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‘Massive A-Hole’ Sacha Baron Cohen Allegedly Trying to Block Rebel Wilson’s Memoir

After Rebel Wilson revealed that she’d devoted an entire chapter to a “massive a**hole” in her upcoming memoir Rebel Rising, that a-hole’s PR team allegedly threatened to block the book’s publication. Rather than backing down, Wilson has decided to go public with the name of the comic actor she says is behind the threats: Sacha Baron Cohen. Not very nice!

The warnings appear to be in response to recent sneak previews that Wilson has been sharing on her social channels. “Do you wanna know why I have a ‘no assholes’ policy now with people I work with?” she wrote in one recent post. “Well it’s all in the book: REBEL RISING … oh and YES I name the asshole!”

Classic ‘Simpsons’ Episodes Are Still Getting Censored for Broadcast in 2024

Why is it that some TV stations still won’t let The Simpsons joke about sex? What’s so unappealing about hearing old Simpsons characters talk about sex? They had sex!

For as long as The Simpsons has been on television, censors have been trying to take away everyone’s fun and ruin many of the jokes in episodes that eventually became all-time classics. From “Homer’s Phobia” to “A Streetcar Named Marge” to “Stark Raving Dad,” Fox has, historically, been at the throats of The Simpsons’ writers like they’re Homer and Bart over the verbiage, content, targets and topics of the best jokes in television history. And, to a certain degree, that’s exactly the network’s prerogative when putting out new content, and all of the “Big Four” broadcast channels have their own checks in place to ensure FCC compliance and to limit the workload of their complaints department.

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