Gemma's room designs get teenagers approval
Gemma Atkinson has visited teenagers at Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit at University College Hospital in London to show the young patients her room designs ahead of them being displayed at Chester’s Home & Garden Show at the end of the month.
Actress and model Gemma, who starred in Hollyoaks and more recently appeared on I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here, is designing a stylish room suitable for a teenager in conjunction with the charity Teenage Cancer Trust and Arighi Bianchi, North West’s finest furniture store. Gemma visited Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit at University College Hospital in London, where the teenagers gave their feedback on Gemma’s initial designs. Gemma had put together mood boards to show the teenagers her ideas for colourings and textures for the unit, which included magnetic wallpaper.
The Home & Garden Show, which is being held at Chester Racecourse, will launch Gemma’s first ever room designs. Her ideas will be unveiled at the Show, which opens on Friday May 30 and runs to Sunday June 1, with Gemma’s designs on display throughout the event. Gemma’s room will form the basis for a suite for teenage cancer patients which Macclesfield’s Arighi Bianchi will go on to create full-scale for Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit at The Christie Hospital in Manchester.
Gemma said: “I am pleased to be supporting such a worthwhile charity as Teenage Cancer Trust and having been to the Arighi Bianchi store for inspiration, I’m excited about the prospect of seeing my ideas transformed into my own room set. I have taken on board suggestions made by the teenagers I met in London, who were encouraging about my ideas and hope that when my design is put into place it can bring pleasure to the teenagers who will experience it. I am delighted that teenagers from Christie’s will be able to visit the Home & Garden Show to see my designs. The standard of designs at the Show is really high. I am looking forward to returning to Chester and would like to see as many people as possible coming to the Home & Garden Show to see my finished room set and support Teenage Cancer Trust at the same time.”
Other celebrities at the Home & Garden Show include flamboyant interior designer Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, who will be offering tips on the main stage on June 1 and TV gardener Diarmuid Gavin, who will be on the main stage on May 30 and May 31.
Show highlights will include a series of cookery demonstrations by Simon Rimmer on May 30, free one-to-one advice from qualified interior and garden designers and hundreds of stands by market-leading homes, gardens and food companies.
Tickets for the Home & Garden Show are priced at 7.50 pounds (adv) and 10 pounds on the day. For the full line-up of celebrities appearing at this year’s Show, schedules and travel information, or to book tickets online, visit: www.thehomeandgardenshow.co.uk Alternatively, call the Home & Garden Show ticket office on: 01244 663400.
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Editor’s Notes:
Gemma is a successful actress and model and has a small role in the new film Boogie Woogie, which will be coming out in August. Last month, Gemma also embarked upon a five day, 67km walk along the Great Wall of China, as part of a charity event organized by Olivia Newton-John’s breast cancer awareness charity, where she was joined by cancer survivors and celebrities including Sir Cliff Richard and Dannii Minogue.
A host of up-and-coming garden and interior designers will be creating show gardens and room sets at this year’s Home & Gardens event, all hoping that theirs will be the one to capture the public’s imagination. Visitors to the show will be invited to vote for their favourite room set or Show garden and those with the most votes will receive their awards at the pinnacle of the Home & Garden Show, a glamorous awards evening and dinner at the Chester Grosvenor & Spa on Saturday May 31. This evening will be attended by a host of celebrities (including Diarmuid Gavin, Gemma Atkinson and Big Brother 1 winner Craig Phillips); a donation will be made from the sale of each ticket sold to official Show charity Teenage Cancer Trust and the evening will be supported by and featured in OK magazine.
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The fashion show was a resounding success and the women, high on the adrenalin of triumph, were ready to take on the world. Little did they know – they had!
Six teenagers are diagnosed with cancer each day, that’s over 2,000 every year. But these young patients don’t stop being teenagers just because they get cancer. Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) ensures that young cancer patients get the best possible care in hospital and the chance to do all the things that other teenagers do.
TCT funds specialist teenage cancer units in NHS hospitals, with the aim being to give every young person with cancer access to a unit and improve survival rates. TCT currently has 9 units around the country and is planning to open a further 14 units by 2012. It costs around 2 million pounds to open a new unit, all of which TCT has to raise. TCT currently has a unit at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, and Alder Hey, Liverpool.
For more information about TCT and how you can get involved, visit: www.teenagecancertrust.org
TCT is a registered charity, no. 1062559
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