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Children in Need 2018

UK charity campaign and telethon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Children in Need 2018 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for the charity Children in Need. It was the 39th Children in Need appeal show which was broadcast live on BBC One on the evening of Friday 16 November until the early hours of Saturday 17 November.[1]

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The culmination of Children in Need 2018 was broadcast on BBC One on 16 November from the BBC Elstree Centre.

Presenters

The presenters were:[2][3]

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The BBC Regions all hosted events which provided a more local idea of where the money was being spent with updates throughout the first part of the telethon finishing around 22:00

These events were held at:

As well as the Main Studio, The events at Southampton, St Ives, Belfast, Chester, Lincoln, Glasgow, Cardiff and Wolverhampton all hosted a choir of around 150 children to be in the Children in Need Choir

Totals

The following are totals with the times they were announced on the televised show.[17]

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Removal of promotional video

Following the 2024 Southport stabbings, it was discovered that the accused perpetrator Axel Muganwa Rudakubana had starred at the age of 11 in a promotional trailer for Children in Need 2018 where he was dressed as the Tenth Doctor.[18][19] Following the attack and subsequent revealing of Rudakubana's identity, the BBC removed the advert featuring him from its platforms.[18][20] Ology Kids Casting, who cast him for the advert, also deleted all references to him from their social media.[18]

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