Here’s The “Apple Cider Vinegar” Cast And Their Real-Life Counterparts

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Sean and Justin are fictional characters, but partly inspired by an amalgamation of three journalists. Two, Nick Toscano and Beau Donelly, worked together to report on Belle's case after speaking to Chanelle, publishing stories in The Age before later writing a book The Woman Who Fooled The World, the book that became the basis for Apple Cider Vinegar. Richard Guilliatt is another journalist who investigated Belle, writing for The Australian — and it was he whose wife had been treated for breast cancer, although it was well before he worked on the story about Belle, back in 2005.