What’s your vibe on Rebel Wilson’s memoir and book promotion? Before this story, the only thing I’ve paid attention to was her big claim that Sacha Baron Cohen is a giant a–hole. Breaking news! While I believe that story, my vibe is that Rebel’s memoir is trying to be a scandalous story where she name-drops various celebrities and acts like everyone treated her poorly? Maybe that’s the truth, but given what we’ve seen of her previous storytelling abilities, Rebel’s attempts at sounding self-deprecating never really land the way she intended. I think that’s what’s happening here. Apparently, Rebel believes Adele hates her.
Rumor has it that Adele didn’t like being compared to Rebel Wilson.
“Some actresses would get offended if I called them plus-size in this book, so I have to be careful with what I say. This is why, I think, Adele hates me,” Wilson, 44, writes in her upcoming memoir, “Rebel Rising,” according to an excerpt obtained by InTouch Weekly.
“There was a moment when she was bigger, and some people would confuse us for one another … I am assuming, because to be fair I’ve never asked her,” Wilson continued. According to the “Bridesmaids” alum, the few times that she and the “Rolling in the Deep” songstress, 35, crossed paths, Adele “always quickly” turned away whenever she saw Wilson heading in her direction.
“As if my fatness might rub off on her if I were near her for more than thirty seconds. That she didn’t like being compared to ‘Fat Amy,’” Wilson penned, referring to her “Pitch Perfect” character. Both entertainers have lost significant weight in recent years.
Does… any of this sound like Adele? I’m really asking. I would never think that Adele and Rebel look anything alike and I’ve never heard anyone compare the two women. This beef sounds like a figment of Rebel’s imagination. I mean, given what Rebel is saying here, if Adele does hate Rebel, she would be completely justified.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- Adele (aka Adele Adkins) attends the BRIT Awards 2022 at O2 Arena, London, England, UK on Tuesday 8 February 2022.,Image: 660707243, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit agency and photographer as Justin Ng/Retna/Avalon when publishing., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Adele (aka Adele Adkins) attends the BRIT Awards 2022 at O2 Arena, London, England, UK on Tuesday 8 February 2022.,Image: 660707297, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit agency and photographer as Justin Ng/Retna/Avalon when publishing., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Adele (aka Adele Adkins) attends the BRIT Awards 2022 at O2 Arena, London, England, UK on Tuesday 8 February 2022.,Image: 660707368, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit agency and photographer as Justin Ng/Retna/Avalon when publishing., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – OCTOBER 15: Rebel Wilson arrives at the 2nd Annual Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala presented by Rolex held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 731067533, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Rebel Wilson, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – OCTOBER 15: Rebel Wilson arrives at the 2nd Annual Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala presented by Rolex held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 731067685, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Rebel Wilson, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
this gives the same vibes as Lena Dunham taking about Odell Beckham Jr. just a complete projection onto someone she doesn’t actually know.
I kind of think she’s making stuff up so people will buy the memoir, because who is such a Rebel Wilson fan that they want to read her memoir?
It reminded me of the Lena Dunham/OBJ story as well.
Whether Adele is a saint or whether she goes around ignoring people all day long….it doesn’t sound like there is any kind of relationship there and Rebel is just projecting her own insecurities onto Adele. Maybe Rebel thinks she’s more famous than she is and assumes Adele would recognize her/approach her, and maybe Adele just sees a crazy fan who is staring her down weirdly or something.
I had the same thought.
This was exactly my first thought when I started reading!
When people project that much, it is a lose-lose.
If Adele really wanted to stand next to her for a prolonged period of time, she could have also assumed that now Adele is thin she wants to stand next to “fat Amy” to emphasise her own thinness.
Speaking from experience as someone who has struggled with weight / ED, these thoughts DO come into your brain constantly. But we need to identify them as thoughts, and not facts, and train ourselves not to project….
i came here to say exactly that! projection is the word.
Exactly, Arizona..
