Similar tears… DIFFERENT years: Edinburgh Fringe actress who went viral after weeping on-line that just one individual confirmed as much as her gig posted nearly IDENTICAL self-pitying put up 12 months earlier

An actress who went viral in a single day after posting a tearful photograph on-line following a efficiency on the Edinburgh Fringe being watched by only one individual shared a really related tweet final yr, it emerged final evening.

Georgie Grier acquired help from comedy greats together with Sarah Millican, Jason Manford and Dara Ó Briain after being left in tears when her one-woman play had only one viewers member.

Taking to social media, she wrote: ‘There was one individual in my viewers immediately after I carried out my one girl play, Sunsets at #edfringe. It is high-quality, is not it? It is high-quality…?’

However social media customers have since identified that Ms Grier debuted the identical play on the Fringe final yr, and shared a really related put up about poor viewers attendance.

This yr her put up, which was geared toward garnering help throughout the Fringe neighborhood, acquired worldwide consideration and simply 24 hours after the one-person viewers, Ms Grier offered out the venue internet hosting her present.

Georgie Grier, an actress and author based mostly in London, shared a teary-eyed photograph of herself on Twitter and stated just one individual was within the viewers for her present Sunsets

In 2022, Ms Grier shared a photograph of her flyering for her present with an analogous message

Georgie Grier’s one girl present Sunsets performs to a packed Patter Hoose in Edinburgh on Friday – 24 hours after just one individual turned up

Alongside a photograph of her flyers, Ms Grier wrote on August 15, 2022: ‘Simply had a cry as a result of the one individuals who turned as much as my first present had been my mother and father. 

‘However after I had stated cry within the rest room, another beautiful Fringe performers gave me phrases of encouragement. And I assume two folks is best than none?#EdinburghFringe.’

Sharing her 2022 put up, some on social media accused Ms Grier of orchestrating a PR stunt, however this is something she has fiercely denied.

One Twitter consumer stated: ‘Two years in a row, similar stunt pulled (take a look at date of tweet) Surprise if Georgie will go for 3 in a row subsequent yr and get away with it?!’

However one other stated: ‘Truthfully she has my respect for making an attempt this gimmick greater than as soon as.’

Others had been extra supportive. A 3rd consumer wrote: ‘You are going to get loads of hate for this however I feel your b****y good, an absolute star, and evidently a improbable actress.’

It comes after the one girl who confirmed as much as Ms Grier’s preliminary present was recognized as fellow performer Sophie Craig, 32.

She instructed how Ms Grier ‘gave it the whole lot’ and carried out as if she was in entrance of a full home.

She tweeted: ‘I used to be that one individual within the beautiful Georgie Grier’s viewers. We had a stunning hug on the finish and she or he was so skilled and courageous and she or he gave me the whole lot. You have to be so proud angel! Thank YOU! Now go get em woman’. 

Stars have taken to social media to help her and inform tales of how they performed to small crowds

She later added: ‘It is simply so extremely courageous. Bringing a present as much as the Fringe by yourself, particularly as a feminine and a brand new author, is extremely arduous and she or he simply smashed it.’ 

After the constructive response to her tweet, which has been considered 13 million occasions, Ms Grier carried out to a near-sell out crowd on the Edinburgh Fringe Competition on Friday – jokingly evaluating it to taking part in Wembley.

Ms Grier afterwards revealed that she took to social media to keep away from worrying her mum by phoning her in an emotional state and says she had no prior intentions of her message going viral.

She stated: ‘I did not need to name my mum crying. I did not need her to need to undergo that once more.

‘I assumed the hashtag Ed Fringe neighborhood on social media has been a very supportive place.

‘I assumed I’d discover a few different individuals who had one individual or get some phrases of consolation.

‘I didn’t count on the extent of response I’ve had it has been so beautiful, so surprising, so many phrases for what I’ve skilled. I’m so appreciative of what I’ve skilled.’

The London-based actress is the star of a one girl play, ‘Sunsets’ (pictured this week)

Supporters file in for Ms Grier’s nearly offered out present on Friday – in marked distinction to Thursday

Georgie Grier’s one girls present Sunsets on the Patter Hoose at Gilded in Edinburgh 

She added: ‘I simply wished somebody to vent to who wasn’t my mum. In that second I had tears in my eyes, I wasn’t pondering something additional than needing a little bit of a launch and never having to trouble my mum, my dad and my sister.’

O’Briain replied: ‘We have ALL executed it. Quickly, you will dine out on this anecdote.

‘Greater than as soon as I had to purchase my viewers a drink, as a thanks for being the one ones there.

‘Smartest thing although, it is all stage time, and the present will get higher each single time, prepared for the large crowds later!’

Manford replied with a video message, through which he stated: ‘It is completely regular…for one individual to rock as much as your present, particularly in the beginning of Edinburgh, and likewise so that you can be a bit upset or irritated or pissed off about it. That is completely high-quality as effectively.

‘I did Edinburgh in 2004-5 and I bear in mind [the] first couple of reveals, the primary week I feel, was simply, it was such a slog and I used to be out within the rain and I used to be flyering and folks weren’t coming.

‘I acquired complete impostor syndrome. How a lot is that this costing me? What am I doing right here?

‘Take a look at all these superb folks. How embarrassing that… no one’s turned up however, you recognize what, you are on the trail and it is simply the beginning, that is all.’

Representatives for Ms Grier have been contacted for remark.