Kesha’s Hollywood sign prank a hoax

by on February 05, 2010 | 10 Comments

When Kesha posted this video of her and a group of friends defacing the famed Hollywood sign, we weren’t sure whether or not it was a hoax.

According to Entertainment Weekly, it was nothing but pure fakery:

Before I committed any journalism, I checked in with my good friend Common Sense. It’s been pouring rain here in L.A. all day, so I knew the “early morning” footage of the group stumbling out of their limo to check out their handiwork wasn’t shot anytime in the last 12 hours. Also, my more sober friends and I have tried to get as close as possible to the sign in the past, and we were stopped hundreds of yards away when a security camera started talking to us. (“Hey, you. Yeah, you in the red shirt. I can see you. You want to get arrested?”) The sign is monitored 24 hours a day — I doubt a bunch of lit-up freaks in rabbit masks could get much closer. And as anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of scale could probably figure out, it would be very, VERY hard for anyone sans ladders/cranes to cover something 45 feet tall with bedsheets.

And there you have it. Shenanigans.

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  • britnie

    hahahhaha indeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

  • annie

    is it really true tho that its there?

  • Luv Ke$ha

    It even looks fake on the picture

  • sammie

    it was true i saw it one youtube

    • ted

      Are you honestly going to believe it just because it was on Youtube?

      • Deemsters

        I took that as sarcasm, then again they wrote "one" instead of on, so it could very well be a 'tard.

  • Lucy

    IT IS SO REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL IF IT WAS FAKE WHY DIDNT SHE JUST SAY ITS FAKE DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • Lauren

      ummm have you ever been there? The sign is big! she wasn't carrying nearly enough material to do this. plus how the "O" has spraypaint to make it into an "E"…..thats at LEAST 100 cans….they had like 6. plus this person is not lying about the cameras and speakers. They moniter it daily plus there's usually at least 1 guard nearby. You get within a football fields distance of that thing and they know your there. They MIGHT have hoppped the fence….but the fine for that is HIGH! Add defacing the hollywood sign — which would include trespassing, vandalism, sobriety test= public intoxication, and so many others…..if she REALLY did this, it's be on CNN or at least local news…which it's not.

  • tinonblue

    Completely fake. I know, because I was there.

  • LO <3

    HERE IS THE REST OF THE ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    …But just in case, I called Betsy Isroelit at the Hollywood Sign Trust, and asked her to confirm that no vandalism had taken place. She got in touch with the sign’s dedicated park rangers, sent an officer over to quadruple check, and called me back to say that the Ke$ha video was, as far as anyone knew, a computer-generated hoax. Her friends in the city’s General Services office even analyzed the tape, and came up with a couple fun debunking facts:

    “First of all, when they run off — that’s a 40 foot drop there,” says Isroelit. “There’s no way they could be running off in heels. it’s very dangerous up there. Secondly, the sign is made of corrugated steel. It has ridges. And you can see what they pretend to be the sign is a completely flat surface.”