Even better than the real thing?
From The Scientist’s web editor, Simon Frantz:
There’s a rumor going round that Bono made an unannounced visit to the exhibition hall yesterday morning. The Scientist’s director of business development, Jeremy Abbate, told me that Bono was walking around the hall and even visited our exhibition stand. As the full story involves some shameless plugging for a new biotech magazine that we have just launched, I’ll resist from telling it here, and if you want to read more click here). But I’m wondering if the rock star really was at BIO. He didn’t give a speech as far as I can tell, and I remember one BIO in San Francisco where there was a whole host of celebrity lookalikes roaming round the hall. So, can anyone confirm or refute the sighting?
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Nah, it wasn't him. BIO knows nothing about it, and in fact laughed it off. But that didn't stop everyone else from talking about it. I overheard an attendee on his cell phone swearing that a friend actually talked to Bono, and someone else said they waited with Bono in the line for the men's room. Two people behind me in line for food last night at the reception argued whether Bono would announce a visit. "I don't know," one said. "Sometimes he just wants to fly under the radar."
I think it was part of an exhibit.
Posted by: Brady | May 9, 2007 01:38 PM
yes, MSN Money blog revealed his true identity... the man in question was Pavel Sfera, a California-based Bono impersonator.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?Feed=ACBJ&Date=20070508&ID=6859999
Posted by: Simon | May 9, 2007 03:16 PM