Let’s get mistakable: Manitoba man confused for boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John
BRANDON, Man. — Wes Stobbe had never read a gossip tabloid beyond glances in the grocery checkout line, and was gobsmacked when his mother-in-law handed him a copy of one with his face on the front page.
“Olivia Newton-John’s Runaway Lover Found Alive!” read a headline in a Nov. 27 edition of the National Enquirer.
Stobbe, a 63-year-old business owner and woodworker in Brandon, Man., recognized his shirtless frame seated at a picnic table near their vacation home in Sayulita, Mexico. Inside were more photos with him and his wife.
“My first reaction was just to laugh out loud. I couldn’t believe it,” Stobbe recalled Wednesday.