Two brothers were inspired by him to do their daringest stunt.
And now comedian Jack Whitehall has donated £1,000 to help the teenagers raise money for presents at a children’s hospice.
Daniel MacDiarmid, 13, and his brother Calvin, 18, spent 24 hours on a platform suspended on a 115ft cliff in Pembrokeshire – including a night being battered by 50mph winds – after seeing Whitehall perform the same stunt.
Comedian Jack Whitehall donated £1,000 to help two teenagers raise money for presents at a children’s hospice
Daniel MacDiarmid (13 years old) and Calvin MacDiarmid (18 years old), spent 24 hours suspended from a 115ft high cliff in Pembrokeshire.
Whitehall phoned Daniel, a pupil at Lewes Old Grammar School in East Sussex, after tracking him down through the school’s headmaster.
Whitehall told him: ‘Well done. Whitehall said to him: ‘Well done. You are more brave than I am!
“Even though I had to do it together with my mother, she snores.
‘Very inspiring that you are doing this and thinking of others at this time of year.’
Donating £1,000, Whitehall wrote: ‘Well done. I am braver than you! Even though I had to do it together with my mother, who snores, Very inspiring that you are doing this and thinking of others at this time of year’
The brothers have raised £5,000 to buy Christmas presents for children at the Chestnut Tree House hospice near Arundel, West Sussex
Daniel said: ‘The challenge was pretty scary.
‘It was dark and noisy and although we were wrapped up warm, we were being buffeted by 50mph gusts of winds.’
The brothers have raised £5,000 to buy Christmas presents for children at the Chestnut Tree House hospice near Arundel, West Sussex.