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A host of showbusiness names including Cheryl Cole, bandmate Kimberley Walsh and Take That's Gary Barlow have set off in a bid to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
It's all to raise cash for this year's Red Nose Day campaign and more than £460,000 has been donated already.
The stars flew out from Heathrow on a Kenya Airways plane with its nose painted red for the occasion.
Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating nearly missed the outbound flight from Heathrow after his connection from Dublin was delayed by an hour-and-a-half.
The star had to be driven across the Heathrow Tarmac in order to catch the waiting flight.
A Comic Relief spokeswoman explained: "Ronan nearly didn't make it, it was touch and go.
"His flight from Dublin was delayed and once he did arrive at Heathrow he had to be driven over to the plane, luckily he was just in time."
Barlow said: "We've been planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for so long, it's only now that we're boarding the plane that it's really dawned on me just how tough this could be!"
Mount Kilimanjaro stands at 19,340ft above sea level, is the tallest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
source: Stars set off for Kilimanjaro climb - Yahoo! News UK
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It's all to raise cash for this year's Red Nose Day campaign and more than £460,000 has been donated already.
The stars flew out from Heathrow on a Kenya Airways plane with its nose painted red for the occasion.
Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating nearly missed the outbound flight from Heathrow after his connection from Dublin was delayed by an hour-and-a-half.
The star had to be driven across the Heathrow Tarmac in order to catch the waiting flight.
A Comic Relief spokeswoman explained: "Ronan nearly didn't make it, it was touch and go.
"His flight from Dublin was delayed and once he did arrive at Heathrow he had to be driven over to the plane, luckily he was just in time."
Barlow said: "We've been planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for so long, it's only now that we're boarding the plane that it's really dawned on me just how tough this could be!"
Mount Kilimanjaro stands at 19,340ft above sea level, is the tallest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
source: Stars set off for Kilimanjaro climb - Yahoo! News UK
Bongo media mpoo....au mnangojea kenyan media to capitalize on this as well...