Steve Carell Tells Students Affected by Wildfires That Prom Tickets Are Paid for
In a recorded video, A-list actor Steve Carell dropped in on several high schools around Los Angeles to give the seniors a very special announcement.
The students probably thought it was a curious prank, or an AI-generated video, but they’d have been wrong. The announcement was that all the seniors’ prom tickets had been paid for by a nonprofit that Carell has personally worked alongside before.
They asked him to lend an air of stardust to their announcement video, and Carell was all too happy to ablige.
“Attention. Attention all seniors,” Carell said in the video, which beamed into the assembly halls of six schools in Altadena, California. “This is Steve Carell, with a very special announcement.”
Even though the Eaton Fire, which burned 14,000 acres of towns and hillsides to cinders, had left all six of the schools standing, many of the students lost their homes in the blaze.
3,000 miles away in Virginia, Alice’s Kids works anonymously to provide low-income or disadvantaged children something they need. In this case, it was determined that, along with taking away the burden on families of affording a $50-$185 prom ticket, what they needed more than anything was a good time.
“I work with a wonderful charity based out of Virginia called Alice’s Kids,” Carell said in the video. “And Alice’s Kids wanted me to let you know that they will be paying for all of your prom tickets.”
“The prom is a party, and more than anything, these kids need a party,” Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of Alice’s Kids, told the Washington Post. “They need something that is uplifting.”
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Steve Carell’s famous protagonist in The Office, Michael Scott, once promised children he’d pay for their college tuition through a program he started called Scott’s Tots, but as is often the case throughout the show, Michael backs out of his commitment to the kids after he realizes he doesn’t have the money.
Alice’s Kids is donating $175,000 to send 800 seniors to proms across Aveson Schools, Blair High School, John Muir High School, Marshall Fundamental Secondary School, Pasadena High School, and Rose City High School.
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“This means everything to our students…” said Lori Touloumian, the principal of Marshall Fundamental Secondary School. “It brought so much joy this morning, and that’s something that our students have really been missing.”
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