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The Weeknd Fakes Box Set Autographs?

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If you were spending over a hundred quid on a signed box set, you’d expect the signature to be real, right? Well, according to some dissatisfied blogs The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, couldn’t be arsed signing the ones he was flogging, so had them machine printed instead. No word yet on whether it’s true, but considering the set was limited to 500 copies, surely it wouldn’t have taken him that long to just pull his finger out and scrawl a quick autograph on them? Not just with his finger, obviously.

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