The actor’s controversial memoir has been held back by publishers in Australia and the United Kingdom.
, which was originally due out on Wednesday, has been pushed back to early next month in Australia. While the book was released on Tuesday in the US, UK publication has also been delayed until April 25.. She alleges that she did not want to appear naked in the film and that Baron Cohen asked her to stick her finger up his backside during the filming of a sex scene.
A spokesperson for HarperCollins told this masthead that publication in Australia would be later than the UK, but would not comment on any threat of possible legal action by Baron Cohen had on the original decision to postpone it. A new date would be announced “in due course”., in which she will appear in conversation in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Her British tour, also with three dates , begins the day before publication there, on April 24.
In her memoir she also writes about the early days of her career when she appeared in the SBS hit comedyclaiming she was the subject of “fatphobic” jokes, which she took “right on my double chin”. “Rebel was happy building a career playing the big girl in Hollywood, now she’s saying we did her wrong? We gave her a start, took her around the world, gave her stage training and TV and feature film opportunities. How ungrateful … I guess she’ll do or say anything to sell a book.”
In 2017 Wilson won damages of $4.7 million when she sued Bauer Publications for defamation, but after the publisher appealed the following year that amount was cut to $600,000.
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