DoSomething.org released their annual list of most charitable celebrities. Us Weekly reports that Taylor Swift has once again won the top spot; she has held firm in first place since 2012. The criteria for the list is a bit specious, but here is the full list:
1. Taylor Swift
2. Laverne Cox
3. Beyonce
4. Miley Cyrus
5. Emma Watson
6. One Direction
7. John Cena
8. Shonda Rhimes
9. Tyler Oakley
10. Chris Pratt
11. John Legend
12. Olivia Wilde
13. Kerry Washington
14. Zendaya
15. Demi Lovato
16. Lupita Nyong'o
17. Amy Poehler
18. Lebron James
19. Mindy Kaling
20. Justin Bieber
These are the top celebs who have donated to DoSomething.Org not in general, I assume?
ReplyDeleteSt. Angie didn't meet the criteria?
ReplyDeletegood question---
DeleteMy thoughts exactly
Deletedidn't they get 2 million for the doodle wedding dress photos for charity? ?
Amy poeler!! I relove her!!
ReplyDeleteAnd once again the family of darkness does shit for anyone. How do the live with themselves?
The article is vague and I can't find the press release from DoSomething, however, there seems to me to be a difference in donating the proceeds of a song (Swift) and 'bringing awareness' to feminism (Beyonce and Watson) or homelessness (Cyrus). Cyrus earns marks for letting a homeless man speak at the VMAs.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to credit Bieber who has "granted more than 200 wishes for the Make-A-Wish Foundation", but if that's just because he's met with children who wanted to meet him, I don't consider that 'charitable'.
I find it amusing when celebrities get kudos for "donating their time". Stay at home and write a check. The thought of someone generating revenue/donations because they show up somewhere irks me.
I hate Bieber, but 200 wishes is significant. It's obvious that this group focused on celebrities that put themselves out there in public for causes by showing up at events and raising awareness. I love Laverne Cox, but there's no effing way she's given more $$ than at least 50 other celebrities I can think of who are not on the list.
DeleteAlso, with Miley - the guy she brought out wasn't homeless. And his bout homelessness was iffy at best. It was by choice. He could have lived with his family, but he wanted to live in LA to try to make it as a model. When he hit hard times, he refused their offers to go back home (mid-west). There's so many homeless people who don't have any options and are couch-surfing, sleeping in shelters or living outdoors...
They sold some stuff on ebay and gave 10% to their fav charity---Kris Jenner!
ReplyDeleteOh and Ot alert not sure if this has been covered yet but baby beiber has been called out liar liar diaper on fire for saying he bought the private jet for Christmas. .
ReplyDeletehe merely chartered it for a flight to Canada
Of course he did (only hire it) - kid is running out of do$h, which is why he's renting up in the Hills
DeleteThanks for clearing that up Derek. What a relief.
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteI think it's simply a list of celebrities for whom they possessed proof (and in the top scorers, multiple publicly-known incidences) of giving/contributing. Some celebrities are very quiet about their giving, some aren't, and some are exposed by the recipients (Taylor's many visits to children's hospitals/patients may be part of the calculation, and most if not all of those are posted by the delighted families and children, IMO.)
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that Laverne Cox is #2. She can't make a fraction of what Taylor Swift and some of the others make, but is that high. I really like her and like the attention she has brought to the transgender community.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand the John Cena character in WWE, but as a person, there has never been a better one in those "four ropes" (That's a shoutout to Cesaro fans from last night's RAW) in the history of the business. It seems there's hardly a day where he's not doing Make a Wish meet (One day with a PPV that night, Cena went to four different states to do Make a Wish things, then had to make the PPV in another state in time to put his match together and get ready. Doesn't sound like a lot, but when you've already been on the road 30+ days, it makes it a bit more amazing), doing charity fundraisers, giving his money to the same organizations he does work for and just in general raising a lot of awareness for children in need. I have nothing but respect for the man even if everytime I go to an event, I'm screaming "Cena Sucks!" along with half the crowd.
