Cynthia Erivo Book Publisher Apologizes For Ariana Grande Quote Mix-Up<\/p>\n
As you may have heard, there\u2019s been a little bit of confusion surrounding Cynthia Erivo<\/a>\u2019s new memoir, Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They\u2019re Too Much.<\/p>\n A few weeks after the book hit shelves in November, a Wicked superfan named Cassie on Reddit<\/a> highlighted that the opening passage to Chapter 42, all about body-shaming and public scrutiny, was strikingly similar to something Ariana Grande said in a joint interview with Cynthia while promoting the first Wicked movie a year ago.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what it said in Cynthia\u2019s book.<\/p>\n There\u2019s simply no denying the similarities, and as you\u2019d expect, the lack of attribution to Ariana sparked plenty of confusion online. \u201cDid AI write this book? A ghost writer that didn’t double check sources?\u201d the original Reddit sleuth<\/a> questioned. \u201cIs this a PR statement they both memorized?\u201d<\/p>\n Well, after much speculation, we finally have some answers. Last week, Flatiron Books \u2014 an imprint of Pan Macmillan<\/a>, which published Cynthia\u2019s memoir \u2014 issued a statement explaining that \u201ca chapter introduction, which included correct attribution [to Ariana], was inadvertently left out of the book.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have immediately updated the file to the corrected version, which will be used going forward in all formats including all future printings of the physical book,\u201d the statement read, per the Washington Post<\/a> and People<\/a>. \u201cWe are deeply apologetic for this oversight and thankful that we are able to correct it.\u201d<\/p>\n There you have it! Case closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Book Publisher Apologizes For Ariana Grande Quote Mix-Up As you may have heard, there\u2019s been a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12153,6491,11486,96,9138,2839,2553,56,54,55,432],"class_list":["post-305865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-black-content","tag-celebrities","tag-dib-celebs","tag-entertainment","tag-lgbtq","tag-movies","tag-timely","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-womens-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}