Rick Astley dead?
Doesn't look that way.
Looks more like another stupid and cruel hoax.
A report on iReport says 43-year-old Rick Astley was pronounced dead when his body was found at the Angleterre Hotel in Berlin after an ambulance responded to an emergency call from his hotel room.
It says Astley (pictured on tour in Denmark) was found unconscious in his hotel bedroom and was unable to be resuscitated. He was supposedly pronounced dead on the scene.
Astley was in the middle of a concert tour that would have ended in late August of 2009. He was to return to the United Kingdom at that time.
It should be pointed out that iReport.com is a CNN user-generated site. That means the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked or screened before they post. Only stories marked "On CNN" have been vetted for use in CNN news coverage. This story is not so marked.
Since there are no confirmations yet on this report and the writer is suggested to be Liz Sidoti, who actually is a politics reporter for Associated Press and would not be posting on CNN’s iReport, this has to be a hoax.
In 2007 Rick Astley became the subject of a viral Internet meme in which an estimated 25 million Internet users were tricked into watching Rick Astley’s video “Never Gonna Give You Up” when it was posted under the name of other popular video titles.
The practice is now known as Rickrolling. The phenomenon became so popular that on April 1, 2008, YouTube pranked its users by making every single featured video on the front page a Rickroll.
And now George Clooney has also been reported dead. Just like Jeff Goldblum and Natalie Portman.
All hoaxes started by some seriously mentally deranged dickheads.
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