Desmond Elliot is not dead. Desmond Elliot is the victim of a fake d*ath report today stemming from a false Facebook image and post. On Friday September 14, 2012, someone wrote on Facebook that Elliot was d*ad.
They posted what appeared to be a death picture. But then at the end of the post, they added a “qualifier” which read “And please don’t panic because its just a shot from the yet-to-be released Movie.”
Just days ago fans were asking if Morgan Freeman had di*d this September 2012.
Now, Desmond Elliot joins Freeman and Bill Nye among the latest celebrities to be struck by fake d*ath reports this month. Today’s tale derives from Facebook, once again. Fans, nevertheless, are irate.
Elliot is a Nigerian actor with more than two hundred credits to his name. But three hours ago, a Facebook account posted a picture of a man covered in blood.
The text that went with the image read “BREAKING NEWS: Nigerian Actor Desmond Elliot found Motionless, drown in his blood in a Hotel in Nigeria”. The fake report claimed that Elliot had been murdered in a hotel room.
The false report later stated “Movie fans who first heard the news in Nigeria are in shaking feathers and Investigations are going-on of who might be behind his murder”.
But at the bottom of the Facebook post, the author wrote”And please don’t panic because its just a shot from the yet-to-be released Movie”.
Other websites, however, have since taken the body of the fake report, re-posted it to readers, but omitted the “please don’t panic” section.
