The former Culture Club singer and fashion icon Boy George generously offered to put up a prize for Chris Evans’s charity auction for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Boy George is among numerous other celebrities who pledged prizes to the charity auction such as Coldplay, Jared Leto and Rod Stewart.

Boy George will be auctioning off the rights to a song he has written as an homage to Ukraine having previously visited eight years ago. Speaking on ‘Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky’, the singer described his experience; “I went there about eight years ago, I DJ’d there, and I had the most amazing night and I remember thinking, this is such a beautiful place, I must come back.”

He went on to say; “I suppose the spirit of this song is saying Ukraine is a beautiful country and hopefully it will be a beautiful country again, you know, and I watched this young kid the other day on Instagram saying, ‘Don’t be sad about all of that’. It’s difficult not to be because, you know, we’re just looking at it and were horrified and feeling helpless. And you know, to me, it’s just music is the thing that has always saved me in all my difficult situations.”

“I just remember thinking it was such a beautiful place. You know, it was summer I got picked up by this incredible kid who was like a punk rocker in this big American car like one of The Addams Family for my whole trip from beginning to end was just magical. And I remember thinking, I must go back, you know, and I would love to do that. I’d love to go back and sing this song.”

Other prizes that were up for grabs included a five-course meal with Dame Emma Thompson, Hayley Atwell, Michelle Dockery, Vanessa Kirby and Sienna Miller. As well as four tickets to experience Coldplay in action at Wembley Stadium and meet the band in person. A chance to go to lunch with such superstars as Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Matt Smith and Jack Savoretti was one of the most popular lots, that had bids exceeding the sum of £25,000.

With the circumstances in Ukraine still continuing to get worse for the millions of affected citizens, Chris Evans outlined his hopes for the funds raised by the auction. Saying; “We are not attached to any kind of optimistic outcome, we are just going to do it and send the cheque where it needs to go as soon as possible when the money comes in.”

The money earned from the auctions were donated to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee. Donations to help those in need can be made here at their website.