A photoshopped picture of Zendaya has blown up and duped some folks into considering she went to the Met Gala in the identical outfit as one other superstar

• A photoshopped picture of Zendaya’s face on Rita Ora’s physique has gone viral on Twitter. 
• Customers mentioned the picture confirmed Zendaya in attendance on the 2023 Met Gala, duping some viewers. 
• It is not the primary time faux photos of celebrities on the Met Gala have circulated on social media.

A photoshopped picture of Zendaya has gone viral on social media, as some customers thought it confirmed the actor and singer on the 2023 Met Gala. 

In actuality, the image was of British singer-songwriter Rita Ora, who attended the Met Gala in a black robe by American-Nepalese designer Prabal Gurung, with Zendaya’s face superimposed on Ora’s physique. 

Whereas it’s unclear the place the photoshopped picture originated from, a quantity of accounts on Twitter posted the picture with captions suggesting it confirmed Zendaya on the gala, even if the superstar was not current on the occasion and has not attended since 2019, in response to a number of superstar information shops.

—TW. (@TomWillemm) May 1, 2023

A handful of customers who noticed the photograph appeared to consider it was actual, writing on Twitter that they loved the superstar’s outfit. The picture additionally went viral on TikTok, the place one consumer obtained 2.3 million views for evaluating the photoshopped picture to an image of Ora on the gala, showing to recommend she thought that the 2 celebrities had been seen sporting the identical outfit on the occasion. 

“All the way down to the nails, identical precise factor. I do not know if I am like disenchanted or like…” the consumer mentioned, as she in contrast the 2 photos. 

An enormous variety of commenters below the viral put up mentioned they found the picture was truly photoshopped to seem like Zendaya, and one other TikTok consumer obtained 1 million views in a video saying that the photograph was a web-based hoax, however she initially believed it was actual too. 

Some Twitter customers have since posted both the unique and photoshopped picture aspect by aspect to reveal the hoax as effectively. 

“Whoever modified this to zendaya is definitely evil like so many individuals have been fooled when its truly Rita Ora,” one user wrote, receiving 9,600 likes. 

—lizzie (@lizbedumb) May 1, 2023

Pretend photos purported to indicate celebrities on the Met Gala have gone viral on social media earlier than. Final 12 months, a photoshopped picture of Doja Cat and a photograph of Girl Gaga at a film premiere had been posted on Twitter alongside false claims that they confirmed the celebrities’ Met Gala seems for that 12 months.

Zendaya is commonly on the heart of a lot on-line hypothesis herself, as considered one of Gen Z’s most beloved celebrities. Final 12 months, she shut down a rumor that she was pregnant, which had been circulating on TikTok, and has since been implicated in a variety of different viral theories about her private life, together with claims that her boyfriend Tom Holland has her preliminary sown into all of his trousers and that she snubbed Paul Mescal’s try to carry her hand on the SAG Awards. 

The Met Gala is an annual fundraising ball held to lift cash for the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute in New York Metropolis. This 12 months’s theme was “in honor of Karl,” a tribute to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld. 

Representatives for Zendaya and Rita Ora didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark. 

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