Daniel Radcliffe poked fun at a false story published earlier this week (March 9, 2020) claiming the Harry Potter star had contracted coronavirus.
A tweet from a fake BBC account, which has since gone viral, suggested the Harry Potter star had been diagnosed with Covid-19, but representatives for the Brit insist the story is “not true”. The tweet has since been deleted.
Addressing the incident in an interview with Australia radio show Smallzy’s Surgery on Wednesday, Daniel said: “I walked into the hair and make-up room on a play yesterday, and the makeup artist was like, ‘My niece has just texted me and told me you’ve got corona’.
“I think it was on a fake BBC account, but then enough people saw it… That is the internet.”
The Miracle Workers star went on to joke that he understood why someone would pick him for the hoax, quipping: “I think it’s just because I look ill all the time, so you can believably say it about me. ‘Cause I’m very pale’. But, you know, flattered they chose me.”
Despite the star-making light of the mix-up, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the spread of coronavirus globally can now be considered a pandemic, with more than 126,000 cases registered worldwide, and over 4,600 deaths.
