I went to the World Vision celeb photoshoot today, the pictures will be used to promote the World Vision 24 Hour Famine campaign - Eleanor Tomlinson, Fearne Cotton, Liz McClarnon and Georgia Groome all came along.
The World Vision 24 hour Famine campaign encourages young people across the country to be sponsored to go without something that is important to them for a day and all the celebrities had chosen to give up a specific thing which was important to them for 24 hours, Eleanor chose riding because it was one of her favorite hobbies as well as giving up food for 24 Hours, Georgia chose to give up the comfort of living in her own home and sleeping in her own bed and therefore chose to give up her house keys and sleep outside with several of her friends. Liz chose to give up fast food as that is a major weakness of hers, and Fearne sacrificed radio and music.
The photographer, Ray Burmiston, arranged the photo shoot really well by having a clear Perspex box at the centre of each photo, which had an item inside that represented the object each celebrity was giving up for 24 hours. Liz posed with fast food in the box, Fearne a radio, Georgia her house keys and Eleanor her riding hat.
When talking to them all individually it was good to see how passionate they all were about World Vision and the work being done in many countries. Both Fearne and Liz have been on previous World Vision trips and acted as ambassadors – Liz in Zambia, and Fearne for last years campaign in Chennai, India, so they had a really good understanding of the whole campaign. Eleanor is going out to visit the same projects as I did in Jaipur with her dad in a weeks time. When I talked to her, she said she was very nervous, but glad she was able to go with her dad as support for the upsetting things she would no doubt see. I was able to answer lots of questions about the projects that they will visit.
The day has been really fun, and all the celebrities were really nice - and incredibly normal! All four of them amazed me with their passion about what they were doing and their willingness to help to make others aware. They genuinely wanted to help which was so refreshing to witness. Oh - and i got my photo taken with them!
The video from the shoot is on you tube! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXhLr4MKwo
