonderful Auntie Pauline passed away after a 35 year battle with breast cancer. She did so much for the cause from raising money to counselling other women with the disease. She was truly an inspiration and a hard act to follow but I'm going to try!
I, like the others, am a BIG FAN of the boobies and anything to keep them healthy and perky is alright by me. Now, pass that sequinned bra and the Compeeds and let's start strolling.

From Debbie Chazen

Both my parents died of different forms of cancer, and I have long been involved in charity work - but little did I know that I would become a direct beneficiary of all the Playtex Moonwalkers generosity; I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in November 2009. By the time the Moonwalk comes around I shall have completed my course of chemo and be well into the radiotherapy part of my treatment, so it's unlikely I will be able to do the full walk (OK, let's face it, even without the whole "I've got cancer" excuse, it was never going to happen!), but I am delighted to be part of such a fantastic team, and aim to join them all for the last leg of the walk, in fluorescent shell suit and headband and will be cheering them all on to the finish! Go Boobies! Thank you so much for your donations, let's make sure this blimmin' disease gets kicked to the kerb!
From Claudie
Well the girls seemed to have covered everything pretty expertly.. ..
im a late joiner. It was decided over a late night conversation with ms kennedy where by she was telling me about this 26 mile walk (what?) in the middle of the night (what?) in her bra(what?) to which i replied Can i come please. So here i am proudly uniting with these great girls with the single aim of raising money for this amazing charity. Not only do they raise significant funds,,they have achieved so much already,,but they are encouraging us to get fit and healthy in the process. oh yeah. Money. Its all about the money. Cash is what we require and as much as you can spare. you will be doing a great thing....i will be forever grateul..
thank you! thank you!

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Funds Raised Online

£24896.00 GBP

Funds Raised Offline

£1600.00 GBP