The travails of Gerry Fortuna: An underdog’s story
It’s fair to say this will be the most bizarre day in the life of the marvellously named Gerry Fortuna, who awoke this morning to find his face, and farewell email, plastered all over Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.
His story is as old as time: boy starts job with Nine; boy meets girl; boy forms crush on girl; boy gets new job; boy sends leaving email to 1,400 colleagues talking about his crush on said co-worker; email gets printed in major newspaper.
Gerry’s tweet trail this morning tells the tale of how he is handling the new found fame:
Then an appearance on Fox FM’s Fifi and Dave show:
And as the attention spirals our would-be Romeo realises he may have made a romantic rod for his own back (and a new hashtag):
As the attention keeps coming, so does the realisation he may have been made to look a bit of a berk:
But he still has the good grace to think of the reputation of the lovely Mia:
He’s now so famous he’s even snubbing Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa:
Fortunately the fame shouldn’t go to his head. At least the 12 followers of the “self-confessed” visionary are able to keep up to date with his rollercoaster day.
$50 he appears on the next series of Beauty and the Geek
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apparently the said girl’s boyfriend wants to deck him!
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Oh dear, i blame myself.. i read it.
oh and..
“wants to deck him”
This further confirms for me that T’internet and twitter etc are nothing more than a microphone placed behind the bike shed.
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I heard he tried to stop this article being printed when he found out but his wishes fell on deaf ears. The media should be ashamed for the attention they have brought to an email that was meant to be private and should never have left the workplace compounds of about 300 people not 1000!
The girl should be flattered, I would’ve been! What girl doesn’t love attention? I don’t think he meant any harm nor does it seem he asked for any of this.
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