Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez takes part in an ecumenic ceremony to pray for his health and cancer treatment at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 21, 2011.
Late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez takes part in an ecumenic ceremony to pray for his health and cancer treatment at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 21, 2011. Reuters/Stringer

Elliott Wright, the handsome star from The Only Way Is Essex, posed completely naked for the September issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Elliott opened up and shared his private reason for this act. He was motivated by an extremely personal fact which finally made him shedding off his clothes to speak out loud for a social cause.

According to the report by Daily Mail, Elliott posed naked this week for Cosmopolitan to raise more awareness about male cancer for Cancer Research UK.

Cancer Research UK takes huge initiative to carry on continuous research on cancer with immense hope to beat this dreadful disease one day to make the world a better place. Great amount of general awareness is needed across every part of the globe to fight against every form of cancer.

He confirmed his keenness to show support, especially after his father was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.

While speaking to Cosmopolitan magazine, Elliot said, “Cancer Research UK is so important. My dad just got diagnosed with prostate cancer and if it’d been found sooner it might not have spread to his bladder.”

Prostate cancer, specific to men, claims quite a few lives every year across the world. Faster detection is required to provide sufficient treatment to the patients.

“It really does open your eyes,” Elliot, a father of two kids, was quoted saying.

He also said that all his father’s brothers went through the tests to check their health status.

"I'm not like a lot of people you see on reality TV," he told to Cosmopolitan. "I'm divorced and my two kids live in Spain, where I run a restaurant business, so I spend a lot of time over there where my life is very different."

The reality star has reportedly started dating his co-star Chloe Sims in recent time.