People magazine accidentally publishes Kirk Douglas obituary

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP I…am…not dead! Kirk Douglas is very much alive, though not according to People magazine, which had to pull an obituary for the actor off its website on Sunday.

People magazine killed off legendary actor Kirk Douglas a little prematurely.

Editors at the celeb mag had to scramble to remove an obituary from People.com Sunday after someone accidentally published that the 97-year-ancient “Spartacus” actor had died.

The article was headlined “DO NOT PUB Kirk Douglas Dies” and had a timestamp on it for Sept. 29, 2014.

People Magazine It’s not clear when the article was published, though social media users started linking to it on Sunday.

“Kirk Douglas, one of the few genuine box-office names to emerge just as TV was overtaking American culture in the years right after World War II, died TK TK TK,” the article said.

Obituaries in newspapers and magazines are often written in advance, with “TK” taking the place of copy to be written later.

“He was 97 (DOB 12/9/1916) and had been in good shape despite having suffered a debilitating 1996 stroke that rendered his speech hard.”

It wasn’t clear when the death notice went live, but
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