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7NEWS
5 days ago
- Business
- 7NEWS
Brooki Bakehouse owner Brooke Bellamy announces new Brisbane and Gold Coast stores alongside international pop-up in UAE
Celebrity baker Brooke Bellamy has announced a string of new stores following plagiarism allegations earlier this year. The Brisbane -based cookie influencer is set to open two new stores in Queensland next month, as well as a new international pop-up store. The new stores in Queensland will be located at Pacific Fair shopping centre in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast and at Westfield Garden City in Upper Mt Gravatt. The international pop-up will open in the UAE by the end of the year, following other successful pop-ups in the Middle East. accused Brooke Bellamy, who founded Brooki Bakehouse, of reproducing recipes from the RecipeTin Eats website and other authors in her book Bake With Brooki. Sally McKenney, the baker behind Sally's Baking Addiction, also accused Bellamy of copying a recipe. Bellamy and Penguin Random House Australia, which published the book, denied the allegations. 'This is a story about a multimillion-dollar cookbook by a social media influencer, published by a blue-chip publisher, featuring numerous recipes that, in my opinion, are plagiarised, given the detailed and extensive word-for-word similarities to mine and those of other authors,' Maehashi said at the time. Bellamy addressed the controversy on Saturday, announcing she was ready to get back to her bakery. 'I've never experienced something like I have over the last few weeks,' she told her two million supporters on TikTok. 'When I was invited to make a cookbook, I was really excited to share all the recipes I've been making since I was small.' Bellamy said while she had been inspired and influenced by bakeries and bakers the world over, her biggest inspiration was her mother, who taught her how to cook and bake. 'These recipes have been written down on paper, handed to me by friends and family, they get passed down by generations, they get scaled up and scaled down in the bakery settings. 'While all of these recipes are personal to me, I cannot say that I have invented the cookies, cupcakes, brownies, or cakes in the recipe book. 'They are all inspired from somewhere and someone before me.' Brooki Bakehouse's celebrated its third birthday on Saturday at their Valley location in Brisbane, with people lining up in the early hours of the morning for free cookies and to snap a picture with Bellamy. There are no known legal proceedings against Bellamy at this time.
Perth Now
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Inside the food fight that captivated the country
Google 'caramel slice recipe' and thousands of results will appear. Dozens of them claim to have the 'best' or the 'easiest' recipe, most list varying quantities of flour, butter, sugar, condensed milk and desiccated coconut and some ingredient lists, somewhat controversially, feature golden syrup. The popular slice, found on sale at hundreds of election day fundraising cake stalls on Saturday, was at the centre of an ugly food fight between two high profile cooks over allegations of plagiarism and breach of copyright. In one corner, is the wildly popular Nagi Maehashi. The darling of the home cooking scene's Recipetin Eats website has spawned best-selling books and a social media following in excess of five million. Brooke Bellamy denies she has plagiarised recipes in her Bake with Brooki best-seller. Credit: Instagram In the other is Brisbane baker Brooke Bellamy, whose Bake With Brooki cookbook became a bestseller after it was published by Penguin in October last year. Ms Bellamy became a global sensation after sharing 'day in the life' videos on TikTok, which receive millions of views each day. She is best known for her cookies and has opened pop-up stores in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Ms Maehashi ignited a furore on Tuesday when she posted a series of slides to her Instagram account, accusing Bellamy of plagiarising two of her recipes, a caramel slice and a baklava, in Bake With Brooki. The author claims she first raised concerns with Penguin in December. 'I put a huge amount of effort into my recipes. And I share them on my website for anyone to use for free,' she said. 'To see them plagiarised (in my view) and used in a book for profit, without credit, doesn't just feel unfair. It feels like a blatant exploitation of my work. 'To me, the similarities between the recipes in question are so specific and detailed that calling these a coincidence feels disingenuous. Ms Maehashi said profiting from plagiarised recipes was unethical and a 'slap in the face for every author who puts in the hard work to create original content rather than cutting corners.' Hours after the allegations, Sally McKenney, author and blogger behind Sally's Baking Addiction, levelled similar claims about her vanilla cake recipe. Then on Thursday, Ms Maehashi said Ms Bellamy may have copied 'virtually word for word' the late Bill Granger's recipe for Portugese tart from his 2006 cookbook. 