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The River Thames. Britain's most iconic river.

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But it was never meant to be a 140-mile-long swimming pool.

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Until comedian David Walliams decided to swim it for Sport Relief.

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'I chose the Thames cos I thought it would be an amazing challenge.'

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Bye!

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I thought it would capture people's imaginations.

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Cos most people in the UK know the Thames, have seen it.

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And I know people like to see people off the TV suffer!

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And suffer he did.

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This is the inside story of what David went through.

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Your body's not meant to do this much swimming...day after day.

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Putting his body through agony...

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Testing his determination in eight days of incredible highs

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and terrible lows.

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-How you feeling?

-Like I'm going to vomit.

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That is one very tired, sick man.

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David's challenge is as epic as it is daunting.

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He is aiming to swim a gruelling 140 miles down the Thames

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from rural Gloucestershire to Central London.

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David's eight-day challenge starts in rural Lechlade,

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in the heart of the Cotswolds, near to the source of the Thames.

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CHEERING

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"I'm a Lech-lady!" Very good! Thank you very much!

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-Wow! Another cake! That's beautiful!

-Wow!

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To be honest, I'd be demoralised if no-one had come to see me.

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Come on, who's taking the picture?

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This is ultimately all about trying to raise money,

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and awareness. If no-one cared that I was going to get in and swim,

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the whole thing, for me, would be pointless.

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David's supermodel wife Lara

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and mum Kathleen are in Lechlade to see David start his big swim.

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As the crow flies,

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it's only 57 miles to Central London,

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but the way the Thames meanders means, to get there,

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David must swim 140 miles.

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To finish, David will have to overcome many hurdles.

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The Thames is full of debris,

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unpredictable currents

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but the immediate danger

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is the unseasonably cold temperature of the water.

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We know what water temperature is, it's 15 degrees centigrade.

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That's two degrees lower than the Channel. It's incredibly cold.

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He's going to have to survive that for 140 miles.

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The cold was always going to be a problem.

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David's choice to swim without a wetsuit

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has turned out to be the wrong decision.

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For the first hour or so, was just how cold it was,

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-and it was awful because it really puts you off.

-It eats you.

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I couldn't think of anything else other than how cold it was.

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I could see you were blue on your back.

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That's cos I'm part Smurf!

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# Just keep on, keep on swimming

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# Just keep on, keep and swimming

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# Just keep on, keep on swimming

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# And don't look back any more. #

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-I'm a rock star.

-Aren't you cold?

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I am quite cold, but sometimes I'll tell you a secret -

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I wee in my wetsuit.

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CHEERING Don't tell anyone!

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But sometimes I wee in it, and that warms me up.

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Best not to do it in your clothes now,

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cos it doesn't have the same effect!

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-I'm going to get back in.

-Good luck!

-Thanks a lot.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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The public are turning up in their droves to support David

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and give money to Sport Relief by texting a donation or giving cash.

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Three months before the swim, David went to Kisumu in Kenya,

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to see where some of the money will go.

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Of the 160,000 people who live in this town,

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20,000 are children sleeping rough.

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One little orphaned boy called Philip

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made a particularly big impression on David.

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-You've brought me here - this is where you sleep?

-Yeah.

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Right here?

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-This one is ours.

-So you all sleep together to keep warm?

-Yeah.

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This is in the middle of two really, really busy, noisy roads.

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Is it safe here to sleep?

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Yeah, here is safe to sleep because there is security there.

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There's security there for the mall, so that's why you chose this place?

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Yeah, because of some comes to disturb us, someone goes to tell him.

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I couldn't imagine in a million years,

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anyone thinking that this is OK that these kids sleep like this.

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'When you're told that there are 20,000 kids on the streets in Kisumu,

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'it's hard to process that.

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'But when you meet them as individuals, it's much more affecting.

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'And that's one of the things that spurs you on.'

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David is two hours behind schedule.

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The freezing conditions have slowed him down,

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and the safety team are worried about the risks of him swimming in the dark.

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Trainer Greg goes in to pick up the pace.

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Greg's supporting and encouraging him.

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He's in a lot of pain right now.

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And he's trying to keep the pace,

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to keep him going at a pace which will get us through before darkness.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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It's so unbelievably gruelling.

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Not just swimming that distance, but also being that cold.

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I really don't like failing, and on the first day,

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being 2.5 miles behind was a real drag, and suddenly I was thinking,

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"We're not going to do this in eight days, it will be nine or ten days."

