Tuesday, July 21 - Freddie launched his new charity tonight, the AF Foundation, with a star-studded party at the prestigious Hurlingham Club, in Fulham.

During this year’s final of Britain’s Got Talent, I revealed to the audience how he’d texted me in the break asking if I could get the hilarious Stavros Flatley to perform tonight for him and they had readily agreed.

As the father-and-son Greek duo careered around the stage this evening – cheered on by an audience including Katherine Jenkins, Jimmy Nesbitt, Bruno Tonioli from Strictly Come Dancing, Christine Bleakley, and most of the England cricket team – I saw Freddie convulsed with laughter.

Later, I conducted a hilarious Q&A with him, England cricketers Andrew Strauss and Graeme Swann, Australian cricketing legend Shane Warne and golfer Lee Westwood.

They were all funny but Freddie was the star turn – cracking jokes about everything from pedalos to the Germans, taunting the Aussies, and urging everyone to ‘have a few beers and enjoy yourselves’. The audience roared after his every comment.

At midnight, Freddie’s dad Colin came over for a chat. ‘You seemed very emotional at Lord’s on that last day,’ I said.

‘I was,’ he agreed. ‘It suddenly dawned on me what Andrew had achieved in his career. I’ve always loved cricket, and to see my son bowling the Aussies out at Lord’s in his last Test there, well, that was very special.

‘As he walked off, someone grabbed my arm to congratulate me and I realised I had tears streaming down my face. Very embarrassing! But I just felt so very proud of him and I couldn’t hold it back.’

It was a stunningly successful night, with just the auction raising £230,000 for the Foundation. One generous bidder paying an astonishing £35,000 at the auction for the ball with which Freddie took his five wickets.

‘You should retire more often,’ I suggested.

‘Too right!’ he laughed.

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