People RW trashed during the years:
Russell Crowe
Anna Kendrick
S. B. Cohen
Adele
Meghan
Forgetting someone?
I hope her book tanks, to be honest. One of these people who feel pleasure in trashing people because ‘comedy’….
I don’t remember on which paper but SBC provided receipts she lied (quelle surprise). I’d bet that’s the reason why her book was taken off the shelves.
Did the publisher’s lawyers really say this was okay to print? She’s making a lot of assumptions here.
Today here in Australia it’s been pulled from distribution, you can no longer order it online.
I’m 50/50 on this. I think she has some valid points but it’s overshadowed by a feeling that she’s wildly lashing out and in one case (re her character on a show here called Fat Pizza) seemingly lashing out at innocent people and those who actually helped her when she was starting out.
It’s a mess.
Sounds like it’s been pulled in AU, NZ and the UK, but is still available in the US. The shade about her book being pulled in this piece is kind of glorious:
“Time Out Bookstore in Mt Eden told the Herald that the book’s distribution had been put on pause for legal reasons. “We received an email last week to recall any stock on the shelf due to legal reasons”, they said, “however we didn’t have any and no pre-orders so it didn’t make a difference to us.”
Not everything is about you Rebel.
Therapy is your friend – honestly
No, that doesn’t sound like Adele.
It sounds like Rebel Wilson met her once in passing, Adele gave her a side eye and she took it personally.
Ya Adele probably has no idea who she is. “I don’t know her” à la Mariah for sure
Rebel is very much a one-trick pony (the crass “fat” character played for laughs) whereas Adele is a wildly talented singer and songwriter with multiple awards. Sour grapes for sure.
I could see people mistakening the two of them. But I kinda think Adele doesn’t know who she is, let alone try to avoid her.
WOW! she’s more repulsive than I already suspected her to be. I hope she discussed the beard ‘boyfriend’ (I’m not picking on her sexuality but her clearly fake at the time ‘boyfriend’ she was showing off on her private plane flights all around the globe on endless holidays during covid while me and millions like me were stuck in lock down in my house for about a year. F you Rebel. I hope your book tanks.
Everything I have read about this woman gives off unpleasant vibes. She is doing a hell of a lot of reaching here. I’m beginning to get annoyed that I enjoyed Pitch Perfect. Just the first one.
I truly don’t know anything about Adele other than a few of her songs, but Rebel Wilson comes across as a horrible human being. She has said some nasty things about others before this, I’m sure she does it thinking it would make her relevant. I’ve never enjoyed her in any movie and tend to avoid them if she is in the cast. (I personally think kelly Osborn and Rebel Wilson are very similar people)
She seems like the kind of person who proudly says “Hey – I tell it like it is!” but in reality is just being cruel in order to make themselves feel powerful. The kind of person who would blurt out “You look terrible in that dress” and feel like they really did that person a favor.
@AuntRara: perfect description! That’s my impression, too.
Theres a saying that comes to mind here: “if you meet two jerks a day, you’re probably the jerk”
I’m getting that off of her lol
Last summer a neighbor known for verbally assaulting other neighbors finally came after me. I was neighbor #7. I called the cops and they told her to leave me alone. I also called a lawyer to see what I could do pertaining to suing her to pay for my therapy and also send a no contact letter. The lawyer said “excuse my language, but when a person thinks everyone around them is an asshole, they are probably the asshole.” 🤣
From she trashed Meghan, I could not care less about her.
Meghan, to me, comes across as one of those people who makes friends easily (I envy/hate those people…lol) and so I think that Meghan goes out of her way to engage and be nice…Meghan did nothing to this woman and it was during the time (well, every day is during the time) when she was getting a lot of Hate and to me, Rebel was just piling on.
Yes, this 100% sounds like Adele. Between the huge appearance makeover and the sheit she pulled with her fans and concerts, it’s pretty obvious she’s drank the koolaid of her own “amazingness”. She’s got a great voice and 1-2 good songs, and that’s about it. I have no idea why people idolize her so much or think she’d never be narcissitic or rude. Especially with all the insane amount of money she earned from whining about her ex.
