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  • 2021-01-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Kevin Sorbo of 'Hercules' Fame Die in 2020? (en)
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  • Kevin Sorbo appeared in at least one strange online advertisement in early 2021 that read: Celebrities Who Passed Away in 2020. The actor is perhaps best known for his work on Hercules. However, Sorbo was not dead. As of Jan. 29, 2021, the actor was alive and tweeting. The ad led to a lengthy slideshow story on the website Definition.org with the headline: All the Celebrities We've Lost in the Past Year. The person or people who managed the page recently updated the end of the article to include pages for late sports icon Hank Aaron and actress Cloris Leachman. Both had died recently before this fact check was published. Sorbo was perhaps best known for his work as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. He also starred in the Andromeda television series as well as Let There Be Light and God's Not Dead. This was not the first time a living actor was featured to trick readers into clicking an ad about dead celebrities. A picture of Nick Stahl, who also was not dead, had also been used in advertisements for Definition.org. Stahl was perhaps best known for starring in the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and the HBO series Carnivàle. In sum, an online advertiser used a picture of Hercules actor Sorbo to draw clicks and profits in a lengthy article about recently deceased celebrities. (en)
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