Tom Hanks sends typewriter to bullied Australian boy named Corona

Tom Hanks has sent a letter

and a Corona brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to

him about being bullied over his name, Corona, Australian

television networks reported on Thursday.

Corona De Vries, an eight-year-old from the Gold Coast in

Queensland state wrote to the Hollywood star after he and his

wife, Rita, had spent more than two weeks in quarantine after

testing positive for Covid-19 in the Australian beach resort.

The boy had written to Hanks saying: "I heard on the news

you and your wife had caught the coronavirus," Channel 7 News

reported. "Are you ok?"

%%%twitter https://twitter.com/tomhanks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tomhankshas written a heart-felt letter to a young Helensvale boy named Corona. The 8-year-old was being bullied at school and decided to write to the Hollywood superstar and his wife @RitaWilson, after they were diagnosed with Coronavirus. https://t.co/6l2nzFJNn5 #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/H02WF2dRCx

— 7NEWS Gold Coast (@7NewsGoldCoast)

He said he loved his name but people at school called him

the coronavirus, which made him "sad and angry".

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Hey folks. Good News: One week after testing Positive, in self-isolation, the symptoms are much the same. No fever but the blahs. Folding the laundry and doing the dishes leads to a nap on the couch. Bad news: My wife @ritawilson has won 6 straight hands of Gin Rummy and leads by 201 points. But I have learned not to spread my Vegemite so thick. I travelled here with a typewriter, one I used to love. We are all in this together. Flatten the curve. Hanx

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"Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful!" Hanks

replied in a letter typed on a Corona typewriter which he had

taken to the Gold Coast.

"You know, you are the only person I've ever known to have

the name Corona -- like the ring around the sun, a crown," the

double Oscar winner wrote to the boy.