Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Called “F–king Grifters” By Spotify Exec And Podcaster Bill Simmons After Their Split With Co

I'm a sports nut and Simmons is a very polarizing figure. But the one thing that can never be said about him? He's a shrinking violet. He definitely calls it like he sees it.

It's pretty great he said that. (And I am not sure I even agree with him.)

bwhahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

It’s never going to be over until every person who sided with Meghan is held accountable.

He sounds like a loser. This is the most pressworthy statement he has ever made. I've never even heard of the guy. So who's the real grifter?

Ah yes. Harry and Meghan are the grifters.

While the rest of the Royal Family are..... Uh... well... lemme think...

Simmons = legend. Who else will call it like it is? Will the Harkles run crying to Oprah and Gayle? Will they try to sue him?

Great, more heartbreak.

r4 That is a pretty strange definition of grifter you are touting. If your name is well known and famous you are not a grifter but if your name isn't well known by the public then you are more likely to be a grifter??? Absolute nonsense.

[quote] “Shoot this guy to the sun,” Simmons groused, according to the Big Lead post. “I’m so tired of this guy. What does he bring to the table? He just whines about sh-t and keeps giving interviews. Who gives a sh-t? Who cares about your life? You weren’t even the favorite son. … You live in f-cking Montecito and you just sell documentaries and podcasts and nobody cares what you have to say about anything unless you talk about the royal family and you just complain about them.”

Is he a DLer?

Ha! How funny. I used to work with him (not closely).

R5 Oh, do piss off.

Where's the lie? Everything he said is correct on the facts.

He’s right about the cunts

He sounds like fun! 😁

Geez, Simmons really isn't aging well. That's a hard looking 53. Looks a decade older. No wonder he's so angry.

Simmons is a POS. Spotify is probably ready to can him so he’s lashing out. Fits with his overall personality over many many years.

He said his Zoom chat w. Harry is a great story, said with a laugh that he'll share it when he does a podcast while drunk.

[Quote]Spotify is probably ready to can him so he’s lashing out.

I doubt that.

Waiting for Meghans psychotic online fans to harass and stalk this guy now that he dared speak out against their Nubian Queen and her court jester.

[Quote]I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories.”

Pour the man a drink!

R19 Kate and William fans are so bad that charities that work with or partner with the Sussex are pre warned. In the UK school children got harassed online by them. It was shared around charities with the worst comments mass emailed to charities. It was the usual suspects and UK tabloid linking bot accounts.

Well, he sounds professional and well spoken. Don't shoot me for saying this, but shouldn't he be removed from his position even if he's right about some of it? He sounds drunk or crazy.

Speaking of drunk and crazy, see r21 above.

r22 He's not Piers Morgan, mere employee of ITV. He's a major early investor in Spotify, in charge of their monetization policy, AND one of their star podcasters.

Spotify is not going to remove him, and especially not if, as is the case here, his comments are entirely true.

Haha, Spotify publicly shanked them!

Fabulously humiliated in front of all they seek to impress; Hollywood.

Just official South Park fodder now.

Spotify is racist

Pour that man 10 tequila's and spill it bill spill it.

I imagine that giving Harry podcast ideas (that are not about his dead mother) would be like me trying to tell my cockatiel to stop staring at himself all day in the mirror.

^^🤣

Ok R24, I was just wondering. All hell is breaking loose for them now that's for sure. Harry and Meghan have misjudged badly.

Is Simmons a Datalounger?

Meagain brain dead fans are pissed judging by some of the comments in this thread.

^^^its just her lame troll farm

R21 oh dear, Meghan's very own troll farm is having a hissy fit!

This guy criticizes Harry for having it so good and still complaining, and then proceeds to peer over his $194 million dollars to complain like a cranky little bitch on the rag about a minor business mistake he, assuming he’s actually an executive for this company, made.

Cry me a fucking river.

I've had enough of H&M but Bill Simmons is a Joe Rogen style asshole who ran Grantland into the ground. Fuck him right in the ear.

