It was just announced on live TV on a British channel called ITV News that Pope Francis was dead.
The newscaster appeared to be reading off notecards or a teleprompter and caught herself after making the announcement, correcting herself to say it wasn’t true.
But it begs the question: how did it get in the teleprompter?
Loaded prematurely?
Watch these clips and hear it for yourself:
@itvnews just casually announcing the pope is dead and then not correcting themselves. I had to rewind and double check I’d heard correctly!
— Charlotte Claridge (@pansy_buddy) December 25, 2021
Is the Pope dead? #pope #itvnews #wtf pic.twitter.com/1jXCqkSlnd
— RB 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@magicalmouse) December 25, 2021
OK conspiracy theorist. This was on international television. What the hell does this mean? They talk about the V with the pope and then said he’s dead? pic.twitter.com/E191LlxRTh
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) December 26, 2021
ITV just accidentally reported on the death of Pope Francis (he’s not in fact dead)?👀👀
They got ahead of the narrative 🤔 pic.twitter.com/5u9RcduKkF— Denise Sosa (@DeniseS0718) December 26, 2021
@kyliepentelow what just happened to the Pope?? Is he actually dead? 😱 @itvnews pic.twitter.com/IJe2OIpsLb
— RB 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@magicalmouse) December 25, 2021
Listen Carefully, is the Pope dead? pic.twitter.com/fCQS6AvHAL
— Captain Mainwaring (@AlleyMan4) December 25, 2021
Dead or not, he sure doesn’t look good in those videos, does he?
This next Tweet it not necessarily something I believe because I haven’t seen the evidence for it yet, but can you imagine?
https://twitter.com/GhostOfPhaistos/status/1474472136135909377
Here’s what @billko32 had to say on Twitter about the news:
Pope is dead another pedo gone 😁😁 pic.twitter.com/1goWseRcri
— Buffalo (@billko32) December 25, 2021
TMZ quickly reported the Pope is not, in fact, dead but that it was just a mistake by the newscaster:
Francis’ Christmas day remarks were being recapped Saturday by ITV broadcaster Kylie Pentelow, who was plugging along nicely … until a little slip at the end when she said, “His death was announced …”
Pentelow caught herself before she said anything more, and then apologized briefly before doing a hard pause and moving on to the next story.
There didn’t seem to be any explanation as to why she said that — but the obvious answer seems to be that she was reading off of a teleprompter, which must’ve said something to that effect. Indeed, a true Ron Burgundy moment in real-time.
Of course, the Pope isn’t dead — he’s alive and kicking. And as for what he had to say about ‘rona during his speech at the Vatican … it was all about praying the pandemic away, and lamenting those who’ve suffered through the era of Covid.
He spoke from a balcony looking down onto St. Peter’s Square … which was filled with just a fraction of the crowd it might normally draw.
I suppose we will find out in the near future if it was a “mistake” or if it was just mistakenly announced prematurely….
Stay tuned!
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