The entire Nollywood was thrown into chaos when the news of Desmond Elliot’s death went viral on the internet last week. On Friday September 14, 2012, someone wrote on Facebook that Elliot was dead. They posted what appeared to be a death picture. But then at the end of the post, they added a “qualifier” which read “And please don’t panic because it’s just a shot from the yet-to-be released Movie” which unfortunately set off the rumor that went viral.

Fans, nevertheless, are irate. Elliot is a Nollywood actor with more than two hundred movies to his name. But the Facebook account posted a picture of a man covered in blood. The text that went with the image read “BREAKING NEWS: Nigerian Actor Desmond Elliot found Motionless, drown in his blood in a Hotel in Nigeria”.

The fake report claimed that Elliot had been murdered in a hotel room. The false report later stated “Movie fans who first heard the news are in shaking feathers and Investigations are going-on of who might be behind his murder”. But at the bottom of the Facebook post, the author wrote”.

It is all fake and a baseless rumor only stirred up by someone who probably wanted to gain attention so we advise that you disregard any such news you may stumble upon. Desmond is alive and kicking.