Despite rumors to the contrary, actor Charlie Sheen is not actually dead.
Perhaps it’s his Tiger Blood or Adonis DNA, but Sheen remains alive and well despite his penchant for coke, hookers and chain smoking and the recent departure of both of his goddesses. The tall tale germinated on Twitter yesterday, and a fake MSNBC story that joined the chain of re-tweets worried some fans and lent credence to the “Charlie Sheen is dead” panic.
Someone over at ContactMusic witnessed the Twitter panic firsthand:
One user re-tweeted a fake Msnbc story that read, “Charlie Sheen was found dead in his Beverly Hills early this morning, causes of his death are currently unknown” (sic), but a fan of the actor attempted to put the story to bed, tweeting, “Charlie Sheen is not dead! he just sent me a tweet RT.”
The blog theorizes that rumors of Sheen’s death sprang from his character’s planned death on Two and a Half Men , but the existence of a fake news story points to a more deliberate death hoax origin. Charlie Sheen managed to bang out several tweets during the height of the death rumors yesterday, even proposing an “I’ll do anything” party in Vegas.
