Watch Everybody Hurts, the video

Watch Everybody Hurts, the video
Watch Everybody Hurts, the video (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

The first version of the video for charity Helping Haiti's cover of Everybody Hurts has been released. The song features Cheryl Cole, Leona Lewis JLS, Susan Boyle, Rod Stewart among many more pop stars. The project was set up by Simon Cowell to raise funds for The Disasters Emergency Committee and The Helping Haiti appeal. A final version of the video will be released later this week. Watch the video here

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.