Bono double offers to resume tour with U2 band

[sue4u2]

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Bono's living breathing double Pavel Sfera (pictured above) has been so successful at it that he once duped the girlfriend of a Miami businessman who paid him $2,500 to have dinner with him and his girlfriend without ever telling her he wasn't the real Bono.

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The incident is revealed by author Mark Joseph on his site Bullypulpit.com

He says he first met Pavel Sfera, "when he spoofed an encounter between Bono and my artist, Molly Jenson when her debut album was released last year.. Pavel was so good that we had people coming up to us while we were shooting on a Beverly Hills sidewalk thinking he was the real deal."

Sfera is now making an offer via Joseph to Bono and U2-- to front for Bono while he is injured and have the U2 tour resume.

So the world's foremost Bono-Double, is making an offer that the real Bono may just want to take him up on:

Since Bono is laid up he says he can make real money for the band.

Don't think Bono and the boys will be much amused.

 

[corianderstem]

 

[trojanchick99]

^ What she said.

 

[Rachel D.]

Sfera is now making an offer via Joseph to Bono and U2-- to front for Bono while he is injured and have the U2 tour resume.

So the world's foremost Bono-Double, is making an offer that the real Bono may just want to take him up on:

Since Bono is laid up he says he can make real money for the band.

I hope he's not serious. If he is, then he has reached a new level of arrogance and delusion.

Can you imagine the rioting that would ensue if the crowd at a U2 show found out that "Bono" was just a phony?

 

[corianderstem]

These guys don't approve, either.

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

That guy is starting to piss me off! Like, what is going through his head?

 

[Zoo360]

Wow. He doesn't look anything like Bono. Just dresses like him. Kind of.

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

And he sure as hell can't sing like him. I don't even have to listen. It's just a fact.

 

[kafrun]

Bish, PLEASE.

 

[nielsgov]

I'd definitly boo him off stage.
Fun to read anyway.

 

[waynetravis]

The Claw would eat him alive

 

[LemonMelon]

Wow. He doesn't look anything like Bono. Just dresses like him. Kind of.

Come on, it's clearly Bono on the right.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Thank you, this is the best thing I've heard all day!!!!

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

wow.

 

[Jeannieco]

The nose, the chin.....not even close.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

It looks like Perez Hilton, I swear it does.

 

[Galeongirl]

Bish, PLEASE.

^ that.


And can we throw things at him if he's onstage? Or like, run up there and drag him into the angry crowd of haters? Could be fun.

 

[SBU2]

The thing that pisses me off most is he looks nothing like Bono, seriously nothing what so ever.

 

[Sicy]

Sigh. I have tried to be respectable regarding the talk of this guy around here since he is a human being and no one deserves to be bashed behind their back but fuck I give up. This right here

he once duped the girlfriend of a Miami businessman who paid him $2,500 to have dinner with him and his girlfriend without ever telling her he wasn't the real Bono.

Is just wrong and pisses me off.

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

It's also kind of that person's fault. How could you possibly think he was the real Bono?

 

[Sicy]

Not everyone is a crazy U2 fan like we are and has seen him up close or in concert a million times.

 

[A stor]

Sigh. I have tried to be respectable regarding the talk of this guy around here since he is a human being and no one deserves to be bashed behind their back but fuck I give up. This right here Is just wrong and pisses me off.

I think so too, Sicy. Saying, I am a Bono impersonator is one thing. But, duping people into believing you are that person. Not Kosher.

There were men who impersonated Elvis. Even, when he was alive. But, they worked as an "Elvis Impersonator." They never represented themselves as being anything but that. People knew and went to see their nightclub shows.

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

Not everyone is a crazy U2 fan like we are and has seen him up close or in concert a million times.

 

[A stor]

 

[Katiesheb]

Need I say more...this guy is a lunatic. He does not look like Bono at all!!! I couldn't even imagine the band would stoop that low and give him a chance!!!

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

He looks like if Bono was a washed up New Yorker of some sort.

 

[Bonochick]

I think so too, Sicy. Saying, I am a Bono impersonator is one thing. But, duping people into believing you are that person. Not Kosher.

I agree. I have no problem with impersonators, but deceiving people is just cruel and wrong.

As for his offer to the band... No way. I guess you can't blame a guy for trying...but...no.

 

[BAW]

Sigh. I have tried to be respectable regarding the talk of this guy around here since he is a human being and no one deserves to be bashed behind their back but fuck I give up. This right here Is just wrong and pisses me off.

Yeah, and what's just as bad is that certain friends of his not only go along with it, but they laugh, smile and take pictures while he he's doing this shit. Keeping quiet about it while someone is being duped is no different than doing it yourself.

 

[doctorwho]

If he was really paid that much and never said he wasn't Bono, that makes Bono look bad as well as him. First, I don't think Bono would (a) have dinner with someone random unless something that person did caught his attention; (b) charge to have dinner with anyone. He may charge for some items (speaking at graduations), but I wouldn't be surprised if he just donated that money anyway (or only charged for his expenses, such as flight, hotel, etc.). After all, when one is that wealthy, will an extra $2-5K really mean anything?

In essence, he made both himself and Bono look bad. And while I can see how a more casual fan could be fooled, I know none of us would.

If U2 were forced to replace Bono for whatever reason, and they decided to go on without him (already a point of contention among not only U2 fans, but within U2), I highly doubt being a doppleganger would go far. As Bono writes most of the lyrics and is really the emotional soul of the band, those are some big shoes to fill (literally too as Bono always has lifts - snicker ). For a one-song performance, sure, anyone could fill in, but not for a whole concert, much less a tour. I know I wouldn't go.

 

[RedRocksU2]

How can the action of that person make Bono look bad?
And U2 would call it quits if they had to replace him, c'mon...that's an easy call.