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Back in the Thames, day two is proving

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to be exhausting for David.

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ALL: David, David, David!

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When I heard that he was swimming, he inspired me

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and I feel happy that he's doing stuff for children who don't have much.

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He's got a lot of guts to swim all that way.

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-He's got strength.

-He does deserve a break though.

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He's running out of time to get to the final stop at Abingdon.

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-WOMAN:

-Well done, David, keep going!

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I'd been swimming for probably ten hours, I was really cold,

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and I suppose it's when you've been giving everything you've got,

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but it's just not been enough.

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Day three, and on top of exhaustion and muscle pain,

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David has been struck down by sickness.

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I just don't think I can eat any more. I just feel so sick.

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Get some fluid down then for me.

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And take that vitamin, too, get that down you.

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And it is so hot in here,

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it might be worth going outside for a little wander.

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The medical team think David has swallowed bacteria

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washed into the river after yesterday's torrential rain.

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When you're feeling really sick, what you should be doing

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is just lying in bed, with your mum bringing you Lucozade and Rich Tea biscuits.

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At no point does your mum say what you should really do is go swimming in a river.

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-How are you feeling?

-Just like I'm going to vomit.

-Do you?

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That is one very tired, sick man.

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And we're squeezing everything we can out of him at the moment.

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-Are you worried about him, Greg?

-Yeah, seriously worried,

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because he's not a guy that gives up.

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And he's not feeling good.

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'But I just thought, if I CAN put one arm in front of another,

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'then I can get nearer to the finish line.

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'And as long as I could still do that,

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'I was still achieving something.'

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APPLAUSE

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-WOMAN:

-Come on, David! Well done, David!

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Hello!

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My stomach feels totally churned up.

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David is given an anti-sickness tablet

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to try and settle his stomach.

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-Just leave it there.

-OK.

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Anything running through your mind at all?

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-I can't hear you.

-Huh?

-I can't hear you.

-OK!

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So I can say whatever I like now?

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Thank you.

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The anti-vomiting tablet starts to kick in.

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-CHANTING:

-David! David! David! David! David!

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I thought I'd have to at least take this day out to get better,

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but Greg was determined that we could push on.

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But I don't think I could have done it without that pill.

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I didn't feel good,

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but at least I didn't feel like I was going to throw up.

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David pushes on into the afternoon of day three.

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Hello. Do you want to give me that baby?

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-Oh, I'd love to.

-Yes?

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-A beautiful baby.

-Thank you.

-Well, nice to meet you.

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LAUGHTER

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I'll take that!

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-Bye!

-ALL: Bye!

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CHEERING

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BOAT HORNS HONK

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'It's been a day of two halves.'

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There'll be plenty of people watching, saying, "Why didn't Greg

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"stop him from getting in the water? Why did he make him get in the water?"

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But it's because sometimes you've just got to push through it.

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David's Thames tummy from yesterday

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means he is four miles behind schedule.

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Today, he has to swim flat-out

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to Reading, 18 miles away.

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-I knew these middle days would be the hardest.

-Yeah.

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It's nice there are still people out to support me. I'm just very stiff.

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-Yeah?

-Your body's not meant to do this much swimming in one day,

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day after day.

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David pushes on towards Reading, the half-way mark,

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and the crowds seem to be getting bigger and bigger.

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It's really taken off and captured people's imaginations.

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But I'm really glad because it's been really hard work.

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I must say, if I'd done all this and no-one cared,

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I would have felt a bit stupid, so I'm glad.

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But it's been bigger than I thought.

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You know, people have wanted to come out and see me.

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It feels like a real sort of British event.

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People of Reading! CHEERING

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This is David Walliams off the TV.

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LAUGHTER AND CHEERING

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Thank you so much for coming out to support me

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and this fantastic cause, Sport Relief.

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CHEERING

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We were running out and we were thinking, "Are we going to see him?

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And then, all of a sudden, you just hear this massive cheer

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-"He's round the corner!"

-Yeah, yeah.

-Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

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It was quite remarkable.

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I know he swam the Channel, which is a flipping good thing to have done.

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Amazing. I must say, he keeps going all the time with Delhi belly

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or whatever he's got, Thames trouble.

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When you live in the home counties and not in the big city,

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you're not normally part of things like this. It's great to be

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more out in the sticks and be part of a challenge...

