{"id":571593,"date":"2025-11-15T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/571593\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:00:27","slug":"children-in-need-viewers-make-sara-cox-demand-after-raising-over-9million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/571593\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in Need viewers make Sara Cox demand after raising over \u00a39million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC Radio 2 presenter was in shock over her Children in Need total\"CIN\"Sara Cox took on a major challenge for Children in Need(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

Children in Need viewers were in agreement as they praised Sara Cox following her whopping total after the Great Northern challenge.<\/p>\n

BBC<\/a> Radio 2 presenter Sara Cox completed her Great Northern Marathon Challenge on Friday (November 14.) Over the last five days, Sara has covered the equivalent of five marathons.<\/p>\n

Raising money for Children in Need, Sarah started her 135-mile trek at Kielder Forest, where she then continued her challenge through Northumberland, Durham, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

Sara’s journey came to an end in Pudsey, Leeds, having battled through Storm Claudia which arrived on her final day of the challenge.<\/p>\n

As she finally crossed the finish line, the presenter shared some emotional words<\/a> before announcing herself as an “honorary Yorkshire woman”.<\/p>\n

During Friday night’s BBC’s Children in Need Appeal Show it was announced that Sara had raised a whopping \u00a39,523,028 <\/strong>through her challenge.<\/p>\n

As Sara arrived on the stage at Media City UK, Salford<\/a>, host Paddy McGuiness bowed to her as he congratulated the star.<\/p>\n

She admitted: “Can I just explain? I did have nice matching shoes, but my feet are so swollen that I’ve just got little Crocs on!”<\/p>\n

Paddy responded: “I know how I felt last year, but you actually look a million dollars, fantastic.”<\/p>\n

As Sara shared that she felt “exhausted”, she added: “It’s been the most amazing, painful and wonderful few days of my life. Thank you so much to everyone who’s donated…<\/p>\n

“The Radio 2 family has been incredible, and the people who stood by at the side of the road in the sideways rain and wind. It’s incredible.”<\/p>\n

\"CIN\"Sara raised over \u00a39million(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

Upon hearing the total, Sara looked shocked as she exclaimed: “Oh my gosh, thank you so much!”<\/p>\n

Viewers took to X (formerly known as Twitter<\/a>) to praise the star, as well as sharing the same plea to make her Dame Sara Cox.<\/p>\n

@acotswoldvoice wrote: “When is it going to be, Dame Sara Cox? A remarkable northerner and ever so popular on Radio 2”.<\/p>\n

@iain_gorry agreed: “‘Dame’ Sara Cox, Unbelievable effort” as @smiley_lass added: “Can we at least all agree that the whole country loves Sara Cox (especially the women over 50, cos we\u2019re \u2018Avin\u2019 it!!!!\u2019)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC Radio 2 presenter was in shock over her Children in Need totalSara Cox took on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-571593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115552664906337575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}