Chris Cuomo’s book canceled by HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers has dropped plans to release a book by Chris Cuomo amid the controversy that led to his firing by CNN, The Post has learned.
A spokesperson for the company’s Custom House imprint confirmed the decision Tuesday following a report that a listing for the planned hardcover was recently removed from the Amazon website.
“I can confirm that we don’t intend to publish the book,” spokesperson Kelly Rudolph told The Post.
Rudolph declined to elaborate.
But a publishing-industry source said: “This is why contracts have a morals clause. He lost his platform and his credibility.”
The source noted, however, that the canceled book deal “will probably help” Cuomo if he sues CNN over his firing, “since it really cost him materially.”
Cuomo’s planned book, “Deep Denial,” was initially set for release in October but had its publication date pushed back to Jan. 11 and then to Oct. 15, according to the Publishers Marketplace website, which reported on its disappearance from Amazon.
The book was touted as “a provocative analysis of the harsh truths that the pandemic and Trump years have exposed about America — about our strength and our character — and a roadmap of the work needed to make our ideals match reality.”
Cuomo, 51, was fired as the star of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” on Saturday, four days after he was suspended over revelations that he secretly tried to help his brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, fight the sexual harassment scandal that forced him from office in August.
CNN said documents released by state Attorney General Letitia James last week gave the company “cause to terminate” Chris Cuomo and that it acted after receiving “new allegations” of sexual misconduct that date to when he formerly worked for ABC News.
On Monday, Chris Cuomo also announced that he was quitting his SiriusXM radio show in a move that sources told The Post was demanded by the network.
Chris Cuomo’s spokesman — who has said the sexual misconduct allegations against him “are not true” — didn’t immediately return a request for comment.