'Make Your Hair Funny for Money': Broadchurch stars back our campaign by giving Red nose refuseniks a wigging
The stars of Broadchurch today backed the Standard’s “Make Your Hair Funny for Money” Comic Relief campaign — with Jodie Whittaker saying she’ll personally confront any “boring” Londoners not embracing the theme this Red Nose Day.
The actress, 33, said there was “no excuse” not to sport an unusual or wacky hairdo on March 13.
Whittaker, who plays Beth in the ITV show, added: “I’d say to Londoners — don’t be that boring guy on the Tube in a suit while everyone else is looking fantastic and getting involved on Red Nose Day. You’ll feel left out.
“In fact, I’ll point people out who don’t do anything and shout at them. There really is no excuse not to help out and embrace it.”
The Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund has joined forces with Comic Relief to raise money for Londoners in poverty.
It marks the fourth time the Dispossessed Fund has been a chosen beneficiary of Comic Relief and its partner charity Sport Relief, resulting in cash injections of £3 million to our fund.
The money has funded 203 grassroots projects tackling social exclusion across the capital.
Arthur Darvill, 32, who plays Reverend Paul Coates, said Londoners only need to “look around them” to see vulnerable people in need of help.
Darvill added: “There is so much poverty in London. I don’t understand why it still exists in this city.
“London is a hard city to live in full stop. And if you have no money it must be the hardest place to live on earth.”
On Red Nose Day, Whittaker said she would try to recreate the mohican created by principal stylist Mathew Soobroy and his team at Charles Worthington in Fitzrovia.
Darvill, who wears a long wig for his current role as Long John Silver in Treasure Island at the National Theatre, said he was keen to look “like a cross between a roadie and Rapunzel”.
The former Doctor Who star added: “Maybe for Red Nose Day I’ll put it in a French plait.”
