Hollywood actor Christian Slater has announced that he is alive after a Internet rumour that he has died in a snowboarding accident went viral.
The True Romance star was forced to deny he had been killed in a freak snowboarding accident in Switzerland when the false rumours started spreading round blogs. Slater’s publicist told the New York Daily News that he is indeed alive and well.
News of the star’s demise had become one of the fastest trending topics on Twitter before it was deb-unked. The hoax has alar-med security experts who say it is the latest in a series of phoney death notices which are be being used by cybercriminals to spread viruses. Others who have been declared dead on the Internet only to be alive and well in real life are Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift.
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Oldest woman, 115, dies
New York: The world’s oldest woman has died in Texas aged 115, the US media reported.
Eunice Sanborn, who held the title of world’s oldest person for less than three months after the death of Eugenie Blanchard, a nun from the French West Indies in November 2010, died on Monday morning, the Daily Progress newspaper quoted a friend as saying. Sanborn celebrated her 115th birthday on July 20. She had been confined to her bed for several years, but was often helped to a chair outside her home in Jacksonville where she had lived for 75 years. She was married three times, her most recent husband passing away in 1979; she outlived her only daughter, the friend was quoted as saying. —PTI
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Gervais asked to host 2012 Golden Globes
London: He had ruffled plenty of feathers with his digs on Hollywood stars while hosting the Golden Globe Awards in January but funnyman Ricky Gervais has been asked back for the ceremony in 2012.
The British comedian said that the show had fetched high ratings and the bosses have asked him to host the Golden Globes for a third time in 2012, reported Daily Mail online.
“The ratings went up again, and the organisers asked me to consider a third year. But I don’t think I should. I don’t know what I could do better. I certainly couldn’t get more press for them, that’s for sure,” said Gervais. Writing in this week’s Heat magazine, Gervais said, “I did exactly what I went to do: improve on last year’s and have a laugh.” —PTI