Justin Bieber Stands in for Santa with Sick Children While on Tour

By PopEater Staff Posted Dec 24th 2010 06:14AM

Justin Bieber has brought plenty of cheer to hundreds of thousands of his teen fans. Now it was time to do the same to the ill children of Atlanta.

MTV News reports that Bieber teamed up with local radio station Q100 to help Children's Healthcare of Atlanta while on tour in Georgia. To keep in the holiday spirit, they wanted to collect toys for the kids at the center and they did it in a novel way.

Bieber used his tour bus parked in front of Philips Arena as a substitute for Santa's sleigh and used the radio station to drum up publicity for a 'Stuff Bieber's Bus' stunt.

Within hours, the bus began to fill up with toys for the ailing children, helped by the radio station's on air promotions and Bieber's own publicity juggernaut: his Twitter account.

"I've been talking about it on the air for three or four weeks and I've got a trickle of a tweet and an email. Justin tweeted about it yesterday and all of a sudden there were a surge of targets, I got tweets and emails. So the bus is filling up really, really quickly," Bieber pal Bert Weiss told reporters at a press conference in the arena. Georgia's Own Credit Union matched every donation and Weiss reminded reporter that "every single child at a children's hospital will have a present now because of Justin Bieber."

Bieber was thrilled with the rapid response to the holiday drive. "I think that it doesn't really matter what you do," he told MTV. "As long as you're helping other people, why not do it?"

Bieber on Standng in for Santa

As for switching up the typical toy drive by packing a bus full of gifts, Bieber explained that the type of charity you choose isn't as important as actually giving back. "I think that it doesn't really matter what you do," he said. "As long as you're helping other people, why not do it?"

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Friday 24 December

By Eric

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Seems a little young to play Mrs. Claus.

By richardkenosha

And who the hell did you help this Christmas besides yourself????

By Candi Kane

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Be honest, Richie (richardkinosha). Why don't you just profess your eternal love for Justin Beiber to the whole world.

Dear KandiCane HO = Ho- Ho (big HO!)
Please go F*ck yourself...MERRY CHRISTMAS!

By cease2exist

when did justine botox her lips? she looks gorgeous with such plump lips!

By BTDT

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I like this kid.

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The kid has a good heart ....no denying that! Let's hope it stays that way. I didn't read about anyone else doinmg anything for kids like this.

By Edna Boyer

You must be on the Justin Beiber public relations payroll, or else his personal sex kitten.

Edna...You must be A BIG SKANK! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ahhh.. Edna and Kandi are really named Scott....LOL Sorry you must be a DRAG QUEEN!!!Happy Christmas anyways...SCOTT?KANDI?EDNA???

By caraanise116

My gosh, that was very sweet and thoughtful of you, Bieber. :)

By Kate s.

all of the above..funny stuff. Beiber seems like a good kid. Not a fan of his singing,though...

By malack

seems kinda sweet for him to help out?=]♥!

By annie

wow all of you guys need to be quiet! justin is the sweetest kid ever! so you should all shut up and be nice! TEAM BIEBER! LOVE YOU JUSTIN! NO HATERS ALLOWED!!!

Sunday 26 December

By Nancy

That was very thoughtful and charitable of Justin. He is surely God-sent. With that, his popularity will even spread a lot faster. Keep it up Justin!!

Friday 31 December

By ashley

why do people hate justin bieber?????? i dont get it. he is nice cute and a very good singer. whoever hated justin i hate so shut your mouths. i hate it when people say mean things to him. if u dnt have anything nice to say dont say to him dnt say it. so shut up and go justin bieber!

THANK U, NACY,ANNIE, AND WHOEVER ELSE LOVES JUSTIN! GO JUSTIN BIEBER!

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