Russell Crowe's personal message to round the world sailor Pip Hare, thanks to a Twitter message from BBC Dorset.
When Steve Harris, DJ of the BBC’s Dorset Breakfast show, put a call on Twitter for a way to contact Russell Crowe, he didn’t actually expect an answer.
“I met Pip Hare on her boat last summer for a story for the radio about the Vendee Globe race and was instantly impressed by her” Steve said. “She’s a force of nature; very charismatic, and she’s made this race happen (or at least her part in it) through sheer force of will. I have enjoyed sharing her story with my listeners over the last three months, and with her birthday coming up I just wanted to do something special.
So I started approaching people to record messages for her. Sir Robin Knox Johnston was the first person to sail non stop single handed around the world - he’s a friend of BBC Radio Solent so he said yes straight away. Sir Ben Ainslie and Dame Ellen MacArthur were only a lilttle harder to track down - but as soon as their people heard it was for Pip, they couldn’t have been more accommodating.
However I never expected Russell to work out...”
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