Stars play in celebrity football match in Morecambe in memory of brave teenager

Famous faces played in a football match at Morecambe FC to raise money for a local cancer charity set up by a much-loved schoolboy.

The celebrity charity football match for Team Reece was held at the Mazuma Mobile Stadium on Friday.

Reece Holt and his mum Rachel Macfarlane set up Team Reece, which has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to help children who have cancer, and their families.

The football match was held in conjunction with Sellebrity Soccer and players featured included Calum Best - reality TV star and son of football legend George Best; Cal the Dragon - Internet star; Jay Hutton - star of E4's Tattoo Fixers; Big Brother star Cameron Barnes; Love Island star Bailey Mummery; Morecambe boxer Owen ‘The Captain’ Kirk; and Married At First Sight stars John Shepherd and Adam Nightingale.

Reece, from Overton and a pupil at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour in 2016.

He wanted the charity to help people who were also affected by cancer, and to buy a holiday home for children and their families in the same situation as his.

After a courageous battle, he died aged 13 on January 18, 2019.

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