Kailyn Toussaint

Based in beautiful New England, Kailyn has been a part of the DONUT team since January 2021. When she's not writing positive stories or keeping readers up to date with the latest Sports, Media & Entertainment news, she works as a professional vocalist, touring with multiple groups and singing around the world. Kailyn spearheads our Positive DONUT newsletter, sharing awww-inspiring stories from around the world every Tuesday.

Kailyn Toussaint

Latest Articles by Kailyn Toussaint

Media & Entertainment
  |  October 3, 2024

There’s no business like show business – until you’re part of a mass layoff

🎭 Paramount had another round of major layoffs – and its not alone on the struggle bus, with the US film/TV industry yet to fully bounce back from the pandemic and writer/actor strikes.

Kailyn Toussaint & Kyle Nowak
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Positive
  |  October 3, 2024

🧦 Forget spooky season – it's time for...

🧦 Welcome to Socktober.

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Positive
  |  October 2, 2024

🤔 They say long-term couples start to think alike...

Rachel Hundertmark and Rashad Polk propsed to each other at the exact same time. 

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Positive
  |  October 1, 2024

🎶 Message in a bottttleeee

A team of student volunteers on an archaeological dig in northern France found a message from the past among the ruins.

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Positive
  |  October 1, 2024

🙌 All hail the golden penguin

🐧 The Bird of the Year competition is a fierce battle fought each year in New Zealand.

Kailyn Toussaint & Peter Nowak
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Positive
  |  October 1, 2024

When dance meets STEM

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Media & Entertainment
  |  October 1, 2024

“Hot Ones” may be coming to Netflix

🔥🍗 Netflix may be comin’ in hot with its newest deal. The media giant is in talks with Buzzfeed to acquire Hot Ones for a potential live series, according to a recent Bloomberg report.

Kailyn Toussaint & Peter Nowak
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Positive
  |  September 30, 2024

🍼 An adorable aardvark

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance welcomed an adorably wrinkled aardvark calf earlier this year at the San Diego Zoo.

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Positive
  |  September 27, 2024

🔎 The story of a missing necklace

In 1944, Joan Eccles' stepfather, who was serving in New Guinea during World War II, sent her and her mother matching heart charms for Valentine's Day.

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Positive
  |  September 26, 2024

A house for a mouse

A little over five years ago, British man Simon Dell started building tiny homes for a wild mouse he found in his backyard.

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Positive
  |  September 25, 2024

💌 If these walls could talk...

💌 Matt and Carrie Tessmer were renovating their bathroom when they discovered a pair of love letters hidden in the walls.

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Positive
  |  September 24, 2024

🐶 Saving Cupcake

When Jake McAlpin's daughter Charlotte asked him where her beloved stuffed animal "Cupcake" was last week, his heart sank when he realized he had accidentally threw the stuffy away.

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Positive
  |  September 23, 2024

🐘 If Tarzan met Cinderella

It was a standard day at the Shendiaoshan Wild Animal Nature Reserve in Weihai, China, when a toddler accidentally dropped their shoe into the elephant enclosure.

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Positive
  |  September 20, 2024

Dora's piñata parade

Nickelodeon just smashed the world record for the largest-ever gathering of piñatas(yes that's a category- just imagine all the candy).

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Media & Entertainment
  |  September 18, 2024

YouTube introduces new safety controls for teens

📺 YouTube introduced a new set of controls to help parents monitor their teens' activity site-wide.

Kailyn Toussaint & Peter Nowak
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Positive
  |  September 18, 2024

🐸 Kermit goes to the spa

A group of small frogs are learning how to fight off a deadly bacterial infection with the help of teeny-tiny saunas.

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Positive
  |  September 17, 2024

🎾 The ultimate recycler

🎾 Belgian designer Mathilde Wittock makes furniture out of used tennis balls. 

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Positive
  |  September 17, 2024

🏆 And the award goes to...

..

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Positive
  |  September 17, 2024

💀 The story of the skeletons

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Positive
  |  September 16, 2024

This hippo is stealing hearts

If you haven't online already, meet Moo Deng, a two-month-old pygmy hippopotamus living at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi Province, Thailand.

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