I agree with you about Adele, I want to like her and she comes off as an asshole at every turn. However, this story sounds completely made up by Rebel. She even says that she just assumes people confused them (I don’t think anyone did, they never looked anything alike, even when they were heavier) and she also assumes that Adele purposefully avoided her because Rebel was overweight, and not because Adele simply thought she was an asshole and didn’t want to associate.
Uhmm.. Adele may have avoided her, but why would it be because of her weight? Rebel sounds like an insufferable person, maybe Adele didn’t want to deal with her as is her right. She did the same thing to Meghan, called her “not nice”, then when they asked for more info, she confessed that Rebel’s mother was asking rude questions to Meghan, but Meghan should have been nice to them anyway.
Honestly it sounds more like you just don’t like Adele so you want to believe anything that makes her bad. She lost weight just like Rebel did, but she’s a bad person for it? She writes songs about her exes like tons of others but she’s bad for it? Like others I’ll never forget her trying to make Meghan sound like a bad person for being polite to her and her mom at first and then freezing them out when her mom kept asking a stranger (!) who has had death threats where her kids were. Honestly they sound like the assholes who have drunk the koolaid about their popularity.
I have seen some people comments shift on her (shift to be negative) when they found out she was dating a black man…so there is that.
ha!!!!!!!!! OMG this was so funny. I don’t know that I would attribute what Rebel is saying about her to her or not, but Adele has always struck me as someone who is probably “A LOT”, you know? Just drama and crazy, that is the vibe she gives off to me
So you’re mad that Adell lost weight? Did you only like her because she was bigger?
Rebel herself says above that they’ve never meet or talked to each other and how she is assuming that people confused the two of them and is assuming that Adele doesn’t want to be next to her because of her “weight”. Which doesn’t make sense because this seems to have happened before they both lost weight.
I think both things can be true. Adele is up her own butt, and Rebel is an embarrassment to herself.
Exactly. I’m not fond of Adele and, despite her “down to earth” reputation, could believe she’d have it in her to be rude. By the same token, Rebel’s an insufferable arse, always has been, and her characterisation of how Adele supposedly behaved is politer than how I would behave towards her. So yeah.
So Adele avoided her and Rebel assumes it’s because she was fat. Maybe she just didn’t like her.
Equally, maybe Adele just didn’t feel in the mood to talk to a total stranger.
If Rebel wasn’t famous, this conversation wouldn’t even exist. Since it’s not like Rebel asked for an autograph or something and was snubbed. She didn’t even speak to Adele. Adele just “turned away from” a total stranger.
Also, why is Rebel repeatedly making a beeline for a complete stranger who hasn’t shown interest in engaging?
Exactly, RW is assuming Adele avoided her because of her weight. It doesnt add up with what Lizzo said in an interview about how during the fat shaming she endured, Adele reached out to her to see if she was okay.
I think it’s more likely that she avoided RW because she is am unpleasant person.
I’ve never once thought about Adele and Rebel in conjunction in the slightest. In fact, all this anecdote made me think was “is Rebel actually obsessed with Adele?” Like, to the point of trying to resemble her?
Awfulness of her being a victim of sexual harassment aside, (and holding in mind she is also a perpetrator of workplace sexual harassment), her vibes are absolutely rancid.
I didn’t know about that. Who did Rebel sexually harass? She did always seem like an awful person though, so it doesn’t surprise me.
Rebel wishes she were Adele-famous, Adele-talented, Adele-beautiful, Adele-rich.
Not that I need another reason to like Adele. But I sure hope it’s true. And for Rebel’s own sake, I hope she kept the Sussexes out of her so-called memoir. Perhaps she doesn’t know that Adele is friends with them, and may not care for the way Rebel felt the need to attack Meghan for protecting her children. Just a real low-brow, Trailer-T person.
I have no plans to buy this book but I do hope that she keeps Meghan out of its pages. I view her like Rob Lowe, somebody who just uses Meghan and Harry’s names for clout, clicks and exposure.
