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Colin Farrell and long-time friend Emma Fogarty raises over £475,000 during Late Late appearance ahead of his marathon for skin condition charity


The Irish actor, 48, will be running Irish Life Dublin Marathon in Ireland next week in a bid to raise money for a skin condition charity.

The Hollywood icon thanked the public for backing his charity run after they gathered a whopping amount of donations from their TV appearance (pictured with host Patrick Kielty) Spurred into action by fatherhood (Farrell and his former girlfriend, model Kim Bordenave welcomed their eldest son James in 2003), he checked himself into rehab in 2006 after filming Miami Vice. James, who suffers from a rare neurogenetic disorder called Angelman Syndrome, was a 'big, big part of me putting the bottle down,' Farrell previously told People magazine.

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