Was Chris Rock’s Oscars girl scout cookie segment faked?
CHRIS Rock’s Girl Scout Cookie segment during the Oscars raised an incredible $65,000. Right?
ONE of the most memorable segments of yesterday’s Academy Awards ceremony came when host Chris Rock brought his daughters and their Girl Scout friends on to the stage, for the cookie sale to end all cookie sales.
Explaining that, as a competitive dad, he wanted his girls to sell the most cookies in their drive, he implored the celebs in the audience — many millionaires among them — to dig deep and spend up big on sweet treats for the ceremony.
A little later in the show, Rock and the girls returned to the stage to reveal just how much money had been raised. The incredible figure? $65,243 US.
An impressive stat, but as TMZ reports, likely a total fib.
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A Girl Scout rep tells TMZ that they actually sold around 500 boxes of cookies at $5 a pop, giving them a total profit of $2,5000. They say the $65k figure was just a pre-planned number for the skit.
And while it appeared on the night as if the beneficiaries of money raised were the Girl Scout group in which Rock’s daughters are members, that isn’t the case. While Rock’s kids Lola and Zahra are members of a New York-based troop, the money raised on the night will go to a Girl Scout troop in Inglewood, California — not too far away from where the Oscars are held at LA’s Dolby Theatre.