'It is so blatant to me that the wording in the method part of the recipe is copied almost exactly. To me, it is the biggest and strongest example of plagiarism that I have seen by this author,' Maehashi told east coast media. Ms Bellamy, who owns the popular Brooki Bakehouse in Brisbane, denied the accusations, saying she had been making and selling her recipes before Ms Maehashi's were published. Nagi Maehashi, whose RecipeTin Eats website is one of Australia's most beloved recipe sites. Credit: Instagram 'I did not plagiarise any recipes in my book which consists of 100 recipes I have created over many years,' she said. 'In 2016, I opened my first bakery. I have been creating my recipes and selling them commercially since October 2016.' Ms Bellamy posted an image showing her caramel slice, which dated back to December 2016. 'On March 2020, RecipeTin Eats published a recipe for caramel slice. It uses the same ingredients as my recipe, which I have been making and selling since four years prior,' she said. The Brisbane baker said she 'immediately offered' to remove both recipes from future reprints to prevent further aggravation'. As debate erupted across the Australian culinary scene, the two continued to trade barbs via social media statements. On Wednesday, Ms Bellamy said she was deeply distressed by the allegations and had been attacked online. 'I do not copy other people's recipes. Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste, and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum,' she said. Nagi Maehashi, with her beloved dog Dozer, is releasing her first cookbook, Dinner. Credit: Rob Palmer / TheWest Ms Maehashi released another statement on her Instagram page on Thursday, alongside an image of a direct comparison of the directions for caramel slice recipe that shows only small differences. 'I tried for almost 6 months, going back and forth with Penguin/Brooki. I hired lawyers,' she wrote. 'I also did it knowing it would open the doors floodgates to haters, and no control over what the press will say. 'I have nothing to gain out of speaking up except that I believe it's the right thing to do. 'I do not want their money. I didn't even ask for reimbursement of legal fees.' By Thursday evening, the nature of the ensuing debate on social media prompted Ms Maehashi to post a video imploring people to stop attacking Ms Bellamy online. 'Now, I know I've made serious allegations, but this does not justify the personal attacks that I've seen online against Brooke Bellamy. I do not support it, and I'm asking you to stop,' she said. Ms Bellamy also lost a role as an ambassador for the Federally-funded Academy for Enterprising Girls. Throughout the week other high profile Australian culinary personalities weighed in, with cookbook author Adam Liaw — who has a background in intellectual property law — saying no recipes in the world would reach the standards necessary to obtain patent protection. Brooke Bellamy says she has been attacked online amid claims of stolen recipes. Credit: Jono Searle / AAP 'It used to happen to me a lot when I did YouTube,' he told the Sydney Morning Herald. 'I'd make something I'd been cooking since I was a child and suddenly there would be 10 other YouTubers making the exact recipe with the exact ingredients. I wouldn't get too worried about it: if someone wants to take a specific number of grams from a recipe I wrote, then fine, be my guest.' Each day brought more fallout. Ms Bellamy found herself dropped as an ambassador as federal initiative Academy for Enterprising Girls, while Ms Maehashi then found herself facing criticism when celebrity chef Luke Mangan told The Courier Mail she failed to credit him properly for a recipe in one of her cookbooks. 'She has credited my recipe, but I would have preferred a bigger mention and at least linking people to our website,' he said. The accusations have prompted discussion around whether a recipe can ever be owned, and the line between imitation and inspiration. According to the Australian Copyright Council, copyright does not protect ideas, information (such as ingredients and quantities) or styles, methods or techniques. A famous Australian cookbook author has publicly accused an influencer of 'plagiarising' her recipes. Credit: Unkown The council said a recipe can only be protected by copyright if it is original, or if it is put into material form. 'Therefore, if you write your own description of how to make a soufflé, this 'literary work' is protected by copyright, even though you did not invent the combination and proportion of ingredients and the method is not new,' the council said. Specialist intellectual property lawyer Dave Stewart, from Perth law and litigation firm Bennett, said copyright was not a good mechanism for protecting recipes. 'There is an absence of novelty that occurs in respect of most recipes. You'd have to have something quite extraordinary that is captured in material form,' he said. Mr Stewart said the question was more around ethics, as opposed to legality. 'To take recipes from someone and replicate them seems iffy, even if it's not an issue from a legal perspective or copyright perspective, it just doesn't smell right,' he said. 'I'm not sure at all what Nagi could do in respect of any sort of legal avenue to stop Brooke Bellamy from copying the recipes, but it seems to me she's doing a pretty good job of embarrassing Brooke Bellamy.' The issue is expected to come back into the spotlight next week with Maehashi's RecipeTin Eats book and Baking with Brooki both shortlisted in the same category at the Australian book industry awards in Melbourne.
