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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jones. The Sydney Morning Herald

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Speaker 1: is in a spot of trouble. This story has gone

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Speaker 1: international and involves Rebel Wilson, who posted a picture of

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Speaker 1: herself on her Instagram with her girlfriend, saying I thought

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Speaker 1: I was searching for a Disney prince, but maybe what

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Speaker 1: I really needed all this time was a Disney princess.

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Speaker 1: It's a lovely story. This happened on Friday, but what

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Speaker 1: is unfolded since then is that what we didn't know

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Speaker 1: was that the Sydney Morning Herald, this is the private

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Speaker 1: Sydney column ps PS had contacted her management. Apparently they'd

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Speaker 1: seen that she had photos with this girl on a

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Speaker 1: number of her Instagram sites. They heard that she was

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Speaker 1: having a relationship with this woman, and they emailed Rebel's

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Speaker 1: management and said, we know about this relationship. Would she

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Speaker 1: like to comment on it? Our deadline is tomorrow. So

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Speaker 1: really she was kind of it looks now bullied into

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Speaker 1: having to out herself before they outed her. Then, on

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Speaker 1: Sunday in the newspaper this same columnus, in an opinion piece,

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Speaker 1: wrote about how cranky he was that she'd gazumped him

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Speaker 1: with the story of her own relationship, he wrote. So

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Speaker 1: he said he'd known about the relationship and had given

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Speaker 1: Rebel two days to comment and respond to these questions

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Speaker 1: about her love life, and then he wrote, big mistake.

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Speaker 1: Wilson opted to gazump the story, posting about her new

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Speaker 1: Disney Princess on Instagram Friday morning, the same platform she'd

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Speaker 1: previously used to brag about her handsome, exed boyfriend, wealthy American,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. So he was annoyed that she'd

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Speaker 1: gazumped him. Well, no, no, it's not fair enough. He

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Speaker 1: can privately be cranky. Oh, I had that story, but

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Speaker 1: he wrote, but what has this bigger picture now that

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Speaker 1: people are appalled at is that he was going to

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Speaker 1: out her. He says, Oh, I hadn't decided whether I'd

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Speaker 1: publish it or not. I was giving her the option

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Speaker 1: to comment. But if you've got an email saying I'm

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Speaker 1: going to I know this information about you, I've got

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Speaker 1: two day deadline, get back to me. So she decided

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Speaker 1: she preempt that and try and own the story herself,

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Speaker 1: and then he gets cranky at her for talking for

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Speaker 1: owning her own story of coming out. It's an extraordinary

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Speaker 1: tale and a lot of people. A number of people

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Speaker 1: at the Sydney Morning Herald are appalled, saying, what's our news?

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Speaker 1: What's become of our newspaper? We're really outing people.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's daily mail material.

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Speaker 1: And Andrew Hornery, the journalist himself, who he's gay, He says,

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Speaker 1: this was never my intention. I know this is I

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Speaker 1: did not attempt to out her. I want to give

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Speaker 1: her a chance to tell her side the story. I

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Speaker 1: can now see that I didn't phrase that correctly. I

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Speaker 1: do apologize, and Rebel has said, thank you everyone for

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Speaker 1: your comments. It's a very hard situation, but I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to handle it with grace. So this story has gone

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Speaker 1: all around the world saying, are we back in the

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Speaker 1: eighties outing people from the Sydney Morning Harold Really? So look,

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Speaker 1: good luck to Rebel in this relationship. But it should

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Speaker 1: have been well and truly up to her about how

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Speaker 1: and if she told this story herself.

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Speaker 2: I'd be a gossip writer, wouldn't it. What would you

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Speaker 2: write about?

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Speaker 1: Well, this is the trials of being a gossip writer.

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Speaker 2: But when you get into gossip, how do you actually

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Speaker 2: get into gossip writing?

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Speaker 1: And how do you write about things? And obviously they

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Speaker 1: have friends whill tell them stories and say don't print

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Speaker 1: this because it's about me, and then they choose to

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Speaker 1: print it about other people.

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Speaker 2: It'd be terrible. I might That's what I might parley

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Speaker 2: this into being a gossip.

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Speaker 1: You've taken the wrong end of this conversation, which is

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Speaker 1: that this was a bad thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Of course it is. Have you got anything you want

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Speaker 2: to share with our readers right now, Amanda?

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Speaker 1: I think they know what I'm thinking. Brendan