I agree^^

Bill can be outspoken, but he would not have made these remarks without the blessing of Spotify's management and board. They clearly despise Harry and Meghan and feel screwed over. There were blind items at one point, before Archetypes was released, stating Spotify was trying to extricate themselves from the deal. I think they had to threaten to sue them just to get Archetypes. Harry appears to have mostly left it to Meghan who left it to a producer. What a mess.

So does this mean that r25 is right, and that Spotify didn't just fire them, but also just publicly shanked them?

The mind boggles as to why Spotify execs who've no doubt seen/heard/rejected every class of grift imaginable gladly became marks for these two obvious grifters.

Name me the publication or television show in America who went against them back then, r40?

All the Spotify executives read the "investment research" that their people had put together (to say nothing of Sunshine Sachs' contribution) and heard that "Harry and Meghan are IT!"

I don't blame the Spotify people. They were trying to satify their investors. They were completely let down by the quick-corrupted media they were used to relying upon.

R41 Savvy execs "relying" on blatantly agendaed PR/media "to satisfy their investors"? Nope, doesn't fit the logic. I'm clueless about how Hollywood "works" , but twigged that at least Megs was a grifting horseshit artist from the engagement interview in 2017. It continues to boggle the mind that people far more experienced turned out to be a bunch of clueless marks.

[quote]Simmons is a very polarizing figure

He regularly threatens people he dislikes and is constantly getting fired, suspended, and having exposes written about him because he treats others like shit. The most recent one was in the NYT. He's also mad because Harry didn't agree to some kind of podcast deal he pitched to him over Zoom one time.

As long has trashing these two is just an easy way for attention whores to get some press, or comes from someone who has a personal beef, there's nothing useful or interesting about any of it. They'd be such interesting gossip topics but it's not gossip anymore, it's culture wars bullshit and it's starting to border on mass hysteria.

[quote]Bill can be outspoken, but he would not have made these remarks without the blessing of Spotify's management and board.

You really need to skim his Wikipedia page. He's been repeatedly suspended and fired for speaking out against the companies he works for, and has been yanked from important interviews (including Barack Obama) because of his complaints about his employers prior to the interview.

No one who knows anything about Simmons would assume he had Spotify's blessing to say this. I know that's what you guys are going to say, especially now when this is new, but my guess is that within a couple of weeks you'll have figured out that Simmons is just like this and has trashed hundreds of people in his career, and that is comment about H&M isn't any different than when he shouted "fuck Jalen Green!" for no real reason.

I do not care about Bill Simmons.

I do not care about Harry and Meghan.

They are boring and so are the zillion threads about H&M.

Damn, the Meghan stans are swarming in full force! What’s got all you fraus and fan queens charged up? Did The View go on hiatus?

Sorry, r42 and the rest of the Bouzy Farm, but that is indeed the way it works with Hollywood's public companies.

I know you don't want it to be that way. I understand. Nevertheless, it is very much that way.

R35 Simmons had nothing to do with either hiring or firing H&M.

R36 “Ran Grantland into the ground”? How? The fact that just about everyone there (followed him to The Ringer argues against that. The few who didn’t (Zach Lowe, Bill Barnwell, etc) were given big fat contracts by ESPN that they couldn’t turn down.

R44 ESPN didn’t want to seem “too political”. That’s why they cancelled that Obama interview. It had nothing to do with Simmons criticizing the company.

Keep fucking that chicken R42 et al. Nary a comment from Spotify re Bill nor has there been a retraction. He's not the first, either (see Bob Iger's 'she needs us more than we need her' quip.) These execs are old pros at dealing with spoiled celebrities. What level of assholishness did Harry and Meghan attain that the execs feel free to let fly with their thoughts?

I have a love-hate thing with Bill Simmons (he's an old school Celtics fan, I'm a Lakers fan)....but the wittle hwurt feewings of Harkles-fans, and calls for Simmons to be fired, are absolutely fucking hilarious!! All you BRF fucks -- whichever "side" you're on -- are beyond annoying.

