Twiggy

  • 06 July 2007

Occupation

Actor

Twiggy and Leigh Lawson at the showcase for Stella McCartney's 2017 menswear line held at Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom - Thursday 10th November 2016

Stand Up To Cancer, Shoot Your Wife For Cancer, Give Money To Cancer

By Lorna Greville in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18 October 2012

Gwyneth Paltrow Twiggy Coleen Mcloughlin Maggie Smith Chris O'Dowd

Shoot your wife for cancer? It may seem a bit extreme, but Dawn Porter and her husband Chris O'Dowd from the IT Crowd, are making the ultimate sacrifice in the name of a good cause. That's right Chris O'Dowd will shoot his wife for the cause... with a paint pellet. If Dowd shoots his wife, Stand Up To Cancer will get a massive £10,000!

The entire affair is an extravagantly star studded event, and celebs have done a whole host of things to support it from pulling the trigger on their better halves, to donating a pair of shoes for the public to wear. The Telegraph reported on Tuesday (Oct 16th) that the public could try on the shoes of "Gwyneth Paltrow, Davina McCall, Twiggy, Sir Chris Hoy, Coleen Rooney and Dame Maggie Smith" in Leicester Square for one day only, before being sold in a silent auction that ends on Friday.

Plus, Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory has jumped on board to lend his support, by giving an earnest plug before every showing on Channel 4 and its sister channel E4. And you can see him supporting the cause in a hilarious music video called Up2 You + Me on YouTube.

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Twiggy - Jeordie White aka Twiggy Ramirez Los Angeles, California - departs the Chateau Marmont Thursday 5th January 2012

David Bailey, Beatles, Marianne Faithful, Michael Caine, Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones, Twiggy and Vanity Fair Saturday 29th December 2007 Celebrated British photographer David Bailey will turn 70 on 2 January (08). The 69-year-old is famous for changing the face of fashion photography after starting his career freelancing for Vogue magazine in the 1960s. But Bailey