7NEWS
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Recipe for disaster as Australian cooks in plagiarism debate due to come face to face next week
Google 'caramel slice recipe' and thousands of results will appear. Dozens of them claim to have the 'best' or the 'easiest' recipe, most list varying quantities of flour, butter, sugar, condensed milk and desiccated coconut and some ingredient lists, somewhat controversially, feature golden syrup. The popular slice, found on sale at hundreds of election day fundraising cake stalls on Saturday, was at the centre of an ugly food fight between two high profile cooks over allegations of plagiarism and breach of copyright. In one corner, is the wildly popular Nagi Maehashi. The darling of the home cooking scene's Recipetin Eats website has spawned best-selling books and a social media following in excess of five million. In the other is Brisbane baker Brooke Bellamy, whose Bake With Brooki cookbook became a bestseller after it was published by Penguin in October last year. Ms Bellamy became a global sensation after sharing 'day in the life' videos on TikTok, which receive millions of views each day. She is best known for her cookies and has opened pop-up stores in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Ms Maehashi ignited a furore on Tuesday when she posted a series of slides to her Instagram account, accusing Bellamy of plagiarising two of her recipes, a caramel slice and a baklava, in Bake With Brooki. The author claims she first raised concerns with Penguin in December. 'I put a huge amount of effort into my recipes. And I share them on my website for anyone to use for free,' she said. 'To see them plagiarised (in my view) and used in a book for profit, without credit, doesn't just feel unfair. It feels like a blatant exploitation of my work. 'To me, the similarities between the recipes in question are so specific and detailed that calling these a coincidence feels disingenuous. Ms Maehashi said profiting from plagiarised recipes was unethical and a 'slap in the face for every author who puts in the hard work to create original content rather than cutting corners.' Hours after the allegations, Sally McKenney, author and blogger behind Sally's Baking Addiction, levelled similar claims about her vanilla cake recipe. Then on Thursday, Ms Maehashi said Ms Bellamy may have copied 'virtually word for word' the late Bill Granger's recipe for Portugese tart from his 2006 cookbook. 'It is so blatant to me that the wording in the method part of the recipe is copied almost exactly. To me, it is the biggest and strongest example of plagiarism that I have seen by this author,' Maehashi told east coast media. Ms Bellamy, who owns the popular Brooki Bakehouse in Brisbane, denied the accusations, saying she had been making and selling her recipes before Ms Maehashi's were published. 'I did not plagiarise any recipes in my book which consists of 100 recipes I have created over many years,' she said. 'In 2016, I opened my first bakery. I have been creating my recipes and selling them commercially since October 2016.' Ms Bellamy posted an image showing her caramel slice, which dated back to December 2016. 'On March 2020, RecipeTin Eats published a recipe for caramel slice. It uses the same ingredients as my recipe, which I have been making and selling since four years prior,' she said. The Brisbane baker said she 'immediately offered' to remove both recipes from future reprints to prevent further aggravation'. As debate erupted across the Australian culinary scene, the two continued to trade barbs via social media statements. On Wednesday, Ms Bellamy said she was deeply distressed by the allegations and had been attacked online. 'I do not copy other people's recipes. Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste, and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum,' she said. Ms Maehashi released another statement on her Instagram page on Thursday, alongside an image of a direct comparison of the directions for caramel slice recipe that shows only small differences. 'I tried for almost 6 months, going back and forth with Penguin/Brooki. I hired lawyers,' she wrote. 'I also did it knowing it would open the doors floodgates to haters, and no control over what the press will say. 'I have nothing to gain out of speaking up except that I believe it's the right thing to do. 'I do not want their money. I didn't even ask for reimbursement of legal fees.' By Thursday evening, the nature of the ensuing debate on social media prompted Ms Maehashi to post a video imploring people to stop attacking Ms Bellamy online. 