Priyanka Chopra has been accused of hiring fake fans.
The Quantico star, 43, was filmed being approached twice by the same pair of autograph seekers at LAX in a resurfaced video from 2017.
At the beginning of the footage, the actress paused to sign for a male and female fan before making her way through the crowd.
The Indian beauty — who recently presented at the star-studded Oscars — was then approached by the same duo again while exiting the terminal, appearing to sign the exact same items a second time.
A fan who reshared the clip called it a ‘peak PR stunt’ adding, ‘Imagine needing the same two people to pretend to be fans just to get media footage and make it look like Priyanka Chopra has a huge fan following in Hollywood.’
‘Honestly, it just shows how desperate she is for publicity,’ the commentator added.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Chopra’s representatives for comment.
Priyanka Chopra, 43, has been accused of hiring fake fans. The actress was filmed being approached twice by the same pair of autograph seekers at LAX in a resurfaced video
Another fan wrote, ‘Omg. That is so embarrassing. They must have been paid well. Them trying to overtake PC is hilarious.’
‘Nobody asks for autographs anymore. They want selfies. This is def a pr stunt.’
‘Second hand embarrassment.’
‘I’m sorry but this is actually so embarrassing,’ another person wrote.
‘I doubt i would recognize her if i saw in the airport,’ another wrote.
‘I don’t understand, who’s carrying notebooks and pens now a days. Secondly, how they can keep it ready within seconds. How do they know that she’s coming.’
‘She had already signed twice for both of them. What more would be there to sign,’ someone else questioned.
However, others defended the star, with one fan writing, ‘Maybe they had a lot of stuff for her to sign.’
At the beginning of the footage, taken in 2017, the actress paused to sign autographs for a male and female fan
She then made her way through the crowd, but the fans seemingly followed her
The star was approached by the same duo again while exiting the terminal, appearing to sign the exact same items a second time
A fan who reshared the clip wrote, ‘Honestly, it just shows how desperate she is for publicity’
However, others defended the star, with one fan writing, ‘Maybe they had a lot of stuff for her to sign’
The resurfaced clip comes just two days after Chopra attended the Oscars, where she was one of the presenters.
Chopra presented the award for Best International Feature Film alongside Oscar-winner Javier Bardem.
Bardem went viral for his appearance, as he declared ‘No to war and Free Palestine’ while presenting, as Chopra remained silent next to him.
She was also joined by husband Nick Jonas, 33, at the ceremony. The star looked elegant in a sleeveless white gown with a feather trim.
Later in the night, Chopra and Jonas both had an outfit change before heading to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
After being crowned Miss World 2000, Chopra became a movie star in Bollywood musicals, where playback singers perform the songs for the lip-syncing actors.
In the early 2010s she attempted a foray into music that peaked with the songs In My City featuring will.i.am in 2012 and Exotic featuring Pitbull in 2013.
Although In My City was a hit in her native India, Exotic failed to catch fire and her fusion pop songs in general proved to be a damp squib with the global audience.
‘Sure, I can’t hit the note because Pitbull or Dr. Dre is sitting right there,’ Chopra said, poking fun at herself, in a recent cover interview for Marie Claire.
‘I quickly realized that I wasn’t made for it and should go back to my day job of acting,’ added Chopra, who has since expanded her screen career to Hollywood.
After striking out to America to widen the scope of her stardom, she tied the knot in 2018 with Jonas, who shot to fame in the boy band the Jonas Brothers.
The resurfaced clip comes just two days after Chopra attended the Oscars, where she was one of the presenters
Chopra presented the award for Best International Feature Film alongside Oscar-winner Javier Bardem, who went viral for his appearance after he declared, ‘No to war and Free Palestine’
Later in the night, Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas, 33, both had an outfit change before heading to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party
However she has never allowed her pop act husband to listen to the 40 unreleased tracks she still has in her archive from her own failed stab at his profession.
‘They’re in a vault somewhere until I find the confidence to bring them out again,’ said Chopra, the daughter of two military doctors.
Looking back on the decision to try to launch a singing career, she marveled: ‘That fearless unwavering confidence in myself – I don’t know where it used to come from.’
Chopra most recently starred as the 19th-century pirate named Bloody Mary in the gritty action-thriller The Bluff, which is available on Amazon Prime Video.
One of her upcoming movies is Varanasi, the first feature-length picture she has done in her native country since the 2021 release The White Tiger.
Varanasi is a product not of Bollywood – the Bombay-based Hindi-language film industry that made Chopra a household name in India – but of the Telugu-language film industry based in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Due for release in 2027, the picture is the latest project by S.S. Rajamouli, the director of such box office juggernauts as RRR and Baahubali, which broke out of the regional Telugu-speaking audience to become ‘pan-India’ hits.
