Johnny Depp NOT Dead - Latest Victim Of Death Hoax
This is what happens when fools living in their mom’s basement takes over the job of real news reporting! After being induced to sleep last night with the help of my friend Bloody Mary, I was awoken to a barrage of text messages from family members and friends claiming Johnny Depp was dead! Oh no, I thought, and I jumped out of bed and stumbled my drunken tail to the computer to find out for myself only to see that its not true. Johnny Depp is NOT dead! Instead, Mr. Depp is the latest celebrity to be hit by the death hoax. Phew! I would have hated for 2010 to start off with the death of the ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’
Per E!:
“He isn’t dead,” Depp’s rep, Robin Baum, told E! News. “He’s fine.”
According to reports, a website made a fake web page for CNN News with the headline “Johnny Depp Dies After Fatal Car Crash,” claiming his car was found alongside a road outside Bordeaux, France, with the guard rail embedded deep inside the car. Images of the supposed car wreckage were also posted with the so-called news. The website claimed that CNN’s Melissa Gray and Harris Whitback wrote this report, but there were many obvious mistakes that made it clear they didn’t. Not only did the dateline of the fraud web page say March 25, 2004, but right after it said ‘alcohol’ caused the incident, there was a story below it about British explorers who escaped from caves in Mexico, which nowhere linked to the story. Whoever the losers are with apparently no life who had the time to come up with the story, it apparently worked at least for a while, as fans have been tweeting “RIP Johnny Depp,” making it a Twitter trending topic.
The good news is our beloved Jack Sparrow is still alive and kicking. The bad news is the people behind the fake story should consider going into hiding for the next couple of months. God knows what his fans will do to the people behind the site if they find them!
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