Terelu Campos death hoax falls apart in just 18 replies
A forum thread spread the false death of Spanish TV personality Terelu Campos, but she is alive. The confusion with her mother, who died in 2023, was debunked within minutes.
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Terelu Campos is not dead: the hoax that failed even on a forum
A false story about the death of Terelu Campos at 60 spread like wildfire for a few hours. The source: a thread on a forum where a user claimed that the daughter of María Teresa Campos had died of liver cancer. But reality is stubborn: Terelu Campos is alive, and those who have trinc her cancer history know it well.
The confusion with her mother and the real facts
María Teresa Campos Luque died in September 2023. Terelu Campos, whose full name is Teresa Lourdes Borrego Campos, has had three cancers in her life, but she has not died. The hoax mixed both facts, and although the thread started with a doom-laden tone, the correction soon arrived: "Teresa Lourdes Borrego Campos (Terelu Campos) is still alive". The rest of the replies turned into dark humor and absurd references, but the key fact was clear.
A hoax that did not survive the first fact-check
In just 18 messages, the thread went from fake news to correction and sarcasm. Death hoaxes about celebrities are a recurring problem, but in this case it was quickly debunked. The detail that her mother had already died years earlier prompted jokes about statements made via Ouija board, but the underlying issue was simple: confusion between mother and daughter.
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A false story about the death of Terelu Campos at 60 spread like wildfire for a few hours. The source: a thread on a forum where a user claimed that the daughter of María Teresa Campos had died of liver cancer. But reality is stubborn: Terelu Campos is alive, and those who have trinc her cancer history know it well.
The confusion with her mother and the real facts
María Teresa Campos Luque died in September 2023. Terelu Campos, whose full name is Teresa Lourdes Borrego Campos, has had three cancers in her life, but she has not died. The hoax mixed both facts, and although the thread started with a doom-laden tone, the correction soon arrived: "Teresa Lourdes Borrego Campos (Terelu Campos) is still alive". The rest of the replies turned into dark humor and absurd references, but the key fact was clear.
A hoax that did not survive the first fact-check
In just 18 messages, the thread went from fake news to correction and sarcasm. Death hoaxes about celebrities are a recurring problem, but in this case it was quickly debunked. The detail that her mother had already died years earlier prompted jokes about statements made via Ouija board, but the underlying issue was simple: confusion between mother and daughter.
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