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Priyanka Chopra Faces Fake Fan Controversy

Priyanka Chopra has been accused of hiring fake fans.The Quantico star, 43, was filmed being approached twice by the same pair of autograph seekers at LAX in a ...

Priyanka Chopra Faces Fake Fan Controversy
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Bintano News

March 18, 2026

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has been accused of hiring fake fans.

The Quantico star, 43, was filmed being approached twice by the same pair of autograph seekers at LAX in a resurfaced video from 2017. 

At the beginning of the footage, the actress paused to sign for a male and female fan before making her way through the crowd. 

The Indian beauty — who recently presented at — was then approached by the same duo again while exiting the terminal, appearing to sign the exact same items a second time.

A fan who reshared the clip called it a 'peak PR stunt' adding, 'Imagine needing the same two people to pretend to be fans just to get media footage and make it look like Priyanka Chopra has a huge fan following in Hollywood.'

'Honestly, it just shows how desperate she is for publicity,' the commentator added. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Chopra's representatives for comment.

Priyanka Chopra, 43, has been accused of hiring fake fans. The actress was filmed being approached twice by the same pair of autograph seekers at LAX in a resurfaced video

Another fan wrote, 'Omg. That is so embarrassing. They must have been paid well. Them trying to overtake PC is hilarious.'

The resurfaced clip comes just two days after Chopra attended the Oscars, where she was one of the presenters

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Chopra presented the award for Best International Feature Film alongside Oscar-winner Javier Bardem, who went viral for his appearance after he declared, 'No to war and Free Palestine' 

Later in the night, Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas, 33, both had an outfit change before heading to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party

However she has never allowed her pop act husband to listen to the 40 unreleased tracks she still has in her archive from her own failed stab at his profession.

'They’re in a vault somewhere until I find the confidence to bring them out again,' said Chopra, the daughter of two military doctors.

Looking back on the decision to try to launch a singing career, she marveled: 'That fearless unwavering confidence in myself - I don’t know where it used to come from.'

Chopra most recently starred as the 19th-century pirate named Bloody Mary in the gritty action-thriller The Bluff, which is available on Amazon Prime Video. 

One of her upcoming movies is Varanasi, the first feature-length picture she has done in her native country since the 2021 release The White Tiger.

Varanasi is a product not of Bollywood - the Bombay-based Hindi-language film industry that made Chopra a household name in India - but of the Telugu-language film industry based in the southern city of Hyderabad.

Due for release in 2027, the picture is the latest project by S.S. Rajamouli, the director of such box office juggernauts as RRR and Baahubali, which broke out of the regional Telugu-speaking audience to become 'pan-India' hits.

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