Rebel is projecting her own insecurities onto Adele.
I think Rebel thinks more highly of herself than she should. She is a D-lister who is quickly riding the train to Z-list non-celebrity who wants to hang out with the popular people. She’s so childish but tries to come off as sincere.
Completely this. As others have said above, I don’t even know what warrants a memoir here. She doesn’t have a huge or impactful body of work and her experience with body image issues or being gay in her industry has been and will be presented in a much more thoughtful and thought-provoking way than her hateful namedropping and projections.
Right? What publisher thought there would be a worthwhile enough audience to justify whatever they paid for this book?
Rebel seems to have the same sense of ‘humor’ as Ricky Gervais, basically based in meanness.
I am no particular fan of either one, but Ricky Gervais makes a huge amount of money, and Rebel…does not.
I have never heard of people mixing up Adele with Rebel. I don’t know Rebel comes off extremely insecure and judgemental. I’m not a fan.
It seems like she lost a lot of weight and now thinks that she can be a huge B word to anyone.
(I do believe the Sacha accusation tho)
I also believe the story about SBC and I find Adele unlikeable, along with Rebel herself.
Maybe some AI generated celebrity articles online mixed them up. Which is what her legal team will hide behind. But no human being would ever confuse the two. They look nothing alike. And honestly, Adele is actually funny in interviews. Rebel, not so much.
I have had zero interest in this book. When she first got famous. She embellished her age to younger and claimed she was born with the name Rebel (it’s Melanie). The Australian press clocked her on it. And she ‘fessed up.
Anything she claims in this book I would take with a huge grain of salt.
Melanie? That’s hilarious. I would have believed her birth name were Rebel, though. Oz has quite a lot of Macadamia’s about.
Melanie! Lmao. Reminds me of Alec’s wife Hillary from Boston.
Whew! The projection is insane!
I think that she has created this fictitious story in her head and doesn’t realize that her personality is aggressively annoying and if anyone turns around after seeing her it ain’t because they are afraid of her size but her annoying personality. Every story about her she makes assumptions about what others might think or feel about her as if everyone should feel honored to be in her presence and she just can’t seem to understand why that isn’t always the case. Adele and her look nothing alike, even at their largest they never looked alike. Im almost insulted on behalf of Adele that she thinks she is so famous and popular that she thinks people would confuse the two of them even in a room where the lights are turned off and everyone was blindfolded.
To paraphrase a movie title, maybe Adele is just not that into you, Rebel, and that’s okay.
Does anyone else find Rebel insufferable? It has nothing to do with the number on her scale; it’s just her… and her nails-on-chalkboard personality.
You are sooo not alone. I never understood why she got as far as she has. From the account of her mum’s interaction with Meghan, it seems the apple didn’t bother going past the tree trunk.
Rebel strikes me as someone who uses the names of more famous people in order to get free publicity.
Oops @debbie, just replied the same above. What is disgusting is that when people do this the British tabloids, and now some American tabloids, jump on it and give it them huge press. These people know that if they just bad mouth Meghan, the tabloids will cause a frenzy.
So it sounds like she and Adele have never met but she assumes Adele hates her because she’s fat? Keep reaching Rebel, keep reaching. You probably have never even crossed Adele’s mind. Or maybe Rebel is angling for free tickets to a concert? I don’t think this is the right approach….
I don’t have strong opinions about either of these women, but the way she is actually publishing such a negative pure assumption about a person. She apparently doesn’t know it all reminds me of Matthew Perry’s statements in his memoir about Keanu Reeves.
Not your fatness just your stupidity.
What a terrible position to place another person in.
Adele us screwed if she does or doesn’t respond.
Meanwhile she, Adele, is just going about her business.
I hope she doesn’t respond, like Keanu just rose above it all.
It sounds like Rebel has too many issues for one book. Girl needs therapy to deal with herself. A book was not a good idea.
It’s a bit of a reach to assume she knows what Adele is thinking based on a non-interaction with her.
