Nine has been accused of lying about the role of the media madness in uncovering the Notorious Cancer Faker Belle Gibson's Web or Deceit, because it tries to cash over a new Netflix series about her life.
HIT Docu-drama Apple Cider Vijn this month premiered, based on a book of two nine journalists, Nick Toscano and Beau Donelly.
The series follows the rise of Gibson to fame while building a worldwide wellness empire outside the back of fraudulent claims that she had defeated brain cancer by healthy eating.
In reality, the then 21-year-old was never diagnosed of the life-threatening state and her entire story was a sham.
Toscano, a company writer at the Age -newspaper of Melbourne, and his former colleague Donelly, were the first to reveal that she was not everything she seemed on March 8, 2015, when they exposed her to a promised $ 300,000 Donation to make charity.
However, it was another journalist, Richard Guilutt, who broke the real story when he claimed the truth about her false cancer, only two days later on March 10 in rival newspaper, the Australian.
The bestseller author was nominated for a coveted Walkley Award for all media first of the year for his surprising 'Belle Gibson exposed' revelations later that year.
Award -winning blogger Belle Gibson (photo) was exposed as a cancer faker – but the man who broke the story, Richard Guilutt, says Nine tried to write him out of history
Gibson's Web of Lies is immoders in the HIT Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar with Kaitlyn Dever (photo) who plays the Chatagonist plays
Toscano and Donelly were also nominated for one of the prestigious prizes for their rival entry, also confusing entitled 'Belle Gibson Exposed', in the Business Reporting category.
The double entries created a heated row behind the scenes while the rival points of sale argued about who broke the first.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that the debate heated so much that the Walkley Board was forced to call in an independent lawyer to revise the dueling entries and their competing claims.
In the end, the legal referee ruled that it was Gulliiatt who had exposed holes for the first time in Gibson's cancer claims … Although the decision was ultimately somewhat academic with the media reporting on the controversy, but that neither of them claimed the main prize.
But Guilutt said that he was still Goobsmacked to see Nine claim again and the credit for his work as Apple Cider Vinegar this month Netflix Global Global risks at the top.
In recent weeks, the Nine newspapers have insisted that their reporting duo 'the first story about Gibson's shaky claims broke', “discovered Belle Gibson's Cancer Con” and “highlighted Belle Gibson's Lies.”
The weekly television news and current matters of the media group even got in hand this week for 60 minutes, while it promoted a special that it had made about the scandal, dangerous lies, the exposure of Belle Gibson 'who had the program an interview with' Toscano, the age journalist … who broke the story '.
Nine's 60 Minutes program stimulated their interview with Belle Gibson – although they paid $ 75,000 for the exclusive … after she had already done a similar sitdown with the Australian Women's Weekly Free for free
Gibson's interview with 60 minutes Presenter Tara Brown has also been recreated in the Netflix Apple Ciderazegar Series (photo)
The team at 60 minutes is also about itself to claim their own piece of glory from the entire Saga by repeatedly spitting their explosive interview with the Diskraced Wellness blogger.
But they paid Gibson $ 75,000 to appear on the program, after she had already done a similar sitdown with the Australian Women's Weekly's Clair Weaver and Bryce Corbett for free.
Guilutt criticized Nine's 'ethically dubious' insisting on the pushing of claims that were not true … especially in view of the fact that they had involved the involvement of the media madness in a story about a cancer faker who pushed claims that was not true.
“It is where those boys (Toscano and Donelly) had the first story, which was a small page four news story about Belle fraudulent money raised for charities,” said the award-winning writer Daily Mail Australia.
'It wasn't a bad story, but it isn't the Story – That is that her cancer claims were a scammer.
'The fact is that we both chase that story – but they could not substantiate it and the age lawyers would not let them go, so they published that charity story.
'I substantiated that her claims were dubious, by revealing that she had a long history of telling Dodgy medical stories and getting her recognition that she could not support her claims.
'Beau Donelly even sent me a nice congratulatory -resistant e -mail after those stories had been.
'But a few months later the age began to claim that Belle Gibson was exposed after the age that these stories published, etc. etc.
Journalist Richard Guilutt was still Goobsmacked to see Nine claim again with the honor for his work this month, while Apple Cider Vijn Netflix was at the top.
Richard Guilutt (left) was disturbed to see his wife's breast cancer appear as a storyline in the Netflix series. Apple cider vinegar is sold by Netflix as 'a true-like story based on a lie'
'Then they (Toscano and Donelly) published their book – and again, they were not – but the promotional material for the book described them as the reporters who' broke 'the story.
'So I wrote to their publisher, Scribe, and I explained the history and my role in the story and my Walkley nomination.
'Henry Rosenbloom of Scribe wrote me back and said he was not aware of my role and he would change the promotional material – but nothing changed.
“I consider it pretty sloppy that the book hardly mentions my role when uncovering Gibson, and to this day, Scribe Donelly and Toscano false as the reporters who” discovered the details of Gibson's lies. ”
'Still, at a certain moment, about five or six years ago, I gave up and thought I couldn't do anything to stop.
'Then this new Netflix series comes out and yes, it starts all the way again.
“But this time, you know, nine really gang busters went on, with 60 minutes even a claim to have exposed her.”
Guilutt said that he does not personally blame Donelly nor Toscano, and notes that they have no control over the promotional material used to sell the Netflix series.
He added that they had never repeated or endors the misleading claims of their company or publisher, and it is not suggested that they have ever done that.
Guillatt exposed Gibson's web or deceit in the pages of the Australian on March 10, 2015
“I find it pretty disappointing, given that I have worked for many years at the age and the Sydney Morning Herald,” he said.
“It's all pretty unfair, because … their publishers and interviewers incorrectly display the story.”
The anger of Guilliatatt was further fed by the fact that the wife of one of the fictional journalists in the Netflix series is depicted as suffering breast cancer – a detail that he knows is being eliminated from his life.
“When my wife got breast cancer, we went through that very terrible process to confront all this terrible medical treatment,” he said.
“And people gave us all these kinds of folk medicines remedies, you know,” If you eat apricot kernels every day … “All that stuff.
“It was all so stupid and frightening.
'The two actual documentaries that have been done to Belle Gibson both correctly identify me as the journalist who broke the story and tell the background story about what made me interested in writing about the entire welfare industry.
“So when I heard that the journalist in the series has a woman who has breast cancer, I just thought:” Wow, I wonder where they got that idea “.
Richard Guilutt believes that it is 'ethically dubious' of nine to shamelessly lie about breaking the story about Belle Gibson (depicted) shamelessly lying about her cancer fight
As far as Nine is concerned, nor the media giant, nor his public relations machine have once said or done something to dispose of his place to expose Gibson's shocking health fraud.
“The Age published the first story that Belle Gibson exposed as a fraudster on 8 March 2015,” a spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
'The age and his reporters have never disputed that other publications, including the Australian, also played a role in exposing Gibson.
“Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano credited the Australian in their 2015 report and also in their subsequent book.”
Guilutt suggests that reaction is about as 'true' as Netflix claims that his Gibson is Docudrama, but emphasizes that he is not bitter.
He said he just protected a story for a story that was not only the most impactful of his decades of career, but also one with which he has such a strong personal bond.
As far as Nine's promotion campaign was concerned, he admitted that he had not expected that he would pronounce something … but said that it almost didn't matter.
As he did since the first day he met Belle Gibson's story, he said he just wants people to know the truth.
