Billie Eilish is the latest star to be conned by Russian hoaxers pretending to be Greta Thunberg, as they called her up for relationship advice.
Audio of the singer, 18, speaking to who she thought was the teen activist Greta and her dad Svante has appeared online. The clip hears ‘Greta’ ask Billie to be involved in a charity single similar to Band Aid, to stop travelling by plane and to give her some advice on a boy she is seeing.
Despite the accent of the voice on the end of the phone not sounding anything like the real Greta, Billie and her mum Maggie were convinced they were talking to the real deal.
When asked whether she could do her tours by ship instead of planes to help lower her carbon footprint, Billie replied: ‘I wish that