David Walliams and Aston Villa players person visited Birmingham's Children Hospital to dispersed immoderate festive cheer.
The writer precocious donated this year's royalties from his publication The Midnight Gang to enactment the Virtual Reality Appeal.
The infirmary hopes to usage VR headsets to distract children portion they acquisition treatment, to trim anxiety.
Players went with gifts and Walliams besides dressed arsenic Father Christmas during Monday's visit.
On societal media, The Britain's Got Talent justice and prima of Little Britain wrote: "I met inspirational patients and loved listening to each their stories. It was a humbling time and 1 I volition ne'er forget."
This twelvemonth was the archetypal clip since the pandemic the infirmary was capable to invited backmost players from the Premier League team.
The infirmary said Villa squad "really did assistance to marque Christmas consciousness that small spot much peculiar for our sick kids".
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