- Update : Dead wrong: slaughter of the celebrities
Asher Moses
Sydney Morning Herald
July 1, 2009
It’s been a busy week for celebrity deaths, with Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Miley Cyrus and P Diddy all shuffling off the mortal coil – if you believe their Twitter pages. All four stars had their Twitter accounts hacked, with the attackers posting messages that they had died, alarming their followers who were still reeling from the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett last week. It comes after Jeff Goldblum was prematurely pronounced dead by some news outlets, including Richard Wilkins on Nine’s Today show, following a false report spread on Twitter that he had fallen off a cliff in New Zealand. Goldblum appeared this week on The Colbert Report comedy show in the US, which made fun of Wilkins’ gaffe…
“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.” ~ Publilius Syrus
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