A screenshot of a restaurant bill along with an image of Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood Actress Anushka Sharma with their daughter is going viral on social media platforms. Users on social media are fiercely sharing this screenshot and claiming that Virat and Anushka consumed beef despite being Hindu, in a restaurant in Florida, USA.

Claim made through the viral screenshot

Sharing this viral bill screenshot along with an image, a user named Hydrogen X wrote: “JUST IN : Viral restaurant bill of Virat Kohli & Anushka Sharma in Florida, USA. He was eating beef despite being Hindu.”

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Other users also shared this screenshot

Furthermore, we found that the viral bill screenshot was shared by several users On X(Twitter) with similar claims.

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Fact-Check

To investigate the truth behind the viral screenshot, the DFRAC team conducted a reverse image search of it and found the media reports published by the News website Mirror.co.uk and India Times featuring a screenshot of a restaurant bill and revealing that a customer named Jeffrey Paige had to burn a hole in his pocket when he did not read the menu at Chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant and ended up with an obscenely high bill at the end of his meal. The media reports were published two years back.

Moreover, the image of Virat and Anushka with their daughter was from the year 2021 when Virat was in Dubai for T20 Cricket World Cup. The image was found on the Official X(Twitter) handle of Virat Kohli including a media report from the Newspaper Times of India.

Newspaper Website ‘Times of India’ published a media report on October 20, 2021. In this report, the Times of India stated: “Virat Kohli took to his Twitter handle to share an adorable picture of himself with his wife Anushka Sharma and daughter Vamika from Dubai. In the photo, Virat, Anushka and Vamika are seen having breakfast in Dubai where the cricketer is currently there for the Cricket World Cup”.

Additionally, as per a media report by Times Now, Virat Kohli turned Vegan in 2018, due to some health issues, which included high acidity levels.

Besides this, according to a media report by India Today, Anushka Sharma left non-vegetarian and meat products in the year 2015.

Conclusion

It is clear from DFRAC’s fact-check that the viral bill screenshot shared with the claim that Virat and Anushka consumed beef despite being Hindu is completely fake as both of the celebrities have been practising vegan diet since many years.

Therefore, the claim of social media users is false.

Analysis: Fake