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Daphne Fowler.!
BBC Eggheads’ Daphne Fowler confirms she’s ALIVE after death hoax
The 81-year-old quiz expert became aware of the sick spoof when a neighbour asked her husband if she had died.
Daphne Fowler is a British game show champion who has taken part in many televised game shows.
And as she isn't on social media, she asked the Daily Express, her favourite newspaper, to let people know she is still very much alive. Daphne, Brain of Britain in 1997, said: "One of my neighbours, Bob, rang the doorbell. Pete, my husband, answered to be told one of my other neighbours was upset to read on the internet I had died, and was it true?
"Bob was most relieved when I appeared to prove it was untrue - but it has been very upsetting, as you wonder what sort of weird person does this?
"I'm not on social media, preferring to protect my family's privacy, but even then, whilst on Eggheads, fake 'Daphnes' appeared on Facebook and Twitter claiming to be me and writing all kind of nonsense about my daily life."
Daphne was in Eggheads - a team of gameshow champions challenged daily by new quiz teams on the BBC - from 2003 until