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The hosts referenced the title as the source of their expose on Belle Gibson, noting that it details her deceptive practices and the immediate phone calls she made to charities after being questioned about promised donations. The discussion was factual and did not include a strong endorsement of the book.
Episode: 46. The Gamechanger (Belle Gibson)
The journalists wrote about their expose of Belle Gibson in their book The Woman Who Fooled the World. They described how Belle Gibson started making phone calls to charities she had promised donations to after they received an email containing questions about Belle's charitable contributions.
The journalists write the email was delivered at 3.20pm on the Thursday. Gibson immediately hit the phones. At 3.30pm she called the Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Footscray. She spoke to its director of fundraising for funding for the Asylum Seeker Resource Center she spoke to its director of fundraising for 15 minutes apologized for the misunderstanding and promised to pay them $20,000. At 4.01pm she transferred $1,000 to One Girl the charity that had been chasing her for its promised donation for more than a year and then she sent a screenshot of the internet banking receipt from her phone to its CEO. She fired off emails to the other charities too.
Donnelly and Toscano's book The Woman Who Fooled the World which details their expose of the woman in question
Episode: 46. The Gamechanger (Belle Gibson)
Bo Donnelly and Nick Toscano wrote a book titled "The Woman Who Fooled the World" that details the expose of Belle Gibson.
According to Beau Donnelly and Nick Toscano's book The Woman Who Fooled the World which details their expose of the woman in question