I agree that Simmons was the designated mouthpiece by Spotify. They couldn't put out a statement like that themselves, so they did the next best thing and got one of their major players to do it. This is calculated revenge for getting screwed over by the Sussexes. Harry should fast be learning that corporate America doesn't treat losers with kid gloves.

I also wonder if some of this negative publicity is the BRF finally taking the gloves off--it seems as if Harry and Meghan's true champion was the Queen all along.

He is right though. All Harry does is whine about the royals and give useless interviews. Im sure the execs thought they would get dirt on the royals and more substance. Meghan was the one who was leading the podcasts though. Is she throwing Haz under the bus here? Where is she lately? Only time she showed her (new) face lately was the Hertz thing with Harry in tow. She didnt accompany him to anything he did.

Id love to hear more about this Zoom call where they tried to give Harry new ideas.

It will be interesting to see how Netflix handles any more bullshit from the Sussexes. If it sours, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Crown got renewed for a final season which takes us up to the Queen's death, and makes Harry and Meghan look like total assholes in the process.

I think so, R51. The BRF responses of late are the equivalent of 'not our problem'. They even publicly acknowledged Harry and Meghan were not invited to this weekend's events - probably to solidify the two are OUT and the BRF no longer desires any association with the two.

PLEASE let South Park do a follow-up episode where a harried "Spoofify" executive tries to help the braindead Prince of Canada come up with ideas for his podcast.

Charles seems to have inherited some of Philip's backbone after all. And he's got William, who is essentially Philip 2.0, whispering in his ear.

Harry not being invited to the King's birthday is a big deal. I thought at least the family would extend the generic "come if you want" invite. They are officially done.

I'm guessing the "will-they-won't-they" bullshit over the Coronation, which went on for months and was clearly just another shallow publicity grab by the Sussexes. Especially since only Harry ended up coming, and he stayed for an insultingly short period of time. That's likely when the Palace made up its mind that there would be no more invites.

Harry has been fucking around so much for the past five years. The finding out stage has just begun.

[quote]I agree that Simmons was the designated mouthpiece by Spotify. They couldn't put out a statement like that themselves, so they did the next best thing and got one of their major players to do it.

I doubt this is true because most of his comments were about Harry, and it wasn't his podcast. I also don't think they'd send out one of their own CEOs to say something like this, because that still comes across as the corporation calling their own clients "grifters," and that's just a bad business move. Nothing to do with H&M and everything to do with how people perceive Spotify.

Corporations don't go airing their grievances like that. If they were going to leak something like this, they'd have waited a bit and leaked paperwork or had a "source" tell a gossip column, not have a fucking CEO go out and scream "We're idiots who got scammed by grifters! Also Harry didn't like my podcast ideas! Waaah!" That's pathetic. That's an Elon Musk or Donald Trump move.

Besides, Spotify makes its money off of grifters, unless you're going to tell me Joe "Captain Ivermectin" Rogan isn't a grifter, in which case, I'm going to laugh in your face.

[quote]Where is she lately?

If she is seen in public you complain about it, if she's not seen in public you complain about it. I don't understand obsessing over someone you hate.

No I dont hate anyone. Thats a strong word. And I know people in Cory Vitiello's circle, so trust me she isnt a pleasant or honest person. She followed Cory around CONSTANTLY and tried to get cooking shows, cookbooks, so her not supporting Harry during his book tour and Coronation is a red flag to me.

R61 - No one is obsessed. I dont understanding defending someone when they are a terrible person. You think Trump is an idiot, right? But you've never met him either. Its obvious when someone is just an asshole who uses others to get ahead.

Most of his comments focus on Harry because Harry was the 'get', not Meghan. Harry, however, barely appears in the final product and now it appears he wasn't much help behind the scenes. I wonder how that came about. Was Harry too lazy to participate or did he gift this to Meghan so she could have something of her own?

R64 - Meghan likely told cuck Harry she is smarter than him and would make an award winning podcast about archetypes/ stereotypes/feminism and he just said "yes dear".

