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Sir Billy Connolly has warned fans that scammers are using artificial intelligence to impersonate him online.<\/p>\n
The Scottish comedian and actor – affectionately known as The Big Yin – said his wife Pamela Stephenson had also been targeted.<\/p>\n
In a message on his website, the 82-year-old said: “Dear friends, I have learned that, unfortunately, online scam artists are targeting my fans and supporters.<\/p>\n
“They are impersonating me, often reaching out to fans soliciting direct messaging.<\/p>\n
“They create multiple deceptive social media and email accounts, and there could well be criminal intent.”<\/p>\n
Sir Billy, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013, said his official Facebook page is his only social media account – alongside his website, billyconnolly.com.<\/p>\n
He warned: “I do not have an Instagram, X, Snapchat, Telegram or any other social media account.<\/p>\n
“I never interact directly with fans or supporters, and would never suggest they direct message me, meet me, send me money or purchase goods directly.<\/p>\n
“I do not sell memberships, fan cards, meetings. I will never suggest meeting personally or ask for personal information.<\/p>\n
“If you are asked for any of the above, it is a scam. My likeness and the sound of my voice can be created by AI… so beware!”<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: Criminals can use cloning technology to replicate a person’s voice from just a few seconds of audio, which can be easily captured from a video someone has uploaded online or to social media.<\/p>\n Deepfake images of celebrities are often used in scams – and fake adverts featuring public figures were the most reported scam adverts reported to the Advertising Standards Authority in 2024.<\/p>\n Sir Billy, who was knighted in 2017 for services to entertainment and charity, announced his retirement from live performances in 2018.<\/p>\n As well as his stand-up shows, he has starred in a number of films – including Mrs Brown alongside Judi Dench, The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise, and Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black.<\/p>\n He has also voiced a number of animated characters, including King Fergus in Pixar’s Brave.<\/p>\n Despite his medical condition, the comic has continued to record programmes and make TV appearances.<\/p>\n His most recent projects include TV shows such as 2018’s Billy Connolly: Made In Scotland, Billy Connolly’s Great American Trail in 2019 and Billy Connolly Does… which began airing in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sir Billy Connolly has warned fans that scammers are using artificial intelligence to impersonate him online. The Scottish comedian and actor – affectionately known as The Big Yin – said his wife Pamela Stephenson had also been targeted. In a message on his website, the 82-year-old said: “Dear friends, I have learned that, unfortunately, online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1966430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[344480,348054,348056,348055,21928],"class_list":["post-1966429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-billy-connolly","tag-online-scam-artists","tag-pamela-stephenson","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scammers-using-AI-to-impersonate-Sir-Billy-Connolly.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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