Ronaiah Tuiasosopo’s Female Cousin May Have Actually Been the Voice of Lennay Kekua
Manti Te’o spent hundreds of hours on the phone with someone. At least that’s what a spreadsheet compilation of some phone records say. Was the voice Manti Te’o fell in love with that of a man or a woman? Thursday, Tuiasosopo’s lawyer told the Daily News Te’o was speaking with the hoax-organizer himself. Later in the day, we heard three voicemails from “Lennay Kukua,” that sure sounded like a woman’s voice. Today, the New York Post reports that the voice of Lennay was Ronaiah’s cousin, Tino Tuiasasopo – a girl! From the Post:
One of Ronaiah’s relatives believes Grimes put out the story because the admitted hoaxer “is determined to take the rap.”
In an interview yesterday with ABC’s Katie Couric, Te’o provided voicemail messages from Lennay and insisted that he’d been duped into believing he was in a legitimate relationship.
After hearing the voicemails, one of Tino’s cousins told The Post, “There is no doubt whatsoever that it’s Tino.”
Audio experts also told Good Morning America it is impossible that it was a man on the phone. So there’s that.
I can’t wait to see who left the voicemails tomorrow! [New York Post]
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January 25th, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Tino has a manly voice.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:06 PM
How will the story change next!?
January 25th, 2013 at 12:08 PM
It will somehow involve Petrino and a skank crashing on a motorcycle.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:09 PM
I’ve been ignoring this story for the past few days. Did they ever come out with a motive? Or did Ronny spent thousands of hours on the phone over 3 years just for shits and giggles?
January 25th, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Binders full of women > Te’o's spreadsheets
January 25th, 2013 at 12:11 PM
This is not a change in the story, this fits with what was reported a week ago.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Milton Grimes
January 25th, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Ronny has some.. mental issues.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:13 PM
If Tino is cute maybe Manti will consider moving forward with the relationship. After all, they clicked over the phone and fell in love. He is just that kind of stupid isn’t he?
January 25th, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Tino Tuiasopo has a great troll face smile going on in that pic on the Post.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:14 PM
He got a free trip to New York and a chance to bang Johnny Football.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Frank Grimes >>>>>> Milton Grimes
January 25th, 2013 at 12:18 PM
This Tino chick must have some issues too. I can’t think of a scenario where a cousin tells me to impersonate someone over the phone for 3 years and I don’t think anything of it.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Ya know, that is probably EXACTLY what is going to happen.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:19 PM
That picture slays me. Couric with a ridiculous “I’m a serious reporter being serious” expression, Te’o's Mr. Rogers sweater and gold chain…
January 25th, 2013 at 12:19 PM
/TJ
took the under (140) on Mississippi/Tennessee last night
Final Score: Ole Miss 62 Tenn. 56
“Shutdown Stretches” = SCIENCE!
Mark Bashuk = Genius!
/end TJ
January 25th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Did the Urban post get to 100 comments?
/being too lazy to look
January 25th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
I wouldn’t draft Teo just based on the outfit he is wearing…
January 25th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
The sweater is just ridiculous, should have worn the same letter jacket Rudy enjoyed sporting around South Bend
January 25th, 2013 at 12:22 PM
It’s the Internet and people are fuuuuuuuuuuuucked up. Kind of reminds me of the story of that kid who kept harassing some dudes wife, calling her Jewish slurs and mailing ashes to their house, because he thought it was a game or something.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Frank Grimes >>>>>> Milton Grimes
I believe that he preferred to be called Grimey.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Awesome point brought up on the Simmons’ podcast this week with Jacko: Rudy is no longer the biggest loser in ND history.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
When did cardigans make a comeback?
January 25th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
agreed that the title has been passed to Charlie Weis.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
You know Tino loves him too…but got too deep. She wanted to tell him the truth, but she just didn’t know how.
This is just like all of those movies where the jock bets that he can make the nerd girl popular, actually falls in love with her, she finds out about the bet, he says “I loved you all along”. This is headed to Lifetime.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Stan Musial has to be one of the top 5 hitters in the history of the game.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Seems like a question for jck49erfan.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Stan Musial has to be one of the top 5 hitters in the history of the game.
Well done Darrel.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Scratch my movie pitch…I just saw her photo. She can’t just remove her glasses and look like Emma Stone. It’s not going to work.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Te’o And The Real Girl went from polytheism to Mormonism to Catholicism, he’s either a gullible or conniving cunt.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
He probably was never a polytheist but step off my narrative bro. Also Samoan’s have a fuckton of gods.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:30 PM
You could have just said “She’s All That.” We are all well aware of Freddie Prinze Jr and him impressive resume.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:31 PM
This is just like all of those movies where the jock bets that he can make the nerd girl popular
EXT. Hawaiian strip mall – EVE
Te’o confronts Tino outside the trendy poi store.
TEO: YOU THREW PIECES OF SHIT ON MY HOUSE!
Te’o leaves, sobbing.