Was there a not-so-subtle balcony message at the Trooping of the Colour? The large space left between where the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh (Edward and Sophie) and The Duke and Duchess of Kent were standing? Was that void a 'missing in action' or an 'in memoriam' statement to Harry and Meghan? Was it intended signal to the masses that the BRF considers the Harkles to be utterly 'dead to us'?

r66 Waa The Duchess of Kent there? I thought it was the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent without his lovely wife?

It might have been the Gloucesters, but whatever, there was a definitely some kind of message being sent on the down-low.

I can't find a picture of the balcony showing the placeholder void, but youtube vids show it quite clearly

[quote]Bill Simmons is a Joe Rogen style asshole who ran Grantland into the ground.

No he didn't, ESPN pulled the plug on it while they were having one of their rounds of layoffs.

[quote] “I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories.”

I'll chip in for the best bottle of whatever he wants.

With the Trooping of the Color going on in the UK, naturally Meghan Markle had to call the paps to get her pic in the tabloids. SHE WILL NOT BE IGNORED.

But Backgrid sold some very unflattering photos of her. Their revenge for the bullshit 'near catastrophic chase' in NYC? Never alienate your paps, dearie.

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Headed by powerhouse agent Ari Emanuel, the charismatic chief of talent agency William Morris Endeavor (WME), the mission to re-invent Meghan is already well under way, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

If the rumours swirling around LA are true, she may be on the brink of signing a major deal with French couture house 𝐃𝐢𝐨𝐫 to make her a face of the company, alongside global stars such as Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence.

'Meghan is all anyone is talking about,' a prominent Beverly Hills socialite said last night.

There have been rumours for weeks that she's about to sign a deal with Dior which has put the gossip mill into overdrive. If she pulls that off, then no one will remember that her silly little podcast got cancelled after one season.'

The Duchess, 41, has been immersed in meetings since signing with Emanuel, seemingly oblivious to an even bigger storm cloud which may be gathering, as streaming giant Netflix conducts an 'ongoing review' of its £80 million deal with the Sussexes.

'Ari is the best in the business when it comes to corporate deals and making money. He's excited to be representing Meghan and has thrown all his energy into it. The offers have been pouring in, including from other podcast platforms.'

'These guys were already on a war footing because they knew the Spotify announcement was coming,' he said.

'Ari will have a strategic and tactical battle plan in place to link her with sophisticated brand partners, like Dior. This is an opportunity to distance Meghan from the negativity of the past. 'It's no accident that she didn't go to the Coronation, that she didn't show up in London alongside Prince Harry when he was in court recently,'he said, referring to the Duke's appearance in the witness box in his phone hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers.

'Meghan is wise to distance herself from her husband's toxic dramas. This is a woman who constantly moves forward. This is about building a global brand. There will be some big deals announced soon.'

The Harolds started negotiations with Spotify in anticipation of their half in-half out scheme, whlle still residing in the UK. I blame Spotify a little bit for falling for them, but have no doubt that Harold promised them (and Nflix too) all kinds of access to royals, plus Harold was supposed to be on the podcasts. Harolds lied, exaggerated and oversold their product, and I agree with Simmons' grifter designation.

r73 Jennifer Lawrence is a face of Dior? How did that happen. The only thing she's done in years is that MILF movie that I can only assume Sony found the script for when they were clearing out a filing cabinet from 2002.

Jennifer Lawrence, Johnny Depp and now Meghan fucking Markle?? Has Dior lost their minds??

Step 1. Marry impossibly stupid rich cunt. Separate him entirely from his family and accuse them of shit they didnt do to get the general public on your side.

Step 2. Half in/half out arrangement while selling merchandise under the brand Sussex Royal. That didnt work due to that cunt of a Queen.

Step 3. Milk Netflix and Spotify out of a few million. Dont actually do any work for them.

Step 4. Let the ginger cunt implode as he goes on whiny book tours and court hearings, bashing his older brother and whining about his dead mummy and his smelly cock.

Step 5. Sign with Dior and dump the loser.

Well played, Meghan. Well played.

