Op 15-jarige leeftijd kreeg Stephen Sutton te horen dat hij kanker had. De tumor kon toentertijd verwijderd worden, maar keerde een jaar later weer terug. Stephen heeft een bucketlist gemaakt die hij wil afronden voordat hij sterft aan de gevolgen van de nare ziekte. Een prachtige lijst met bovenaan: £1 miljoen ophalen voor het goede doel. Celebrities van over de hele wereld helpen hem naar dit doel toe. Gister plaatste Stephen het volgende bericht op zijn Facebook:

1. Raise £1 million for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
2. Sky dive for charity.
3. Make a Bungee Jump for charity.
4. Organise a charity party.
5. Have a charity waxing and head shave. (Still to do)
6. Write a book.
7. Publish a ‘tumour humour’ book containing jokes, funny stories and anecdotes relating to cancer, so that people can look at the brighter side of life. (Still to do)
8. Organise a charity football match.
9. Do a charity hitch-hike visiting every Teenage Cancer Trust unit across the country. (Still to do)
10. Write, record and release a charity single with my old band. (Still to do)
11. Organise a charity gig.
12. Go busking, with money raised going to charity.
13. Persuade local schools to have a ‘get wiggy with it’ non-uniform day.
14. Stage charity quizzes in local pubs.
15. Organise a charity ball, including raffle etc.
16. Host a charity ‘Come Dine With Me’ dinner party for friends, where they pay as much or as little as they want.
17. Organise, and be part of, a flash mob.
18. Organise a gigantic game of musical chairs or pass the parcel.
19. Go to carnival in Brazil. (Still to do)
20. Go to Wembley to see a football match.
21. Go to Twickenham to see a rugby match.
22. Fly somewhere first class.
23. Get a tattoo.
24. Play drums in front of a huge crowd.
25. Do some public speaking in front of a huge crowd.
26. Visit a famous waterfall. (Still to do)
27. Throw a massive party for all my friends.
28. Go on a ‘lads’ holiday’.
29. Go to Australia. (Still to do)
30. Hug an animal that is bigger than me.
31. Ride a Segway.
32. Go to a Skrillex concert. (Still to do)
33. Go see a darts competition.
34. Get my name in the Guinness World Book of Records. (Still to do)
35. Go to CERN, home of the hadron collider, in Switzerland.
36. Meet comedian Jimmy Carr.
37. Go to another music festival, preferably Tomorrowland.
38. Find someone with more surgical scars than me.
39. Appear as an extra in a film or music video.
40. Get music comedian Tim Minchin to write a song for me. (Still to do)
41. Learn to juggle.
42. Inspire someone to be a doctor or fundraiser.
43. Have my portrait painted.
44. Crowd-surf in a rubber dinghy at a gig.
45. Try breathing in Xenon or sulphur dioxide and talking (it has the opposite effect of helium). (Still to do)
46. Visit Machu Picchu. (Still to do)

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