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Sport Relief has already raised in excess of £29 million for global charities, with the help of James Corden aka Smithy and Cheryl Cole. The BBC fundraiser saw stars from music, sport and comedy come together to raise money for vulnerable people in the UK and the world's poorest nations. Making her first television appearance since splitting from footballer husband Ashley, Cheryl Cole appeared on stage to congratulate Rufus Hound, the comedian who performed a spoof dance routine of her Fight For This L  

Stars from sport, music and comedy helped BBC Sport Relief raise more than £29 million today. Cheryl Cole, David Beckham, Robbie Williams and JLS all performed during last night's TV marathon. X Factor judge Cole – making her first TV appearance since her split with husband Ashley – was forced to watch comic Rufus Hound do a spoof of her Fight For This Love dance routine.

It was like watching Quasimodo trying to keep up with Esmeralda   -Bruno Tonioli

 

I've always had a soft spot for David Beckham. It's impressive — and incredibly rare — that someone so famous, surrounded by sycophants and cynics equally, should manage to remain a decent, generous-spirited and self-effacing human being. His affable response — genuine guffaws and blushes — to James Corden's ribbing of him in past and present Sports Relief sketches particularly warmed me to him, as did his undisguised emotion at the welcome he received on his recent return to Old Trafford.  

SOCCER WAGs will get a look-in at the World Cup - on James Corden's new football show on ITV. Bosses have snatched the roly-poly funnyman ahead of the BBC. They plan to screen his show, James Corden's World Cup Live, after all the big games.  

8.20pm: later on, a special Outnumbered, Dragons dancing, JLS, Lemar and Cheryl Cole promoting their new singles for charity, and James Corden. Alas it's time for Christine and Gary to go home, to be replaced with Richard Hammond and Claudia Winkleman. Claudia has the fringe of an Afghan Hound, and Hammond appears to be everywhere I turn these days. 8.15pm: Time for Rufus Hound doing his marvellous Cheryl Cole dance from Let's Dance For Sport Relief.  

Evening! Heidi's having a few technical difficulties, so I (Vicky Frost) will be your host for the few frustrating minutes it takes her to fix the internet. Things to report so far: local weather presenters seem to take a massive amount of glee in reporting rain given that I need to spend all weekend digging out my garden.  

The newest Doctor Who stepped out of the Tardis and into the spotlight last night for the premiere of the new series of the BBC1 sci-fi show. The new series will start with an episode which has been billed as 'Independence Day on the village green' and will see the Doctor carry on from where David Tennant left him - crash landing on earth. The new series has been subject to some serious scrutiny from fans as it marks not just a change in Doctor and companion but also in the writing and production te  

On me 'ead son ... crocked soccer star David Beckham is not throwing in the towel just yet - he's wearing it. Footie ace Becks is spotted enjoying some pamper time with another Essex boy - actor James Corden - in a Sport Relief sketch to be screened tonight. Beckham filmed the scenes before his nasty Achilles injury earlier this week, although he is ...  

A ridiculously starry cast – including Helena Bonham Carter, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, James Corden and Robbie Coltrane – voice this witty adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's children's tale of a shrewd little mouse who outwits a ravenous snake, owl and a fox with the threat of a gruffalo, a creature with terrible claws, orange eyes and purple prickles all over its back. In the old days, one voice – Bernard Cribbins, say – would have voiced the whole lot, no trouble, but this was the centr