7th Heaven actress Beverley Mitchell has been tricked into doing a positive shout-out video to notorious Australian serial killer Ivan Milat.
Cameo is a service that allows everyday humans to pay a nominal fee to a celebrity or mildly famous individual in exchange for a shout-out. They're usually used for people's birthdays or other big moments and gives folks possibly the closest encounter they'll ever have with their favourite celebrity.
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However, Australian comedian Tom Armstrong decided it would be funny to get an actor to do a shout-out to someone you definitely wouldn't want to do a shout-out to.
He convinced Ms Mitchell to say hello to Australia's most famous killer, not realising who he was, what he had done or the fact that he's now dead.
But to make matters worse, Armstrong told a few white lies about Milat and even suggested he was a good bloke for helping ferry backpackers around the country.
"I made up a story about this guy who picked us up while we were hitchhiking and that he was a huge fan of 7th Heaven," he said in a comment.
That's why we have this cursed video of Beverley, who was an absolute angel on 7th Heaven, saying this to Milat.
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"Hey Ivan, not many people pick up hitchhikers anymore but you really helped out with the backpacker gang," she said. "Thank you, we need more people in the world like you.
"So Ivan...Milat - I hope I said it right - sending you lots of love and thank you again for being a big fan and just being awesome and being you."
Ivan Milat, 74, died in a Sydney hospital in November last year after he was diagnosed with terminal oesophagus and stomach cancer.
Despite never confessing to the crimes he committed, Milat had been serving a life sentence for killing the backpackers - including two British nannies, three Germans and two Australians.
Milat was caught after targeting British backpacker Paul Onions, who managed to escape from the killer and notify the police.
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He buried the bodies in shallow graves in Belanglo State Forest, which is situated 75 miles south-west of Sydney. The murders took place between 1989 and 1992. The two British women were Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke.
Joanne was stabbed 35 times and 21-year-old Caroline Clarke was shot 10 times in what police say was 'target practice'. Joanne and Caroline met in a backpackers' hostel in Sydney and opted to go hitchhiking.
Australians Deborah Everist and James Gibson, both 19, were last seen in December 1989. German native Simone Schmidl, 20, died from multiple stab wounds and Gabor Neugebauer, 21 was gagged and shot six times.
Mr Neugebauer's 20-year-old girlfriend Anja Habschied was decapitated and her spinal cord severed.
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