Sophie Ellis-Bextor broke down in tears as she accomplished her 24-hour danceathon on Wednesday morning for BBC Kids in Want.
The Homicide On The Dancefloor hitmaker, 42, raised an unimaginable £1million for charity along with her efforts which noticed her shifting continuous for a complete day and evening.
‘I am such a large number,’ she instructed viewers watching the tip of the live-stream on BBC iPlayer. ‘I can not cease weeping.’

Emotional: Sophie Ellis-Bextor broke down in tears as she accomplished her 24-hour Danceathon on Wednesday morning for BBC Kids in Want
Through the problem – which began at 9.30am on Tuesday morning – Sophie was joined by Tony Blackburn as they sang karaoke collectively in addition to a bunch of different friends together with Natalie Imbruglia, Tamsin Outhwaite and Michael Ball.
Gemma Collins, Rylan Clark, Bonnie Langford, Beverley Knight, JLS, Tony Blackburn, Gary Davies, Edith Bowman, Melvin Odoom, Sara Cox and Daybreak O’Porter additionally joined her for stints on the dancefloor.
TOWIE star Gemma, 40, carried out a hilarious duet with Sophie to Roy Orbison’s Fairly Girl, gushing to the popstar: ‘Soph, I LOVE Homicide On The Dancefloor – it’s my go to music on a Friday and Saturday evening!’
After taking her closing step to the Abba basic Dancing Queen Sophie sank to her knees.

Wonderful: The Homicide On The Dancefloor hitmaker, 42, raised an unimaginable £1million for charity along with her efforts which noticed her shifting continuous for a complete day and evening

Powerful: ‘I am such a large number,’ she instructed viewers watching the tip of the live-stream on BBC iPlayer. ‘I can not cease weeping’

Well-known faces: TOWIE star Gemma Collins, 40, carried out a hilarious duet with Sophie to Roy Orbison’s Fairly Girl in the course of the danceathon

Laughing: Gemma gushed to the popstar: ‘Soph, I LOVE Homicide On The Dancefloor – it’s my go to music on a Friday and Saturday evening!’
‘It is truly been actually enjoyable,’ she mentioned. ‘It has been an honour – however am I allowed to not dance or speak to folks any extra?’
BBC Radio 2 breakfast host Zoe Ball then revealed that at that time she had raised £803,384 for kids’s charities throughout the UK.
Sophie then wept: ‘That’s phenomenal. Thanks a lot. This has been extraordinary. I at all times thought this may be an incredible privilege to have completed.’

Good concept: The problem was impressed by the singer’s Kitchen Disco periods – a sequence of live-streamed live shows from her home in the course of the 2020 lockdown

Commanding consideration: Through the problem – which began at 9.30am on Tuesday morning – Sophie donned varied glamorous stage outfits
Her group wrote on Instagram after the problem was accomplished: ‘Sophie’s completed it!
‘After 24 hours of dancing, that is an unimaginable whole to complete on – and with all the household too, in true Kitchen Disco fashion.
‘Effectively completed Sophie and thanks a lot for all of your assist throughout a marathon.

Joyful! Her group wrote on Instagram after the problem was accomplished: ‘Sophie’s completed it! ‘After 24 hours of dancing, that is an unimaginable whole to complete on!’
‘It is all for a improbable trigger and supporting @bbccin does not finish simply because the dancing has.
‘You possibly can nonetheless donate on the hyperlink in bio. And please maintain your messages coming in for Sophie, we all know they imply the world! Sophie HQ x.’
Her household together with husband Richard, sons Sonny, Package, Ray, Jesse and Mickey, and mum Janet Ellis, dropped in for the ultimate half hour to assist her.

No ache no acquire: Sophie sat along with her ft in an ice field throughout her quick 5 minute breaks in the course of the problem

Ouch! The problem was powerful, with the star taking good care of her ft mid-way by means of
Richard spent the entire evening along with her and mentioned afterwards: ‘I really feel fully deranged. Sophie’s been fully unbelievable’, including that he had tried to help with cups of tea, in addition to some dancing in solidarity.
Richard, additionally 42, quipped: ‘We vogued at round 4am with me carrying a horse’s head, which I feel helped.’
Sophie instructed BBC Breakfast: ‘For the previous few hours, I’ve had in my head all of the faces of all of the folks I’ve met in any respect the tasks I visited.

Grateful: Helen Thomas, Head of Radio 2 mentioned: ‘All of us at Radio 2 want to say the hugest thanks to Sophie Ellis-Bextor for agreeing to undertake the Kitchen Disco Danceathon’

Celebs: Simon Pegg (pictured on the display screen behind) joined the danceathon through Zoom at one level

Overwhelmed: Sophie instructed BBC Breakfast: ‘For the previous few hours, I’ve had in my head all of the faces of all of the folks I’ve met in any respect the tasks I visited’
‘And once I was going across the tasks, I did not actually know what an influence it might make on me.
‘I simply suppose, I can’t complain as a result of the cash that’s being raised goes to individuals who actually need it, and I am simply dancing.’
The problem was impressed by Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco periods – a sequence of live-streamed live shows from her home in the course of the 2020 lockdown.

Hits: As Sophie neared the tip she sang her songs Take Me Dwelling and Homicide on the Dancefloor

Work it! Sophie mentioned: ‘It has been an honour and truly actually enjoyable, aside from the bits that weren’t enjoyable’
Different celebrities have been getting concerned with Kids In Want too, with singer Ronan Keating becoming a member of the Shock Squad in Derry, Northern Eire, for the group’s fourth problem to fundraise for BBC Kids in Want’s 2021 Attraction.
The One Present’s new Shock Squad have been with Ronan at their fourth problem, finishing surprises and challenges for BBC Kids in Want funded tasks throughout the UK.
The problem will see the group rework a music room at Foyle Down Syndrome Belief, turning it right into a artistic and welcoming house for the youngsters and younger those that the challenge helps.

Assist: Different celebrities have been getting concerned with Kids In Want too, with singer Ronan Keating becoming a member of the Shock Squad in Derry, Northern Eire, for the groups fourth problem to fundraise for BBC Kids in Want’s 2021 Attraction
Foyle Down Syndrome Belief receives a three-year grant of £94,594 from BBC Kids in Must ship music remedy and group periods for kids and younger folks with Down Syndrome.
The periods assist to enhance their confidence and shallowness, assist to develop their abilities and socialise in a protected and supportive surroundings.
On being a part of the challenge with the Shock Squad, presenter Ronan Keating mentioned: ‘It has been an absolute pleasure to be part of this improbable challenge and see what the Shock Squad have created for Foyle Down Syndrome Belief.
‘The Music Room is gorgeous and I do know it is going to be a spot that might be treasured and utilized by the youngsters and everybody right here for years to return. Tune into The One Present tomorrow night to see what we have been as much as!’
Josie Nugent, Music Therapist at Foyle Down Syndrome Belief mentioned: ‘We have been over the moon once we have been stunned by the Shock Squad and so they instructed us that they’d one thing thrilling in retailer for us.
‘I’d by no means have dreamt of one thing like this for us, so we’re blown away to have a brand new music room, which can open new pathways of communication, social interplay, and inventive enjoyable for all of the younger those that we assist!’

Wonderful work: The One Present’s new Shock Squad have been with Ronan at their fourth problem, finishing surprises and challenges for BBC Kids in Want funded tasks throughout the UK