'Coronation Street' Bill Roache exposes Twitter imposter
Published Jan 14 2012, 11:41 GMT | By Daniel Sperling
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The 79-year-old, who plays Ken Barlow in the ITV soap, exposed the fraud after the likes of Christine Bleakley, Adrian Chiles, John Terry and Roache's own girlfriend Emma Jesson were targeted.
"I really do want people to know that the Bill Roache account on Twitter is run by an imposter and most definitely not me," he told the Daily Star. "I am not on Twitter and never have been. I would not know how to Tweet to save my life!
"I am not even on Facebook, despite there being three accounts in my name on there as well."
The fake account was created in 2009, has over 6,500 followers and is listed under Twitter's "top people".
"It baffles me why someone would want to pretend to be someone they are not and to say some quite outrageous things about people I know," he said. "I hope this imposter is stopped as soon as possible."
Roache said last year that he wants to "keep appearing on Coronation Street for the rest of [his] life."
But is that the REAL Bill Roach denouncing a fake? Hmmm
January 16th 2012 at 8:27am(+1 like)
There are loads of fake accounts on facebook pretending to be different people and characters from the soap. These people really need to get a life if they cannot be themselves on social networking sites and feel that they have to be characters who don't even exist in real life!
January 15th 2012 at 7:08pm
@ Darren, How rude! By the way, the correct grammar & punctuation is - you're an old man. Remember? We say 'an' in front of word that starts with a vowel and the apostrophe replaces the 'a' in you are.
January 15th 2012 at 2:53pm
people are sad.
January 15th 2012 at 1:30pm
Charming.
January 14th 2012 at 9:03pm