Not well played at all, a great grifter doesn't get exposed and the stoopid girl exposed herself. I bet her pants are on FIRE

Yeah if Dior actually signs her they are incredibly stupid. But one thing Meghan is an expert at is using men to get ahead and then dumping them once she latches onto the next big thing.

They already signed him.

r77 The Dior thing may well be more o Meghans manifesting like the Oscar invites that never materialised...

r81 I can actually sort of believe it going by the other list of names they've signed up she'd fit right in, and it does sound like Oprah secured her a good team that could make this happen

r82 Where are you getting that Oprah had anything to do with this?

Oh no. I like to joke about Meghan, but I don't actually want to see her crash and burn, I want to see her kick and scratch. Wow. Damn. If she put out a "Dior, please now you have to" article. Fuck. With Ari Emanuel's name.

She breaks all the rules. And it's embarrassing.

[quote] ...powerhouse agent Ari Emanuel

Any relation to Rahm?

r83 "WME also represents Meghan's close friends Oprah Winfrey, Wimbledon champion Serena Williams and filmmaker Tyler Perry." It'd be a massive coincidence if she wasn't involved in this at least at the introduction level

Why would Dior hire a middle-aged marginally attractive D list actress as one of their faces? They sure can't name her as one of their bodies given her peculiar shape.

[quote]"Meghan is all anyone is talking about,' a prominent Beverly Hills socialite said

HAHAHA oh my sides. Let me guess who the source for this was.

[quote]Any relation to Rahm?

Yes, they're brothers.

Late to this thread. Simmon's complaints reminded me of an article written (anonymously) by a well-known podcast producer which was published at the time Archetypes was mid-release. One thing noted was that Archetypes had an extraordinary number of staff for a podcast of its size. He said that he only knew of one that had a staff so large, a daily political show that required a large number of people to keep abreast of changing news. He didn't say it, but what I gathered is that there was a lot of staff turnover (hmm, wonder why?) and people still needed to be credited even if they worked on a few of them. The Harkles managed to make both management and worker bees miserable. That's their special talent. You *know* the people who worked with her are texting like mad, high-fiving each other.

Yes, Arizona is Rahm Emmanuel's brother. Doesn't he have a reputation for being a hard ass if not a bastard? Maybe Meghan's met her match.

^Ari, not the state.

RE: Bill Simmons, another thing to keep in mind about this (which I meant to mention in my earlier comment but forgot) is that part of the terms of his sale of The Ringer to Spotify required him to remain employed by (i.e., run/manage) The Ringer (and by extension, Spotify) for a period of 4 years. His contract with Spotify is up early in 2024.

So, he has his money from the sale (at least $100 million for himself), is on an about-to-expire contract, all at a time when Spotify is tightening its belt in the podcasting area (like many businesses, they overspent on content during the pandemic), which is why he doesn't care about shooting off at the mouth about the Sussexes. I suspect that he's going to leave, Spotify is going to pull the plug on The Ringer website (which has always been a money loser, and a dramatically inferior version of Grantland) along with most of the The Ringer's podcasts, and then Bill will just start up another company to put out his own pod under a new name. His eponymous pod is easily the most popular one in The Ringer stable, so when Bill leaves that will gut it anyway.

R76, “rumours.” It’s all those “rumours” that, for some reason, have never shown up on DL or any other gossip site until Meghan’s agents issued a story about how it might happen, and how offers were pouring in,, so Dior had better step up and sign her right now!

r86 Where is the article getting its information that Oprah is a close friend of Meghans?

R64 Kate knows how to dress her family. Pitch perfect! Charlotte was icing on the cake. Those goddamned red bows.

No matter what they pursue they'll fail because they're both gauche and incompetant. And I'm all in for the entertaining shitshow.

Good example that they surround themselves with other incompetents as part of their "staff" : a TYPED thank you to a shop owner who kindly gifted Archie with a bike for his birthday. Even the Queen signed short thank you notes herself.

^^ DL Grammar Trolls, have at it.

Well, Harry clearly didn't learn from his mother. Diana spent part of her honeymoon handwriting thank you notes to wedding guests. It's not unusual to see handwritten thank you notes from various royals posted on Twitter by recipients.

