Greg James raises an incredible £4million for Comic Relief

Greg James has raised an incredible £4million for Comic Relief as the final figure from his mammoth 1000km bike challenge was revealed during Friday's show. 

The Radio 1 Breakfast DJ, 40, cycled for eight days on a tandem bicycle, and has been surprised by family and friends along the way, including Prince William. 

Speaking to host Davina McCall as the annual charity telethon returned to BBC 1, Greg said his fundraising 'snowballed' with Coldplay contributing a huge donation.  

A host of celebrities joined in on the fun with a series of sketches and challenges for Take Yourself Funny for Money. 

But it was Greg who had the audience chanting his name after the total raised by his challenge was confirmed live on air as a whopping £4,225,939.

He told Davina: 'I feel very happy to be here. I feel very confused because I woke up on the Scottish borders, cycled to Edinburgh and now I'm in Salford.'

Greg continued: 'I was shouted at in my ear, they said turn off the road into the car park and Prince William was standing there. 

'It was top secret, he was there, I said, have you got your own bike? And he said, "no I'm getting on yours." I've never held on more tightly. 

'Can you imagine what would've happened to me if he'd fallen off? It would've been the end, maybe of Comic Relief. It sort of just snowballed. Coldplay donated a hundred grand.

Seeing the faces of people at the top of a hill when you don't have anything left I your legs and you get to the top and see a whole primary school and there's farmers waiting. 

'This thing has really captured people's imagination. It was a hard thing we did, but a fun thing.'  

As the audience chanted, Greg added: 'Wow, I'm uncomfortable with this, please stop, I'm uncomfortable with this.

'I said when I finished today, I said, please, I've had too much praise for this now. It was a daft idea to raise money and awareness of these amazing charities that Comic Relief supports, and can I just say one thing?

'When you treat people like you're treating a minor celebrity that's riding a tandem past you, there's too much coming my way, put it somewhere else!' 

Money raised by Red Nose Day goes towards organisations helping to tackle homelessness, poverty and mental health along with other causes in the UK and throughout the world. 

Earlier in the day Greg screamed with joy as he learned he has raised £2.8million for his Comic Relief bike challenge - just miles from the finish line in Edinburgh. 

He set off from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders on Friday morning for his final day of cycling and started the day with a total amount raised of £2.5million. 

Just over an hour later, Greg took a break from cycling for a pit stop in North Middleton, Midlothian - just 16 miles from his final destination of Edinburgh.  

During the pit stop, Greg spoke to radio host Matt Edmonson, who revealed the total money he has raised had jumped up to £2,823,694. 

'2.8 million!! YESSS!' Greg screamed, before adding: 'Wow. We're really moving! It is stupid now. But that's fun. Silly things are fun aren't they? 

'Let's keep doing this silly thing and let's get it up to three. Do it for Arthur. Do it for Arthur and his big seat.' 

At the beginning of the clip, Greg said: 'I've asked for a silly total yo hand over to Comic Relief at the end of today. What are we on right now? Let's go.'

'Okay so when we last had a total it was £2.5million, which is crazy,' Matt said. 

Matt then added: 'We've only been on air for an hour and eight minutes. So let's find out what the new total is...'

Greg screamed with joy with joy at the total reveal of £2.8million before preparing to finish the route.