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SNL’s Leslie Jones reacts to Milo Yiannopoulos’ $250000 book deal

By Hector Cruz

Nov 25, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones sits court side during the game between the New York Knicks and the Charlotte Hornets at Madison Square Garden. New York Knicks won 113-111. Mandatory Credit: Anthony Gruppuso-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 25, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones sits court side during the game between the New York Knicks and the Charlotte Hornets at Madison Square Garden. New York Knicks won 113-111. Mandatory Credit: Anthony Gruppuso-USA TODAY Sports /
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Leslie Jones rips Simon & Schuster for giving a book deal to Milo Yiannopoulos, who was banned from Twitter for harassing the SNL star last year.

Leslie Jones has made light of the online harassment she received over her Ghostbusters role on SNL and at the Emmys, which included the hacking and leaking of nude pictures, but that doesn’t mean she’s happy that her former Twitter tormentor, controversial alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos, has gotten a book deal.

Following reports that the Breitbart News editor received an advance of $250,000 from Simon & Schuster to publish an autobiographical book entitled Dangerous, the comedian lashed out at the book publisher via the social media platform where she received a deluge of racist and sexist insults at the behest of Yiannopoulos last summer, which resulted in his permanent ban from Twitter.

“But you still help them spread their hate to even more people,” Jones tweeted in response to Simon & Schuster’s defense of the book deal under their imprint Threshold Editions, which specializes in conservative non-fiction.

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But her statement may have served to further promote the project, which quickly became an Amazon bestseller thanks to pre-sales despite the fact that it won’t be released until March 2017. The book is already a source of controversy in his native Britain where the UK division of S&S has indicated that they have no plans to publish the book, according to The Book Seller.

In the Hollywood Reporter article where the deal was first reported, Yiannopoulos expressed surprise that he received the contract in the first place. “I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions,” the outspoken Donald Trump supporter explained. “I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building — but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.”

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He later added, “Every line of attack the forces of political correctness try on me fails pathetically. I’m more powerful, more influential and more fabulous than ever before, and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream. Social justice warriors should be scared — very scared.”

Leslie Jones can be seen on SNL when the show returns with new episodes on Saturday, January 14 at 11:30 p.m. on NBC.

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