George Lopez and his wife Ann hosted the twenty-ninth annual Gift of Life Tribute Celebration Dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel on May 18th to hono Samuel L. Jackson and his wife Latanya Richardson. Jackson was honored with a Humanitarian award for his involvement with the National Kidney Foundation. "They've (Jackson and Richardson) always done stuff for other people and have been great supporters of my wife Ann and I," said Lopez.Jackson's involvement is a personal one, as his niece had been ill for a long time and awaiting a transplant. He made a plea at last year's gala to find a donor for her. A match was found: one of his cousins. "Now she has joined the one kidney club, as I call it," joked Ann, who gave her husban Lopez on of her kidneys in 2005, the same year he was diagnosed with kidney disease.
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