For her 60th birthday celebration, Ellen DeGeneres, gave $1 million to fans in the audience on her talk show, as they all contributed to her One Million Acts of Good campaign.
She said, “Everybody in the audience is here for a special reason. All season long, I partnered with Cheerios to encourage people to do ‘One Million Acts of Good’ and if you’re here in my audience, you helped us reach that goal.”
DeGeneres acknowledged Kenya and John Hughes, who used their own money to drive a U-Haul 800 miles to deliver aid to Hurricane Harvey victims as well as teacher Lori Gaines, who donated a kidney to the mother of one of her students and Dan McKernan, who quit his job to start a sanctuary for farm animals.
The host then asked the audiences to check under their seats to see if they had a box of the cereal as every lucky chair would win the prize and in a surprising turn of events, everyone in the audience had one. “Isn’t that interesting? What a coincide,” DeGeneres smiled as she announced, “You’re all gonna share this gift. It’s the biggest gift I have ever given anybody ever, and I hope you continue to pay it forward and share all the good. Hold on to your Cheerios because all of you are splitting $1 million.”