ReplyDeleteI know that sounds weird, "How can you like someone and say they suck?" you might ask. It's easy, it's just part of the fun of wrestling. The performers feed off of the interaction with the fans and the Cena character is written to appeal to children and women find him hot, while Men are supposed to hate him, so we play along all the while having all the respect in the world for the man, it's the character we don't like. It's like Bruce Dern in "The Cowboys", people hated him because his character killed John Wayne in the movie. People couldn't separate him from the character but we would love to shake Cena's hand and tell him thanks for all he does but then boo the hell out of him in the ring.
Hey Rowdy, kind of like how we used to cheer Hulk Hogan on in the ring (I'm talking late 1980's) and how we'd love to drop Hulk off a pier in a pair of cement wrestling boots NOW!
ReplyDeleteWell, I've always wanted Hogan to end up in a pair of cement shoes. I have a great insider i can contact for info on wrestling (dude's seriously a legend) and I've known about Hogan being a dick since the first time I ever saw him. He's sabotaged so many careers and cost so many people a lot of money (either by not being willing to work with them or changing booking to fit himself) that he is probably the most hated guy EVER in the business by the guys in the locker room. This wasn't even during the nWo era, this was going all the way back to his first WWF title reign. Originally, they wanted Piper to beat him for the title on that MTV Special (The War to Settle the Score) a few months before the first WrestleMania was announced. The whole setup was going to be Piper holding the belt as a heel, with Hogan having to go through Piper's crew of Paul Orndorff and bob Orton, Jr. (among other random heels) to finally get a shot at the title at the first WrestleMania with Hogan closing out the show by pinning Piper for the title, Orndorff turning on Piper and then setting up for WrestleMania 2 the next year where Hogan and Orndorff would fight for the title. So about six-eight months of the biggest heel in wrestling holding the title and the top babyface chasing him and getting ducked until the heel couldn't hide anymore. Classic booking, works 100% of the time and makes the babyface even bigger for overcoming everything to win in the end.
DeleteHogan nixed it the night of the taping. He felt he was too big to lose the belt, he had to be kept strong. So instead of Hogan/Piper for the title at the first Mania (imagine how HUGE that would have been during that era) we get a tag match between Hogan and Mr. T vs. Piper and Orndorff. Then Mr. T was put against Piper in a "boxing match" at Mania 2 in one of the worst Mania matches ever and Hogan against King Kong Bundy in the main event. (I love Bundy, great guy and awesome to talk to on Twitter, but not a Wrestlemania main event caliber wrestler) All because of Hogan's ego and his need to be the top dog. Hell, he won the title at a WrestleMania in a match he wasn't even scheduled to be in because he was Hogan and wanted it.
Remember WrestleMania VI where he went against the Ultimate Warrior and lost to him in the middle of the ring? It was supposed to be a passing of the torch in a way. But Hogan kicked out just as the ref counted 3 so he still looked strong and no-sold Warriors finish, then spent the entire post match celebration that was supposed to be Warriors time to shine in the ring making it about Hogan. He then went backstage and started talking to Vince about how he was going to get the belt back the next year without him having to go against Warrior again (since working with Warrior exposed how bad Hogan was in the ring), so they ended up bringing in Sgt. Slaughter, a freaking MEMBER OF GI JOE (!!!!) and had him turn against America and win the belt against Warrior so Hogan could beat him the next Mania.
Hogan's ego knows no bounds. He feels it's his world and we're just lucky enough to be in it. All those years of Jesse Ventura and Bobby Heenan talking bad about him on commentary weren't just them being the heel announcers, no, they were just relaying stuff about Hogan the boys in the back wanted to say about him. They would get lines to use about him from different wrestlers. Nobody liked Hogan but his "clique". Who were in his clique? Just look at who went from WWF to WCW within six months of him, those were his boys.
Yep; you called it
ReplyDeleteI thought a lot of WWE did make-a-wish. Also, some of these seem like low earners to be on a top 20 of charitable celebs.
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