• iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Home Alone star gets live-saving cancer treatment after fans raised $100,000 for his surgery

Home> Entertainment> Celebrity

Published 23:52 11 Dec 2023 GMT

Home Alone star gets live-saving cancer treatment after fans raised $100,000 for his surgery

Ken Hudson Campbell 'burst into tears' when he saw the GoFundMe hit its goal.

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Featured Image Credit: 20th Century Fox. GoFundMe

Topics: Home Alone, Celebrity

Stewart Perrie
Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie is a Senior Journalist at LADbible. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewing a doctor on the front line, and has contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign. He is in charge of the LADbible Australia editorial content and social presence.

X

@stewartperrie

Advert

Advert

Advert

An actor who has appeared in the likes of Home Alone, Armageddon and Groundhog Day has been given an early Christmas present.

Ken Hudson Campbell was diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma back in October, which is a type of cancer that formed in his mouth.

He had done several biopsies in the past and doctors tried to control it, however it became very aggressive this year when he lost his health insurance.

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

Advert

His daughter, Michaela, told PEOPLE: "He lost his health insurance with SAG and he had to stop going to the same doctors that he had been going to for a while about his mouth.

"And it discouraged him a little bit and he just didn't really check on it.”

“I think it was really shocking for us because we thought he was taking care of it, at least I did. It was really hard for me to hear and I had a hard time emotionally.

"My dad, he was just in shock about it all.”

Michaela started a GoFundMe for her dad in the hope of raising some cash for surgery to remove the tumour as well as his recovery.

Advert

Fans all over the world dug deep and more than $102,000 has been donated to help him.

The surgery required taking out some of his lymph nodes and they took bone from his leg to reconstruct his jaw.

The road ahead will be a long one for the 61-year-old as he will lose a lot of his ability to talk, so speech therapy will be needed in the coming months.

20th Century Fox

Ken and his family cannot believe how generous people have been for his health battle.

Advert

Michaela explained to PEOPLE: “The first day we posted it, every time he read something, he would just burst into tears.

"It was the first time he really got emotional about the whole situation.

"It was kind of a shock to him to feel so loved.”

She added: “My family's been struggling for a long time financially. So just having my dad's friends come together, this is just very overwhelming and it really takes a lot of stress off of my family's shoulders.”

Ken is probably most notably known as Santa in Home Alone when Kevin McCallister asks for his Christmas wish.

Choose your content:

12 hours ago
16 hours ago
a day ago
  • Paramount+
    12 hours ago

    Ozzy Osbourne's heartbreaking last words on video revealed in documentary filmed just before his death

    Ozzy: No Escape From Now will hit screens next month

    Entertainment
  • X/@DaBabyDaBaby
    16 hours ago

    Rapper met with backlash after he releases music video mimicking final moments of Ukrainian refugee killed on train

    DaBaby has posted a music video which appears to reference the killing of Iryna Zarutska

    Entertainment
  • Amy Sussman/Getty Images
    a day ago

    People left in shock after Stephen Graham’s reveals ethnicity during powerful Emmys speech

    The actor opened up about his heritage after winning an award for his work on Adolescence

    Entertainment
  • BBC
    a day ago

    Forget swiping – this brand-new dating show dumps couples on a beach to see if love can thrive

    When the honeymoon involves no phones, no mates and just one outfit, you know drama’s guaranteed

    Entertainment
  • Home Alone director reveals why he'd never reboot the iconic movies
  • All Home Alone actors who have passed away since movie was first released
  • Why Hollywood legend was paid just £325 to star in Home Alone
  • Pigeon lady star from Home Alone 2 has made heartbreaking admission about her acting career