Not so Sweet at Curry mag

LAID-OFF staffers at media company Meredith have soured on its new Sweet July magazine, helmed by Food Network star Ayesha Curry.

Insiders told us employees of Shape — which Meredith shuttered print operations for last month — had been pulling double duty, working overtime on both the fitness site and Curry’s lifestyle mag, but without receiving additional pay.

The employees got the ultimate slap in the face when they were let go from Shape a few weeks ago, we’re told.

“They were laid off without notice, but it seemed the company forgot the team that had been fired was also working on Curry’s magazine on top of Shape,” an insider explained.

Meredith announced the launch of the new quarterly last year. The Shape team produced five issues of Sweet July — a total of “roughly 375 hours from each worker,” according to a spokesperson from the News Guild labor union. Meredith is now desperate for the team to return to work to finish.

“There is still a sixth issue to produce, and the company knows it can’t make the magazine, so they’re asking the workers to return to work on the magazine as temporary employees and on a truncated production schedule that will be near impossible to accomplish,” the spokesperson said.

Curry, who’s married to NBA star Steph Curry, has 7.3 million Instagram followers.

Meanwhile, Meredith is in the process of being sold to Barry Diller’s IAC for $2.7 billion. Yet, it “refuses to pay back [laid-off staffers] for the 375 hours they worked without overtime pay on [Curry’s] magazine,” the insider fumed. “They’re looking to get away with this unpaid work by offering them temporary work — even after they fired them.”

On Wednesday, staffers and the News Guild made noise on social media by asking for supporters. They hoped Curry would use her platform to stand up for them, but she has so far remained silent. Reps did not get back to us.