Big Brother 24’s Joseph Abdin and Taylor Hale Earn Top Fundraiser Award After Raising Nearly $27,000 for Charity
usmagazine.comDoing good outside the Big Brother house! Joseph Adbin and Taylor Hale earned a charity award while raising money to help sick children alongside more than 100 reality stars.“Together, we raised over $470,000, which will fulfill nearly 80 week-long cost-free vacations for critically ill kids and their families,” Joseph, 25, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, December 21, after the Hearts of Reality Event in Celebration, Florida, which helped benefit Give Kids the World. “As a child, my youngest brother was diagnosed with type one diabetes.
It was a difficult time for my family, so being able to give back to a cause I hold dear to me was so rewarding.”The CBS alum noted that he met “amazing children, families and reality stars over this weekend,” several of whom “shared with me how much this weekend meant to their children and the impact we have made.”Joseph and Taylor, 27, “raised nearly $27,000” between the two of them, with Joseph fundraising $14,069 and the BB24 winner bringing in $12,497.
Their hard work earned the couple — who went public with their romance in November — the Top Fundraiser award.“I will remember the [award] ceremony forever.
We heard the stories of families that we were able to help and it moved me to tears,” Joseph reflected to Us. “Immediately after, we were called to accept our [awards] and I was trying to get myself together ASAP!
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