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12:57 pm - 01/17/2013

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Manti TE'o Hoax: All Scams lead to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo

The Manti Te'o not-really-dead-girlfriend hoax was perpetuated by a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo -- who served as a representative for the family of the fake "Lennay Kekua" ... and TMZ has the photo proof.

Here's what we know ...

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sports / athletes - football (nfl / cfl)

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isuspectnargels 17th-Jan-2013 07:46 pm (UTC)

I'm so confused

la_petite_singe 17th-Jan-2013 07:46 pm (UTC)

wait wat. I'm too slow for this shit. So a football player got Catfish'd? Did they ever meet in person?

whossoulsister 17th-Jan-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)

he said that they did but changed the story later saying that they met and only ever talked online

Edited at 2013-01-17 07:49 pm (UTC)

duckyduck92 17th-Jan-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)

that is what he is claiming, most people think he did it to gain sympathy for his heisman campaign.

mmmyesplease 17th-Jan-2013 09:07 pm (UTC)

He either got Catfished or he was in on it to get positive sympathy press when he was up for the Heisman. Roniah and Manti are friends, and one of Roniah's friends said he was 80% sure that Manti was in on it.

The other theory is that Roniah and Manti had a thing going on and used Lennay as a cover because they are both super religious, as is Notre Dame.

wonderwomanhero 17th-Jan-2013 07:47 pm (UTC)

His career is over lol

ohkkrista 17th-Jan-2013 07:53 pm (UTC)

are you kidding?
http://www.utsandiego.com/nfl/arrests-database/

it hasn't even started. he'll be fine.

wonderwomanhero 17th-Jan-2013 07:54 pm (UTC)

it hasn't even started. he'll be fine.

Oh I doubt that. This scandal has the potential to possibly ruin his life.

goldengal1193 17th-Jan-2013 07:57 pm (UTC)

Hell no. He is Fucked with a capital F.

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frenchverbs 17th-Jan-2013 08:05 pm (UTC)

I definitely think he'll find a team, but it won't be any that he was hoping for.

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hearthecity 17th-Jan-2013 07:59 pm (UTC)

it's so stupid too because it's not like he needed any of this. All he needed was to play well

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haverchuck_bill 17th-Jan-2013 08:06 pm (UTC)

idk, they let people in the NFL who've done worse.

soramai 17th-Jan-2013 07:47 pm (UTC)

I'm so lost...

aka_plynn 17th-Jan-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)

Can't help it, every time I see "Lennay" I have to say it like "Lenny" but drawn out in Forrest Gump style.

la_petite_singe 17th-Jan-2013 08:03 pm (UTC)

I'm kinda hearing it like Maya Rudolph's impression of Whitney's "BOBBAAAAAYYY!!" Which is probably offensive.

stephantasm 17th-Jan-2013 07:50 pm (UTC)

none of this shit adds up to me.

I'm confused as to why you would go through the elaborate trouble of pretending to be someone else? like, to this extent, it seems implausible or just cray idgi

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forcestrong 17th-Jan-2013 09:23 pm (UTC)

I knew someone that kept up a fake online identity for 2-3 years. They really wanted to cyber with guys, but didn't want the guys to know they were a dude too.

stephantasm 17th-Jan-2013 09:41 pm (UTC)

but was it this elaborate tho? did they have other people in on the ruse?

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mydogfred 17th-Jan-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)

CLIFF NOTES:

-Famous college football player vying for Heisman trophy tells the media that he's had this girlfriend for 3 years. She was in a car accident in March. They vacationed together in Hawaii. His dad talks about how and when they met to the media. She gets leukemia, dies the same day as his grandmother. He brings his team to a huge upset win against Michigan State soon after. Lands the cover of Sports Illustrated and tons of media attention.

-Girlfriend never existed. Manti and Notre Dame claims he was part of an online Catfish scam. This doesn't add up because he said he met her at Stanford in 2009. People are speculating that this was a publicity stunt gone wrong, a cover-up for that he might be gay, and/or he was duped and then went along with it for media attention anyways.

abiding 17th-Jan-2013 07:53 pm (UTC)

Gonna start linking this one now.

stephantasm 17th-Jan-2013 07:56 pm (UTC)

the fact that he would lie at first makes his entire situation suspicious.

mydogfred 17th-Jan-2013 07:58 pm (UTC)

and that Notre Dame is trying to spin "met" as "met her ONLINE" like lol

we aren't that stupid

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mynamehere07 17th-Jan-2013 08:01 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the recap. This just gets deeper and deeper.

ladyjj 17th-Jan-2013 08:23 pm (UTC)

noneformethanx 17th-Jan-2013 08:53 pm (UTC)

THANK YOU

for_serious13 18th-Jan-2013 02:23 am (UTC)

where are you getting 3 years though? i've only heard since 2011

like, even the other guy who said he met her, said it was before him, in 2011

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ohkkrista 17th-Jan-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)

This is so confusing.

misscrystal 17th-Jan-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)

This whole situation is weird as shit. I cannot comprehend any of it.

schmanda 17th-Jan-2013 07:53 pm (UTC)

LOL THIS WHOLE INSANE STORY

Though now I'm starting to think Teo is only guilty of being colossally stupid and really didn't know.

whossoulsister 17th-Jan-2013 07:57 pm (UTC)

mte. at first i was convinced that he was in on it but now i'm thinking he was just lying to cover up the fact he had an online girlfriend and he's just really stupid.

frenchverbs 17th-Jan-2013 08:31 pm (UTC)

I would be more inclined to believe he was just stupid (which I initially thought) if he hadn't gone on and on about vacationing with her and hanging out with her family. He didn't have to go into so much detail just to cover up that he met someone online.

forcestrong 17th-Jan-2013 09:27 pm (UTC)

I don't think he knew, either. I made shit up to hide the fact that a relationship started online when I was in college, too.

And I've known someone that used a fake girl to ingratiate themselves to men, then introduce their real self through that fake identity. When people found out they'd been duped, no one wanted to own up to that shit.

for_serious13 18th-Jan-2013 02:24 am (UTC)

i really dont think he knew either.

goldengal1193 17th-Jan-2013 07:55 pm (UTC)

I spent my whole morning watching First Take. They pretty much talked about this story for the whole episode. And this is the first time that Skip Bayless didn't completely annoy me.

I still don't know what to believe, but I agree with the person who wrote the article I read today.

He's either:

A. Mildly sociopathic
B. Gay
C. Very, very gullible

I'm starting to believe either B or C.

A doesn't make sense, unless he's just straight up crazy. Why make up a story like that? If it was because he thought it would be funny, he's crazy. If he did it for publicity, he's still crazy.

And I'm not saying B is the reason. I don't know if he's gay, but he is a strong Mormon who goes to a Catholic school.....They definitely don't accept homosexuality.

And the reason why C might make sense is because it's not that hard to be gullible. But as a lot of people are pointing out, that story just isn't adding up.

Either way he's fucked.