Pop star Robbie Williams has always been one to champion good causes and the chart-topping entertainer has just fulfilled a promise he made to a desperately ill young woman by giving a blood sample in order to join a register of bone marrow donors.
The big-hearted singer was introduced to 23-year-old leukaemia sufferer Johanna MacVicar when he played a concert in Glasgow last October. Since then the two have kept in touch on a regular basis and Robbie has spearheaded a campaign to encourage young men to join the Anthony Nolan Trust register to help save the lives of leukaemia sufferers.
After performing two sell-out shows at Hampden Park, Glasgow, over the weekend, the 27-year-old performer met up with Johanna once again. This time, Johanna and her parents were invited to the singer’s suite at Cameron House Hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond, where Johanna’s dad, Donnie, who is a nurse, took a sample of Robbie’s blood.
If a suitable match is found, the star has promised to donate bone marrow, although it is highly unlikely that Robbie will provide a precise match for Johanna. “I just hope that by joining the bone marrow register I can bring awareness to her plight and that of many others,” said the entertainer.
A spokesman for the trust added, “He knows that by adding his name to the 313,000 UK adults already registered on the trust’s database he could one day save a life.”
Robbie, who has just come to the end of his summer UK tour, is also a Unicef children’s ambassador, has his own charitable fund called Give It Sum and has campaigned for Great Ormond Street children’s hospital.
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