Diane Keaton's Christmas Song and a Grey's Anatomy star's food poising (5 Good News Christmas Stories)

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news Christmas stories and this one's perfect for pet lovers. Who says Santa's just for humans? Well, Chewy certainly doesn't think so. They've brought back Chewy Claws for another year of making pets holiday wishes come true. Now here's how it works. If you've got a pet, whether they have paws, claws, fins, or wings, you can help them. Write to Chewy Claws through December twentieth. Just head to Chewy's website and you can pick from their gift options or write out any special wishes your furry or feathered friend might have. But here's the really good part. For every letter sent to Chewy Claws, they're donating one pound of food to their nonprofit partners up to six hundred pounds. And get this, your pet can even choose to skip their gift and send an extra pound of food to Pets and Neat instead.

0:56 How cool is that? Since this started last year, more than and five hundred thousand pets have written in asking for treats and toys. But you know what keeps showing up on thousands of wishless a wish for all shelter pets to find homes that really got to them. Here's what Chewy's Chief brand Officer, or Lena Jung said. When we received thousands of letters from pets asking for homes, we knew we had to help. There's no better way to celebrate the season than by uniting pets with loving families. Julie Cassele from Best Friends Animal Society said, as we head into the winter holidays, shelters and rescue organizations across the country are filled with adoptable dogs and cats that deserve loving homes. We can't think of a better time of year than the holiday season to make a pets wish for a loving home come true. This next one made me laugh. We've got another celebrity Christmas song, folks, but this one's a little different. Diane Keaton has just released her first holiday single. It's called First Christmas. Well, let's just say it's not exactly jingle bells and it's about not spending Christmas with your loved one. Keaton told Metro Canada back in twenty fourteen that she'd always had this dream of being a nightclub singer. She said, I had a fantasy of being a nightclub singer that I carried through even into my early twenties. She even took voice lessons for years. She admits she has a very small voice, and she's aware of the limitations. But you know what, she doesn't care. She told them, I love music.

2:18 I love singing ballads and sad songs. It's just so much fun. You know how sometimes you try to do the right thing and it doesn't quite work out. Well, that's what happened with their Market Square Christmas tree this year. See, they decided to go local this year. Well let's just say the locals weren't exactly thrilled. Some folks told the BBC it was small and disappointing. Ouch Sonia Taylor, who's in charge of managing the market buildings, tried to stay positive about it. She said, it's slightly disappointing. It's not as tall as the tree we had last year. However, we should accept that this tree was grown locally. But here's where it gets funny. Instead of just living with their shorter tree, they came up with a solution that's kind of brilliant in a why didn't we think of this before? Way? They're putting it on a platform love what some of the locals had to say about it.

3:02 This guy, Roberto told the BBC it's lovely to just see decoration, but it's important for next year to improve. I'll be curious to see how the town officialsal overreact next Christmas. This new version of Do They Know It's Christmas is actually creating controversy. When Bob Geldoff first put this together back in nineteen eighty four, it raised fifteen million dollars for Ethiopian famine relief in just one year. Since then, they've redone it three more times with different artists in eighty nine, two thousand and four, and twenty fourteen. But this new anniversary version, it's stirring up quite a conversation. Ed Sheeran, who sang on the twenty fourteen version, isn't too happy. He posted on Instagram that nobody asked if they could use his voice this time around. He said, had I had the choice, I would have respectfully declined the use of my vocals. The song sparked some interesting responses.

3:53 Rapper fuse Odg has even released his own charity song called We Know It's Christmas, with all profits going to community projects across AffA. Bob Geldoff standing by the original, though, he told the Times of London, this little pop song has kept millions of people alive. He points out there are still six hundred million hungry people in the world and says they're going to keep trying to help however they can. You know how some people get really particular about their Christmas trees, Well, Camilla Luddington from Grey's Anatomy takes it to a whole new level on her podcast with Jessica Capshaw. She admitted I'm ferocious about getting a tree. I like a very specific shape, a very specific needle, and get this, she says. She goes around, smelling, touching, and whispering to it like an insane person. She even calls it a military operation. Her poor husband, fellow actor Matthew Allen, has to stand there rotating trees while she inspects them from every possible angle. I got so stressful that she finally threw in the towel and bought a fake tree. As she puts it, that bad boy sits in our very cozy garage. She says, before making the switch, I would literally be on the floor like I had a nervous breakdown. And if you think that's something, wait till you hear about her Thanksgiving disaster. Being from the UK, she didn't grow up with Thanksgiving traditions, which led to a pretty memorable mishap. She tried cooking a turkey for her friends, but she says, I gave food poisoning that year to everyone that had turkey. I'm not kidding. I've never given food poisoning to anybody before, but people were throwing up that night. What's the good news there, John, Well, she didn't have you over for dinner. And those are your five good news Christmas stories for today. Have a

5:24 great day.