Zoella quits internet after Girl Online ghostwriting row - novel not written alone

Zoe Sugg, aka YouTube sensation Zoella, takes 'few days out and off internet because it's clouding up my brain' after confirmation best-selling novel was ghostwritten

Zoella is leaving the internet after a ghostwriting row Photo: Christopher Pledger

By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor

The Telegraph -  08 Dec 2014

Zoella has announced she is quitting the internet after admitting that she did not write her best-selling novel Girl Online.

The YouTube star, real name Zoe Sugg, said she was “taking a few days out and off the internet because it’s clouding up my brain. Thanks for understanding.”

It emerged this weekend that a ghostwriter, Siobhan Curran, was responsible for Girl Online.

After mounting speculation about how much – or little – of the novel she had written, Sugg released a statement yesterday saying that only “the story and the characters” were her own work.

Zoella, 24, announced her temporary departure from the internet with a tweet to her more than 2.6million followers on Twitter. 
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And story at The Guardian:

YouTube star takes online break as she admits novel was ‘not written alone’

Bear with me, video blogger Zoella asks fans, as she takes break from internet after admitting that runaway bestselling debut Girl Online was written jointly

Zoella (Zoe Sugg) at a book signing for debut novel Girl Online in November. Photograph: Bluewater/REX

Alison Flood and Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Monday 8 December 2014 14.16 GMT

YouTube star Zoe Sugg has announced that she is taking a break from the internet after admitting that she did not write her bestselling debut novel alone. Sugg took to her Twitter account, where she has 2.61 million followers, to ask fans to “Bare [sic] with me on vlogmas. I’m taking a few days out and off the internet because it’s clouding up my brain. Thanks for understanding.”
Sugg, known better as Zoella, came under fire at the weekend after she and her publisher acknowledged that Girl Online, the fastest-selling debut novel ever, was not written solely by the popular YouTube video blogger, or vlogger, as readers had been led to believe.
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