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Keanu Reeves is auctioning off a 15 minute Zoom chat to raise money for charity

Part of a 50-lot auction for the charity, the short video date with Reeves has already hit $17,600.

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Keanu Reeves is auctioning off a zoom date for charity. Source: Getty Images North America

Hollywood actor and secret philanthropic sweetheart Keanu Reeves has donated his star power to an Idaho-based children's cancer charity, auctioning off a 15-minute chat on Zoom to raise money for Camp Rainbow Gold.

Part of a 50-lot auction for the charity, the short video date with Reeves has already hit $17,600.

According to the item description, the lucky winner's Zoom call with Reeves will take place on the week of July 6, 2020 and based on "mutually available dates and times".

Sounds good to us!
"Someone wanna give $20K so I can have a zoom date with Ted Theodore Logan II? Aka Keanu Reeves." One fan tweeted.

Another wrote: "I wish I was rich to get that date with Keanu Reeves."

Other celebrities to get in on the good cause include former Fifth Harmony member Ally Brooke, who is auctioning off a 15-minute private Zoom concert.

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