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Is it too late now for the fake Justin Bieber to say sorry? On Saturday, August 16, a Biebs impersonator tricked both the staff at a Las Vegas nightclub and the DJ, Gryffin, into letting him perform onstage and rack up a $10,000 bar tab, per the New York Post. Sounds like an expensive dupe.
Gryffin, who was actually booked to perform at Wynn Las Vegas’s XS Nightclub, posted a video explaining how it all went down. According to the DJ, the fake, shirtless Biebs — who he called Bustin Jieber — showed up to XS, where his “team” told Gryffin that he wanted to perform Bieber’s 2015 hit “Sorry.” (That should’ve been the first red flag, since the singer recently dropped an album of new songs.) “Dark venue and loud music didn’t help here,” Gryffin wrote. In the video, the DJ revealed that he had originally been suspicious of the look-alike. “I kinda thought, like, Damn, he put on a lot of weight since the album dropped,” he said.
Now, you might be thinking, How did this guy get away with this? Apparently, the crowd was not full of Beliebers who grew up fantasizing about being the next “One Less Lonely Girl.” “Everyone at xs thought it was him, me included,” one commenter wrote on Gryffin’s post. “Dude that’s wild, at first when I saw [the] vids I thought it was him until I went to the comments,” another said.
As it turns out, the imposter’s name is Dylan Desclos, and he does this whole fake Bieber thing for a living. I hope he had fun during his fleeting moments onstage because he’s now been banned from Wynn and XS Nightclub for life. A representative for the properties told TMZ that “an elaborate and multi-step ruse” allowed the Bieber wannabe to take the stage and that “as soon as the error was recognized, he was removed from the resort and denied future entry.” If all those club rats were fooled this easily, then I think AI bunnies are the least of our worries.