'Now, I know I've made serious allegations, but this does not justify the personal attacks that I've seen online against Brooke Bellamy. I do not support it, and I'm asking you to stop,' she said. Ms Bellamy also lost a role as an ambassador for the Federally-funded Academy for Enterprising Girls. Throughout the week other high profile Australian culinary personalities weighed in, with cookbook author Adam Liaw — who has a background in intellectual property law — saying no recipes in the world would reach the standards necessary to obtain patent protection. 'It used to happen to me a lot when I did YouTube,' he told the Sydney Morning Herald. 'I'd make something I'd been cooking since I was a child and suddenly there would be 10 other YouTubers making the exact recipe with the exact ingredients. I wouldn't get too worried about it: if someone wants to take a specific number of grams from a recipe I wrote, then fine, be my guest.' Each day brought more fallout. Ms Bellamy found herself dropped as an ambassador as federal initiative Academy for Enterprising Girls, while Ms Maehashi then found herself facing criticism when celebrity chef Luke Mangan told The Courier Mail she failed to credit him properly for a recipe in one of her cookbooks. 'She has credited my recipe, but I would have preferred a bigger mention and at least linking people to our website,' he said. The accusations have prompted discussion around whether a recipe can ever be owned, and the line between imitation and inspiration. According to the Australian Copyright Council, copyright does not protect ideas, information (such as ingredients and quantities) or styles, methods or techniques. The council said a recipe can only be protected by copyright if it is original, or if it is put into material form. 'Therefore, if you write your own description of how to make a soufflé, this 'literary work' is protected by copyright, even though you did not invent the combination and proportion of ingredients and the method is not new,' the council said. Specialist intellectual property lawyer Dave Stewart, from Perth law and litigation firm Bennett, said copyright was not a good mechanism for protecting recipes. 'There is an absence of novelty that occurs in respect of most recipes. You'd have to have something quite extraordinary that is captured in material form,' he said. Mr Stewart said the question was more around ethics, as opposed to legality. 'To take recipes from someone and replicate them seems iffy, even if it's not an issue from a legal perspective or copyright perspective, it just doesn't smell right,' he said. 'I'm not sure at all what Nagi could do in respect of any sort of legal avenue to stop Brooke Bellamy from copying the recipes, but it seems to me she's doing a pretty good job of embarrassing Brooke Bellamy.' The issue is expected to come back into the spotlight next week with Maehashi's RecipeTin Eats book and Baking with Brooki both shortlisted in the same category at the Australian book industry awards in Melbourne.
Daily Mail
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Law expert weighs in on RecipeTin Eats plagirusm scandal as Nagi Maehashi and Brooke Bellamy go head to head
A law expert says Nagi Maehashi would have a tough case to prove if she and rival Brooke Bellamy, accused of stealing her recipes, end up in court. RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi has alleged popular social media baker Ms Bellamy stole two of her recipes - for baklava and caramel slice - in her bestselling cookbook Bake With Brooki. Ms Maehashi raised the accusations of copyright infringement on Tuesday before Sally McKenney, the US author and blogger behind Sally's Baking Addiction, came forward with similar claims about Ms Bellamy hours later. Ms Bellamy, who was then dumped as an ambassador for a federally funded program for young girls in business, has denied the accusations, saying she had been making and selling her recipes well before Ms Maehashi's were published. On Thursday, Ms Maehashi clapped back, sharing a screenshot of her archived recipe for caramel slice dated April 2016 - predating Ms Bellamy's claimed October 2016 development of the recipe by six months. The spat has raised questions about whether recipes shared by home cooks and food bloggers are covered by copyright law. Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that Ms Maehashi's claims are true. Can you copyright a recipe? Isabella Alexander, a law professor at University of Technology Sydney, told Daily Mail Australia that it was indeed possible to copyright recipes. RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi (pictured) has accused Ms Baker of stealing recipes for her bestselling cookbook Bake With Brooki 'I guess the answer is yes, a recipe can potentially be protected by copyright law, but it might not give you much protection,' Ms Alexander said. 'It would be easier to claim protection for a recipe that was very unusual, unique, or expressed in a very individual way. 'Where the recipe is quite simple you would be looking for an extremely high level of identity between the original and the alleged copy.' Does Nagi Maehashi have a strong case? As an example, Ms Alexander said the two recipes for caramel slice looked extremely similar - but there are only so many ways to make the sweet treat. 'The problem is, you have to think about what the ingredients are for caramel slice - you're already working within fairly strict parameters,' she said. 'With the instructions there's more differences (than the ingredients), but there's still a really high level of similarity. 'I think there's an inference of copying that could be drawn there.' 'Nagi would need to show her particular contribution to this classic recipe and that Brooke had copied it,' Ms Alexander said But if Ms Maehashi launched a legal action it would be difficult for her to show that she had put her own spin on the recipe, Ms Alexander said. 'It's not really cut and dried - recipe cases are hard to prove. 'Nagi would need to show her particular contribution to this classic recipe and that Brooke had copied it.' It would be helpful to Brooke's defence that her recipe was worded slightly differently, she added. If Ms Maehashi's case was successful she could ask for damages or an account of profits Her compensation might include a share of the book's royalties, plus an amount for lack of attribution. The book has racked up an estimated $4.6million in sales. Ms Alexander described it as a 'fascinating case' that gave an insight into the food industry. 'Obviously there's a community of chefs and people that right recipes, and they have norms around the kind of copying you'll tolerate.' The alleged plagiarism row took a further twist on Wednesday night when award-winning chef/restaurateur Luke Mangan accused Ms Maehashi of not crediting him appropriately for one of his recipes. 'She has credited my recipe, but I would have preferred a bigger mention and at least linking people to our website,' Mr Mangan told The Courier Mail. Ms Maehashi adapted Mr Mangan's butter chicken recipe - adding salt and a low-fat cream option - and referenced the chef in a footnote online. Mr Mangan was not mentioned in the print copy but it did feature a QR code linking to the online credited version. Daily Mail Australia has contacted Ms Maehashi and Ms Bellamy for comment. Ms Maehashi is the founder of popular website, RecipeTin Eats, which has 1.5 million followers on Instagram. She is also the author of award-winning cookbooks Dinner and Tonight. She and Ms Bellamy could face off next week at the Australian book industry awards in Melbourne, where their respective bestselling cookbooks have both been nominated for the 2025 Illustrated Book of the Year. On Thursday the row took a surprise turn when Ms Maehashi posted a video to Instagram betting her fans and supporters to leave Ms Bellamy alone. 'Please stop the trolling' the Australian cook said in the clip. 'Now I know I've made serious allegations, but this does not justify the personal attacks that I've seen online against Brooke Bellamy' she continued. 'I do not support it, and I'm asking you to stop. I know that this is just a very, very small percentage of people online. I know the majority of people are good, fun, normal people. 'You know, share your opinions, have heated debates, support Brookie, support me, disagree with both of us, think we're pathetic, whatever you want, but just keep it respectful, no trolling, no hateful comments.' Maehashi went on: 'Fundamentally, at the end of the day, we're talking recipes, and this is a business dispute. 'You know, these are legal allegations that I've made against Penguin, a corporate, allegations made by my company. 'So it just, we've gotta be respectful about this, you know, it's the Recipe Tin way.' It comes after online baking sensation Bellamy locked down her social media amid a furious backlash over the alleged plagiarism row which has blown up around her.
