Turns down Oprah
Just days ago we were musing on how Pippa Middleton, sister of Kate, would handle any impertinent questions asked about the royal summer of scandal during the promotion of her party-planning book Celebrate, due out at the end of the month.
Would she answer questions about the topless pictures of her sister, the naked pictures of Harry, her own antics attending a bondage themed party in Paris after which a pal of hers waved a toy gun at photographers, and risk being shunned by the Firm, or would she maintain a dignified silence and risk getting no media coverage and selling no books?
Well, now we have the answer.
She won’t be facing any questions because she won’t be doing any promotion for the book AT ALL. That's right, Pippa won’t be taking a single question on the coolest way to ice cupcakes or fielding a call on the best way to run a game of naked billiards (sorry, carve a pumpkin).
She’s doing nothing. Zilch. Nada.
A clearly deeply pissed staffer at U.K. publishers Michael Joseph, who have, God bless them, done everything they can to express their support for Pippa over recent months, including letting it be widely known that she did not use a ghost writer, tells the Royalist via an unusually abrupt email, “Pippa is not available for interviews in the U.K.”
And it seems the omerta applies in the U.S. as well. The Daily News’ Hollywood correspondent, James Desborough, is reporting today that Pippa has chosen to pass up big money interviews with Oprah, Ellen de Generes and Anderson Cooper rather than risk being accused of cashing in on her royal connections.
“Pippa has been besieged with offers from everyone in the U.S. media offering her a raft of opportunities,” a source tells Desborough, “Offers included being a special correspondent on shows like ‘Entertainment Tonight,’ as well as interviews with Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Anderson Cooper … If she were seen using the royal family to promote her book, she would soon be viewed as the next generation’s Sarah Ferguson … If Pippa is quizzed about Kate’s topless pictures, then whatever answer she gives will generate more news about the matter, and upset Will and Kate.”
A plainly bereft spokesperson for publishers Viking says: “Pippa is not doing anything for us. She is not coming here to do interviews and is not available for anything, unfortunately.”
Much more at The Daily Beast
Much more at The Daily Beast
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