Kate Winslet wins £25,000 libel damages
November 4, 2009
Although not present at London’s High Court, Kate Winslet has accepted £25,000 in libel damages and an apology from the Daily Mail newspaper. The Oscar winner filed charges against the Daily Mail in May this year after it printed an article accusing her of lying about her exercise regime.
Kate Winslet said that she was made to feel embarrassed after the article entitled ‘Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the world’s most irritating actress?’ appeared last January. The piece was published alongside a series of stills taken from films in which she has appeared naked. The article decided to take issue with an interview with Elle magazine in which Winslet claimed that although she had no time to go to the gym on a regular basis she did try to do Pilates in front of a DVD for twenty-minutes each day. In September the Daily Mail issued an apology for causing the actress any offence and said that they would be prepared to pay any damages.
Winslet said that she felt it was her responsibility to ask the paper for an apology because it had tried to undermine her much publicised views on women’s bodies, dieting and exercise. She went on to say that she was pleased about the apology and that she has always maintained that women should be made to feel comfortable with their bodies and that the Daily Mail had tried to make her look like she was lying about her views.
Two years ago Winslet successfully sued Grazia magazine over accusations that she had been visiting a diet doctor.
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