Whether he was dishonest and deliberately lied with his "dead girlfriend" sob story or was dumb enough to be fooled in an Internet scam, Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's golden future in the NFL is ruined, Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively reveal.

"He was deceptive or gullible, either way he does not move on unscathed. This is going to follow him for the rest of his life, personally and professionally," Michael Bilello, President and CEO at Centurion Strategies, a public relations and marketing agency that handles high-profile athletes, told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

"Notre Dame has to hope that he is this dumb, but then they have to answer -  how he was an honor student there?"

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the college linebacker won the attention of the nation with the tragic revelation that just days after the death of his beloved grandmother last September, he learned that his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, had been involved in a serious car accident in California, and was then had been diagnosed with leukemia, which she soon succumbed to.

Now, according to a groundbreaking expose by Deadspin.com, it has been revealed that the story is the biggest piece of sports fiction since Field Of Dreams – and his sweetheart not only didn't die – doesn't even exist!

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