The Academy Awards paid tribute to the late actress and animal rights activist Betty White on Sunday by urging individuals to undertake pets from the nonprofit Paw Works. After Jamie Lee Curtis took the stage with a pet to announce the initiative, a well-known pal took half in an enormous manner.
Actor John Travolta and his son Ben adopted a canine. However not simply any canine — they selected MacNCheese, the canine Curtis introduced on stage.
"A MAGICAL ending to the story from final evening," Curtis wrote on Instagram, sharing a photograph of Travolta and and his son. "On the Oscars I reconnected with my pal, John Travolta. We starred collectively within the film PERFECT again in 1984."
Curtis defined she had already left the Dolby Theatre when she received a textual content of a photograph of Travolta with the canine within the inexperienced room earlier than he offered the award for finest actor. "I assumed it was so lovely to see him along with her after which at this time I came upon that he and his son, Ben have adopted lovely little Mac & Cheese and are taking her dwelling at this time," she wrote.
The actress, 63, stated it was "an emotional finish and an ideal tribute to Betty White."
Travolta and Paw Works additionally shared photographs of the canine and its new household on Instagram.
"On an evening of winners and losers, we expect Mac N Cheese is the largest winner of all!" the group wrote.
When White died on New 12 months's Eve on the age of 99, social media was flooded with messages concerning the actress, many remembering the icon for her two passions: appearing and animals.
The #BettyWhiteChallenge, which encourages individuals to donate to animal shelters in her honor, rapidly unfold on-line. Shelters throughout the U.S. stated they had been flooded with donations on what would've been White's one hundredth birthday on January 17.
A spokesperson for American Humane, the place White was a volunteer and board member, advised CBS Information internet site visitors and donations supporting the animal welfare group quadrupled since White's loss of life.