{"id":59940,"date":"2023-12-07T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/home-alone-star-pleads-with-fans-for-cash-as-he-faces-huge-cancer-op-bills\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:36:24","slug":"home-alone-star-pleads-with-fans-for-cash-as-he-faces-huge-cancer-op-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/home-alone-star-pleads-with-fans-for-cash-as-he-faces-huge-cancer-op-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;Home Alone&apos; star pleads with fans for cash as he faces huge cancer op bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-12-07\" datetime=\"1701981384\" pubdate=\"\">7 December 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Home Alone\u2019 actor Ken Hudson Campbell has started a GoFundMe asking fans for help with the huge bills he is facing for cancer surgery.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">\u2018Home Alone\u2019 actor Ken Hudson Campbell has started a GoFundMe asking fans for help with the huge bills he is facing for cancer surgery<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old star, who played Santa in the festive favourite alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/macaulay-culkin\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,macaulay-culkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macaulay Culkin<\/a>, is pleading with people to give him help this Christmas with cash as he has to pay for a 10-hour surgery he is set to undergo on Thursday (07.12.23) to remove a cancerous tumour. <\/p>\n<p>The GoFundMe statement says: \u201cSurgeons plan to reconstruct a new jaw for Ken from this leg bone, install it, and treat him with radiation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will have a 6-month recovery period and Chemo may be needed afterwards as well. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn January of 2022, following the COVID-19 pandemic, Ken lost the SAG-AFTRA health insurance that he had used for his whole career. Since then he has switched to Kaiser, and has great faith in his new team. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cRegardless, he\u2019s looking at a week in the hospital, dealing with a feeding tube, skin grafts, and a Tracheotomy, and we are looking at further recovery possibilities like nursing homes. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEven though physical therapy and speech therapy are covered, we are anticipating huge out-of-pocket costs for caregivers\/skilled nursing, insurance premiums, medical equipment, transportation, dental implants, dentures and who knows what else. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cKen Campbell is a family man. A loving father of two children with an admirable lust for life, and a passion for acting, writing, and sports. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt is possible that this procedure will affect his ability to work as an actor in the future. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe are asking for your help so that Kenny can use the time ahead to return to health, and spend more time with family and friends. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEvery prayer, positive thought, dollar, or gesture of support means the world to our family.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nSo far, the actor has reached $62,000 of his $100,000 going towards his future health expenses and expected six-month-long recovery period. <\/p>\n<p>\nKen\u2019s surgery involves the removal of a large portion of his jawbone removed in order to get to the cancerous tumour. <\/p>\n<p>\nAlong with starring in \u2018Home Alone\u2019, Ken has also acted in \u2018Armageddon\u2019, \u2018Groundhog Day\u2019 and \u2018Down Periscope\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/home-alone-star-pleads-fans-cash-faces-huge-cancer-bills-1389643.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 December 2023 \u2018Home Alone\u2019 actor Ken Hudson Campbell has started a GoFundMe asking fans for help with the huge bills he is facing for cancer surgery. \u2018Home Alone\u2019 actor Ken Hudson Campbell has started a GoFundMe asking fans for help with the huge bills he is facing for cancer surgery The 61-year-old star, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5436,5306,5437],"class_list":{"0":"post-59940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ken-hudson-campbell","9":"tag-macaulay-culkin","10":"tag-santa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}