But she’s got a book to publicise so I guess that’s why she’s trying to create gossip. And it’s working, to be fair – there’s been lots of media coverage. (Still not buying her book, though).
I wonder when she’ll get round to the Tom Hardy story?
I think Rebel underestimates how beloved Adelle is and how neutral people are to her. Not even sure why she wrote a memoir because I can not imagine many people caring to read it. I have always found her unpleasant. I also find SBC unpleasant so I am happy to see her airing him out publically.
Didn’t that Trash made the British morning and evening shows made some mean nasty comments on Meghan? They ran that sh@%$t for about a month. The common denominator that is an issue to me here is that Trash. I hope everyone this Trash made nasty comments about in that trashy book sue for defamation.
I never really had an opinion about Rebel. I enjoyed her in Bridesmaids but that’s about it. With all the book snippets coming out, I am seriously disliking her. It seems like she is quite the “embellisher” . I hear her, and say, “Yeah, Rebel, whatever……..” She’s really not doing herself any favors.
NOTHING about this woman or, by the sound of it her book is appealing. Let’s face it it reeks of jealousy and bitterness. She slagged of Megan on national television and now she’s side eyeing Adelle! Is there a single, successful woman on this planet that she won’t critisise or moan about. She needs therapy and she needs it now!
Rebel is one of those people who is an obnoxious asshole to everyone but believes they don’t like her because of (insert random reason here).
QAre their legal reasons why this memoir has been withdrawn from sale in both Australia and now UK?
Yeah, it relates to the Sacha Baron Cohen story. He’s called his lawyers.
Do you know why just those 2 countries.
@Raven: that I do not know, I suspect it has something to do with individual countries’ defamation laws.
I think SBC provided receipts and she’s coming across as a liar on that one too. I dislike both intensely but she’s gone after the wrong people with her book.
SBC is a total jerk (by all accounts) but he is really clever. She was genuinely a fool to go after him without documented proof. Aus/UK/Can/NZ have stricter defamation laws than the US, so it’s not surprising that it’s been pulled in those countries.
Right @BlueNailsBetty! Rebel Wilson has sh::-stirred beef with Anna Kendrick, the Kardashians, even Meghan Markle—now Adele and SBC are getting the treatment? The game at this stage is clear. She’s a minor league talent who can only get major league attention in connection with bigger names, and then she whines and cries that no one wants to work with her. SMH.
This is more than second hand admittedly. A friend of a friend worked on movie set with RW and AH. Said AH was a complete sweetheart to everybody. RW, however, was a rude, inconsiderate nightmare.
Maybe Adele just didn’t know who she was or found her annoying as an actress. I would avoid meeting Rebel Wilson because I find her humor very lazy and childish. I think her 15 minutes are up, but she won’t accept it.
Why is it that people with terrible personalities always like to blame it on their looks?
If a woman is, for example, a Regina George type, it’s “people hate me because I’m beautiful”
Or if they’re the Rebel type, it’s “people hate me because I’m fat”
Umm I dunno, perhaps people hate you because your personality is just unbearable? Ever think of that?—but people like that never want to admit that.
Nah, lots of people can’t stand you now after your classless idiotic remarks about Meghan being “not warm.” Shut up and bugger off.
I didn’t watch any of the Pitch Perfect movie and never thought she would as particularly engaging in anything else I saw her in . I am weirdly fascinated by her fan base – like what is it they love about her?
I heard her on Armchair Expert and was surprised at how unlike her persona she seemed. I felt wary of accepting Much that she said at face value due to her past skirmishes which the truth (ie her age). But I did find her personal
Story very interesting nonetheless.
Rebel is unwell. Deeply unwell.
Agreed. I feel sorry for her baby
I don’t know….RW has sh*t-talked Meghan Sussex, Sascha Baron Cohen, and now Adele…maybe it’s you, Rebel, and not them….
Also Anna Kendrick and Russell Crowe….
At this point I don’t even care if Adele was nice to her or not. She’s not the one making a total ass of herself out there.
