Ellen Degeneres gives $1 mn to fans

Los Angeles Feb 3 (IANS) Celebrity television host Ellen Degeneres has given $1 million to fans in the audience for a taping of her talk show as they all contributed to her One Million Acts of Good campaign.

"I wanna take a moment to say everybody in the audience is here for a special reason. All season long I ve 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 " femalefirst.co.uk quoted DeGeneres as saying.

She then told the audience to check under their seats to see if they had a box of the breakfast snack as every lucky chair would be winning a prize. When every person in the 400 capacity studio lifted up a box she revealed they would be getting an equal share of $1 million.

"Thanks to every single person in this audience it is filled with goodness and we have reached one million acts of good because of all of you. So I wanna do something that we ve never done before. This is big okay?

"If you have a box of Cheerios under your seat I m going to give you a special surprise gift. So check and see if you have a box of Cheerios under your seat. What a coincidence that all of you would get a box of Cheerios.

"You re all going to share this gift. It s the biggest gift I ve ever given anybody ever. And I hope you continue to pay it forward and share all the good. Hold onto your Cheerios because all of you are splitting one million dollars! That s a lot of money!"

Among the people in the audience were a teacher who donated a kidney to a student s mother a couple who drove 800 miles to deliver supplies during Hurricane Harvey and a man who quit his job to start a sanctuary for farm animals.

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