Mr Bean in Chinese film

Rowan Atkinson has demonstrated to fans he's fit as a fiddle hours in the wake of being the casualty of a debilitated demise trick.

The performer, 62, is presently in China for the debut of film Top Funny Comedian which is just being discharged in the nation and sees Rowan playing his notorious Mr Bean part.


While he joyfully got into character and postured for cameras, somewhere else a fake Twitter account had been set up to look like Fox News was spreading that he had been slaughtered in an auto collision.

However site Hoax Alert was soon hot and the case and immediately exposed the gossip.

They expressed: "Big name passing deceptions are just the same old thing new on the web yet this one is uncommon in that it figured out how to be enjoyed/shared more than 300,000 circumstances in a brief timeframe by utilizing some insidious specialized traps.

"The first is the video player inserted in the site. At first sight this is only an ordinary YouTube video from a Fox News communicate (which is about a demise however not about Rowan Atkinson)."

The report includes that the con artists were probably going to have profited from the barbarous trick.

"The tricksters are profiting by now and again not demonstrating the video or the share exchange when guests click however rather diverting them to pages loaded with misleading advertisements and popups. "It is vague as of now the amount they left with yet it is presumably a considerable aggregate at this point in view of the measures of preferences and shares we have been seeing."

However many fans still took to Twitter to express their misery.

One expressed: "Rowan Atkinson has kicked the bucket. He's most known for Mr Bean however Blackadder will dependably be my top choice. He was dependably enjoyable to watch. Tear"

Furthermore, another additional: "Completely squashed to catch wind of Rowan Atkinson. One of only a handful couple of humorists that illicited the same uproarious reaction from me my entire life" The Sun