I listened to her interview with Dax on Armchair, and it inspired me to buy the book. I’m not a fan, but it sounds interesting. I can see the Adele comparisons – both sing, are blonde, speak with an accent, and had been overweight.
I am not saying that SBC is not a jerk… but I find it curious that when she talks about women like Meghan or Adele that people side eye her and “take her with a grain of salt”, but when she talks about men we take her word for it?
I am not excusing him for any gross behaviour that I am sure he has had over the years, but I am just curious what the difference here is?
With SBC there is a lot of due diligence the publisher needs to go through, and they have said it was able to be verified. There’s a lot of liability behind a false accusation like that. The Adele and Megan stories are a) RW’s subjective feelings at their demeanor towards her. It doesn’t really attract defamation/libel risk. Also RW’s own account – her very words- are what seem to indicate she has a perception problem.
I appreciate that perspective, so thank you.
He provided receipts through a British newspaper, which is why I think the book has been taken off the shelves.
I have no problem with believing all three accounts of Rebel’s stories, its just that only one of them raises itself to the level being a gross and horrible event. I absolutely believe that Meghan was cold to her after her mother decided that it was her business to question her at an evening party full of adults about where her kids were the first time she met her, I absolutely believe that maybe Adele has encountered her and thought she was annoying beyond belief and avoided making eye contact with her or being around her because she didn’t want to have to talk to her at all, just like I believe that Sasha Baron Cohen could have believed that he was being ” funny ” by asking her to do what he did in that sex scene. Only one of those things are really bad behavior though.
All good points as well.
Adele’s comment should be, “Rebel who?”
Rebel Wilson is famous liar and makes up stuff all the time…
I mean, maybe? No one here actually knows Adele so I don’t think anyone can say whether this does or does not sound like her. I will say that she demonstrated some prime @$$hole behavior with the scheduling of her residency a few years ago so who knows.
I really like Rebel Wilson’s character in Pitch Perfect. Too bad it doesn’t seem to be a reflection of the person she has proven herself to be in real life so far. I guess that means she’s a really good actress.
Maybe Rebel is one of those comedians that are not very pleasant to be around on real life. Also her mother sounds nosy and rude as hell. I will always remember her recounting of meeting Harry and Meghan. She started by saying something in the context of Meghan wasn’t very engaged or impressed with meeting her and her mom. Harry was a sweetheart according to her. Then she says that her mom directly asked Meghan (not Harry) where are her children and why she left them at home. The intrusiveness and lack of boundaries when meeting a stranger.
This rudeness was also compounded by the fact that there are a lot of trolls out there, including Australian ones, that say that Archie and Lili are dolls, that they don’t exist. If they were really their kids we would see them more often! 🙄 So it would have a lot to do with how she asked the questions. Did she say it in a demanding way, like she has a right to know? Did she say: where are your kids . . . . if they exist? I really can’t see Meghan being rude if the questions were asked in an appropriate, friendly way. From what Rebel said of the encounter, I envision her mother being the rude one.
This sounds like Rebel projecting – which is not good, and should not be printed in a book. Actual events that happened? Sure. Saying she thinks someone hates her for a made up reason but never talked to her? No.
Not a fan of hers at all… won’t be buying or reading her book
Those absurd, hilarious-but-only-to-me thoughts don’t belong in your celebrity memoir (please refer to Matthew Perry/Keanu Reeves cringe for perfect example). It costs nothing to tell the worst part of yourself to stfu, Rebel.
I’m with Carribbean: I don’t like Rebel ever since she tried to climb on the Megan hate train. Seemingly saying Henry’s ok, Megan not so much. Rebel was never funny. She’s still not funny: skinny or fat, I just don’t care. I’m mad at her from when she was on WWHL. If Adele hates her, it is only because Adele has good taste and discernment. I’m mad at her. Thrilled that hate got her nowhere. B—h. And furthermore, why not study and further your craft and try to get ahead with your “talent”, instead of stepping on another woman. Ignorant.