What's kind of bad about the letter is that despite being on office letterhead, it is not addressed to the bike shop by its name with an address as is typical in business communications. That way the bike shop could frame it and display it. Many small businesses will memorialize encounters with celebrities on their walls as a point of pride and a little PR. And if this isn't a business communication, why is it on impersonal office letterhead and not a note card with Meghan's "calligraphy?" The Sussex brand can be associated with Dior to shill couture, but it can't be linked on paper with a small, local business. That's just sad.

If Dior is actually doing this, the brand will suffer enormously.

Here's the genius who wrote the abysmal thank you note OK'd by H and M. Graduate of Appalachia University. You can't make this stuff up. It's all too delicious

Link to follow.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Oh, that's too funny r100. I did note the pretentious name. It sounds like it should have "III" behind it.

Wait, Harrison's a female and she used to work at the hotel where Harry had a regular room... Hmm.

Their pomposity is jaw dropping; that's all "everyone is talking about"! They are a global laughing stock. They have no integrity, credibility, or likability. Being associated with them is a pox on your resumé and reputation. Their social circles appear to be limited to their staff and others on their payroll, or equally shady try-hards and grifters. Their press releases read as though they were done by some poor lackey told to stay after hours while his boss phones in a sketchy outline of what they want. These two clowns are the very embodiment of deplorables, with all the charm of a long-ignored litter box in a household with three cats.

Meghan better watch out. Harrison is tall, fit, slim and blonde. Harry's type.

Prince Archie 😂🤣

Such a goofy name

r103 Well that's one way of getting out of paying your hotel bill

Who, I ask, who would want to get wth Harry? He looks unkempt and smelly most of the time. Like some nameless balding and unemployed bloke down at the pub mid-afternoon nursing his third draft and prattling on about his bullshit stories.

That pic of Colcord taken outside looks like she broke out BrendaD Ickson's crayole filter to "edit" it.

They ARE grifters. Which, actually, is fine with me, because everyone else in Hollywood is, too. Let them seek their own level, and some people want to be swindled by them.

Where they piss me off is meddling with policy (Harry and his “toxic male” initiative in England) and hatred of free speech, and Meghan calling senators on their private cell phones. Keep your grifting mitts out of politics. Stick to informercials and merching ghetto “luxury” brands.

R41 Harry and Meghan could have been “it” had they been different people with greater emotional and intellectual resources, had they not wanted to have their freedom cake and eat it royally, too; had they been less impulsive, less shady (too many oligarchs in their housing story for one thing), had less need to monetize every thought, did so badly trying to monetize it, weren’t so lazy, weren’t so glaringly stupid (pissing off Grandma was not a good idea but only the first of many bad ideas), and to some extent the pandemic for which they had no workaround except hunker down and do more stupid shit.

Her bot farm and all those pictures of themselves they want to share haven’t changed a thing. We didn’t make them a laughing stock around the world - they did. Their story is on them: nobody else. They have been the engines of their own destruction and, like car crashes and train wrecks, you’re torn: you tell yourself you can’t look and then realize you can’t look away because they’re imploding so spectacularly.

I’m not a Spotify exec are well known sports media figure, but over a week ago I referred to the Sussexes media deals as “a masterful grift.” There’s no other term to refer to people not holding up to their end of a multi-million dollar deal.

How is it known that Spotify paid, in full, up front?

I read a report that Spotify doesn't have to pay the full amount of the deal, absent product.

I read the same thing, R113. They prorated the amount based on finished product.

R113, R114, if so, with how much cash from Spotify will Harry and Meghan end up with? Five bucks?

I haven't seen the contract, r115, but pure surmise leads me to think they were guaranteed a comfortable upfront payment, no matter if, by not producing, they would not be paid the remainder.

Both parties take risks.

R88 This article is the poster illustration of how the Sussexes, especially Meghan, never fail to misread the room.

It's a transparent PR attempt to blunt the Spotify debacle. It's full of lies, outright lies. Their PR guy (the moment you see Reputation Management you know the person is in deep doo-doo). It walks like one, it quacks like one. The quacks can be heard in Outer Space.

