The Celebrity Truth

A story that has circulated virally on email – and was reported in the London Times – about U2 frontman Bono and a smart-mouthed heckler has been denied by Bono’s representative as an urban myth.

The email story claims that Bono asked an audience in Glasgow, Scotland to be silent as he clapped his hands and said, "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

Reportedly, a heckler in the audience then breaks the silence by yelling, "Well, stop doing it then!".

However, a representative for the rock star has told the New York Daily News’s Rush & Molloy gossip column that the story is false and that "he’s never even done the clapping thing".

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