The hoax started making rounds on Facebook on October 15, 2024.
Key Takeaways
- Chuck Norris is alive and healthy.
- Rumors of his passing were started by clickbaity gossip sites.
- Despite being in his 80s, Chuck Norris has maintained his active lifestyle.
Chuck Norris, the legendary American martial artist and actor most famous for action movies and series like “Way of the Dragon,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” and “The Delta Force,” has become the victim of a hoax claiming that he passed away.
However, despite these claims, which were started by less-than-reputable gossip sites, Chuck Norris is alive and healthy.
In fact, in typical Chuck Norris fashion, the 84-year-old still lives an active life, caring for his body by working out, practicing martial arts, and performing various outdoor activities.
He is also still active as an actor. His latest film, “Agent Recon,” was released on June 21, 2024.
The hoax first started making rounds on Facebook, with multiple pages linking articles to shady websites.
All of these posts were captioned,
Breaking News: Actor Chuck Norris said goodbye, with his last regrets/ Goodbye to Chuck Norris…
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When clicking on the linked article, the user is led to a shady website with a nonsensical article about how Chuck Norris lost his father to cancer in 2013.
However, even this claim is false. Chuck Norris’s father, Ray Dee Norris, passed away on July 17, 1971, aged 53.
The cause of his passing is not mentioned in his online obituary.
However, some users were quick to dismiss the posts as a hoax.
One commented,
Why in the world would people do things like this? Don’t people have other things to do wit there time? People are just twisted and sick.
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Others were more playful with their responses and made the famous “Chuck Norris Facts” jokes. One user commented,
I think the grim reaper would be scared to go get Chuck.
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Rather tastelessly, some of these posts included an image of a car crash, which some users quickly pointed out was actually the image of the wreckage of Princess Diana’s fatal 1997 crash.
In the modern digital world, misinformation is rampant, and it is up to the user to distinguish the facts from the fiction.
Gossip websites always look to capitalize on the viewers’ curiosity, and sometimes, their attempts cross the line from harmless clickbait to morbid and disrespectful.
In Case You Didn’t Know
- Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma, on March 10, 1940.
- He has Irish and Cherokee roots.
- His father was a World War II Army soldier, mechanic, bus driver, and truck driver.
