Stand Up To Cancer 2021 Press Pack

15 October 2021

Tonight, live from London, Davina McCall, Alan Carr, Adam Hills and Maya Jama host a glittering night of live TV as famous faces from the world of sport, film, music and comedy come together to Stand Up To Cancer.

Joe Lycett will be putting his Maths GCSE to good use, totting up the totaliser throughout the night and explaining how the money raised will be spent on life-saving cancer research.

Leading a rallying cry in the fight against cancer will be Harry Styles, Usain Bolt, Olivia Colman, Liam Payne, Tom Jones, James Blunt, The Jonas Brothers, Rosie Jones, The Derry Girls, Liam Gallagher, Stephen Mangan, Sigrid, David Oyelowo, Martin Freeman, Peter Crouch, Jamie Oliver, Tom Parker, Roman Kemp and Dermot Kennedy, who will all be making appearances on the show across the evening.

The ever-popular and multi-award winning Gogglebox returns for a special celebrity episode as some very famous faces join Britain’s favourite opinionated viewers to pass judgement on a vast array of TV goodness.

Tributes will also be paid to those we have lost recently, and those still fighting. 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetime. All of us can support the research that will beat it.

Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 that brings the UK together to speed up progress in life-saving cancer research.

More than £84 million has been raised in the UK to date, funding 59 clinical trials and projects involving over 19,000 cancer patients across the country.

Research projects funded by Stand Up To Cancer include the development of new treatments that use viruses to fight cancer, clinical trials testing potentially more effective ways to deliver radiotherapy, improved surgical techniques for bowel cancer and much more.

You can donate at channel4.com/su2c. 100% of your donation goes to Cancer Research UK in support of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign.

To find out more about fundraising activities visit channel4.co.uk/SU2C or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram 

 

Tonight’s line up

19:30
STAND UP TO CANCER 2021
Live from London, Davina McCall, Maya Jama, Adam Hills and Alan Carr host a spectacular, star-studded night of fundraising for Stand Up To Cancer. Joining them are an array of famous faces, all coming together to raise funds for vital cancer research. Joe Lycett will cajole the audience all night via his high-tech hub, with help from his nationwide band of celebrity reporters. Celebrity Gogglebox returns with a raft of surprising A-list names inviting us into their front rooms. Harry Styles will share some of his most intimate moments with SU2C. And there are sketches, appearances and performances from a host of names including the Derry Girls, Olivia Colman, Usain Bolt, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Liam Payne, Rosie Jones, Mo Gilligan, James Blunt, Kate Beckinsale, Steve Coogan, Jeremy Clarkson, Desiree Burch, Natalie Imbruglia, the Jonas Brothers, Becky Hill, Big Zuu, Stephen Mangan, David Oyelowo, The Wanted, Martin Freeman, Jamie Oliver and many more. There are also live performances from Tom Jones, Sigrid, Dermot Kennedy and Joy Crookes. Plus, friends and family members including Martin and Roman Kemp and Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy will take each other on in fiendishly silly challenges, and famous faces will throw themselves into ridiculous stunts, all to illustrate the incredible science behind SU2C's goal of ending cancer.

20:00
ED SHEERAN FOR SU2C AND CELEBRITY GOGGLEBOX
Ed Sheeran gives us a special comedy twist on his hit song Bad Habits. Plus: tonight's first instalment of a special edition of Celebrity Gogglebox. Superstars including Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, Michael Sheen, Anna Lundberg, Matt Lucas and his mum Diana, Aisling Bea and Rob Delaney catch up on TV shows including The Great British Bake Off, Countdown, Squid Game, Made in Chelsea, The Mating Game, Sex Actually with Alice Levine, Liam's Story: Stand Up To Cancer, and Cassie's Story: Stand Up To Cancer.

20:30
HARRY STYLES FOR SU2C
Harry Styles gives us a sneak peek into his everyday life, as he gets stuck into some household chores in unique superstar style. Joe Lycett galvanises the nation with his band of celebrity reporters. And there's live music from Sigrid.

