Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013

Hoaxer tells Dr. Phil about 'romantic relationship' with Manti Te'o

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo spoke with Dr. Phil about the Manti Te'o hoax.

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Hoaxer tells Dr. Phil about 'romantic relationship' with Manti Te'o

POSTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 12:23 PM
In a photo provided by ESPN, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o pauses during an interview with ESPN on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Bradenton, Fla. (Ryan Jones/ AP, ESPN Images)

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo spoke with Dr. Phil about the Manti Te'o hoax. The interview will air in two parts because, ratings. The first half of their segment is set to air on Thursday, so Dr. Phil was on the Today show on Wednesday to tease everyone about what Tuiasosopo had to say.

"I asked him, straight up, was this a romantic relationship with you?" Dr. Phil McGraw said on NBC's Today. "And he says, 'yes.' I then said, are you then, therefore, gay? He says, 'Well, when you put it that way, yes.' And then, he caught himself and said, 'I am confused.'"

Tuiasosopo also denied that Manti Te'o had any involvement in the hoax. You know, aside from having a skewed concept of what a "girlfriend" is and continuing to lead America on after having realized that Lennay Kekua was a freakin' unicorn.

The two-part interview will air on Thursday and Friday on CBS. Race you to the DVR? [Yahoo!]

Mike Bertha @ 12:23 PM  Permalink | 15 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:39 PM, 01/30/2013
    Have fun, Mike. Are you 'confused', too?
    PhillySubsMac
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:40 PM, 01/30/2013
    Who cares.....Te'o was exposed as a fraud player in the BCS and this stupid romance exposed him as an idiot....and if it were not for the ND PR department and the love by the stepfords and the koolade drinkers, this story would have died 4 hours after it was told....
    nuggett
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:24 PM, 01/30/2013
    Terrible job by the press to not expose this fraud long before the BCS championship game. Where was the probing into the incredible coincidence of two deaths on the same day? Where was the obituary? Why no record of the "girl" at Stanford? Who had EVER seen this young lady? Yet we were given this entire story, verbatim, without the slightest bit of questioning. The so-called journalists were taken by the ND myth machine, so now they want to do what they should have all along...
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:15 PM, 01/30/2013
    "Lennay Kekua was a freakin' unicorn." I dare to disagree.. Definition of a unicorn is single bisexual female.. LOL
    USAFirst1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:23 PM, 01/30/2013
    This story is getting so old....
    Philliefan75inAZ
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:42 PM, 01/30/2013
    but you keep clicking on it . . . .
    ekw555
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:46 PM, 01/30/2013
    Hahaha....this means Manai is a mo.
    hunglikeaton
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:31 PM, 01/30/2013
    The "internet girlfriend" was a ruse. This guy is gay...Not that there is anything wrong with that. By the way, who cares!!!!
    Philly Always
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:31 PM, 01/30/2013
    The "internet girlfriend" was a ruse. This guy is gay...Not that there is anything wrong with that. By the way, who cares!!!!
    Philly Always
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:38 PM, 01/30/2013
    Stop writing, and interviewing about this sh*t and it goes away
    twpman
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:24 PM, 01/30/2013
    This was so obvious the entire time. Ten to one, Te'o is also gay. He used the remote romance to hide it when teammates asked, how come you don't have a girlfriend on campus. It's no big deal if he is, but it makes perfect sense that he used this as a beard...that's the missing element that answers all the questions.
    PFCzar
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:32 PM, 01/30/2013
    Phil and Oppie.....anything for ratings. The National Inquirer on the tube. These two opportunist are laughing all the way to the bank. The "faithful" eat this stuff up!
    dogman5
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:38 PM, 01/30/2013
    You're all crazy. I'm friends with Manti on line. At least I think it's him.
    Frosty Peters
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:53 PM, 01/30/2013
    Can we put this ridiculous story to bed finally? Jeez, it's getting so old.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:08 PM, 01/30/2013
    Can Manti Te'o be the gay Jackie Robinson if he insists on hiding it after all of this? Dude seems to be either afraid or ashamed to be himself.
    Dan in Holmesburg


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