Did Good Morning America Stalk Today's Hiccup Victim?

We imagine this kind of thing goes on a lot more than it’s reported, but still bizarre — and we’re not talking about the hiccups.

A 15-year-old St. Petersburg, Florida, girl who’s been tormented by hiccups for four weeks is now being tormented by the media. Good Morning America allegedly called the girl’s family 57 times while trying to usurp a Today show exclusive:

The competition for her story became so frenzied over the weekend that NBC’s Today show changed Jennifer and her mother’s New York hotel after another network’s exhaustive attempts to get an interview.

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