Perth Now
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Recipe wars: Brooke Bellamy dumped as more plagiarism allegations emerge after RecipeTin Eats claims
The recipe wars threatening to tear apart Australia's food community have escalated with more cooks coming out to allege plagiarism and one of Australia's most well-known bakers being dumped as an ambassador. The issue erupted on Tuesday when RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi claimed Bake with Brooki's Brooke Bellamy had infringed her copyright by 'word-for-word' taking two of her recipes, including caramel slice, and using them in her latest best-selling book, Bake with Brooki. Maehashi also alleged that baking queen Bellamy had taken recipes from other authors: 'including (from) a very well known, beloved cookbook author where the similarities are so extensive, dismissing it as a coincidence would be absurd.' Maehashi doubled down on her claims in another Instagram post on Thursday that showed a side-by-side comparison of her caramel slice and Bellamy's. Another food blogger has gone public to allege Bellamy had stolen one of her recipes, too. US food blogger Sally McKenney, who founded Sally's Baking Addiction, claimed Bellamy had taken her best vanilla cake recipe. 'Nagi ... I'm so grateful you let me know months ago that one of my recipes — the best vanilla cake I've ever had, published by me in 2019 — was also plagiarised in this book and also appears on the author's YouTube channel,' McKenney said in an Instagram story. 'Original recipe creators who put in the work to develop and test recipes deserve credit — especially in a best-selling cookbook.' Camera Icon Nagi Maehashi, whose RecipeTin Eats website is one of Australia's most beloved recipe sites. Credit: Instagram Bellamy, who has more than a million followers online, has denied plagiarising any recipes. She said she had been making the recipes at the centre of Maehashi's allegations — for caramel slice and baklava — for years before Maehashi published her takes on the favourites. 'I did not plagiarise any recipes in my book which consists of 100 recipes I have created over many years, since falling in love with baking as a child and growing up baking with my mum in our home kitchen. She said she had offered to remove both of Maehashi's recipes from future reprints to prevent 'further aggravation'. Adding to the drama, it has been revealed that Bellamy has now been dumped as an ambassador for the federally funded Academy for Enterprising Girls. 'Brooke Bellamy was recently engaged to conduct a small number of promotional activities for the Academy for Enterprising Girls program over the coming months,' an academy spokesman told The Daily Telegraph. 'While we make no legal assessment on the allegations aired in the media, we have informed Bellamy that we will not move forward with the engagement at this time.' Published by Penguin Random House, Bake with Brooki, which retails for nearly $50 a book, sold 92,849 copies in less than six months, equating to $4.6m in sales. Camera Icon Brooke Bellamy says she has been attacked online amid claims of stolen recipes. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS) Credit: AAP An analysis of a YouTube video by Bellamy outlining the recipe and McKenney's published version by 7NEWS showed Bellamy also referring to her cake as 'the best ever vanilla cake'. Hers uses ingredients that are only slightly different from McKenney's: a 3g difference in the amount of flour used and 5g in butter measurements and three large eggs and two extra egg whites, while Bellamy's requires four eggs. McKenney's recipe also calls for 400g of granulated sugar, where as Bellamy's asks for a finer caster sugar, although the sugars can be substituted. The ingredients are listed in a similar order and both recipes contain the same three-word note — 'Yes, a tablespoon!' — next to the measurement for vanilla extract. In a twist, Ms Maehashi herself has now also come under fire, with celebrity chef Luke Mangan claiming she had not credited him appropriately for one of his recipes. Her book contains the statement that 'the author and the publisher have made every effort to contact copyright holders for material used in this book'. 'I couldn't say off the top of my head whether she did reach out and ask permission or not, but I would have thought, in general, you would contact the person whose recipe it was,' Mangan was quoted as saying in The Courier Mail. 'I wasn't even aware she had used my recipe.' 'She has credited my recipe, but I would have preferred a bigger mention and at least linking people to our website,' he said. On Thursday, Maehashi released another statement on her Instagram page alongside an image of a direct comparison of the directions for caramel slice recipe that shows only small differences. Ms Maehashi said she had not made her plagiarism claims lightly. 'I tried for almost 6 months, going back and forth with Penguin/Brooki. I hired lawyers. 'I also did it knowing it would open the doors floodgates to haters, and no control over what the press will say. 'I have nothing to gain out of speaking up except that I believe it's the right thing to do. 'I do not want their money. I didn't even ask for reimbursement of legal fees.' Camera Icon The caramel slice recipe comparison. Credit: Instagram The issue is expected to come back into the spotlight next week with Maehashi's RecipeTin Eats book and Baking with Brooki both shortlisted at the Australian book industry awards in Melbourne. Bellamy and Penguin Random House have been approached for comment.
