Catfished

Actress Drew Barrymore was tricked into thinking she was chatting to a footballer on a dating app. She also shared that she doesn’t have a great time on dating apps. The 48-year-old actress split from Will Kopelman - with whom she has Olive, 11, and nine-year-old Frankie - in 2016 after four years of marriage and has been single ever since but has tried her luck on the dating app and was left unsure what to make of the situation when it turned out the man was actually a musician, reports Female First UK. Speaking…

A newly minted law enforcement officer from Virginia drove to a Riverside cul-de-sac, where he parked a few houses down from the home of a teenage girl he met online by pretending to be someone else, police say.Neighbors say the man waited for the 15-year-old’s family to get home Friday morning, going back and forth between his car and the house.Police got a call about a young woman who appeared to be distressed while getting into a red Kia Soul with a male driver. Neighbors reported hearing arguing, then a fire erupted…

Nearly a decade after former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s infamous catfishing scandal took over social media in early 2013, Netflix on Tuesday released a new documentary chronicling the story, Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.While making press rounds ahead of the doc’s release, Te’o—who was drafted in 2013 and has since played for the Chargers, Saints, and Bears—stopped by CBS Mornings and shared how a Jay-Z concert inspired him to move on from the bizarre catfishing hoax.“Cam Jordan with the Saints took a…