A still from one of the videos.
You may or may not know that there's a new challenge for charity that's replaced the one from last year that involved dunking oneself in a bucketful of ice. The reason the Dizzy Goals Challenge - which aims to raise awareness about poverty, inequality and injustice and climate change - may have escaped you is because it's really difficult and only those with real skill and good hand-eye coordination would even attempt to try. You need two footballs lined up at a distance of six metres apart, a goal post and a videographer. The challenge is to spin a football round 13 times without taking your eyes off the ball, before aiming to score a penalty or umm... a rather #DizzyGoal with the second football. (Also Read:
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Sounds daunting? Bollywood tough guy Akshay Kumar discovered just how difficult it is the hard way, as this hilarious video proves:
That was Akshay's second attempt, on the sets of
Housefull 3 in London where an excited gang of cheerleaders headed by his co-star Jacqueline Fernandez egged him on.
Last month, Akshay tried and failed for the first documented time:
But don't feel too bad, Akshay, because a league of extra-dizzy gentlemen, which includes footballers and former footballers Gareth Bale, Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker too have made a funny show of themselves in their attempts. So have other professional players from football clubs such as Liverpool, Spurs and Crystal Palace. Here is a compilation video that will make you rofl.
Usain Bolt, aka the fastest person on earth, is the latest sportsman to have tried his luck and also the only one to have been successful. Thanks to the missing goalkeeper. Watch and laugh:
On the work front, 48-year-old Akshay stars in
Housefull 3 with an ensemble cast that includes Jacqueline, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan and Nargis Fakhri. He will, however, next be seen as Raftaar Singh in
Singh Is Bliing which is slated to hit screens on October 2.
Airlift, which will also star Nimrat Kaur, is another of his upcoming projects.