Zach Braff

Photo Agency Yesterday awful rumors swirled around Twitter that comedian Zach Braff had taken his own life by overdosing on pain pills, but it turned out it was only some guy's practical joke from a long time ago. We don't really think it's too funny either, but, hey, it takes all kinds. Anyway, the post was discovered by someone poking around and it took off, thanks to the magic of the Internet, and the rest went down in YouTube history. Zach Braff is actually alive, thanks. (Getty Images) Braff taped a pretty funny video response to the rumor and slapped it up, and probably ... Read Full Story

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3j4PJkkvUs Zach Braff has gone the way of Jeff Goldblum . In other words, he's totally not dead. A nasty rumor floated all over the Internet yesterday that the Scrubs star had off'ed himself with a bunch of pills. Thankfully, he posted a note on Facebook (which received less "likes" than he would have liked) and a video to clear up the tall tales. "I'm alive," he says. "I'm here at Scrubs shooting the new Scrubs title sequence which is a little bit like dying, so I guess that was semi-accurate. Also, I would never off myself with pills. If I had ... Read Full Story

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images; Jim Spellman/Getty Images Celebrity deaths can be tragic. Or they can be tragically ridiculous. Thanks to the Interwebs, fake celebrity deaths have been running rampant. Kanye West supposedly lost his life in a car crash this week, while Zach Braff recently had to create a video to prove he was still kicking despite tales of a fatal pill-popping episode. And by now we know that any star rumored to have fallen off a cliff in New Zealand is more likely to have slipped into an Internet hoax. The Kauri Cliffs have supposedly taken Natalie Portman , Jeff Goldblum , Tom Cruise ... Read Full Story

Dear Zach Braff fans. Your beloved Dr. J.D. Dorian is not dead, despite what you may have heard on Twitter. Beginning this afternoon, a fast-growing stream of tweets began reporting the death of the former Scubs star with a link pointing to a fake CNN story claiming he had committed suicide. As of yet, there has been no word from the Braff camp to officially denounce the Twitter hoax, but you can be assured it is coming. Twitter has been praised repeatedly for the way in which the website captures the pulse of society on a minute to minute basis. Unfortunately, it appears that, ... Read Full Story

Celebrity deaths can be tragic. Or they can be tragically ridiculous. Thanks to the Interwebs, fake celebrity deaths have been running rampant. Kanye West supposedly lost his life in a car crash this week, while Zach Braff recently had to create a video to prove he was still kicking despite tales of a fatal pill-popping episode. And by now we know that any star rumored to have fallen off a cliff in New Zealand is more likely to have slipped into an Internet hoax. The Kauri Cliffs have supposedly taken Natalie Portman, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks from us. Some have died ... Read Full Story