Mamma Mia! movie star and boy band Blue to support Samaritans this Sunday at Soccer Six
Date: Thursday 21st May 2009
Contact: Claire
Duncan
Phone: +44 (0)020 8394 8345
Email: Out of hours press phone: +44 (0)7943
809162
Stars show their support for the emotional support charity at
football match
Dominic Cooper, star of ‘Mamma Mia! The
Movie’, together with Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe and Anthony Costa from
newly-reformed boy band Blue will be demonstrating their football
skills and challenging fellow celebrities, comedians, and
ex-professional footballers in a tournament to win the 2009
Samaritans’ Soccer Six trophy. The event is taking place this
Sunday, 24th May, at Chelsea Football Club.
Samaritans is Soccer Six’s charity of the year
for the fifth year running and proceeds from ticket sales and
celebrity donations will be given to the emotional support charity
to ensure that Samaritans’ service remains available 24 hours a day
to support anyone in emotional distress.
Other celebrities announced today to take part
on Sunday include actress Jamie Winstone, actor Nick Moran, Steve
Norman from 80s band Spandau Ballet, and the cast of top-rated TV
show The Inbetweeners. They will face competition from teams made
up of band members from music groups including JLS, The Hoosiers,
The Enemy, Babyshambles, and NDUBZ. Other celebrities
swapping the red carpet for grassy turfs to support Samaritans will
be actor Danny Dyer, X Factor finalists Austin Drage and Diana
Vickers, models Charlotte Mears and Nicola McLean, former Liberty X
singer Michelle Heaton and stars from hit TV shows Skins,
Shameless, Waterloo Road and Hollyoaks. Comedians Omid Djalili,
Russell Howard, Milton Jones and Lee Mack will also be taking
part.
Samaritans’ Claire Duncan said: “It’s
fantastic that Dominic Cooper and Blue are amongst the 150
celebrities now confirmed to support Samaritans on Sunday at this
year’s Soccer Six. It promises to be the most tightly fought
competition yet. Soccer Six is a great event that helps us to raise
awareness of the 24:7 emotional support service we offer.”
For your chance to visit Chelsea FC at the
historic Stamford Bridge Football Stadium and see who will triumph
as 2009’s Samaritans’ Soccer Six champion log on to http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/
or call 0870 534 4444.
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Notes to editors
Ticket prices for Samaritans’ Soccer Six
tournament:
Adult: £12
Child under 12 years: £10
About Samaritans
It is the aim of Samaritans to make emotional
health a mainstream issue. Samaritans' vision is for a
society where fewer people die by suicide because people are able
to share feelings of emotional distress openly without fear of
being judged. Samaritans believes that offering people the
opportunity to be listened to in confidence, and accepted without
prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.
Samaritans is a registered charity, founded in
1953, which offers 24-hour confidential emotional support to anyone
in emotional distress. The service is offered by 16,534
trained volunteers and is entirely dependent on voluntary
support. Across the UK, you can call Samaritans on 08457 90
90 90 (1850 60 90 90 in the Republic of Ireland) email jo@samaritans.org, write to
Samaritans at Chris, PO Box 9090, Stirling, FK8 2SA, or if you are
deaf or hard of hearing use the single national minicom number
08457 90 91 92. Log on to www.samaritans.org for more information.
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