As always, the instinct for overreach and telling ever bigger lies undermines the goal of the PR in the first place. NO ONE, anywhere, believes them.

But what is really interesting is the stuff toward the end of the DM piece, if you can get through it before sinking into a diabetic coma, are the comments about how Meghan is "distancing herself from all the drama in Harry's life" . . . there are several phrases of this kind toward the end.

What this suggests is that Meghan, as so many predicted, has gotten all she can out of Harry and now that it the bloom is off the rose, is antsy to move on.

The problem for her, of course, is that she still may need the title. If so, she'll stick with the marriage in form, but not substance.

Meanwhile, Harry, with his usual gift for cutting off his nose to spite his face, has attacked in a public record document a sitting elected government a year out from an election. In doing so, he's finally given the government an incentive to go where it has avoided going in the face of multiple petitions to remove his and/or Andrew's titles.

Next reading for the new Titles Removal Bill is 23 November. Wouldn't it be ironic if all Harry's done is give Parliament the incentive to pass it, and make it possible for the King to take the Sussex title with only an informal discussion with a "Parliamentary Committee"? Instead of a public discussion in the House and passing a bill and all that wearisome hoopla that everyone, from both Palaces (Westminster and Buckingham) were keen to avoid before Harry opened his moronic mouth and put his smelly feet inside?

I would rather have Johnny Depp bend over, spray his nuts with Dior Sauvage, and stick my face up his ass and take a huge whiff before I would buy anything merched by MM or Harry.

^I'd add to the above post that if the Sussex title does go, Meghan will have even less incentive to stay in the marriage. Her kids got their silly titles that are meaningless outside the royal family, she will look ridiculous calling herself Princess Henry or Princess Meghan, and her grandchildren will be commoners. The Sussex title is the only one Harry can pass on to his grandchildren through Archie. By the time Archie has a son, that kid will either be a great-grandchild show stands no chance of an HRH Prince title, or the nephew of the King for which you get nada.

But the Sussex title is one that can go on past the Prince title Archie has now. If the King takes that, no Archie, Duke of Sussex when Harry is raptured, and Harry's grandson is plain old Mr Mountbatten-Windsor.

I think taking the Sussex title will sting far more for this reason.

And without it, I doubt Meghan will stick around for long.

How clever was Harry to give the government incentive and a good case for making it easier to take it, eh?

Yep, Meghan is the one who signed on with WME. As far as I know, Harry hasn’t. The splitting began a while back; as you might have noticed, Meghan was silent and invisible while Harry was promoting his book and that Gabor Mate debacle. I’m surprised she even allowed him near her Glo Award ceremony. But I suspect she needed him for the NEAR FATAL chase.

She must have some other stooge on the back burner. Probably claims Harry is abusive.

Even after the divorce, and even after Harry remarries, Meghan will just keep using her courtesy titles no matter what.

Even if they are officially removed by the family or by Parliament, she'll still insist that she be called "Duchess", especially when she's on Real Housewives, as we all know she will be in what can only be a matter of time.

[quote]Has Dior lost their minds??

Oh honey, their minds have been gone since the days of Galliano.

[QUOTE]These two clowns are the very embodiment of deplorables, with all the charm of a long-ignored litter box in a household with three cats.

You know that the overflowing litter box scenario (plus a filthy mess of a household) would be a reality, for Harry at least, if they didn't have staff to make their lives run smoothly. He's an alcoholic/addict with few pre-existing life skills who's been propped up by the institutions and people around him since he was born. First, his nannies and beloved mother, next the Palace staff and courtiers, then Sandhurst and the MoD, and back to the Palace, and finally in Meghan's tractor beam. Left to his own devices he flounders.

I'm sure part of Simmons irritation derived from having to deal with a man baby, never mind Harry's intellectual deficits. His job titles, skills, and knowledge were wasted on Harry. In no other world would an executive at his level otherwise have been obligated to spend any time on such an utter nincompoop. Harry's lineage and title undeservedly got him in the door. It's not just deplorable, it's anti-American!

