# Pants to be auctioned online for Comic Relief

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/06/pants-be-auctioned-online-comic-relief/
- Published: 2001-03-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Celebrities are to auction their pants online for Comic Relief

 

 

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Celebrities are to auction their pants online for Comic Relief

 

 

 

 

This year’s Comic Relief theme of “Say pants to poverty” is to result,predictably
enough, in an auction of celebrities’ pants. The undergarments will be auctioned
online on Freeserve’s auction site. Supporters will be able to bid online for pants
donated and designed by Gail Porter, Davina

 

 

McCall, Dale Winton, Jamie Oliver, and Lenny Henry.

 

 

 

 

The auction was initiative by Persil, which will be donating an expected £300,000
to Comic Relief from the sale of Comic Relief-branded packs of washing powder and
liquid. The company is also sponsoring the Persil Arty Pants Exhibition at Leeds
City Art Gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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