21:00
CELEBRITY GOGGLEBOX FOR SU2C
Tonight's second instalment of Celebrity Gogglebox. Superstars including Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, Michael Sheen, Anna Lundberg, Matt Lucas and his mum Diana, Aisling Bea and Rob Delaney catch up on TV shows including The Great British Bake Off, Countdown, Squid Game, Made in Chelsea, The Mating Game, Sex Actually with Alice Levine, Liam's Story: Stand Up To Cancer, and Cassie's Story: Stand Up To Cancer.

21:30
TOM JONES AND TOM PARKER FOR SU2C
Tom Jones delivers a powerful musical tribute. And Tom Parker and The Wanted join us to talk about Tom's inspiring journey while going through treatment for a brain tumour.

22:00
DERRY GIRLS FOR SU2C AND SEAN LOCK TRIBUTE
We travel back to the 1990s for a special sketch from the Derry Girls. There's a very special tribute to the brilliant and much-loved comedian Sean Lock. And James Blunt gives his song You're Beautiful an eyebrow-raising reboot.

22:30
MORE CELEBRITY GOGGLEBOX FOR SU2C
More from tonight's very special edition of Celebrity Gogglebox. Superstars including Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, Michael Sheen, Anna Lundberg, Matt Lucas and his mum Diana, Aisling Bea and Rob Delaney catch up on TV shows including The Great British Bake Off, Countdown, Squid Game, Made in Chelsea, The Mating Game, Sex Actually with Alice Levine, Liam's Story:

23:00
ROSIE JONES, PARALYMPIC STARS AND STEPHEN MANGAN FOR SU2C
Rosie Jones leads out some of our Paralympic heroes before they exact revenge on Adam Hills. Stephen Mangan shares the findings from his light-hearted look at life-saving cutting-edge science. And there's more live music.

23:30
HARRY STYLES, JOE LYCETT AND #ISITOK FOR SU2C
Joe Lycett delivers your feedback to some famous faces in the studio and gives us the latest totaliser. There's more from Harry Styles behind the scenes. Tom Allen and Desiree Burch are among the best-loved comedians trying to answer your outrageous questions in a special edition of #IsItOK. And Usain Bolt takes on infuriatingly trivial challenges.

00:30
STAND UP TO CANCER: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Maya Jama, Alan Carr, Davina McCall and Adam Hills get late-night and loud with a raft of famous faces and comedians, as they gear up to hear Joe Lycett's final fundraising total of the evening. And Adam finds out if we've raised enough in donations to put him through a spectacular stunt that's sure to make his eyes water...

01:00
BIG ZUU'S LATE NIGHT HEAT FOR SU2C
The entertainment and fundraising continue as Big Zuu delivers an hour of hilarious sketches, with famous friends coming together to fight cancer. Plus, all the best bits from an incredible night of fundraising.

Notes to Editors:

About Stand Up To Cancer (UK)  

• Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 that brings the UK together to speed up progress in life-saving cancer research
• Supported by the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) in the US and launched in the UK in 2012, Stand Up To Cancer funds translational research, turning academic breakthroughs in the labs into new treatments that make a real difference for people with cancer 
• More than £84 million has been raised in the UK to date, funding 59 clinical trials and projects involving over 19,000 cancer patients across the country 
• Research projects funded by Stand Up To Cancer include the development of new treatments that use viruses to fight cancer, clinical trials testing potentially more effective ways to deliver radiotherapy, improved surgical techniques for bowel cancer and much more 
• Stars such as Naomi Campbell, Noel Gallagher, Tom Hardy, Gillian Anderson, Idris Elba, Andy Murray, James Corden, Martin Freeman, Jamie Oliver, Richard Ayoade, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Crouch, Abbey Clancy, Danny Dyer, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Lily James, Rosamund Pike, Sophie Turner, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, Maya Jama, Joe Lycett and Roman Kemp are just some of the talent who have supported Stand Up To Cancer   

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