Zoella’s ghostwriter Siobhan Curham speaks out over controversy

Children’s author who helped Zoe Sugg with Girl Online says attacks on her are unfair, and insists ‘I did not invite any of this attention upon myself’More about Zoe Sugg and the Girl Online rowSiobhan Curham, the children’s author who unexpectedly found herself in the spotlight this week after it emerged that she helped YouTube star Zoe Sugg write her first novel Girl Online, has spoken out for the first time after receiving a barrage of online abuse.Penguin and Sugg clarified earlier this week that Sugg, the 24-year-old beauty blogger and vlogger known as Zoella, had written her record-breaking debut with the help of Curham. “For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin’s editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning,” said Sugg on Sunday. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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