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Famous People Who Were Reported Dead… But Weren’t (Photos)

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In that race to be first on the web page, generally the media by accident speaks too quickly in reporting the deaths of celebrities and public figures. And generally it isn’t an accident, during which the media or the general public is usually duped attributable to ill-advised jokes, conspiracies or hoaxes, lots of which went viral till individuals put the rumors to relaxation. From slips of the tongue to untimely obituaries, listed here are some celebrities who had been initially reported lifeless, although on the time they had been alive and properly.

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Tanya Roberts • The actress, who broke out within the 1985 Bond movie “A View to a Kill” and later appeared within the sitcom “That ’70s Show,” was falsely reported as lifeless in January 2021 — together with her publicist and supervisor confirming the information earlier than retracting it a day later.

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Bob Dylan • Classic rock followers can exhale, as a result of Bob Dylan is alive and properly, opposite to a Nov. 21, 2020 report on MSNBC that mentioned he had died in 2019. “Sorry about that,” a community information anchor mentioned.

Drake • Fans of the Canadian rapper panicked when, on Nov. 14, 2020, they noticed #RIPDrake trending on Twitter. But because it turned out, the four-time Grammy-winner was the sufferer of a hoax. Clicking on a (supposed) L.A. Times headline studying “Drake Canadian Songwriter And Rapper Dies At 34” takes you to a video of British singer Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Beneath it reads: “You got Rick rolled in 2020.”

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Paul McCartney • Conspiracy-loving Beatles followers imagine that McCartney died in 1966 and the whole lot that is occurred to “him” since then is courtesy of a look-alike and sound-alike. Not solely that, they imagine clues to McCartney’s destiny had been revealed in songs written by fellow musicians George Harrison and John Lennon. Like, Lennon’s “A Day in the Life,” the place the lyrics “Paul is dead, miss him, miss him”… are mentioned to be heard solely when the music is performed backward.

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Rick Fox • Following the tragic demise of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his younger daughter dying in a helicopter accident exterior of Los Angeles in January 2020, his Lakers teammate, Rick Fox, was rumored to be among the many different seven aboard the craft who perished. “My family went through, in the midst of all this, something that I couldn’t have imagined them experiencing,” Fox informed “Inside the NBA.”

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Alice Cooper • Fans of the musician acquired a little bit confused in 1973 after studying Melody Maker journal’s satirical assessment of Cooper’s live performance within the type of a mock obit. Cooper is thought for his onstage decapitations and executions, however he later needed to concern a press release saying, “I’m alive, and drunk as usual.”

Abe Vigoda • The first time Abe Vigoda was reported lifeless, he was a spry 60-years-old when a People journal reporter visited the wrap celebration of “Barney Miller” in 1982 and mentioned “the late Abe Vigoda” wasn’t there. Five years later, one other reporter mistakenly referred to him as “the late Abe Vigoda.” Jokes about his age and being lifeless adopted him the remainder of his profession, and his life, as a result of he actually did cross away in 2016 on the age of 94.