LOS ANGELES — Kevin Hart will host the go back of a well-liked telethon as soon as spearheaded via the overdue Jerry Lewis to struggle muscular dystrophy.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association introduced Wednesday that Hart will host the MDA Kevin Hart Kids Telethon. The two-hour, star-studded digital fundraiser match will air Oct. 24.
Celebrity visitors will come with Michael B. Jordan, Eva Longoria, Jack Black, Usain Bolt, Josh Gad and Jillian Mercado, who used to be identified with muscular dystrophy as a kid.
Hart mentioned the telethon’s go back is an “incredible opportunity” to carry again the paintings of Lewis, who helped make the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon a tv custom for many years. Lewis died from herbal reasons in 2017.
Lewis used to be referred to as the ringmaster of the MDA telethons, which raised billions of greenbacks along with his beef up for the reason that 1960s, together with greater than $60 million in 2009.
Lewis stepped down as host in 2011 and the affiliation held its closing telethon 3 years later.
The October display will receive advantages the affiliation’s paintings and Hart’s Help From the Hart charity.
“I’m honored to collaborate with MDA and my organization, to educate and entertain the public about the need to support people with disabilities and disadvantages, because we are all in this together,” Hart mentioned in a commentary.
MDA president and CEO Lynn O’Connor Vos praised Lewis for organising a basis of “help and hope” for the affiliation. She hopes the telethon can proceed to lend a hand lift consciousness to treatments for muscular dystrophy and different similar neuromuscular illnesses.
“Kevin Hart and the Help From the Hart foundation are the perfect match for MDA to bring the magic and power of the telethon into a new era of giving, and to bring the remarkable stories of strength of MDA families into the hearts and homes of people across the country,” she mentioned.