However last night rumours started circulating on the internet that he’d died in a snowboarding accident. Even though rumours also circulated on the internet back in 2010 saying he’d died in a snowboarding accident.
It would seem nobody learns anything these days (or cross-references with Wikipedia) – although to be fair we probably weren’t using Twitter as much back in 2010 and caring so much about trending topics.
Anyway, last night, the topic ‘RIP Eddie Murphy’ began to trend and a million internet scribes rushed to chart Eddie’s funniest moments - of which there are some – before it was all cleared up and everyone began to feel very foolish. We were in the pub.
Anyway, just in case you didn’t get it, Eddie Murphy is still alive but does join a rather exclusive club that includes Kevin Bacon, Charlie Sheen and Jon Bon Jovi who’ve all been the subject of death hoaxes.
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