Video: Celebs go crazy for ice bucket challenges raising awareness of Lou Gehrig’s disease

Watch Robert Downey Junior, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg get soaked with ice water.

Video: Celebs go crazy for ice bucket challenges raising awareness of Lou Gehrig’s disease
Mon, 18 Aug, 2014 - 01:00
Kelly O'Brien

The latest craze to sweep Hollywood, and indeed Silicon Valley, is the ice bucket challenge.

It all started with a man called Pete Frates who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as ALS or Motor Neurone Disease.

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