David Schwimmer Death Rumor Debunked: A Black-and-White Birthday Photo Sparked the Mix-Up on His 60th Birthday
November 2 was American actor David Schwimmer's 60th birthday. That day, the Instagram page Angel Shots Please posted a black-and-white photo of him as a birthday tribute. The post drew nearly 9,000 likes, but many fans mistook the black-and-white image for an obituary photo and briefly believed the Friends star had died, and the claim spread across social media. According to Prime Timer's November 3 report, Schwimmer is alive and well, and the episode was a mix-up.
According to Prime Timer, the page's caption did wish him a happy birthday, and the account has marked other celebrities' birthdays the same way. Still, the black-and-white presentation led many users to read it as a memorial post, and commenters accused the account of engagement bait. As of the report, neither Schwimmer nor his family had addressed the rumor, and no announcement of any death had come from his family or team.
Also on November 2, People magazine published a 60th-birthday feature on Schwimmer, looking back at photos of Cleo, his daughter with ex-wife Zoë Buckman, written throughout as a birthday celebration. Schwimmer was born on November 2, 1966, in Queens, New York City, and became a household name playing Ross Geller on the sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004.
Source: Prime Timer
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Photo: David Schwimmer（资料图，Philippe Berdalle摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons）
