SCARLETT Moffatt broke down in tears last night ahead of attempting to sing live opera for Comic Relief.
Comic Relief viewers were blown away by Scarlett as she joined fellow celebrities to sing in a opera performance on live television.
She became overwhelmed, sobbing, "I haven't even sang yet and I'm crying already".
While the celebrities had just 24 hours of rehearsals, Scarlett ended up performing alongside celebs including Tamzin Outhwaite and Rosie Jones.
And they wowed fans watching the show at home. Viewers took to Twitter to share their admiration for the group, with one person saying: "They all did amazingly well singing opera And what an inspirational woman Rosie Jones is. I love her so much!"
Another said: "Well, those girls had some balls to sing opera! Helen George was particularly great."
One fan wrote: "That was incredible…24 hours to learn that!! They smashed it."
Read our Comic Relief blog below for the latest news…
- Milica Cosic
What's the difference between Red Nose Day and Comic Relief?
Comic Relief is the charity which was started by Richard Curtis.
Red Nose Day is the actual event that takes place.
People and celebrities are encouraged to take part in fundraising events on Red Nose Day to raise money for Comic Relief.
These include cake bakes, sporting challenges and wearing red clothes to school.
Or you can just purchase a Red Nose or other merchandise from the Comic Relief website.
- Milica Cosic
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- Joseph Gamp
Red Nose Day raises more than £42m
Comic Relief's Red Nose Day has raised more than £42 million after appearances from Tom Holland, Courteney Cox and Lulu.
It was announced after mighnightthat the show had so far raised £42,790,147.
It takes the charity's sum contributions since it was formed to more than £1.5 billion.
During Friday's programme, it was announced that the endurance challenges undertaken by Olympian Tom Daley and BBC Radio 1 presenter Jordan North in the lead up to the show had raised nearly £2 million of that total.
The event also featured sketches from Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
- Joseph Gamp
When was the first Red Nose Day?
The first Red Nose Day was on February 8, 1988.
The event and aimed to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia, and was successful in raising £15 million.
Sir Lenny Henry hosted the first Red Nose Day along with 150 other celebrities in 1988 and he returns to hosting duties in 2022.
- Joseph Gamp
What’s the difference between Red Nose Day and Comic Relief?
Comic Relief is a charity that was started by Richard Curtis.
Red Nose Day is the actual event that takes place.
People and celebrities are encouraged to take part in fundraising events on Red Nose Day to raise money for Comic Relief.
These include cake bakes, sporting challenges and wearing red clothes to school.
Or you can just purchase a Red Nose or other merchandise from the Comic Relief website.
- Joseph Gamp
Where does your money go?
Comic Relief spends the money that is raised through Red Nose Day and Sport Relief on disadvantaged people living in the UK and around the world.
Over the last 30 years over £1billion has been raised for the charity.
The Comic Relief charity is UK-based and aims to free the world from poverty.
It has also backed campaigns to help disabled people get back into work and to highlight abuse of the elderly.
- Joseph Gamp
French & Saunders on poking fun at The Repair Shop
Jennifer Saunders said of yesterday's sketch: “Well, the weird thing is, I watch The Repair Shop constantly.
“I watch it and always think it’s very rare that programmes nowadays become universal, because there’s so much streaming and people don’t always watch the same thing at the same time, but a bit like Bake Off did, The Repair Shop has become a universally watched show that people love and love it so passionately.
“And so I watch it, my whole family watches it, I know Dawn watches it, everyone I know knows about The Repair Shop. We’d literally in our heads already written it without even knowing we were going to do it.”
French added: “I think it’s a little bit of kismet, because we were talking about The Repair Shop and in the most politest and respectful of tones we would always say ‘begging for it’.
“Which means we belong in that somehow, we belong in a parody of that.”
- Joseph Gamp
Emotional perofrmance from Rose & Giovanni
Strictly Come Dancing champions Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice gave an emotional performance on the Red Nose Day show.
The EastEnders actress and the professional dancer performed to a rendition of How Long Will I Love You.
Ayling-Ellis made Strictly history last season after becoming the BBC One show's first deaf champion.
- Joseph Gamp
French and Saunders destroy Judi Dench's doll
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders smashed the head of a doll owned by Dame Judi Dench in a Repair Shop comedy sketch for Red Nose Day.
The duo reprised their roles as The Extras – two perpetually overacting film extras – from their BBC sketch show in a bid to get a free fix from host Jay Blades and his team of skilled craftspeople.
At the beginning of the scene, the pair can be seen struggling to hold back their laughter as they profess their love for the programme and ask Blades to sort a repair.
However, things begin to go wrong after they present their special item of a toaster, which the furniture restorer and TV presenter refuses to repair.
The comedy duo become visibly upset as French's character says: "That's fine, it's a family heirloom, who cares about it. We were going to cry but that's fine.
"I'm very disappointed. This is not what I thought it was going to be."
- Joseph Gamp
Matt Lucas and David Walliams impersonate stars for sketch
Matt Lucas and David Walliams dressed up dramatically as they impersonated global stars including Adele, Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga in a Red Nose Day sketch.
The Little Britain stars brought back their comedy sketch show Rock Profile for a one-off special during the charity broadcast.
In the sketch, presenter Vernon Kay interviewed some familiar faces, played by Lucas and Walliams.
The original show, which was written by and starred Lucas, 48, and Walliams, 50, first aired in 1999 on UK Play before moving to BBC Two in 2002.
