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| Spice Girls open Children in Need | |
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| The reunited Spice Girls have performed in Los Angeles to help get this year's BBC Children in Need show under way. | |
| Kylie Minogue, Westlife, the Sugababes, David Gray and Annie Lennox are also expected to sing during the seven-hour BBC One fundraising programme. | |
| Irish boy band Boyzone are reforming for the show, and Doctor Who star David Tennant met his predecessor Peter Davison in a specially-written sketch. | |
| Children in Need raises money for disadvantaged young people in the UK. | Children in Need raises money for disadvantaged young people in the UK. |
| One hour into the show, the amount raised was given as £5.1m. | |
| Last year the show raised £18.3m on the night it was broadcast and this rose to more than £33m once all donations were collected. | |
| 'Controversial fee' | 'Controversial fee' |
| This year it encouraged the public to "do something different" to raise money for the charity | This year it encouraged the public to "do something different" to raise money for the charity |
| Presenter Terry Wogan has waived his controversial fee for presenting the show this year. | Presenter Terry Wogan has waived his controversial fee for presenting the show this year. |
| "Terry has said that he never asked for, never negotiated, a payment for presenting the Appeal Show. He would 'gladly do it for nothing' and he requested that the BBC did not pay him this year," a Children in Need spokeswoman said. | "Terry has said that he never asked for, never negotiated, a payment for presenting the Appeal Show. He would 'gladly do it for nothing' and he requested that the BBC did not pay him this year," a Children in Need spokeswoman said. |
| Newsreaders including Fiona Bruce will perform a song from Chicago | Newsreaders including Fiona Bruce will perform a song from Chicago |
| The reunited Spice Girls, all dressed glamorously in black, performed Headlines (Friendship Never Ends), the official Children in Need single, from Los Angeles during the programme. | |
| They were followed by a rendition of Elton John's Your Song by actor John Barrowman, accompanied by Myleene Klass on piano. | |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat star Lee Mead opened the show. | |
| BBC newsreaders Fiona Bruce, Dermot Murnaghan, Andrew Marr, Nicholas Owen, Bill Turnbull and Ben Brown will perform a song from the West End musical Chicago. | |
| The cast of BBC One soap EastEnders will appear and there will be special editions of TV shows Dragon's Den, Hotel Babylon and music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks. | The cast of BBC One soap EastEnders will appear and there will be special editions of TV shows Dragon's Den, Hotel Babylon and music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks. |
| The cast of the musical Dirty Dancing will also appear. | |
| National and regional BBC radio and TV stations have also been raising money for Children in Need. | National and regional BBC radio and TV stations have also been raising money for Children in Need. |
| On Thursday, BBC Radio 2 listener Kenneth Donnell, from Glasgow, paid £83,000 for two tickets to Led Zeppelin's reunion gig in December in a Children in Need auction. | On Thursday, BBC Radio 2 listener Kenneth Donnell, from Glasgow, paid £83,000 for two tickets to Led Zeppelin's reunion gig in December in a Children in Need auction. |