AN East Lancashire charity were the recipients of a handsome donation as the winning contestant on The Weakest Link had selected them as his chosen charity. 

Patrick Grant, a Scottish fashion designer and Sewing Bee star, donated his £9,400 prize fund from the revamped BBC game show to the British Textile Biennial after beating Dave Gorman in the final round.

On social media, people reacted to his chosen charity, criticising his move not to donate the money to a potentially "more worthy" cause. 

The British Textile Biennial, in a range of exhibitions and installations across East Lancashire throughout October, told the story of textiles, across continents and centuries, in the service of fast fashion, expression and identity.

49-year-old Grant hosted a "groundbreaking" sustainable fashion project at the event, while other big names like Maxine Peak collaborated on Lancashire exhibitions.

The programme was attended by more than 64,000 people over the course of the month.

In line with celebrations for the brand’s 50th anniversary, C.P. Company presented a retrospective, dedicated to five decades of Italian Sportswear, and Massimo Osti’s lasting legacy.

Turner Prize winner, Lubaina Himid presented Lost Threads, a major new work responding to the Gawthorpe Textile Collection in Burnley, exploring the histories of industrialisation, female labour, migration and globalisation in the Great Barn at Gawthorpe Hall.

At the Blackburn Cotton Exchange, Jasleen Kaur, Jamie Holman and Masimba Hwati explored complex issues through family histories and lived experiences across three continents, to reveal the residual cultural identities of the British Empire in the exhibition, The British Invasion.

Grant was a contestant on The Weakest Link competing against fellow famous faces in Esme Young, Rev Richard Coles, Karim Zeroual, Kaz Kamwi, Candice Brown and the Vivienne.

The quiz show has now returned to television with comedian Romesh Ranganathan hosting, in place of Anne Robinson.

Robinson, with her famous wink at the end of each episode and brutal assessments of contestants, hosted the hit BBC quiz show with great success from 2000 to 2012.