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DiCaprio, De Niro, Bieber and more offer personal coronavirus fund prizes

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Image caption Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio pictured in January

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are providing a toddle-on characteristic in their new movie to a fan who donates to a brand new megastar-pushed Covid-19 fund.

Those that give to the All In Mission will doubtless be entered into a prize design.

The advertising and marketing and marketing campaign became once launched on Tuesday to support feed vulnerable of us within the US and has already raised $5.6m (£4.4m).

Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Hart, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber and many US sport stars fetch also offered donors a possibility to face up shut and deepest.

Bieber has promised to fly to one lucky fan’s condominium – once the lockdown is over – for a non-public performance of his 2009 hit One Less Lonely Girl.

Hart has offered a speaking characteristic in his next movie, while Timberlake and Invoice Murray will give a winner a round of golf.

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Image caption Ellen DeGeneres will let a a hit donor co-host her chat veil for a day

Matthew McConaughey has invited a donor to be part of him in his non-public field to peek an American Soccer game in Texas.

DeGeneres and important other, actress Portia de Rossi, will donate $1m (£800,000) and offer a donor the chance to co-host an episode of her chat veil.

DeGeneres and McConaughey fetch been both nominated to take fragment within the order by DiCaprio, who himself is providing a fan the chance to dangle round on the placement of Killers of the Flower Moon with him, De Niro and director Martin Scorsese.

“Even as you ever wondered what it became once address so as to work with the gargantuan Martin Scorsese, right here is your chance,” DiCaprio acknowledged.

Killers of the Flower Moon tells the myth of Native American killings in 1920s Oklahoma.

DiCaprio also lately launched The US’s Food Fund, to which he and Laurene Powell Jobs – widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs – gave a blended $5m (£4m).

The organisers of the All In Mission hope to make a choice $100m (£80m) for youths, the aged and frontline workers, via such charities as Meals on Wheels, No Youngster Hungry and The US’s Food Fund.

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As the coronavirus pandemic has long previous on, on the opposite hand, there has also been a backlash against the megastar world.

While many excessive-profile names fetch dug deep, there fetch been requires more stars to present generously themselves, while a string of celebrities fetch been criticised for posting self-indulgent videos.

They encompass Madonna talking about how Covid-19 is “the gargantuan equaliser” while sitting bare in a milky bath burly of rose petals; Gal Gadot leading an all-important particular person quilt version of Take into accounts; and Sam Smith having a “quarantine meltdown”.

That one and all ledRicky Gervais to declare lately: “I peek any individual complaining about being in a mansion with a swimming pool. And, , if truth be told, I staunch fetch no longer are seeking to listen to it.”

deal of stars who fetch helped coronavirus causes encompass:

  • Girl Gagahas worked with the charity World Citizento make a choice $35m (£28m)via corporate and philanthropic donations, and is organising the all-important particular person Together At House concert this weekend.
  • Rihanna‘s Clara Lionel Foundation has donated $5m (£4m) for causes address meals banks, testing in Africa, and protective equipment, and has one at a time acknowledged she has given $2.1m (£1.7m) to support home violence victims in LA.
  • Sir Elton Johndonated $1m to support “reply to the effects of COVID-19 on HIV admire the most marginalised communities across the enviornment”, and hostedthe iHeart Living Room Concert For The US, which raised $10m (£7.9m).
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Image caption Girl Gaga and Rihanna fetch contributed to the coronavirus trigger
  • U2fetch donated €10 million (£8.6m) to take care of deepest protective equipment (PPE) for frontline team in Ireland, with Bono for my fragment lobbying businesspeople to real affords (to boot as providing a tune impressed by the crisis).
  • Oprah Winfreyhas acknowledged she is giving a entire of $10m (£8.01m) “to support Americans during this pandemic in cities across the nation and in areas where I grew up”.
  • ActorsDamian Lewis,Helen McCroryandMatt Lucasfetch raised £1.1m viaa advertising and marketing and marketing campaign to feed NHS workers.

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