Curtis: Stop wearing wristbands
Director Richard Curtis has slammed people who wear charity wristbands for the Make Poverty History campaign, despite making a TV movie to raise awareness of the project, which aims to relieve poverty in Africa.
The Love Actually film maker created TV movie The Girl In The Cafe, which will be broadcast on TV around the world during the G8 Summit as part of the campaign, to persuade politicians to cancel Third World debt, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade laws so developing countries can protect their economies.
But he is now urging people to stop buying wristbands, which raise money and awareness for the project, because he fears they're being used as fashion accessories.
He says: "In the next few weeks we're going to say to people who wear these wristbands: 'Don't wear it, declare it' and 'It's a passion statement not a fashion statement.'"
