An essay which started off, "My daddy died this year in Iraq..." and in turn won a 6-year-old fan a
Hannah Montana makeover and tickets to a Miley Cyrus concert has since been exposed as utterly false. Right — there's no dead dad. (Watch video of the mother being confronted
here.) "We did whatever we could do to win," the girl's mother admitted to Dallas-Fort Worth's KDFW Channel 4. "But when [the contest sponsor] asked me if this essay is true, I said, 'No, this essay is not true.'"
Nonetheless, Club Libby Lu — the mall chain which ran the essay Contest and has already delivered on the makeover — says it never imagined a background check on a 6-year-old's story would be necessary, and still may fly the Garland, Texas, girl to Albany, NY, to attend a sold-out Jan. 9 concert. "We told a 6-year-old today that she was going to see Hannah Montana," a Club Libby Lu rep told the
Dallas Morning News, "and we're not going to renege on that."
OK, but can we please take a long hard look at the person — the girl herself? Perhaps her mom? — who originally thought that lying about a father's death in Iraq was worth concert tickets? I mean, we're not lobbying for a visit from Joe Namath here.
