


Netflix‘s latest limited series Apple Cider Vinegar tears into the real life scandal of one Belle Gibson (Kaitlyn Dever). Over a decade ago, Gibson was a one-woman wellness empire. The Australian single mother had miraculously bounced back from a fatal brain cancer diagnosis to conquer social media, Silicon Valley, and the over-saturated cookbook market. Gibson attributed her good health to a holistic way of eating, inspired by alternative medicine and scientifically-untested cancer-fighting methods. Her brand, The Whole Pantry, wasn’t just an app to help you buy groceries, but a lifestyle designed to cure cancer.
Except Belle Gibson was a big fat liar.
Inspired by another super popular Aussie wellness influencer, Gibson had spun a wild tale of poor health to garner sympathy and raise massive amounts of charity funds that she kept for herself. When her lies were exposed Gibson went into crisis management mode, attempting to exonerate herself. Today, she is vilified as a dangerous scammer and her work has been essentially scrubbed from the internet. Most of what you can find on Belle today is sourced by none other than the two Australian journalists who exposed her in the first place: Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, co-authors of the nonfiction book that inspired Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar, The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con.
The Apple Cider Vinegar show weaves together Belle’s story along with those of fictitious stand-ins for the real life people who found themselves crushed in her wake. In addition to Kaitlyn Dever’s Belle, we also meet magazine editor and cancer patient Milla Blake (Alycia Debnam-Carey), breast cancer battler Lucy Guthrie (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), and the accidentally complicit Chanelle (Aisha Dee).
So who’s who in the Apple Cider Vinegar show cast? Which characters were real people in real life? And where have you seen the (mostly Australian) cast of Apple Cider Vinegar before?Here’s your guide to who’s who in the Apple Cider Vinegar cast…