Celebrity supporters
We have many celebrities who generously
support our campaigns and events, often because of a personal
connection to the cause.
Their support makes a huge difference to our life-saving
work. From taking part in our events or supporting our health
campaigns, to making generous donations to our shops, we're
incredibly grateful to the famous faces who give so much time and
energy.
Here's a bit more information about what they’ve been up to:
Matt Jarvis
Footballer Matt Jarvis has pledged his support
for our Life-saver appeal. Matt is
encouraging fans to text to donate to help in training more
people in emergency life support skills, including CPR.
Life-saver
appeal
Fabrice Muamba
Footballer Fabrice Muamba is backing our
Emergency Life Support skills (ELS)
campaign. He is showing his support and helping us to raise
awareness of the importance of learning the skills to save a life
after he suffered a cardiac arrest during a football match.
Fabrice is also asking fans to support our Life-saver appeal.
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Life-saver
appeal
Sue Nicholls
After her character suffered a heart attack in Coronation Street, actress Sue
Nicholls not only raised awareness of women and heart disease but
she also lent her support to our Emergency Life Saving skills
(ELS) campaign for all school children to be taught emergency
life-saving skills.
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Women and heart
disease
Dame Helen
Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren has shown her support
for our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal, by diving into the
Hope Tank and creating her own
zebrafish. Helen is also backing our Emergency Life Support skills (ELS) campaign
and has signed our petition to show her support and help us
raise awareness of the importance of learning the skills to save a
life.
Hope Tank
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Kym Marsh
Actress Kym Marsh is supporting our Emergency Life Support skills (ELS) campaign to
help us raise awareness of the importance of learning the skills to
save a life.
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Clare Nasir
Clare Nasir supported our
London Jog series this summer and took part in the
Canary Wharf Jog. Clare is also backing our Emergency Life Support skills (ELS)
campaign.
London Jogs series
Emergency Life
Saving skills (ELS)
Shakin'
Stevens
Singer Shakin' Stevens is extremely passionate
about the work that we do after suffering a heart attack
himself in 2010. Shaky is fully behind our Emergency Life Support skills (ELS)
campaign.
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Carley Stenson
Actress Carley Stenson is supporting our
Emergency Life Support skills
(ELS) campaign to help us raise awareness of the importance of
learning the skills to save a life.
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Louis Smith
GB Olympic gymnast Louis Smith is supporting
our Emergency Life Support skills (ELS)
campaign to help us raise awareness of the importance of learning
the skills to save a life.
Emergency Life
Support skills (ELS)
Sally Gunnell
British Olympic champion Sally Gunnell featured
in our February/March 2012 issue of Heart
Matters magazine and told us her thoughts on this year's London
Olympics.
Read Sally's interiew in
Heart Matters
Rachel
Stevens
Popstar and actress Rachel Stevens is
joining in with National Wear Red Day.
Rachel is encouraging everyone to join her and wear red to raise
funds as part of our Red for Heart
campaign.
Red for
Heart
National Wear Red
Day
Vinnie Jones
Hollywood hard man Vinnie Jones supported
our Hands-only CPR campaign and
featured in our TV advert to help show how simple Hands-only CPR can be, encouraging more people
to help if somebody is in cardiac arrest.
Watch the TV advert with Vinnie Jones and
learn more about Hands-only CPR
Angela
Hartnett
Michelin-starred chef Angela
Hartnett featured in our festive December
2011/January 2012 issue of Heart Matters
magazine.
Read Angela's interview in Heart Matters
Akai
Street dancer Akai is helping us to tackle the
threat of childhood obesity by supporting our Food4Thought campaign.
Food4Thought
Carol
Vorderman
TV presenter Carol has jumped in to our
Hope Tank to show her support for our
Mending Broken Hearts Appeal. We've had fantastic support including
Gabby Logan, Rachel Stevens
and Martine McCutcheon who have all
shown their support and dived into the Hope Tank by adding their
own zebrafish.
Hope Tank
Tina Hobley
Actress Tina Hobley is supporting our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal and has added a
zebrafish to our Hope Tank.
Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal
Hope Tank
Nadia Sawalha
Nadia supported our BIG Donation stock campaign in September.
This summer she also supported our
London Jog series and took part in the 33rd Tower of London
event. Being a mother herself, Nadia also supports our Emergency Life Support skills (ELS)
campaign.
BIG
Donation
Gemma
Atkinson
Actress Gemma Atkinson lost her Dad to
heart disease when she was 17. Her Dad was just 52 years old.
Gemma took part in our first ever all-nighter on
our Manchester to Blackpool night bike ride in September and
completed it in just over four hours!
Manchester to
Blackpool Night Ride
Esther Rantzen
Esther Rantzen supported our Furniture
& Electrical campaign this summer and donated a huge amount
of items to our F&E
stores.
Furniture &
Electrical stock appeal
Neil Fox
Like the BHF, Magic FM DJ Neil Fox
celebrated his 50th birthday in 2011! On 19th June, Neil led
Team 50:50 to complete the 54 mile
London to Brighton Bike Ride. Neil is
also supporting our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal and has added a
zebrafish to our Hope Tank.
London to Brighton
Bike Ride
Hope Tank
Roberto from Capital
FM
Roberto was born with a hole in his heart and
knows the importance of leading a heart healthy lifestyle - he's
lost over 9 stone. This year, Roberto's taking part in two of our
London Jogs.
London Jogs series
Clare Maguire
Singer Clare Maguire performed at our Tunnel of Love event in May, which helped
generate over £90,000 for our Mending
Broken Hearts Appeal.
Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal
Tunnel of
Love
Sunday Girl
Sunday Girl performed a DJ set at our Tunnel of Love event in May, which helped
generate over £90,000 for our Mending
Broken Hearts Appeal.
Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal
Tunnel of
Love
Cilla Black OBE
Cilla supported our Big Entertainment Appeal – encouraging people
to donate unwanted DVDs, CDs and books to our shops. Graham
Norton, Lorraine Kelly and Simon
Pegg also donated their favourite summer reads.
Big Entertainment
Appeal
Erin
O’Connor
Erin supported our Tunnel of Love event and modelled a
Steven Jones hat. The events other
celebrities included Rachel Stevens, Laura
Bailey, Zara Martin and Marie
Helvin.
Tunnel of
Love
Daisy Lowe
Model Daisy Lowe produced a collection of
photographs that encapsulated her interpretation of ‘Hope’ for our Mending
Broken Hearts Appeal.
Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal
Hope by Daisy
Lowe
Martine McCutcheon
Martine is encouraging people to sponsor Hope by giving a regular donation to
the BHF, to help support our Mending
Broken Hearts Appeal.
Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal
Roger Black
Roger is encouraging people to sponsor Hope by giving a regular donation to
the BHF, to help support our Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal. Roger also featured in our April/May
2012 issue of Heart Matters magazine.
Mending Broken
Hearts Appeal
Read Roger's interview in
Heart Matters
Gabby Logan
Gabby donated a pair of boots to help
raise vital funds during National
Heart Month. Gabby has a personal reason for supporting us, as
she lost her brother to an inherited heart condition when he was
15. Geri Halliwell also supported the appeal.
Radley bag
amnesty
Victoria Wood
Victoria hosted the Angina Monologues in December 2010 - a
night of stand-up, sketches and music to raise awareness of heart
disease in women. Other comedians who supported the event included
Jo Brand, Katy Brand, and
Isy Suttie.
Women and heart
disease