NOT DEAD: Rumours of action star Jackie Chan's death set Twitterverse ablaze. Source: AP
RUMOURS of Jackie Chan's death have set the Twitterverse into overdrive, but according to his Facebook page the action star is alive and kicking.
�The bogus news took hold after it was tweeted that the action star had suffered a heart attack, the Courier-Mail reported.
'RIP Jackie Chan'� topped Twitter's trending topics, sparking confusion and leading to a post on Chan's Facebook page debunking the story.
"Jackie is alive and well. He did not suffer a heart attack and die, as was reported on many social networking sites and in online news reports.
"Jackie is fine and is busy preparing for the filming of his next movie."
The prank originated on a fake website made to look like the Australian news website Yahoo!7News.
Chan is not the first celebrity to be prematurely killed off on the internet.
Jurassic Park star Jeff Goldblum was the victim of a similar bogus story that he had died in a ski accident in New Zealand, sparking a spate of copycat celebrity death hoaxes.
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