Funny how rumours spread sometimes.
Like that old chestnut about Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness playing the saxophone solo on Baker Street. Or that extra zany one that started a few years back – you know, that stuff about someone creating the Earth in seven days or some such nonsense.
People love rumours. And they love smearing them around. In Neanderthal days they used to do this around the campfire – sniggering to each other about how Zog from Cave 13 had been caught with his winky in a mountain goat. Nowadays, however, such slander is tossed around via the medium of the Internet.
The internet is officially the greatest gossip mill in the world, churning out half-truths and downright lies like a politician’s consciousness. And yesterday it proved itself even further.
Yesterday the internet said that Peter Andre was dead.
Peter Andre – a slab-jawed mannequin with the intellectual capacity of a grapefruit and a wife who looks like a Daily Star reader’s ‘special’ sister– was rushed to hospital last week when it emerged that he was suffering from meningitis.
Andre is now apparently making a recovery. But – in the fevered realm of speculation – it didn’t seem at all like that yesterday. This post on Holy Moly sparked off the rumours, and from then on it was water-cooler chit-chat for many an hour afterwards.
According to Victoria Newton at The Sun, though:
"Rumours circulating that Peter Andre has died in hospital are untrue. I have spoken to his aides who confirmed there is no truth in the cruel rumours. He said Peter, who was admitted to hospital last weekend and is battling viral meningitus, is alive and making a recovery. He has been visited by his wife Jordan and is in a stable condition."
‘Get well soon’ sentiments which seem at odds with much of the interweb feedback the story gathered. Take a look at this comment:
"Oooooh ooooh oooh mysterious corpse, move your body tothe morgue…"
We hope you’ll agree with hecklerspray in slating that as utterly, utterly unacceptable. What was that person thinking?
No space between ‘to’ and ‘the’? Tsk. Grammar doesn’t cost, you know…
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King Jimbo says
He is dead. Dead stupid that is!
Oh how we laughed in the office…
Jess says
I think that is sick the comments and attitude towards katie price and peter!Do you have a heart????I hope you never have to experience half the things shes been thrugh!If you did maybe you be a behlf the woman she is!!!!!!!Grow up and get a heart!!!!
staci says
i am such big fans of the gawjus katie and peter andre i cnt belive people said e is ded keep up the gd work kp an pp love ya big fan x