Taylor Swift to take South Jersey teen to the ACM awards
Taylor Swift has asked leukemia patient Kevin McGuire to be her date at a country music awards show.
Taylor Swift to take South Jersey teen to the ACM awards
Molly Eichel, Daily News Staff Writer
Country music doyenne Taylor Swift is all about living the fairy tale. Today, she's making a fairy tale for one South Jersey teen suffering from cancer.
Kevin McGuire, who is battling leukemia, asked Swift to the prom at Sterling Regional High School, in Somerdale, Camden County. Swift unfortunately couldn't make it. “Kevin, I'm so sorry but I won't be able to make it to your prom,” Swift posted on her Facebook page. “But I was wondering, the ACM Awards are coming up.. Would you be my date?”
Instead, she did the next best thing: Swift invited McGuire to be her date for the Academy of Country Music Awards April 1 in Las Vegas.
Everybody now: "Awwww!"
McGuire is being treated for a relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was first diagnosed with leukemia when he was 13.
His sister, Victoria, cooked up the idea to have Swift attend McGuire’s prom and a Facebook page dedicated to the cause had nearly 90,000 members as of yesterday.
“I tried thinking of a kind person who would make me feel OK. And laugh,” he said. “A person who would look amazing, and the one person who would make me feel special for one night. It was her.”
nothing like a little public arm twisting to shame a celebrity into doing something they should not be exppected to, a good PR move though.— coadyp- Good luck Kevin - Just remember that Miss Swift has been known to write some wonderfully entertaining songs about ex-boyfriends, so be careful...— Dragon76
- ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! God Bless Kevin- May he get well.— mrjarn
- It's a shame the family had to shame Taylor Swift into doing this. It's one thing when a celebrity instigates something like this themselves, but it's not very nice when a celebrity has to be forced to do something to avoid public humiliation.— ej610
- A really very nice thing for her to do.....A big time wealthy star trying to help someone feel a little bit better about thier life......Just think if every ego driven diva in Hollywood or the Sports world would reach out to us real people.....and spread some love, some money and some time.....It certainly would not change their wealth, AND FINALLY THERE WOULD BE A REASON TO LOOK UP TO THEM BESIDES A TALENT THAT THEY WERE BORN WITH AND HAVE MILKED FOR THIER OWN PERSONAL SUCCESS....— nuggett
- Good......Still would like her to see her go to the Dance with him. She's doing this so SHE will be in a safe place. Guess her people don't think the school would beable to give enough security.— DocPhillyfan
- Also: Goota say she's turning out to be easy on the eye's.....Smoking Legs!!!!— DocPhillyfan
- to all the posters who think its wrong to use social media to "pressure" or "guilt" a celebrity into doing something good i have a question. hate much? sounds like jealousy to me. social media is for the most part a huge waste of time and does more harm on any given day than good. so go back to posting on facebook how big your new puppy is getting or some obscure song lyrics because everyone is fascinated. lol— poorcarole
- What a wonderful decision by someone with a heart and living her faith. (SHAME on all of you who criticize this act of kindness!)— MooseBreathMints
- "social media is for the most part a huge waste of time and does more harm on any given day than good. so go back to posting on facebook how big your new puppy is getting or some obscure song lyrics because everyone is fascinated." (@poorcarole)
i just had to re-post that again.......because it's so TRUE. i'd only add that the best time to post is when you're behind the wheel of a two ton vehicle. don't worry about the rest of us, we understand what you're texting is just soooo important..........
btw, kudos to ms swift. class act— justintime73 - The point here, IMHO, is that we don't need to celebrate another celebrity gone diva but a cool person who demonstrates that hard work, being the best you can be, and really caring about others is the way to reach your dreams ; Taylor is that person and her fans, America,
and the world can be proud of her for it ;
— Jeff Scott
