Sources close to the show are spilling the tea: novelist Dame Jilly Cooper got sick and tired of those sobby scriptwriters behind Rivals. Apparently, they were making her characters cry too much, and she lost it. The queen of trashy romance novels had a royal tongue-lashing ready for those beta males: 'Stop whining, boys! You're writing about macho men, not some fragile flower that needs a participation trophy just because you got sand in your undies.'