Kurylenko and Dench help raise money with poppy appeal

Bond girl Olga Kurylenko is hoping to leave Brits shaken and stirred into raising thousands of pounds for the poppy appeal - reports The Sun.

Top gem makers have joined forces with the Royal British Legion to launch a piece of jewellery that every woman should wear with pride.

Olga, who stars as the Bond girl Camille in the latest 007 movie Quantum of Solace, was licensed to thrill as she showed off a dazzling Kleshna poppy brooch in London’s Leicester Square.

And a lucky Sun reader could get his or her hands on the brooch which is worth thousands of pounds for just a few pence.

It is one of four one off brooches which have been created by some of the UK’s most exciting designers to help raise much needed funds for the Royal British Legion.

The gems are being auctioned on the website - www.auctionair.co.uk/britishlegion - three will go to the highest bidder but the Kleshna is up for grabs in a reverse auction - so the lowest unique bid will get to own the stunning poppy.

World famous design house Theo Fennell has lent its support as well as Alex Monroe, recently named Jewellery Designer of the Year.

Alex Monroe’s brooch is a gold flower with eleven symbolic black diamonds, Kleshna’s two brooches sparkle with hundreds of Swarkovski crystals and Theo Fennell’s combines gold, diamonds and sapphires.

The British Legion helps campaign on the serious issues of war-related illnesses.

These Gulf War Syndrome and Noise Induced Hearing Loss, war pensions, and helps those affected by the conflicts of today to cope with the devastating effects that war has on armed forces members and their families.

Stars of stage and screen such as Geri Halliwell, the Geldof daughters, Dannii Minogue, Fern Britton, Katherine Jenkins, Cheryl Cole, Dame Helen Mirren, Dame Judi Dench, Holly Willoughby, Claudia Winkleman and Carol Vorderman have leant their support to the appeal and been wearing the designer brooches.

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