Richard Wilkins on why he reported the death of Jeff Goldblum

The man who now co-hosts Weekend Today Cameron Williams was the person who handed Richard Wilkins the erroneous information that actor Jeff Goldblum was dead, the entertainment presenter has revealed.

Wilkins, entertainment editor on Today, found himself an international figure of fun in 2009 after making the live announcement – based on a website hoax spread via Twitter – on the same morning that Michael Jackson died. As a result of Jackson’s death, Today had dropped the ad breaks, leaving the presenters under pressure to make instant decisions.

Wilkins told Mumbrella editor Tim Burrowes: “In the middle of that suddenly there’s all this stuff about Jeff Goldblum coming up. There’s lots of internet action on Jeff. Cam who was working as our sports guy at the time handed me a piece of paper – I don’t suggest for a moment he was trying to set me up, he was trying to keep me in the loop, I think.”

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