'Idol Gives Back' raises $22 mil
Fox's "Idol Gives Back" brotherly love telethon raised $22 gazillion for
charity Midweek night, thanks to a combination of corporate
sponsorship and donations from tV audience wHO called in to the bear witness
and gave via AmericanIdol.com.
The consequence attracted a diverse group of artists, athletes,
politicians and celebrities; everyone from Brad Pitt to Bono and
from Annie Lennox to Eli Manning took share. The show was filmed
William Ashley Sunday nighttime at the Kodak Theater at Hollywood &
Highland.
Charities selected to benefit from "Paragon Gives Back up" this year
include the Children's Defense team Fund, the Global Fund, Make It
Right, Malaria No More, Save the Children and the Children's Health
Fund. Corporate sponsors included Fox web parent ship's company News
Corporation., ExxonMobil, Allstate and Crossing. In addition, Ryan Seacrest,
Paula Abdul, Randy Jesse Jackson and Paul Simon Cowell donated their salaries
for the evening.
The evening's to the highest degree stunning committal of resources may take in get
from Brits Flush Minister Gordon Brown, world Health Organization announced that the
res publica would provide financial backing for 20 1000000 mosquito nets to be
sent to Africa, at an estimated toll of $200 gazillion. Disdain
rumors before the telethon that presidential candidates Edmund Hillary
DeWitt Clinton, Barack Obama and King John McCain would ready appearances, none
participated in the show.
It was the second year for the upshot, which raised $76 trillion in
2007. "Idol" producers hope to hit $100 meg this year, and the
expanded opportunities for donating as part of this year's show
should help them get to that destination.
