Barbra Streisand, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jack Black will seem on Challenge Angel Meals’s upcoming Lead With Love telethon on KTLA 5.
Challenge Angel Meals offers dwelling supply meals to critically in poor health folks all through Los Angeles County. This yr’s telethon will deal with neighborhoods impacted by the January wildfires.
“Challenge Angel Meals is there earlier than, throughout, and after each disaster. Amid rising wants following the fires, inflation, and uncertainty round federal funding, Lead with Love is important,” Challenge Angel Meals CEO Richard Ayoub stated in a press release Monday. “1000’s of volunteers and donors stand with us to make sure nobody in Los Angeles faces sickness or disaster alone. It actually is inspiring.”
Lead with Love’s authentic hosts Eric McCormack and Jessica Holmes return, joined by five-time host Loni Love. Streisand will seem in a pre-recorded message and extra stars on the invoice embrace Jack Black, Jimmy Kimmel, Annie Lennox, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Matt Bomer, Nathan Lee Graham, Wilson Cruz, Ann-Margret, Lori Loughlin, Steven Weber, Cameron Mathison, and artist, creator, and activist Mary Fisher.
Performances embrace Air Provide and Foreigner, Richard Marx, and dwell from The Yaamava’ Efficiency Stage, in KTLA’s Studio 6B, Broadway and tv star Cheyenne Jackson, Billboard #1 Rising Artist Em Beihold and Grammy and Tony Award-winner Jennifer Holliday.
Offered by Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution, the telethon will broadcast dwell on KTLA 5 on June 28 at 7 p.m. PT.
The telethon may also embrace a phase that includes actor and tv host Cameron Mathison returning to Altadena, the neighborhood the place he misplaced his own residence through the Eaton Hearth. He visits with with Orna, a 90-year-old Challenge Angel Meals consumer dwelling with Alzheimer’s, and her niece Aria, who additionally misplaced their dwelling.
Brad Bessey returns as government producer of the telethon together with Michael Levitt and Ayoub and KTLA 5’s Marcus Smith and Jacob Burch. “Throughout two thrilling hours, we’ll remind the world that even when fires burn every thing away, compassion endures,” Bessey stated. “Our celebrities will journey all through the 4,752 sq. miles we serve, assembly people whose resilience is fueled by Challenge Angel Meals.”
Along with Metropolis Nationwide, sponsors embrace the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation, the Herb Ritts Basis, The Chuck Lorre Household Basis, and Ralphs/Food4Less Basis and others. Mark McBride serves as government producer of sponsorships.
