Kian scoops €60k for two charities

KIAN Egan’s surfing skills helped him win an incredible €60,000 for charity on telly show The Cube.
In a game with nine lives Kian still had one life to go to challenge for €120,000.

The ex-Westlifer would have had to walk on a sequence of squares in the correct order after they were flashed up quickly.

Kian, 33, said on the Saturday Night Show: “Mentally I feel like I can do it but the risk is massive.”

He decided to stop the game of skills and agility at that stage so that his chosen charities, the North West Hospice in his native Sligo and the cancer-battling organisation Liver and Pancreatic research and development, would each be guaranteed €30,000.

His work for one of the charities was in memory of his father Kevin who died of cancer in 2009.

Kian’s surfing helped him reach €60,000 when — with one life remaining — he skilfully balanced on a narrow raised beam only centimetres wide for 20 seconds.

The star regularly surfs near his home in Strandhill, Co Sligo.

Presenter Philip Schofield told Kian: “Nobody before has ever taken on the €60,000 challenge with only one life remaining.”

The Voice of Ireland coach, who is releasing his first solo album, Home, in March, was a celebrity guest on the show along with former world heavyweight boxing champion David Haye.

Haye, 33, managed to raise only €1,200 for his chosen charity but said he would personally donate €12,000.

Kian was crowned King of the Jungle on I’m a Celebrity last year.

Source: www.thesun.ie