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Rick Astley supports 'crazy' Rickroll challenge Rickroll charity challenge derailed by Internet trolls
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Rick Astley has described a man's bid to endure four-days locked in a hotel room with his most famous song on a non-stop loop as "the definition of crazy". Internet trolls have derailed a man's challenge to spend four days locked in a room listening to nothing but Rick Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up.
Jack White, 23, began the 75-hour lock-in with 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up set to repeat, on Friday. In a Facebook video message around eight hours into his charity bid, Jack White, 23, said he had been inundated with abuse on his live Youtube page.
The singer posted his support on Facebook, adding: "Good luck Jack, all the best". The trolls also attacked his seven-year-old nephew who has Type 1 diabetes and for whom Mr White is fundraising.
Choir-master Mr White has surpassed his £2,000 fundraising target. Mr White's brother James has taken over the challenge instead.
He will finish 75 hours later at 15:00 BST on Monday, and estimated he would have heard the song at least 2,500 times by the end. Mr White, a choir-master from Southampton, began the 75-hour lock-in with the 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up set to repeat, on Friday at noon.
Speaking to the BBC before his challenge at Highfield House hotel, Southampton, Mr White said: "I'm not really much of a Rick Astley fan and I definitely won't be after Monday." He was due to finish at 15:00 BST on Monday, and estimated he would have heard the song at least 2,500 times by the end - all in aid of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
The song was a worldwide hit for Astley and was part of the "Rickrolling" phenomenon, where millions of people were duped into clicking on a web link directing them to a video of the song. Astley had himself even lent his support by posting on Facebook: "This is the definition of crazy!! Good luck Jack, all the best".
Mr White, who has vowed not to desert his task, has taken on the charity challenge in support of his nephew, who has type 1 diabetes. But on Friday evening Mr White had to abandon his challenge.
The rules require the self-confessed chatty man to say goodbye to speaking, singing and humming for the duration of the task. In a video message he said: "The comments that flooded the live stream were some of the most difficult, offensive and rude things I have ever had to read.
He is living on a diet of porridge, rice and water and will not wash during the ordeal, which is being streamed live on YouTube. "When my nephew tried to say hello to me via the stream and people started to attack him and JDRF, myself and the production team knew it was time to act".
By Saturday morning, he had raised £2,085 in aid of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His brother James has stepped in and is now continuing the ordeal, which also includes not speaking. not washing and living on a diet of porridge, rice and water.
One donor wrote: "Don't ever give it up." Mr White has surpassed his £2,000 target, raising £2,482 by Saturday afternoon.