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A little village like Shiplake, this is exciting.

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We'll be talking about this for a long time.

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I have to say, my kids thought that we were coming out

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to support Robbie Williams, so...(SNORTS)

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Slight disappointment on their part then.

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Keep going!

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-Oh, what's that?

-Alcohol.

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David has fully recovered from his sickness, but is still in pain.

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The rubbing from the wetsuit has stripped the skin

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off the back of his neck.

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Argh! Arrgh!

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Have you noticed, David? I'm not crying like a baby. Here, look.

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Hard, mate. Ah, god!

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Ooh! That really is hurting. Holy schmoly!

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-Perfectly good reaction.

-HE LAUGHS

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That really does hurt, doesn't it?

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Yeah. I mean, it's worse than what we had,

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the original pain. This new pain that you create.

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CHEERING

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At least the ever increasing crowds keep coming.

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I got into the habit of thinking,

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"Well, if there's people, I'll wave."

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You know, because you'd occasionally get them at bridges and places.

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And then it became like certain places,

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it was just all people along the side and then I had to just...

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I was thinking, "Right, who are you going to wave to?"

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"You've got to swim. It can't all be waving."

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So I think, "OK, someone with a sign."

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They get a wave because they've put some work in

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to that sign. OK, kids get a wave.

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And then someone with a flag gets a wave

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and I'm like, "Oh, no. That's still too many people."

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I would swim for a bit and then wait and then wave.

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And then Greg would tell me get a move on and stop waving!

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How far is he?

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I think you can hear from the cheers of the crowd on the other bank

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that David Walliams is just round the bend of the Thames.

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Marlow was incredible,

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because I was swimming in to be live on TV,

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so there were probably even more people there

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because they heard about it through The One Show.

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And there was synchronised swimmers, there was Angela Rippon.

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And his wife, obviously the first person to greet him

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and give him a big kiss.

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-I know, sorry. My wife has to come first.

-Of course she has.

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David, you must be so pleased to get your feet on dry land.

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Oh, definitely. What an amazing turn out of people in Marlow.

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'And then I was taken round in a boat to wave at people.

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'Never in my life has waving in itself been enough.'

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I've had to sort of do something,

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'like say something funny or dress up.'

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I'll have my own little Dave-mobile soon, for waving at people.

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'It was incredible.'

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I've never had that before

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and it was really overwhelming.

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The next stretch of David's challenge is from Marlow to Windsor.

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London is almost in touching distance.

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It's a 17 mile swim, so he will need lots of energy.

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David's fans continue to flock to the banks,

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but one in particular gets a bit too close for comfort.

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I was swimming along and then this...

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I heard this plop behind me and I thought,

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"Ooh, has somebody got in the water?" And then I saw it was a dog.

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I love dogs and I sort of doggy-paddled along with it.

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That was sweet.

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Then the dog tried to get out of the water and couldn't,

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and the owner tried to pull it

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by the sort of harness lead thing.

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And then that broke,

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so then I swam back and pushed the dog up onto the bank.

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Yay!

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CHEERING

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Yeah, David Walliams saved my dog.

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-No, I didn't expect that!

-HE LAUGHS

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# Well, I won't back down

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# No, I won't back down

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# You can stand me up at the gates of hell

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# But I won't back down. #

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Can I ask you some questions?

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David?

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Can I ask you some questions?

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David! You rude man!

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Could I ask you some questions? Oi!

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You! Hello!

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-What?

-Would you please give me some attention.

-What?

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-I just wanted to chat to you for a minute.

-Well, I can't. I'm swimming.

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-Is there going to be any more Little Britain?

-No!

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-Right, well carry on.

-OK, thank you.

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I'm doing OK.

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I mean, it's hard, I'm finding it tiring, but I'm going to keep going.

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It's just knowing all these people have come out to support me.

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It got bad. We left the lock

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about seven, eight minutes ago.

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I think about two minutes in, it got really scary.

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But I'm just going to keep going. I'm not going to give up.

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I've got this idiot in front of me who keeps getting in the way.

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I mean, I could do without that.

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CHEERING

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It was fantastic. I actually cried.

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Yeah.

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Because to see all these people cheering him...

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Yeah.

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6.00am.

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Still dark, but swim we must.

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Today's goal is to get to Teddington lock,

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marking the end of the non-tidal Thames.

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It is 24 miles away.

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David has never swam that far before in one day.

