Follow-Up: 'Little Rascals' Star Bug Hall's $27,000-Plus Fundraiser Was Paused, Then Cleared — He Says He Will Keep the Excess
Brandon “Bug” Hall, 41, lives in rural Arkansas in the United States, where his sixth child is due soon. The $2,000 GoFundMe he launched on November 5 to settle his family into a new home had raised more than $27,000 by November 9, but the platform had paused the payout. According to People, Hall said the fundraiser was under review after being mass reported, leaving him temporarily unable to access the money or delete the page.
Hall played Alfalfa in the 1994 film The Little Rascals. He, his wife Jill and their five children are living in a camper on newly purchased land, and the fundraiser was originally meant to cover a phone bill, propane for the camper and an unexpected electric hookup fee. He first said he would shut the page down once it reached its $2,000 goal. After donations went far past that goal and supporters urged him to accept the full amount, he replied on X that he would keep it all.
A GoFundMe spokesperson told People that the platform's team is in touch with the organizer and is working with him to help ensure funds are delivered quickly and safely. That is a direct statement from the platform in this round of developments, a step beyond the earlier stage when only Hall's own account was available.
According to USA TODAY, in a November 9 update Hall posted a screenshot of an exchange with a GoFundMe customer service representative. According to the screenshots he posted, the platform had concluded its review and the funds would be sent automatically, and he said the fundraiser would be deleted in two to five business days. As of November 9, the fundraiser page still appeared active. USA TODAY said it had reached out to GoFundMe for comment.
Speaking exclusively to Page Six on November 9, Hall said he had learned only shortly before the interview that the platform's Trust and Safety investigation had been completed, the fundraiser had been cleared, and the money would be transferred within two to five days. He said that without the mass reporting, he would have closed the page at $2,000 and been happy.
Hall told Page Six he has no plans to return the more than $26,000 raised beyond the original goal. He said he never promised to return any excess and never considered that possibility, viewed the outcome as God's will, and would accept the money as a blessing. He said it would help the family return to a self-sufficient life sooner, including buying farm animals, a tractor and a sawmill and eventually building a house so they can leave the camper. He also said the family's monthly overhead is roughly $300. According to USA TODAY, when a critic told him to get his priorities straight and practise natural family planning, he replied that he was going to keep impregnating his wife.
Hall left Hollywood in 2020 and has since described taking a vow of poverty and moving his family to an approximately 80-acre property near Mountain View, Arkansas, to live off the grid. Whether the money arrives within the two to five days he described, after a fundraiser that drew criticism, mass reports and a pause before being cleared, remains to be seen.
Source: GoFundMe
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Photo: 图：前童星Brandon “Bug” Hall本人资料图（2021年其YouTube视频截图，Bug Hall摄，CC BY 3.0，经Wikimedia Commons），非本次众筹活动图。/ Former child actor Brandon “Bug” Hall in a still from his own 2021 YouTube video. (Photo: Bug Hall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; file photo, not from the fundraiser.)
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