Belle Gibson to be paid for 60 Minutes interview

Belle Gibson is a 23 year-old Australian who earlier this year was found to be lying about having terminal brain cancer and curing her illness with healthy eating and natural therapies. She made a top-selling app, website and cook books out of her lies. 

Her first 'exclusive' interview is this Sunday on 60 Minutes and according to the below news.com.au article, she is being paid $45,000 for the interview.

Will you be watching? If she had agreed to do the interview for free, I may have tuned in, but I'm not sure I can believe a word that is spoken if there is a fee involved! 

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/belle-gibson-promises-to-tell-the-whole-truth-i-have-lost-everything/story-e6frfmyi-1227412719802

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She'll be paid whether we watch or not,will be worth a view if only to see how a scammer mind works

Good idea for authorities to seize the money earned to do some good for people she scammed.

Drew, in my mind she shouldn't be paid.  Didn't she get enough out of the people she cheated ??  She should have been charged and a jail sentence imposed.  Her scam is no different to others for which people have been jailed. 

Having a daughter who passed away with cancer last year, I hope she never has to try and overcome what my daughter went through and to give cancer sufferers false hope, is the pits in my opinion.

Society is going down the drain when people can be paid for lying and cheating and it shouldn't be heard that she has.

Thank God I am not trying to bring children up in this day and age and trying to teach them the difference between right and wrong, with examples like this why would you bother.

What this woman did is utterly disgusting and she should not be rewarded.

If she gets paid she should do the right thing and donate the fee to the Cancer Council.

The lady who got injured in the Lindt cafe siege donated her fee of $25,000 to the hospital who looked after her and I thought was very admirable of her.

i thought a law had been brought in whereby nobody could profit from the proceeds of fraud or crimes,    so the government should be able to take that money,   maybe not the government,   but the police,    as she is making this money from a crime she committed,   eg conning people out of money for false claims, re her cancer,     no she should not be paid,    and if she has any decency,  [which seems unlikely,   due to how she duped people]      she would donate it to cancer research, ,    i will probably watch, just to see the outcome,    

ABC has to be desparate for a story .... This is Taxpayer's money they are giving to this woman.

Surely ABC should be held accountable..... the money should be paid out of their salaries which are substantial

Leaked document shows ABC stars' salaries

 

"Scott, the highest paid “officer” inside the ABC, got $805,392 last financial year, up from $773,787 in 2011-12. His six-strong senior team, defined by the ABC as being “concerned with or taking part in the management of the Corporation”, raked in a total of $3.5 million."

Crikey

why shud ABC staff pay for story on comershul chanel ?

Weird why drag in the ABC

"Reports are circulating that Gibson was paid upwards of $45,000 for the one-on-one with Tara Brown, which will air this Sunday night on Nine."

Thanks for the correction :)

Hey Viv - you are correct!  She was paid $45,000.  She approached Channel 7 (who knocked her back) then Channel 9 - and originally wanted a sum of $100,000!!

Channel 9 apparently negotiated it down to $45,000!  Disgusting whichever way you wanna look at it!   Ratings no doubt??? 

Smart little "cookie" for her age huh?  Ugh!

I taped 60 mins but have read online this morning that the intervew was disastrous for her and people are calling her nothing but a liar and a fraud and worse.

Will watch later in the day.

....the $45,000 she was paid should have all gone back to some of the people she ripped off!  Not to her!  Disgraceful!  What a liar!  She has "serious" issues for one so young!  Sad really .......................

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lol - good one Raddy "they" think - "they" still have it! lol lol - if only 'they" knew the truth!  

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