Griff Rhys Jones on why he’s been trawling through celebrity junk
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices.The Welsh-born star, who has first-hand experience of hospices through his father’s own time in one, said he needed to come up with a new idea that would help raise funds. Speaking on White Wine Question Time, he told host Kate Thornton that comedy benefits, like the one he put on last year for the hospices, just don’t make enough money.“A benefit actually doesn't really make an enormous difference to the demands that a hospice has, but what it does is it raises awareness,” he explained.Rhys Jones, who splits his time between Suffolk and London, moved house during lockdown and this helped him come up with the idea of his online auction, Celebrity Bottom Drawer.“I thought, ‘Why don't we have just a sort of