Friday, June 26, 2009

The Goldblum is NOT dead!

The most important celebrity death news all week -- The Goldblum is alive!! Not that anything could kill The Goldblum. Dude will survive us all. From Brisbane Times:
They say bad news comes in threes.

Perhaps that explains major media outlets' rush to believe unconfirmed reports this morning that American actor Jeff Goldblum had died.

As the world came to terms with the news pop superstar Michael Jackson had suffered a heart attack and former Charlie's Angels actress Farrah Fawcett had lost her long battle with cancer, the rumour of Goldblum's death surfaced.

The news has now been revealed as a hoax.

But only after gaining widespread news coverage - from ABC Radio to Richard Wilkins on Channel Nine - and generating a flurry of activity on social networking websites.

"Jeff Goldblum dead" was at 11am the third-most popular search term on Google.

All the other top-10 search terms revealed on Google Trends related to Michael Jackson's death.

It appears the rumour of Goldblum's death originated on a spoof website that generates generic news stories about celebrity deaths.
(Thanks Kelly!)

1 comment:

Steve from Moon said...

Thank, god, Coozer! That was a close one...

Though if he died, he might come back as a zombie!