Kaelin's Entertainment Report: Taylor Swift Donation & Chandler Bing!

Taylor Swift donated $100,000 to a child battling cancer. A freshman at Vanderbilt goes viral for his name Chandler Bing, the same name as the fictional character on the tv shows Friends.

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While you're working on that, Kaylen. Kaitlyn, the mother of
a two year old named Lilah, who is battling a
pretty rare form of cancer, got a pretty shocking call
from her husband a few days ago when he told
her that none other than Taylor Swift donated one hundred
thousand dollars to their GoFundMe set up to help with

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Lila's medical bills, and Caitlyn says that Lilah has been
a swiftye since she was in the womb. She was
actually pregnant with her at the era's tour and that's
where she felt her kick for the first time. But
the little one's cancer journey started when she suffered a
seizure at just eighteen months. The doctors discovered a mass
on her brain, which was found to be stage four

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a tumor. Lyla underwent brain surgery to get rid of
the tumor, and thankfully the procedure was successful, but what
would have been a celebration turned into a nightmare when
later in the week she was diagnosed with a very rare,
aggressive form of brain cancer. Now, though her cancer journey
and throughout her cancer journey, it's been hard, but her mom, Caitlin,

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has posted all these really sweet videos of Lyla dancing
to Taylor Swift and she actually went viral for a
video where Lila says that Taylor Swift is her friend
and that must be how Taylor found this one, although
I know we just heard that she scrolls it like
it's a social media app, but that's probably, you know,
how she saw and found out about Little Lila's story,

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and on the donation she wrote, sending the biggest hug
to my friend Lila. Love Taylor Swifties then started to
join in donating in increments of thirteen and they have
last time I checked, almost matched Taylor's donation. So it's
it's pretty crazy. Yeah, it's really sweet. This little girl
is adorable, adorable. Excuse me if you want to donate

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or keep up with her journey. She is at stand
up with Lyla. Now, speaking of Swifties, they were also busy.
They raised over two hundred million over I'm sorry, not
two hundred over two million dollars for an aquarium after
she wore a vented shirt with an otter on it.
So in her The Life of a Showgirl movie that
hit theaters when the album did, she's seen wearing a

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very faded Monterey Bay Aquarium vinted shirt with a photo
of like I said, an otter on it, along with
some facts about otters. After the aquarium got a bunch
of questions about the shirt because people saw the movie
and wanted to buy one, they printed a new batch
featuring the og artwork from nineteen ninety three. The shirts
became part of a fundraising campaign for a minimum donation

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of sixty five dollars and thirteen cents a not to
Taylor's favorite number. The campaign's goal was to raise one million,
but now they have raised more than two point three
million dollars, which is crazy. So the power of Taylor
doing good things and Paulina, have you heard about Vanderbilt's
newest basketball star? No? Okay, Well, Chandler Bing, and Atlanta

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native who announced his commitment to Vanderbilt on April twenty nine,
shares his name with, of course, the beloved Friend's character
played by the late Matthew Perry. This, Chandler says he
has never even seen the iconic series that aired throughout
the nineties and early two thousands. He said, I actually
haven't watched the show, and he said I never really
had a problem with the jokes, adding that his parents

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have never seen the show either. So this was just
an accident. And you know, Chandler Bing is out there
playing basketball. Could I be making more biscuits? That's like
a specific name though, that's like too specific? Yeah, I
mean it's.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Wait, so the parents never saw the show. They just
happened to name their Chandler.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah. Yeah, that's why I feel really right. Yeah, she said.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I agree. I agree the Shenanigans. It just so
happens that your last name is being and you chose
the name Chandler. But you didn't know that was a
pop culture reference, right?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
He couldn't choose Steve, He said, my parents weren't even
thinking about the show when they named me. Now of
course she's I mean since seen like an episode or
two his mom. But apparently that just happened. But fred Zi,
whatever you says, he's not buying it. If you want
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