More Celebrity hoaxes keep popping up left and right with sites declaring Britney Spears, George Clooney, and even the Mr. Rickroll, Rick Astley dead.
The Rick Astley hoax claims that the English singer was found dead in a Berlin hotel room. The hoax author even went as far as posting the hoax as an Associated Press (AP) report and appeared on CNN’s iReport. An excerpt of the report, “Astley’s body was found at the Angleterre Hotel in Berlin after an ambulance responded to an emergency call from his hotel room. He was found unconscious in his hotel bedroom and was unable to be resuscitated. He was pronounced dead on the scene.”
The suspicious AP story never made the official AP newswire.
Celebrity death hoaxes have been spreading since the deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays.












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