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Stars to climb mountain for charity
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 16 April 2009
So, this sounds a bit familiar. Justin Timberlake and Lupe Fiasco are among the US celebs that have been recruited by pop singer Kenna to climb Mount Kilimanjaro later this year to raise money for water crisis charities.
Kenna, who was born in Ethiopia, told Elle: “My dad almost died as a child from waterborne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well there, and I thought, ‘I have too many friends who would be concerned with the subject of clean water. Maybe I can help out'”.
Lupe Fiasco added, charitably: “I’m an adventure junkie. Part of the motivation is beating Kenna to the top. Sabotaging his tent, taking the lining out of his coat, lacing it with ants or something like that”.
As I think you’ll remember, Chris Moyles and Alesha Dixon were among celebs recruited by pop singer Gary Barlow to climb Mount Kilimanjaro earlier this year to raise money for Comic Relief. At least when America stole our Band Aid idea they had the decency to write a different song, you’re telling me there’s no other mountains in the world?
