One Direction really are in toon: 1D boys make guest appearance in special Beano cartoon

1D, Jessie J and Olly Murs were “cartoonified” in a special edition of the monthly BeanoMAX magazine for Red Nose Day’s 25th anniversary

You'd better stop pulling faces, Jessie J, because if the wind suddenly changes you’ll... end up as a Beano character.

The singer made her debut in the kids’ comic, performing an unlikely duet with Minnie the Minx.

Jessie was “cartoonified” along with the One Direction lads in a special edition of the monthly BeanoMAX magazine for Red Nose Day’s 25th anniversary.

One Direction, who look like they’re stuck in a perma-windtunnel as they meet Dennis the Menace, said: "We've grown up with the magazine so now to actually appear in it with Dennis and Gnasher themselves is incredible."

Other big names to make a guest appearance in the comic are singer Olly Murs and former Doctor Who, David Tennant.

The famous names come together to enable regular Beano faces such as Dennis The Menace and Minnie The Minx to put on a charity show

Mike Stirling, editor-in-chief of The Beano and BeanoMax, said: "It was brilliant fun imagining how Jessie, Olly, David and 1D would interact with our mischievous characters and I hope they enjoy the results as much our readers and their fans will.

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One Direction world domination complete as their Comic Relief single hits number one spot in SIXTY-THREE countries

One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) is set to become the most successful Comic Relief single EVER

If you needed any further proof that boyband One Direction are slowly taking over the world, the news that their new single - recorded for Comic Relief - has gone to number one in no less than 63 countries is undoubtedly it.

That's almost one third of the countries in the entire world, making it set to be the most successful Comic Relief single ever by far.

The lads released One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks), a mash-up of Blondie's classic track and The Undertones' anthem, earlier this week, and it has already hit the top spot in countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Singapore, Egypt and New Zealand.

Previous Comic Relief singles - such as Westlife's Uptown Girl, The Spice Girls' Who Do You Think You Are and Boyzone's When The Going Gets Tough - have done well, but 1D's success is off the charts.

And, considering that Red Nose Day isn't really a 'thing' outside of the UK, it's really quite a staggering achievement.

The bigwigs over at Comic Relief are obviously over the moon with the single's success too, with the organisation's chief exec, Kevin Cahill, saying: ""We couldn't have asked for a better band to record the official Red Nose Day single in our 25th year.

'If you don’t cry you’re superhuman': One Direction on their life-changing trip to Africa

When the boys came face to face with children just a few years younger than them struggling in poverty, it brought them down to earth with a bump.


The boys visited the poverty-hit city of Accra with Comic Relief to film a video for their single, a fusion of Blondie’s One Way or Another and The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks, which is out today in aid of the charity.
Harry, 19 tomorrow, admitted: “We all had moments. If you get involved in it and you don’t cry you’re superhuman.
"We’ve seen appeal films before so we thought we knew what it’s like.
"But when you’re there and you get the smells, your eyes hurt from the smoke, you cough, you’re feeling it all.
“The crazy thing is, when I went to school not one person wanted to be there. Yet you go into a school in Ghana and every child loves it.
"It’s amazing to see. There are 10-year-old kids speaking better French than I can.
“It’s crazy how quick you get ­connections with children and people who live there. You feel upset leaving them and saying goodbye to them.”
Life expectancy for women in Ghana is 63 compared with 82 here. And 28% of the 25 million population live in poverty.
Niall, 19, was deeply affected. “It was the shock of people struggling to get water and watching people work 12 hours a day for little money.”



The five stars will appear in a film during Red Nose Day next month that documents their time in Ghana.
The appeal has raised more than £600million to help educate poor children.
One Direction will not receive any royalties for the single. They even shot the video on their own to save cash.
Niall said: “We didn’t want to make a massive expensive video because that’s just a big waste of money. So we kinda made it ourselves.”
Liam, 19, said he will never forget the poverty he witnessed and hopes people will get behind their efforts.
“We just want people to buy the single and help raise as much money as possible,” he said.
Louis, 21, added: “By buying the song, together we’ll change people’s lives. What an amazing thing to do. Buy music that you like and change lives.”
There were lighter moments for the group during the visit as the children greeted them with calls of... “Westlife!”
Liam recalled: “In the slum there were these lads that we were playing football with.
"They turned around to us and were like: ‘Ah, Westlife, Westlife!’
"So, Westlife are bigger than us over there. That’s something we’ve gotta achieve...”