Look To The Stars News: Bill Bailey

Tigers To Benefit From Celebrity Charity Event

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Celebrities from the worlds of drama, comedy, conservation, television, sport, fashion and journalism will be burning bright at the year’s most exotic fundraising event for wild tiger conservation in London on Thursday (March 3).

Joanna Lumley, Bill Bailey, Bill Oddie, Nicholas Parsons, Jimmy Greaves, Ronni Ancona and Alistair McGowan, Jimmy Choo, Virginia McKenna and Will Travers, Donal MacIntyre, Liz Bonnin and Steve Backshall will all be in attendance at the exclusive Gala Night at London’s prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Celebrity Spitfires A Roaring Success For Charity

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:30:00 +0000

Airfix – the kitset model company – flew into action last week to help to raise money for veteran charity, Help for Heroes, by auctioning off a collection of autographed model Spitfires on eBay.

Piers Morgan, David Jason, Frank Lampard, Al Murray, Dominic Byrne, Hugh Dennis, Mark Radcliffe, Paddy Ashdown, Pete Waterman, Bill Bailey and Linford Christie all took part in the campaign. Each celebrity received an Airfix 1:48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1a and enthusiastically assembled, painted and autographed their signature Spitfires especially for the auction.

The Stars Come Out For Tilly

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:30:00 +0000

A host of stars were out in the weekend to support a young British girl who contracted Meningococcal Septicaemia as a baby and lost her hands as a result.

Last year, Look To The Stars brought you the story of Tilly Lockey, who contracted a deadly form of flesh-eating meningitis for which there is no vaccination. It was every mother’s nightmare, and for four weeks Tilly fought back in intensive care. After ten blood transfusions later she was finally pronounced out of danger. Unfortunately her hands and toes were already dead, and had to be removed.

Tilly recently received her first set of prosthetic hands. According to her parents, “these need to be replaced as she grows, consultants have told us that they will need to be changed a minimum of once every year if not twice up until she is 18 years old! We received the invoice for the hands and they are costing £23,464.00 a pair. Therefore if we need to have a target of raising approx £800,000.00 to cover the costs up until Tilly is 18 years old.”

Celebrity Handprints To Be Auctioned For Tilly

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Last year, Look To The Stars brought you the story of Tilly Lockey, a young girl who contracted Meningococcal Septicaemia as a baby and lost her hands as a result.

A number of stars, such as JK Rowling, Linford Christie, David Jason, Cliff Richard, David Prowse and Alan Shearer showed their support for Tilly’s cause by donating handprints and casts for a charity auction to give her new hands. Look To The Stars is now happy to announce that the 2009 Celebrity Handprint Auction will take place on September 5 at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead Hotel in the UK.

The gala evening will feature entertainment from Paul Lytton, Michael Donoghue and Richard Fleeshman, as well as a Champagne Reception and 3 course dinner.

Bill Bailey To Headline Orangutan Benefit Show

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:30:00 +0000

A selection of the finest cult comedians come together for OrangAid, a very special night of comedy in aid of The Sumatran Orangutan Society in London, next month.

Headlining a night of comedy with fresh new material is SOS Patron Bill Bailey, who will be joined by fellow musical virtuoso Tim Minchin. The star studded line up also features Jason Manford, Nina Conti and Alistair Barrie with a special guest appearance on the night from The Mighty Boosh’s Bollo (AKA Dave Brown).

Simon Munnery will host the evening which is being held at London’s Lyceum Theatre (home to the West End’s Lion King) on Monday June 1st and shall treat the audience to over 3 hours of hilarious stand-up comedy from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.

Massive Attack Asks For Reprieve From Music Torture

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:30:00 +0000

British band Massive Attack, comedian Bill Bailey, and Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine are calling for an end to the use of music as a form of torture at Guantánamo Bay and other facilities where suspects of the “war on terror” are being held.

Reprieve, a legal action charity founded by Clive Stafford Smith in 1999, is encouraging musicians to stand up and make powerful statements against the use of their music to torture and adopt clauses in their contracts to prevent this from happening. They believe music from some of today’s most popular artists is being blasted at prisoners for long periods of time, and that this combined with stress positions, water-boarding, sleep deprivation and beatings is intended to break prisoners psychologically.

“The fact that our music has been co-opted in this barbaric way is really disgusting,” Tom Morello told Spin Magazine. “If you’re at all familiar with ideological teachings of the band and its support for human rights, that’s really hard to stand.”