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Lady Gaga has announced her plans to donate $1 million to the American Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Sandy.

It’s no surprise that the reigning ‘Queen of Pop’ has whipped out her checkbook for this cause, the native New Yorker is notorious for her insatiable love for The Big Apple!

If it wasn’t for NYC: the Lower East Side, Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, I would not be the woman or artist that I am today… New York is relentless ambition, a drive to succeed, a place where there is a natural pursuit of diversity through compassion.

Please accept this gift on behalf of myself, my parents Joe and Cynthia, my sister Natali; with our deepest gratitude New York for raising us. Thank you for helping me build my spirit. I will now help you rebuild yours.

Well said Mother Monster!

Lady Gaga wasn’t the only A-lister offering their support for the millions of people who lost everything from electricity to – well, everything.  Jersey Shore star Snooki donated ‘Snooki Slippers’ and clothes (a shameless plug maybe, but it was a donation nonetheless!), Ben Stiller donated his time cooking pancakes, bacon and eggs at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and native Bostonian and sworn enemy to all things NYC (Just kidding!) Barbara Walters donated $250,000 to the Red Cross.

Great to see these celebs giving back in the wake of such devastation!

Last night, with the eyes of the whole world upon them,  the U.S. women’s gymnastics team – Aly Raisman, 18, Jordyn Wieber, 17, Gabby Douglas, 16, Kyla Ross, 15, and McKayla Maroney, 16  won the first all-around gold medal for the U.S. since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

So obviously they had just ONE thing on their minds… Justin Bieber!

Gold medalist Jordyn Wieber took to her Twitter after the medal ceremony to reach out to her favorite pop star:

Now that we are Olympic champions, can we please meet Justin Bieber?

In true Justin Bieber fashion, the 18-year-old Tweeted right back saying,

You support me, I support you. Congrats. And Ryan Seacrest told me about you, too. Dream big.

Wait.  Dream big?  You mean like – gold medal at the Olympics big?  We think she’s already got a handle on that one, J-dawg.

Mother Monster Lady Gaga also reached out to the “Fab Five” via the Twitterverse with a heartfelt congratulatory message.

Woohoo! Gold for the ladies!  Just want to squeeze them! So much talent and beauty. Did you seem all holding hands? There’s no ‘I’ in team.

Love her.

Other celebs who also sent their congrats to the five teens via Twitter included TV host Oprah Winfrey, 58, Dancing With the Stars pro Derek Hough, 27, That’s My Boy actress Ciara, 26, vocalist Josh Groban, 31, singer/songwriter Michelle Branch, 29, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump, 50.

That’s it???  We feel like winning gold deserves a shout out from at least one member of One Direction!  Oh wait… never mind.