Newark Nonprofits Featured on ABC's 'Secret Millionaire'
Screening held last night for Inspiring reality show spotlighting three city charities
Newark last night received an uplifting jolt of reality -- television, that is. Three city charities were featured on ABC’s “Secret Millionaire", in which wealthy individuals are temporarily cut off from their fortunes and assume false identities while searching out worthy causes. At the end of the program comes the big reveal, when the rich guy or gal discloses their true identity and bestows a generous cash award on the stunned recipient. The millionaire this week, the season premiere, was 52-year-old artist Scott Jacobs and his teenage daughter Alexa, who live in a California mansion far bigger than many of the city’s three-family homes. Jacobs, who did not know where he was being sent by the show, is a Cranford native who was born in …
Celeste Bateman
1:42 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
I watched it on ABC on demand today and cried through the whole thing. Congrats to all the recipients and to the Jacobses for their ood works! more ›