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In the really dark periods, you know,

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when Greg says dig deep after you've already swum 20 miles,

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it's good to remember why you're doing it and what good it can do.

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I've done loads of fun things as well,

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you know for Comic Relief, sketches and things like that, but there's...

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But the effect of doing something hard just seems greater to me.

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It seems to resonate more with people.

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-Hello, Mum. How are you?

-Hello, darling.

-How are you?

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-I'm all right, how are you?

-Yeah, OK!

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'But it's amazing, I think, you know, the amount of people.'

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-If people respond to you, you do better.

-Perform better, yeah.

-Yeah.

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You said that when you first did a school play

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and you started to be a bit... Act up a bit that you thought, "This is great."

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It's called showing off!

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SHE LAUGHS

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I don't think I've ever been quite so proud of him as what he's achieved this week.

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I know his father would've been so proud.

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CHEERING, APPLAUSE AND HONKING

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David has already swum the equivalent of the Channel,

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21 miles, but still has three to go.

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But conditions are getting worse due to the after-affects

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of a hurricane that has swept in from the Atlantic.

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The point is now, he is...physically exhausted.

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He's done, like, 124 miles by the time he finishes today.

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Come on, David!

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You needed to get to Teddington Lock before it got dark.

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I swam about 20 miles and then I was told that the light was fading.

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It was just about to get dark and could I speed up?!

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Which, when you've swum 20 miles and someone says, "Can you speed up?"

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It's like, "I'll TRY!"

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You've got to really drive it now, cos we haven't got much light left. You've really got to push it.

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-Come on!

-Whoo! Whoo! Come on, David!

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'I just thought in my head, "Right, how fast would you swim'

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"if a shark was following you?"

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I thought, "It'd be quite fast!" So I just thought of that.

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It's the last day.

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After more than 70 hours of relentless swimming,

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David has 16 miles to go.

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I CAN believe it's the last day

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because I've been swimming for seven days

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for 125 miles and I am ready for it to end.

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So you go, "It's only 15 miles to go."

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15 miles is a long way to swim!

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How many people have swum 15 miles in a day? So...I can believe it.

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My arms can believe it, my neck can believe it, my back...

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I mean, it's just constant, constant pain now.

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Nobody should ever swim in this stretch of the Thames.

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It's far too hazardous. A law is being passed to ban it.

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David is only able to do this because of the safety boats

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that are watching him.

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Getting in after Teddington Lock, I was definitely more nervous

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cos if you stand on a bridge in central London

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and look at the river,

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there's no way you want to get in there and swim.

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It's travelling really fast, it's really wide.

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The water's brown and so...

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I really was quite scared even though I was at the end.

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I thought, "This is a much more hostile environment to swim in."

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Once the tide turns it'll be too strong to swim against,

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and he will have to get out and wait. It's not over yet.

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I'm just thinking I hope nothing goes wrong,

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I hope no-one drops a brick on me from a bridge or...

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You know, I drown or the tide changes

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or Godzilla comes out of the Thames or something cos then it's all over!

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Stay nice and tight on that right, mate, OK? So straight in...

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'So I'm just praying that everything just goes totally smoothly.'

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Eight painful and exhausting days.

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Swimming through seven long counties.

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One dog saved.

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Over 68,000 calories burned.

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111,352 strokes.

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And a sea of people turning up to see the fastest man ever

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to swim 140 miles of the River Thames.

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CHEERING

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Sometimes people write in articles, why on earth is he doing it?

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I know exactly why I'm doing it

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because I've seen how the money raised through Comic Relief

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and Sport Relief helps people around the world and the people I met

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and especially Philip, the homeless boy in Kenya.

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That's my motivation. There is no other motivation for this.

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I mean, it's amazing.

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He has raised, without a doubt, in excess of £1 million.

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He is the most remarkable man. Tremendous.

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# We've got open arms

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# For broken hearts

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# Like yours, my boy

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# Come home again. #

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-CHANTING:

-David, David, David, David, David!

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CHEERING

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-# Everyone's here

-# We've got open arms

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# Everyone's here. #

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So proud that he's achieved this,

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-I don't know where he gets all the strength from.

-No.

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Somewhere deep down inside he finds it.

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# Everyone's here. #

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And it's not too late to get involved in Sport Relief.

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If you've been inspired by David's challenge, why not take part in the Sport Relief Mile.

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And don't forget to watch this evening's programme, starting at 7pm on BBC1.

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