Eva Longoria: LA is a working class city, it is not just celebrity homes burning
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Eva Longoria said there needs to be “more humanity and grace” over those suffering the impact of the Los Angeles wildfires, suggesting there has been a focus on the “rich celebrities” whose homes have been lost. Desperate Housewives star Longoria and her foundation pledged one million dollars (£819,000) to support the Latino Community Foundation (LCF) and the California Community Foundation’s wildlife recovery fund on Monday.
The donation came from a part of the 50 million dollar (£41 million) Courage and Civility Award she received from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in March. Co-hosting Jenna And Friends on the Today Show, Longoria said there has been a “beautiful coming together of everybody” in the wake of the fires, which she is proud to see “of a city that I’ve called home for 25 years”.
“Everybody is helping, everybody is donating, everybody is out in the streets – where the fires are still going, there are people with water hoses,” she said. However, the 49-year-old actress described it as “irritating” that the rhetoric has been around “rich celebrities homes are burning”.
Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal, Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg were among the Hollywood stars who have lost their homes. “Los Angeles is a working class city, it’s union town, a lot of union members,” Longoria said.
