MTV.com reports Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys will run the Olympic Torch Relay on Tuesday (January 15) to promote his Just Within Reach environmental foundation. Kevin will be the 142nd person to carry the torch in the relay, travelling 3 blocks with it.

Jean Godden of The Seattle Times reports Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson and his wife Christy were in Seattle last Saturday where Kevin helped raise $11,000 offering his services at last Saturday’s Hutch Holiday Gala as a companion on a Mount Rainier day hike. He and Christy were also spotted dining on stuffed prawns at the Broadway Grill. Spencer Fairbanks, manager of the restaurant told Godden, “I took Kevin his dessert. He told me about his father (who died of cancer last year) and I told him about my mother, a breast-cancer survivor.”