[FACT OR FAKE #31] This Note-Passing War Between Elan Gale And Diane In A Delayed Flight
TV producer Elan Gale managed to get a lot of people chatting over their Thanksgiving dinner - and gained 170,000 followers in the process. But after leaving internet users around the world gripped over the holiday with his blow-by-blow account of a row with an apparently horrid fellow lady airplane passenger, he has revealed the truth behind hilarious exchange. What is it?
By Sadho Ram — 08 Dec 2013, 07:18 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Elan Gale, a producer on ABC's 'The Bachelor,' got into a fight with a fellow passenger on a flight on Thanksgiving Day and detailed the argument on Twitter. But how much of it is a fact and fake?
It took place on Thanksgiving Day between a middle-aged woman known as "Diane" and a righteously-indignant TV producer, Elan Gale, who live-tweeted the entire hilarious, maddening encounter as it happened.
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With a few tweets, a Bachelor producer created more drama in real life than the Internet has ever seen on the ABC dating show.
Image via nydailynews.comHe managed to get a lot of people chatting over their Thanksgiving dinner - and gained 170,000 followers in the process. But after leaving internet users around the world gripped over the holiday with his blow-by-blow account of a row with an apparently horrid fellow airplane passenger, TV producer Elan Gale has revealed the truth behind the hilarious exchange.
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FAKE: Gale himself took to Twitter on 2 December night and confessed it was all a BIG LIE.
Gale, whose Twitter bio says he works on ABC's The Bachelor, sent a series of tweets suggesting that his run-in wasn't real.
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After the tweet, Gale posted a picture of an empty chair up on Twitter saying: 'Here is Diana sitting on a chair'
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He then tweeted: 'I conclude by saying hopefully a few people got a few laughs over a slow Thanksgiving weekend.'
nydailynews.comElan’s tweets about “Diane in 7A” went viral during the Thanksgiving holiday. They went this way:
Gale's account of the row started: 'Our flight is delayed. A woman on here is very upset because she has Thanksgiving plans. She is the only one obviously. Praying for her.'
The long-haired, bearded Gale added: 'She's telling the flight attendants that it is Thanksgiving. She wants them to know she wants to have dinner with her family.'
According to Gale, the woman was getting pretty irate at the prospect of being late for her holiday dinner.
'The male flight attendant said "I understand ma'am. I'm looking forward to seeing my family too." She responded "This isn't about you,"' Gale tweeted.
'Her family is very important to her, she says. Her family has a special recipe for stuffing. She needs to be there to help. It is crucial,' he wrote in a follow up.
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Elan continued with other fake interactions with the “lady in 7A” — who later is named “Diane” — including photos of his handwritten notes.
He then allegedly sent her a glass of wine as a a gift. “Hopefully if you drink it, you won’t be able to use your mouth to talk!” he wrote, later telling “Diane” to “eat my d***.”
When Elan got home, he posted a selfie with the caption: “Finally landed in LA. Gonna go hang out with my mom and be a good son. Love y’all. #SuckItDiane Happy Thanksgiving.”
Well we now know none of this was real — it was all a figment of Elan’s imagination.
But he’s not taking blame for people believing the story. “Ha. all my tweets for three years have been humorous (or tried to be) if you didn’t examine the context it’s your fault. Not mine,” he tweeted.
