Our weekly round-up of interesting and outlandish information, collected from the corners of the charity sector.

Well, the pig looks happy

Diary is obviously uncertain which bit of this week’s headline is going to get most attention from readers. It could be any of the three clauses, really.

Most people, when they want to talk about their charitable foundation, they... Well, they talk about their charitable foundation. But not Miley Cyrus, occasional pop singer and the most ridiculously attention-seeking woman in the world. If Cyrus wants to talk about her charity, she first has to remove all clothing, cover herself in mud, and cuddle her pet pig, Bubba Sue.

Cyrus’s appearance on the cover of Paper Magazine, earlier this week, is a state of advanced dishabille and sent celebrity news outlets into some kind of involuntary spasm of happiness as a result.

People may not have spotted that this was a charity promotion, what with the nakedness and the enormous porcine, but it was. Cyrus was actually talking about her Happy Hippy Foundation, which works with LGBT young people.

As to the purpose of the pig in the picture? Diary, after much careful examination, sadly remains entirely unenlightened.

Like Voldemort, except with slightly more hair

Lance Armstrong is attempting to convince people that he’s a nice person by going on a charity bike ride. He’s doing some stages of the Tour de France for the charity Cure Leukaemia. But he says everyone is being nasty to him. He says, he’s treated like Lord Voldemort. Everyone is trying to pretend that he never lived.

To be fair to Lance, he has done a lot for charity over the years, and this is a nice gesture. And he’s never tried to kill anyone with a wand, or set a giant snake on them, so that’s another mark in his favour.

It’s just a shame about the years of cheating, the vicious cover-ups, and the shameless attempts to ruin those who bravely tried to tell the truth. It may be those, Lance, which are causing the problems.

Arm wrestle goes spectacularly wrong

So you get a couple of former Australian rugby league players onto a TV show for a charity arm wrestle. The cameras roll. Everybody smiles. People laugh. There are a bunch of jokes.

And then one of them breaks the other’s arm.

Ben Ross, who played for a number of rugby league teams in Australia, had his arm broken by Wendell Sailor, another former league player, live on television during the Iron Arm Challenge, a regular weekly segment in the NRL Footy Show. Suffice to say it was a bit of a shock, and the channel cut to an ad break.

Ross, remarkably, seems in good spirits, bears no grudges, and three hours later was demanding a left handed rematch.