Missing New Jersey TikTok influencer William “Bill” Hooper was located a week after disappearing without his phone or wallet.
The Lyndhurst Police Department announced that the 29-year-old self-help personality “was located in good health just before noon” on Friday. They thanked the public for assisting in their search on Facebook, but offered no further details.
Hooper had last been seen exiting Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station around 9:39 a.m. on May 21 shortly before he was reported missing. Cops in New Jersey said he departed from Secaucus Junction.
Authorities told “People” that the slim 6-foot and 3-inch Garden Stater returned “on his own accord.”
Police said there was no criminality associated with Hooper’s disappearance.
“Bill, if you hear this, our only priority is your safety,” his father, Jim Hooper, said in an Instagram video calling for his son’s safe return last week.
Hooper and his wife told NJ.com that their son, a high school and college swimmer, experienced “anxiety” and was “overwhelmed” as his TikTok following grew to more than 23,000.
They worried there was a bigger issue than his simply wandering off without explanation.
Lyndhurst police couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Hooper hasn’t accounted for his disappearance on TikTok, where he last posted a video telling followers that he suffered a leg injury from running cross country, but was on the mend after getting himself back into shape.
“Your health is, like, everything man,” he said.
His parents said their son’s leg injury caused him to lose his job at a Manhattan wine shop and move back in with them in Lyndhurst.