Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is celebrating “a clear victory” after Rebel Wilson’s allegations against him were removed from the UK version of her autobiography, Rebel Rising.
The 44-year-old actress had previously claimed she was being “threatened” by an actor’s legal team. The Aussie star also claimed she was being silenced on her sexual harassment claims.
She later named the “massive a**hole” as her Grimsby co-star Sacha, accusing him of requesting her to perform explicit scenes on the set of the 2016 film. Sacha, who consistently refuted the claims, is now rejoicing after successfully having the section containing the allegations removed from the UK edition of the book.
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His spokesperson said: “Harper Collins did not fact-check this chapter in the book prior to publication and took the sensible but terribly belated step of deleting Rebel Wilson’s defamatory claims once presented with evidence that they were false. Printing falsehoods is against the law in the U.K. and Australia; this is not a ‘peculiarity’ as Ms Wilson said but a legal principle that has existed for many hundreds of years.”
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The spokesperson then said the allegations were “false”. They continued: “This is a clear victory for Sacha Baron Cohen and confirms what we said from the beginning – that this is demonstrably false, in a shameful and failed effort to sell books.”
HarperCollins has spilled the beans to The Guardian. They admitted they’ve scrapped “most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note” from Rebel Wilson’s book for “legal reasons”.
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HarperCollins Australia gave confirmation to the Guardian. They said: “For legal reasons we have redacted one chapter in the Australian/New Zealand edition and included an explanatory note accordingly.”
The tell-all book Rebel Rising’ was released in the US earlier this month, uncensored. However fans in Britain got their hands on the edited version this Thursday, while Aussie readers are set to snag copies come on May 8.
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Rebel hasn’t spoken up about the edits just yet but on Instagram she previously said she won’t be silenced. She wrote: “I will not be bullied or silenced with high priced lawyer or PR crisis managers.”
Rebel was all smiles at her book’s Scottish debut in Edinburgh on Wednesday. After her time in Scotland, she’ll be heading to Manchester on Friday before a London gig on Monday.
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