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Zooey Deschanel named as Boston bomber: Subtitle firm say sorry

Actress’ name appeared on-screen during TV manhunt for suspect.

Suspect? Zooey's name wrongly appeared in TV subtitles (Credit: Twitter)

A US subtitle firm has apologised for wrongly naming Zooey Deschanel as one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers.

The ‘500 Days Of Summer’ star’s name appeared in an on-screen blunder during the televised manhunt for then escaped suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The gaffe was down to the automatic captioning software going awry.

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The faulty subtitle read: “Marathon bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel.” It was broadcast live by Fox affiliate station, KDFW, across Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas.

Caption Solutions, responsible for the message, has now issued a statement saying the firm “deeply regret” the mistake.  Company president Kala J. Patterson added that they “sincerely apologise for the error.”




Zooey, currently appearing in TV series ‘New Girl’, apparently found the whole thing quite funny - taking to twitter over the weekend to message her four million followers: “Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL!”