Journalist Who Threatened To Out Rebel Wilson Apologises Again聽
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Andrew Hornery, in a New Year’s column, has readdressed the controversial moment where he 鈥済ot it wrong鈥� when he threatened to out actor Rebel Wilson.聽
The Sydney Morning Herald journalist faced criticism online when he published a column accusing Wilson of going public to “gazump” a story that he had been planning to write about her relationship.
Hornery had told Wilson he had intended to publish an article about her relationship, contacting Wilson’s representatives and informing them of his plans. He had given her a deadline of two days to respond.聽
His questions about her relationship prompted Wilson to publicly announce that she was dating Ramona Agruma via social media platform Instagram.聽
Critics accused the journalist of attempting to 鈥渙ut鈥� Wilson and condemned him for complaining about her choice to break the news to the public.聽
鈥淚 thought I was searching for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess,鈥� Wilson captioned the post.
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Hornery Apologises For Failing To ‘Read The Room’
In , the journalist reflected on the controversy and his failure to 鈥渞ead the room.鈥澛�
鈥淣ever before has one of my 300-word celebrity romance stories 鈥� in which I mistakenly vented my frustrations at trying to get someone to talk 鈥� caused such a backlash,鈥� Hornery wrote.
鈥淐learly, I got it wrong and hadn鈥檛 read the room.鈥�
Hornery added that he had apologised to both Wilson and Agruma for 鈥渂eing churlish and causing them distress.鈥�
Wilson Breaks Silence
Following Hornery鈥檚 complaint about Wilson鈥檚 public announcement, the actor broke her silence by replying to a tweet聽by Channel 10’s Kate Doak.
Doak had posted to Twitter stating that it had not been Wilson鈥檚 choice to come out and that 鈥渢he SMH/The Age have admitted to giving her a heads up two days in advance that they were going to ‘out’ her. What’s worse, openly gay men at the Sydney Morning Herald were involved in this.鈥澛�
Wilson replied to Doak, 鈥淭hanks for your comments, it was a very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace.鈥澛�
https://twitter.com/RebelWilson/status/1535916383577460738
Hornery reflected on his 鈥渋ll-fated attempt鈥� to 鈥減ull back the curtains on the inner workings of celebritydom鈥� that left two of his childhood heroes, Cher and Whoopi Goldberg, admonishing his actions.聽
Hornery stated that this event had made him realise the error of his ways and that he had 鈥渆merged more circumspect when it comes to the journalistically opaque world of reporting on celebrity lives amid the artifice of the social media age.鈥澛�
The journalist ended his column and yearly reflection by congratulating the couple on 鈥済oing from strength to strength鈥� in 2022 and wishing them a happy new year.聽