/cant buy me love’d
January 25th, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Notre Dame couldn’t find a Pacific Island girl for Te’o to chastely date and sext?
January 25th, 2013 at 12:33 PM
He probably was never a polytheist but step off my narrative bro. Also Samoan’s have a fuckton of gods.
Hinduism has something like 2,000 gods.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:33 PM
While we’re mired in this awful onion of a story, I’ll go OT; about to start re-wacthing The Wire. It’s been a while, what season should I watch first?
January 25th, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Bulldog has a lot of free time on his hands with his Obama phone from the comfort of his jail cell.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:35 PM
I’m leaning season three
January 25th, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Call me old-fashioned…but I like to start at the beginning.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Eh, already seen all of it, so plot development is irrelevant. Plus unsure how much I’ll get through. Looking for pure entertainment
January 25th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
And please to not offer any of them a peanut
January 25th, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Warren Zevon was in the Hindu Love Gods.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Well when you start enlisted gods for teenage girls raised to be prostitutes you’ll end up with more than a few.
Not so different from Catholicism with their saints and their three in one god who is his own father and killed himself.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Can’t Buy Me Love, FTW.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:40 PM
And he got off with a wrist slap for killing Declan Sullivan.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Michael Scott called Diwali an Indian Halloween. Always got a chuckle out of that one.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Season 2.
/Hipster contrarian’d
//Pretty surprising the amount of words google chrome can’t spell
///does not pour one out for white mike
January 25th, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Not so different from Catholicism with their saints and their three in one god who is his own father and killed himself.
True. But most of the increase in Catholic Saints occurred under John Paul II when he instructed Vatican officials to adopt much looser definitions of each step involved with identifying a saint. It’s good press after all.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:42 PM
The phone calls were mostly over a ~5 month span – not 3 years
January 25th, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Including himself.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:43 PM
season 2. The characters will SPOiLER!!! reappear.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:44 PM
So I should watch season five after that…
If only we could poke fun at other religions without fear of fatwa. Savages
January 25th, 2013 at 12:45 PM
/kicks rock
January 25th, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Only the top four get posts when they die, though.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Including himself.
Are you saying the ghost of John Paul was in the crowd at his funeral yelling out “Santo Subito!” with all the others?
/certainly possible
January 25th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
And Earl Weaver.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Or even our own.
– Salman Rushdie
January 25th, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Pullover, no, it’s a cardigan but thanks for asking.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Well, he definitely wasn’t on that scissor lift grabbing Declan Sullivan by the shirt.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:49 PM
They reformed to promote the release of their new album, Greatest Hit.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Did te’o get any credit yet for doing this interview? He’ll get points for coming out…. i mean for manning up on a grand stage. From future teammates i mean. He’ll get ribbed for his pleasure for awhile but i bet he gets respect for not hiding
January 25th, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Well, he definitely wasn’t on that scissor lift grabbing Declan Sullivan by the shirt.
He was too busy keeping the wind from messing up Brian Kelly’s hair.
January 25th, 2013 at 12:53 PM
You do realize he was in on it right?
/Katie Couric’s publicist is underpaid
January 25th, 2013 at 12:55 PM
Brian Kelly is such a politician. I would love to get drunk in Boston with that guy. He’s probably an animal
January 25th, 2013 at 12:55 PM
What now ms? Got a link?
January 25th, 2013 at 1:00 PM
That has to be the last interview until the draft?
January 25th, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Two people interviewed Te’o about this. Both have said they believe Te’o was genuinely duped. Does that count for something?
January 25th, 2013 at 1:09 PM
Well one belongs to a network who aired a major puff piece for him and the other shares the same spokesperson.
January 25th, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Thank you. Te’o had media request from I assume every single outlet and his goal is to spread the idea that he is a victim.
January 25th, 2013 at 1:13 PM
No, it just further shows that he was in on the hoax. And now that we know that Te’o and Couric share the same PR firm, it shows that KC was in on the hoax as well. As a matter of fact, the voice of Lennay is Katie Couric!!!
January 25th, 2013 at 1:13 PM
not sure if anyone mentioned this, but this makes it sound like lennay kekua actually exists. like the voice of ronaiah’s cousin WAS lennay kekua, not the other way around.
January 25th, 2013 at 1:14 PM
As a matter of fact, the voice of Lennay is Katie Couric!!!
Katie Couric is a dead man? Ohmygod
January 25th, 2013 at 1:16 PM
Someone better tell Matt Lauer.
January 25th, 2013 at 1:16 PM
like the voice of ronaiah’s cousin WAS lennay kekua, not the other way around
When Lennay Kukua could not speak, Ronaiah’s female cousin was her voice. It’s a Christian parable
January 25th, 2013 at 1:16 PM
He’s also farrrrrr from gay
January 25th, 2013 at 1:17 PM
See, I like this Darrel. He’s funny.
January 25th, 2013 at 1:31 PM
What now ms? Got a link?
sorry ms, meant soused
January 25th, 2013 at 1:46 PM
CJ’s husband is going to have a Steve Nash moment in a couple weeks.