college tuition – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com Good Celebrity is your best source for positive celebrity news and interviews Tue, 01 Aug 2017 02:05:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://goodcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-gc_logo_button_bkgd512px-32x32.png college tuition – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com 32 32 Will Ferrell Surprises College Student with $100,000 Tuition Check https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/06/22/will-ferrell-surprises-college-student-100000-check-tuition/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:09:21 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=3095 In his latest film, The House, Will Ferrell turns his home into a casino to pay for his child’s college education, but on Today he took a simpler approach in helping a college student cover her tuition. On Tuesday, June 20, the Anchorman star surprised Ithaca College student Samantha Watts with a check for $100,000. […]

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]]> In his latest film, The House, Will Ferrell turns his home into a casino to pay for his child’s college education, but on Today he took a simpler approach in helping a college student cover her tuition.

On Tuesday, June 20, the Anchorman star surprised Ithaca College student Samantha Watts with a check for $100,000.

“You can’t actually cash this,” Ferrell joked moments after presenting Watts with the giant check. “They’ll give you a real check.”

Watts, who is studying speech pathology and needs financial support for graduate school, initially thought she was a finalist for the Today scholarship contest and joined host Hoda Kotb outside the morning show’s New York studio to tell her story.




“I love my school, and I love everything that I do there,” she said. “But my dad actually is just recovered from cancer, from esophageal cancer, and a lot of our money had to go toward that last year. So we’re kind of dependent on scholarships and loans right now, and so it would be life changing for me (to win).”

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Her life quickly changed moments later as Kotb revealed that she wasn’t merely a finalist but the winner of the scholarship.

“I’m flabbergasted,” Watts said while fighting back tears as her family joined her on the set. “This is amazing!”

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]]> Nicki Minaj Offers to Pay Tuitions of Twitter Followers https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/05/08/nicki-minaj-offers-pay-tuitions-twitter-followers/ Mon, 08 May 2017 22:46:43 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=2923 The affordability of college tuition is a hotly debated topic and lately, celebrities are taking notice. In the past few months, Ellen Degeneres teamed with Shutterfly to pay off a Sudan refugee’s student loans and joined with Wal-Mart in awarding 41 high school students college scholarships, while model Chrissy Teigen paid off a woman’s beauty […]

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]]> The affordability of college tuition is a hotly debated topic and lately, celebrities are taking notice.

In the past few months, Ellen Degeneres teamed with Shutterfly to pay off a Sudan refugee’s student loans and joined with Wal-Mart in awarding 41 high school students college scholarships, while model Chrissy Teigen paid off a woman’s beauty school tuition. Now, Nicki Minaj is getting in on the charitable fun.




On Saturday night, the singer tweeted about a contest she was offering which would pay for the winner to fly out and join her at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 21.

However, rather than enter the contest, one follower asked if she would pay for his college tuition instead.

“Show me straight A’s that I can verify w/ur school and I’ll pay it. Who wants to join THAT contest?!?! Dead serious. Shld I set it up?” Minaj responded.

That tweet opened an onslaught of requests from other followers who tweeted proof of their grades along with explanations for each of their respective situations.

Initially, Minaj made the stipulation that her fans had to have a 4.0 grade-point average to receive tuition, but she got loose with the rule once students began with smaller payment requests of remaining classes.

After roughly forty minutes of answering the wishes of her fans, Minaj closed the contest and once more gave her word that she’d pay up as soon as possible.

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