High school photo shows Rebel Wilson is actually 36

REBEL Wilson has responded to claims she has been lying about her age and come clean about her real identity. Well, sort of.

REBEL Wilson has hit back at rumours she has lied about her age.

In a series of tweets, Wilson poked fun at the speculation, after a source who went to school with the comedian at Sydney’s Tara Anglican School for Girls in North Parramatta told Woman’s Day magazine that the Pitch Perfect star is not 29.

“ ... No-one knew of a Rebel Wilson,” the source told the magazine.

“Her name is — or was — Melanie Elizabeth Bownds, and she’s 36 — she was born in 1979 and we left school in 1997.”

Overnight, Wilson poked fun at the press and decided to reveal the truth about her real identity.

Well, sort of.

OMG I'm actually a 100 year old mermaid formerly known as "CC Chalice" ....thanks shady Australian press for your tall poppy syndrome x

— Rebel Wilson (@RebelWilson) May 18, 2015

Okay but all jokes aside now...my real name is Fat Patricia x

— Rebel Wilson (@RebelWilson) May 18, 2015

Earlier, the unnamed source provided the magazine with a photo of “Melanie Bownds” in a debating team school photo. A plaque positioned in front of them states: “1997 Year 12 Commonwealth Bank Debtaing (sic) Team”.

“She was definitely not the class clown; none of us remember her being funny,” the source tells the mag.

And despite Rebel’s depiction of a crazy, “bogan” upbringing, the source says she actually had a “very normal, upper-middle-class upbringing”.

Rebel tweeted this throwback photo of her and her mum at a dog show.

The source says Rebel is actually 36 — not 29.

Originally published as High school photo shows Rebel Wilson is actually 36