CELEBRITIES have dressed up as their childhood heroes to launch this year’s BBC Children in Need campaign.

Sir Terry Wogan, Children In Need’s lifetime president, chose to imitate singing American cowboy Gene Autry. “I’ve had great fun dressing up as Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and my childhood hero,” he said.

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Members of the public are urged to join the celebrities in supporting the campaign by donning costumes for a sponsored dress-up.

LYRICS written in jail by the late Tupac Shakur are due to go up for auction, with an estimated value of between £30,000-£50,000.

The documents are the originals penned by the late rapper during a jail stint and form part of Sotheby’s upcoming Rock and Pop exhibition sale.

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The lyrics were recorded immediately after his release from jail in October 1995.

THE sixth series of Downton Abbey will help wrap things up for fans of the show, creator and writer Julian Fellowes has said.

Julian said the new series – which starts on September 20 on ITV – was one of “resolution” after the creative team had intended to bow out after five series of the popular period drama.

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Viewers will join the new series in 1925 with Downton Abbey inhabitants Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) and his daughter Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) having to come up with new ways to keep the estate intact with finances tight.

CBBC stars past and present have reunited for a live show to celebrate the show’s 30th anniversary.

It has been three decades since Phillip Schofield opened the doors to the Broom Cupboard for the first time, and turned the likes of Gordon the Gopher, Edd the Duck and Otis the Aardvark into household names, along with their human sidekicks such as Andi Peters.

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Thirty former presenters and their puppet companions were reunited live on the hour-long Hacker’s Birthday Bash, which aired at 6pm on CBBC last night (September 9).