The charity has helped countless people over the 20 years it has been running, and Grisenthwaite was recently celebrated for the work he has done so far.<\/p>\n
He was lured to the shop in London to do some “internal filming” – and had no idea what was actually planned.<\/p>\n
“I was happily doing the spiel and next minute I saw Alexander Armstrong pop up in the corner of my eye,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He said: ‘I’ve got a flat tyre’.<\/p>\n
“I knew nothing about it, my team and everybody around, it was a gotcha moment.”<\/p>\n
Armstrong was there with BBC One’s The One Show, as part of their “One Big Thank You” series.<\/p>\n
He played Grisenthwaite a series of videos of children who have benefited from the charity as well as hospital teams and people working at the charity shops.<\/p>\n
Then the biggest surprise – a video message from Sir Chris Hoy, a moment he said was “off the scale”.<\/p>\n
“He’s going through his own journey with cancer and I was just so touched,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was amazing exposure for the charity as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charity has helped countless people over the 20 years it has been running, and Grisenthwaite was recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}