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journalist Stacey Dooley, now of Strictly fame, is pilloried for ‘white saviour’ pictures of her with a child in Uganda filming for Comic relief. Labour MP David Lammy says ‘thousands of african celebrities’ could raise money in the UK for starving kids. They are more than welcome to try. But wouldn’t it run the risk that donations to Comic relief — which has raised more than £1 billion since the charity was set up 30 years ago — would dry up as quickly as a river in drought?