14 DAY TRIAL // The Internet may be laughing with the guys behind the Twitter account @PippaTips, but Pippa Middleton herself isn’t in the slightest bit amused. In fact, her attorneys have moved to block a book written by the same guys from selling in book stores.
The Daily Beast reports that Middleton’s attorneys have been very busy these past several days, writing cease and desist letters to whomever set up the spoof account and wrote the book (in the same vein) “When One Is Expecting, A Posh Person’s Guide to Pregnancy and Parenting.”
The book came out on July 13, the same date initially believed to be Kate Middleton’s due date – which, as we also reported the other day, turned out to be another false alarm.
According to the aforementioned media outlet, the move to sue the authors of the book is very ill advised because, as they say, if you want something popular to not get any more attention online, suing isn’t the way.
“In an extraordinarily ill-judged move, Miss Middleton Junior has launched legal action against the creators of the spoof Twitter account @Pippatips, who also have written a book off the back of their 50,000-follower Twitter hit,” The Daily Beast says.
“Some wags are suggesting that Middleton – who initially attempted to laugh off criticism of her book, saying she might produce a sequel called Bottoms Up – may have finally lost her sense of humor because the @PippaTips book is outselling her own (on those famously reliable Amazon charts, at least),” the report further mentions.
“The move is all the more extraordinary as Middleton previously attempted to appear unconcerned by the @Pippatips crew,” it adds.
Moreover, the attorneys she’s now using are the same ones representing the Duchess of Cambridge, the only difference being that Pippa is suing for something that is clearly construed and presented as satire.
It could be that her ego is too bruised to weigh this legal threat properly, voices online are saying. After all, she probably believed her tip book would be a hit and, instead, it lead to the creation of such valuable piece of wisdom like, “Children are just people who are too young to be adults.”