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Stephen Fry Facebook Sensation

So, the other day I became Stephen Fry’s friend on Facebook. I don’t know why I requested a friendship… I mean, I’ve been denying friendships to people I don’t actually know – online or in person – so why I thought he’d approve mine, I don’t know. Still, his approving my friendship is just another reason why he’s The Loveliest Man On Earth TM.

My friendship was approved and then I thought, ‘Wait! This mightn’t be him.’ Of course, I wasn’t the only one who doubted. Yesterday he took a photo of himself, in a kidnapped stylee, saying hello to one of his doubters.


The photo was ‘backwards’ when he posted it

The floodgates opened and he was inundated with ‘friend’ requests. This morning he’d been so overhwelmed by friend requests that he turned off his ‘add friendship’ and started Stephen Fry’s Friendship Proxy Group.

Of course, I couldn’t help, but photoshop his photo… into a LOLFryz

Stephen Fry, the Lilley Allen of Facebook.

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13 Responses

  1. Amanda says:

    …*snorts.* I saw those. They cracked me up.

  2. Mark says:

    And now you can make your own …

    http://www.neonbubble.com/fry.php?q=Hello Gia – how’s things?

  3. Mark says:

    Okay, your CMS niceified my link … but you get the idea.

  4. giagia says:

    Hahahahahaha!!! You’ve GOT to put that link on his friend group! Go on….

  5. Mark says:

    I might once I’ve tidied up the code and tried to make it appear a little better. But some of those members in his proxy group scare me a little. The cult of celebrity is serving up a dish of sycophantic/psychopathic stalking comments and I’m not sure I want them near my site in any way.

  6. giagia says:

    Yea, I’ve only gone to the group a couple times and it does seem a bit stalkerish.

  7. Lisa says:

    Nuts. Had I known about it, I woulda shamefully plugged my Stephen site in hopes it would get me “in” but I had no idea. If it’s anythign like the usual celebrity blog places, I think I’ll stay faaaaar away.

  8. giagia says:

    Fab!!!

  9. giagia says:

    I posted a link to it on his wall and in his proxy group. Heh.

  10. Creepy Lesbo says:

    I feel extra EXTRA special then that you requested my friendship. But how do I know it’s the real you? Is it a PA pretending to be you? :-D

  11. giagia says:

    Shhhhhh, Creepy, don’t tell anyone this isn’t actually me.

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Gia Milinovich is an American ex-pat, a science groupie and professional dork.

Gia's a TV presenter, enjoys taking photos, writes for Parentdish UK, is married to physicist Professor Brian Cox and thinks writing about herself in the third person is "cool".


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Gia worked on The X Files: I Want To Believe. Previously, she wrote the Sunshine production blog, was involved in the Indy4/Seesmic online junket and originated the 28 Weeks Later QR Code DVD release.