The Daily Show host connects hoaxer extraordinaire Ronaiah Tuiasosopo — the guy who invented the Manti Te'o fake girlfriend — to the swarm of questions surrounding the Pope's resignation.
After the mastermind behind the Manti Te'o hoax came clean, revealed the source of the fake-girlfriend name, and admitted he might be gay and that Te'o most certainly wasn't, Dr. Phil McGraw apparently decided there was only one more thing to ask.
The "confused" man behind the Manti Te'o fake-girlfriend hoax, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, is speaking out publicly for the first time — and it appears he'll confess to the whole thing and claim to be the voice of Lennay Kekua, all while coming out as gay.
Today in celebrity gossip: Bradley Cooper causes quite the commotion at a cycling class, Ashley Judd is getting a divorce, and a cherished old TV star has been gay all these years.
We've heard from duped Notre Dame star Manti Te'o himself. We're going to hear from the accused mastermind, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, next week. What's next in this strange, beautiful and truly weird adventure?
In his much anticipated first on-camera interview since a fake-girlfriend hoax took over his career and everyone else's rumor-mongering obsession, the fallen Notre Dame star didn't let on too much — but Couric definitely went there.
We've all wanted to hear from Manti Te'o's other half—Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the alleged mastermind who conceived Te'o fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, her fake fatal leukemia, and her fake car accident. According to Tuiasosopo's family, the hoaxer is ready to talk.
The case of the Notre Dame star's fake girlfriend is unfolding quickly, and it's now looking like Manti Te'o wasn't the only one duped by the non-existent Lennay Kekua. An online identity scam addiction of sorts, involving multiple people and multiple victims, now centers on one man. Who is he? And how can we be so sure?
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