Gosiame Thamara Sithole
This celebrity goo was created by player Chris Lemler.
Scott Hardie replaced the gooed image, category, and difficulty, made major changes to the clue, and rewrote the explanation provided by Chris.
publication date: Sunday, January 1, 2023 (part of January 2023)
category: 
Hoaxes
clue: Having babies is a happy thing but having a bunch of babies can be painful. So can being admitted to a psychiatric ward.
explanation: Sithole made international news in 2021 when she was reported to have given birth to ten babies, but this turned out to have been a fabrication and she received psychiatric care. The newspaper that broke the story was discovered not to have done any verification of the claim, since Sithole was a friend of the chief editor. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
trivia: Chris created this goo in the initial wave of press about Sithole's claim, so he categorized it as a Records goo and wrote only the first sentence of the clue. It was later published after the story was debunked, so Scott recategorized it as a Hoaxes goo and added the second sentence.
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