FORMER Derby County footballer Tom Huddlestone has been named celebrity fund-raiser of the year at the Just Giving Awards 2014.
The midfield player, now with Premiership club Hull City, raised a total of £57,000 through his Huddlefro campaign.
He famously decided not to cut his hair until he scored his next goal. He then went two-and-a-half years without visiting the barber's, before netting in Hull's 6-0 win over Fulham last December.
Huddlestone won the award ahead of fellow nominees Jason Manford and Charlie Webster.
After celebrating his goal against Fulham by having a lock of hair cut off on the touchline, Huddlestone said: "When I finally scored it was relief more than anything. I knew I had had the most shots without scoring in the league. I wasn't sure if setting up the charity had jinxed me from scoring."
He then raised thousands of pounds by auctioning his hair on eBay.
Just Giving was set up in 2001 as a platform for making charity donations. It says it has helped 21 million people to raise £1.5 billion for over 13,000 charities
The Just Giving Awards are described as a way of "saying congratulations to the outstanding fund-raisers, teams and charities who've done incredible things for causes they care about."
Huddlestone left Derby County for Tottenham Hotspur in 2005.
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