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Seven stars align for Good Friday Appeal

Stars from Sunrise, Morning Show, Rafters, Winners & Losers, Home & Away, X Factor, AGT, AFL gather for charity.

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Seven Melbourne has prepared a big roll-call of stars for the annual Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal next week.

More than $226 million has been raised for the Royal Children’s Hospital and Seven has broadcast this for 55 consecutive years.

Throughout the day and night a bevy of Seven stars will join the telecast including Good Friday Appeal ambassador Jennifer Keyte, Peter Mitchell, Rebecca Maddern, David Koch, Natalie Barr, Mark Beretta, Larry Emdur, Grant Denyer, Manu Fidel and Kerri-Anne Kennerley – just to name a few.

Also joining the telecast panel and taking calls in the phone room will be Home and Away stars Lisa Gormley, Demi Harman, Lincoln Younes, David Jones Roberts and Lynne McGranger; Packed to the Rafters favourites George Houvardas, Hugh Sheridan and Ryan Corr; and the cast of Winners and Losers, including Melissa Bergland, Virginia Gay, Melanie Vallejo, Damien Bodie, Tom Wren, Stephen Phillips, Sarah Grace and Paul Moore.

The telecast begins at 9am with Sandy Roberts in the hosting seat. During the morning Sandy will cross to Jonathan Creek from Today Tonight and Amy Parks from 7 News who will be on the road covering a large number of fundraising events throughout Victoria.

Kim Sporton will be reporting from inside the hospital, will deliver an insight in to the positive impact the appealhas and 7 News Health reporter Karen O’sullivan will be providing an update on patients throughout the day.

The telecast will pause at 6.00pm for Seven News, Today Tonight and Home and Away. Then at 7.30pm, The Morning Show co-host Larry Emdur will introduce the action-packed night of entertainment.

The evening telecast will feature live performances from Daryl Braithwaite, Jack Vidgen, Jessica Mauboy, Reece Mastin, Johnny Ruffo, Liam Burrows with the Good Friday Appeal showband, Andrew Wishart and a special performance by Cosentino.

Hamish McLachlan will lead an AFL football panel that includes Mick Malthouse, Matthew Richardson, Cameron Ling, Luke Darcy and Brian Taylor.

Dancing with the Stars judge Helen Richey and Better Homes and Gardens’ Karen Martini and Rob Palmer will also be in attendance. And special messages of support from international stars will also be received during the night.

Over 600 volunteers manage the phone lines in the tally room and hundreds of other volunteers are involved in a variety of ways throughout the day.

So switch on, donate and join in on the magic that is the Good Friday Appeal.

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  1. Such a shame the rest of the country won’t see this. I was in Melbourne last year and it was fantastic. The stuff they do for the children’s hospital is great. Come on Seven bring us this on 7two nationally. It’s a public holiday in the non ratings period. Surely you could at least try.

  3. And why not here also….we have childrens hospitals….2 of them…Westmead and Randwick…I am sure they could use some fund raising…..

  5. Thanks for asking David. That’s disappointing. Perhaps they’ll put together a highlights package for 7two like they did with the Perth Telethon last year.

  7. I’d also love to be able to watch from Sydney on 7Two, at the very least the hospital would get a few more interstate donations if they did surely?

  9. Completely agree with Rutzie. It would be great to see on 7TWO, and would provide a national audience (and potential support) to this worthwhile cause.

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