Disney's smoking trigger warning on Rivals leaves fans of the hit show labelling the move 'totally pathetic'

Disney+ has added a smoking trigger warning to its adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, with some fans of the hit show labelling the move 'totally pathetic’. Disney+ has added a smoking trigger warning to its adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, with some fans of the hit show labelling the move 'totally pathetic’ The bestselling author famously embraced smoking as part of her persona, making the warning seem ironic to longtime readers At the start of the new series—a steamy, eight-part adaptation of Cooper's 1988 bonkbuster—a warning reads: '18+. The racy eight-part series is based on Jilly Cooper's raunchy 1988 novel, and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986 And in 2020, the Irish Daily Mail looked back on Cooper's heyday, remarking that her early journalism was penned in an era when people 'seemed to do little except eat, drink, and smoke.' The adaptation of Rivals, which premiered on October 18, stars Aidan Turner, David Tennant and Emily Atack The story focuses on the tense rivalry between Rupert Campbell-Black and Lord Tony Baddingham A 2006 Daily Mail article described Cooper urging guests to join her in a cigarette, with the writer noting, 'Jilly keeps insisting I smoke.