The comedy consisted of a series of spoof interviews where presenter Jamie Theakston – playing himself – interviewed Lucas and Walliams as they played caricatures of well-known musicians.
For the Red Nose Day sketch, the "stars" were this time being interviewed by Kay as they came together to record a Comic Relief single, a version of Whitney Houston's The Greatest Love Of All.
- Joseph Gamp
Jordan North raises more than £826k for Comic Relief
Red Nose Day announced that Jordan North has raised £826,307 for Comic Relief.
The BBC Radio 1 presenter raised the funds through his 100-mile row, which he completed earlier this month.
- Joseph Gamp
Red Nose Day raises more than £42m
Comic Relief's Red Nose Day has raised more than £42 million after appearances from Tom Holland, Courteney Cox and Lulu.
It was announced after mighnightthat the show had so far raised £42,790,147.
It takes the charity's sum contributions since it was formed to more than £1.5 billion.
During Friday's programme, it was announced that the endurance challenges undertaken by Olympian Tom Daley and BBC Radio 1 presenter Jordan North in the lead up to the show had raised nearly £2 million of that total.
The event also featured sketches from Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
- Joseph Gamp
French and Saunders 'very disappointed' with Jay Blades
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders told The Repair Shop host Jay Blades they were "very disappointed" after he refused to repair their toaster in a comedy sketch for Red Nose Day.
The duo reprised their roles as The Extras – two perpetually overacting film extras – from their BBC sketch show in a bid to get a free fix from Blades and his team of skilled craftspeople.
At the beginning of the scene, the pair can be seen struggling to hold back their laughter as they profess their love for the programme and ask Blades to sort a repair.
However, it all goes wrong after they present a toaster as their item to repair and Blades swiftly turns them down.
Dame Judi Dench also starred in the skit.
- Joseph Gamp
Red Nose Day raises more than £19m in first total of the night
Red Nose Day announced its first total of the night as £19,466,967.
The broadcast has so far seen many sketches, including one by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
- Joseph Gamp
Tom Daley raised over £1million for Comic Relief
Tom Daley's Hell Of A Homecoming challenge has raised £1,027,111.
The Olympic gold medal-winning diver completed 290 miles of rowing, swimming, cycling and running last month in a gruelling four-day mission from London to his home town of Plymouth in Devon.
Speaking during tonight's live event, Daley admitted: "I literally could not walk for about two weeks, to the point where my husband had to carry me out of bed in the night to go for a wee. I literally could not move my legs."
- Joseph Gamp
Rose and Giovanni return with Strictly dance
Strictly 2021 champions Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice have just performed one of the stunning dances that won them the Glitterball trophy.
They performed a waltz to How Long Will I Love You
It was of course, a flawless and beautiful dance from the couple.
- Joseph Gamp
A bit jealous of Jay Blades, Paddy?
Paddy Round off the segment, saying "I've never got the obsession with Jay Blades.
"He just a tall, dark handsome man, with a big heart, who's good with his hands," jokes Paddy.
"Honestly I get it, I do get it."
- Joseph Gamp
French and Saunders are going in on The Repair Shop
Jay Blades looks rather perplexed at the two barmy ladies that have just walked in – played by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
The special installment of The Repair Shop, which will also feature Dame Judi Dench, will see the duo playing a pair of fame-hungry women trying to get a free fix in the shop of the popular BBC show.
Repair Show host Jay Blades attempted to deal with them – but sadly their antics wore thin and he kicked them out of the shop.
- Joseph Gamp
Back to the opera!
The Comic Opera will take place live tonight – and celebrities are gonna go through their paces.
The stars had no idea they'd been selected, with Nina Wadia telling of her "terror".
Scarlett Moffat, for once, looked lost for words!
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How can you resist a request from Tom Daley?
The Olympic medalist and swimming sensation has made an impassioned plea to donate to Comic Relief.
Donations go to hundreds of different causes across the UK.
- Joseph Gamp
Jack Whitehall's hilarious impression of Danny Dyer
A rather preppy-looking Jack Whitehall is playing crazy golf with footballers.
The comedian is going head to head with West Ham's Declan Rice and Mason Mount.
And Jack Whitehall's Danny Dyer-inspired, West Ham fan impression is genuinely hilarious.
Especially with that barnet.
- Joseph Gamp
Tim Vine is King of the sheep herders
Tim Vine narrowly beat fellow comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean at a sheepherding competition as part of the Red Nose Day show.
The pair went head-to-head in a special version of Countryfile's One Man And His Dog competition during the charity broadcast.
After showing off their newfound sheepherding skills, it was announced that Vine had scored 67 while Pritchard-McLean received 65 points.
- Joseph Gamp
Oops…Live broadcast blunder
The Red Nose Day broadcast experienced a technical fault which meant the show had to skip past its segment with a magician.
The audio from the previous segment with actors Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law replayed as the Mind Mangler from the Magic Goes Wrong theatre play took to the stage.
Presenters Alesha Dixon and Paddy McGuinness attempted to reintroduce the act before announcing it was a technical fault.
McGuinness joked "it's not very magic" before swiftly moving along by adding that "it doesn't matter".
- Joseph Gamp
Paddy says 'if it goes wrong don't blame us'
Paddy and Alesha are introducing the Mind Mangler.
They said of live TV: "What could possibly go wrong?"
- Joseph Gamp
Rachel Riley says donating 'as easy as one, two, three'
Rachel RIley says you don't have to be a genius mathematician to donate to Comic Relief.
Just in case you DIDN'T know, you can text or go online to donate.
Don't forget to select Gift Aid
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