“Cheap publicity stunt” draws furious reactions from celebs

The Poonam Pandey loss of life hoax has left the Internet fuming — “low-cost publicity stunt”, “ridiculous”, “disgraceful”, and “a brand new low” are solely among the enraged phrases that got here on Saturday, on the heels of shocked reactions to information of the actor-model’s “loss of life” on Friday.

Pandey’s staff had on Friday dropped the bombshell information of her loss of life from cervical most cancers. But it was a hoax, a stunt pulled off by the actor-model, who appeared in a video on Saturday and declared that she was “alive”.

The intention behind the stunt, in accordance with Pandey, was to unfold consciousness about cervical most cancers. Her Instagram submit mentioned: “While I do perceive how you’ll have perceived this [to be] in dangerous style, I additionally implore you to contemplate the better trigger.”

However, the stunt didn’t go down properly with social media customers, together with celebrities like Pooja Bhatt, Sara Khan, Aly Goni, and Rahul Vaidya, who furiously slammed Pandey for faking her loss of life and demeaning an essential trigger.

Bhatt, who was among the many celebs to supply their condolences on Pandey’s alleged loss of life, mentioned that she had deleted her earlier submit. “I by no means delete tweets however did so within the case the place I expressed my shock at information of Poonam Pandey’s demise resulting from cervical most cancers. Why? Turns out the information was engineered by a digital/PR staff. Absolute shame & disservice to these battling the identical – her included,” she posted on X.

TV actor Goni wrote, “F***ing low-cost publicity stunt it was nothing else.. u guys assume it’s humorous ? U and ur PR staff must be boycotted I swear.. bloody losers and to all of the media portals we individuals right here belief u that’s y we believed it.. disgrace on u all (sic).”

Singer and former Bigg Boss contestant Vaidya mentioned that he by no means believed within the information that Pandey had died from cervical most cancers. “And I used to be proper!! Now that poonam is alive I can absolutely say RIP PR/ advertising and marketing. New low of making a sensational/viral marketing campaign .. welcome to KALYUG,” he posted.

Actress Nikki Tamboli mentioned, “Absolute cheapness! It’s disheartening to witness the depths some people will sink to for a momentary highlight. Faking one’s loss of life, particularly within the context of a critical sickness like most cancers, isn’t just tasteless however downright disrespectful. It trivialises the very actual struggles that hundreds of thousands face worldwide and breaks the belief of those that genuinely care. Let’s not reward such attention-seeking habits with our consideration.”

Actor Kushal Tandon known as for Pandey and her PR staff’s arrest. “How silly and the way lame it’s to faux your loss of life. It’s unhappy, and alarming, I believe will probably be proper to place the individual and there total pr staff behind the bars to set an instance for the longer term, for no nonsense, faux information mumbaipolice # poonam Pandey and an alarm to media homes to at all times test the truth of a scenario first hand after which submit on the ur information boards, authenticity test plz (sic),” he wrote in an Instagram story.

Pandey additionally acquired criticism from actors Sherlyn Chopra and Rakhi Sawant.

“Height of shamelessness & insensitivity!!!” Chopra mentioned on X.

Sawant posted a video on Instagram and criticised Pandey. “Are you mad? Who does this sort of publicity? You performed with the followers, media and with my coronary heart. And then you definitely say you’re alive. Who performs such type of soiled pranks?” she mentioned.

The hashtag ‘PoonamPandey’ attracted over 60,000 posts on X, with the bulk being crucial of the actor.

“Worst publicity stunt ever,” mentioned one consumer.

“This was essentially the most ridiculous strategy to promote one thing,” posted one other consumer.

One individual known as Pandey “the most important fraud”.

“Spread consciousness, not rumors #PoonamPandey This wasn’t consciousness. It was clearly a misinformation. I by no means posted condolences trigger it was bizarre. It wasn’t a cardiac arrest that individuals simply die of. Cancer deteriorates ones well being considerably, steadily (sic),” one other individual mentioned.

One submit learn, “What a shameful woman she is. How are you able to stoop so low for an inexpensive publicity stunts. We won’t ever belief you once more as they are saying belief is the most costly factor on the planet, low-cost individuals can’t afford it as Poonam Pandey.#PoonamPandey #PoonamPandeyLoss of life. (sic)”

In the ocean of criticism, a number of voices got here out in her assist. “#PoonamPandey is alive. She wished to unfold consciousness about Cervical Cancer. Because of her effort yesterday hundreds of thousands talked about cervical most cancers. Hats off to her,” one consumer mentioned. Another consumer posted, “Seriously individuals are indignant & shocked that #PoonamPandey lied to them, however they don’t react when authorities do the identical (sic).”