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David Walliams talks in India about Sport Relief

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By Gordon Smart
4 February 2010

AS one of Britain's top comedians DAVID WALLIAMS is used to dinner at The Ivy, wearing Savile Row suits and hanging around with supermodels. All of which is many worlds away from the deprivation the Little Britain star witnessed on a charity trip to India with The Sun. Today David launches The BT Sport Relief Million Pound Bike Ride. Next month he will lead a team of celebrities cycling the 874 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End. Ahead of the challenge, I travelled with David to Delhi to see where Sport Relief money is being spent. It was a…

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