An account of what happened was relayed on Twitter by Jemele Hill, co-host of ESPN's "Numbers Never Lie," who also spoke with TODAY.com via email. "When we were waiting to board, I saw her glance the soldier's way and then she said something to the person she was traveling with," Hill wrote to NBC's Today in a message from the flight. __________________________ 
 
 Amy Adams is a class act. I was upgraded to first class and she was a couple rows behind me. I think she must have said something to the flight attendant, because before we took off she had vacated her seat and the flight attendant brought the soldier to her seat." "I already was a fan of hers, but now I'm a bigger one after today." The five-time Academy Award nominee gave her first class seat to an American serviceman who was also on her Delta flight. A passenger named Ernest Owens even got to shoot a selfie with the actress after telling her that she was classy for giving up her seat. One of Hill's Twitter followers pointed out that Adams was born on a U.S. military base in Italy and grew up on a base in Colorado.
– It was, writes Kurt Schlosser at Today.com, a "first-class move." Amy Adams gave up her first-class seat to a US serviceman today on a Delta flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. ESPN's Jemele Hill, also on the flight, first called attention to the move via tweet, then elaborated in an email to Today. "When we were waiting to board, I saw her glance the soldier's way and then she said something to the person she was traveling with," recounts Hill. Once on board and seated in first class, Adams spoke to a flight attendant, vacated her seat for the serviceman, and headed back to coach. The five-time Oscar nominee was born on a military base during her dad's stint in the military, notes E! Online.