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Kevin Bacon returns to the Footloose school forty years after the iconic teenage movie was filmed after students mounted online campaign for him to visit before it is shut down


Four decades after Footloose made him a household name, Kevin Bacon returned to the high school in Payson, Utah where the movie was filmed.

The visit turned into a charitable endeavor, with students agreeing to put together 5,000 care packages for Bacon's charity, the Six Degrees foundation. Four decades after Footloose made him a household name, Kevin Bacon returned to the high school in Payson, Utah where the movie was filmed. The students and residents of Payson started a campaign to get him to come back called #BaconToPayson, with the actor revealing how he first heard about it.

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