Barry Chuckle of the Chuckle Brothers is dead. At least that's what Twitter is saying. However Barry Chuckle isn't dead. He's just the victim of another social media death hoax. Barry Chuckle is still alive.
On Monday evening, a rumor started spreading around Twitter that Barry Elliot, a British Comedian, better known as Barry Chuckle died. Along with his brother Paul, Barry Chuckle has created childhood memories for many who grew up watching Chucklevision on the BBC. They are knwon for their slapstick comedy and phrases like "to me, to you" and 'oh dear, oh dear."
On Monday night, Barry Chuckle started to trend on Twitter and quickly became a top trend in the UK because some users had heard that Barry Chuckle died. The Chuckle Brothers Wikipedia was quickly updated, saying that this was just a rumor which has been going around for many years.
Whoever updated the Wikipedia page said that user @bendarcy started the latest hoax. He tweeted a series of messages suggesting Chuckle died to his 60,000 followers.
His tweets included
'omfg apparently barry chuckles dead??? RIP NO"
"rip barry chuckle"
"#RIPBarryChuckle trend it for respect x"
The message then spread like wildfire and soon thousands were tweeting that Chuckle died, however it isn;t true.
The internet has been trying to kill off Chuckle since 2008 as his Wikipedia page says. In 2008, a rumor started that Chuckle died of a heart attack. The rumor then resurfaced on Twitter in 2010 and Barry Chuckle found out about it himself.
He told the BBC that children were crying over his supposed death and writing letters to the brothers, mourning over Barry.
"They send letters saying, 'is Paul going to be working on his own now?', and 'we'll miss Barry', and there's kids in tears so we have to write back to them and tell them it's not true," he told the BBC.
They also posted a message to their website saying the rumour was "complete and utter rubbish" and that Barry is "doing very well".
Ben Darcy later posted a tweet, saying that he accidentally started the latest rumor about Barry Chuckle's death. When news got out that he started the rumor, Barry Chuckle fans began to attack him.
"ok i accidentally started a rumor that barry chuckle was dead, i'm sorry i thought he was, but do you really have to send me death threats?" Darcy wrote.
The rumor of Chuckle's death sent fans into a frenzy as they started to mourn his death.
Some examples of tweets include:
"Barry chuckle has died, my life is officially over"
"If Barry chuckle has died then I'm gonna cry me eyes out an take a day off work #metoyou"
"Omg , I heard Barry chuckle is dead...no this cant happen he's my childhood'
"The saddest news I have heard today is that Barry Chuckle has died. :( RIP! Him and his brother were my childhood!'
When some users on Twitter found that it was nothing more than a rumor, they brought some humor to the situation and borrowed Chuckle's phrases.
""Oh phew, just irritating death rumours. Glad he's not dead. Barry Chuckle is very dear to me... to you."
"Enough with the Barry Chuckle death rumours. Its very distressing to me......to you......to me....."
"Another Barry Chuckle rumor? Oh dear, oh dear."
Don't worry Chuckle fans. Barry Chuckle is just fine. However, there aren't too many who will believe that he actually died when he does because he is the victim of a death hoax so often.
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