[quote] Yep, Meghan is the one who signed on with WME.

That's what is most intriguing to me about this whole thing.

If Ari Emanual can't revive her career, nobody can.

He didn't get where he is by luck. He got there by smarts, learning , and now, experience.

Yeah, I know its reported that WME's beat is Archewell, but I don't buy that. It would not surprise me one bit if he is urging her to go back to acting, to try to attempt a role along the lines of Wilhelmina Slater.

And it hardly needs to be said, but there should be no perception that I'm putting Markle's minimal talent anywhere near the level of my adored Vanessa Williams., but still.

I think Megs sees herself more as a producer…power…vs an actress being told what to do.

I’d love it if Tyler Perry gave her a talk show on BET. That’s a real tough role (although I’m sure she believes she could do it) and many, more talented people have flamed out. It would afford ENDLESS entertainment while it was on though.

The Tyler Perry angle should be interesting now that he outright owns BET. I'd like to know what he thinks of her. He didn't get to where he is by suffering fools. He's religious, isn't? He might take his role as Lilibet’s godfather seriously, in which case he's tied to her for a while. I imagine she's already pitched "ideas" to him and has some kind of transactional expectations about the relationship. Maybe this is her best angle at the producer/power role that r123 suggests.

R126, where’s the actual proof of his ownership? I’m seeing lots of articles questioning the deal and some acting as if. But until an actual journalist or publication of record shows me, I’m not going to believe it. If the Wall Street Journal announces it, fine. TMZ saying “social media ablaze with congratulations!!!” Is misleading.

R127, yes, the local reporting in Atlanta (where Perry's studio is based) is saying that the deal hasn't happened.

Why is Tyler Perry famous? All he does are dumb comic movies for black people on black TV.

R120 Actually, Harry was signed by WME a couple of years ago. Got him nothing.

WME has a wide range of niches and levels of clients.

And, as Sidney Pollack as Dustin Hoffman's agent screamed early in "Tootsie" when his client berated him for not sending him up for "The Ice Man Cometh" in Minneapolis,

"What am I, your mother?! I'm not supposed to find jobs for you. I'm supposed to FIELD OFFERS!"

That all WME is supposed to do: field offers. Not find work for Meghan.

The Tyler Perry aspect is a whole other ballgame. One thing I doubt Perry will tolerate is failure. He's far too savvy and he has a major business empire to run and build to further success.

He won't be kind to Meghan if she fucks up. He doesn't strike me as sentimental or impulsive.

Rumors are that Dior is exploring whether to pay Markle for promoting their brand.

Meghan and Harry are no longer having sex. She harasses him about it all the time and it drives him crazy. He goes to his hotel room and jerks off to Pornhub, plays online games and gets stoned. He is stoned all the time.

Didn't Harry wear Dior for his father's coronation ceremony?

HE, not she, was rumored to be close to signing (which with these two usually means next to nothing at all) with Dior a couple of months ago.

He went to the Coronation in a Dior suit but no confirmation a deal has been struck.

It could just be that they're being paid to wear Dior at events. That's not that different from actors at award ceremonies and is pretty different from being "the face" of a company.

R127 - I'd only read about the BET/Perry deal here on DL on a thread unrelated to anything Markle, et al. Posters seemed to agree it was fait acompli.

I must be a total rube. BTW, doesn't the union busting sound vaguely Trumpian to you?

They are running out of money, their monthly expenses are $8+m.

I dunno, given their track record, another 'close to signing' story sounds to me like someone wants them to be close to signing - and wishes they were - but isn't.

And when word of this reaches whoever is on the other side of the deal, the deal is off.

R137

Where did you get that number?

Really really really rich people, people with yachts and millions if not billions of dollars don't spend a hundred million dollars a year maintaining their lifestyle.

I'm not a fan of theirs, but the number is suspicious.

I read somewhere they've got an $8M mortgage on their McMansion and have to pay $200K a year in property taxes. Presumably, they get a lot of freebies from rich friends who loan them their private jets which they seem to be addicted to. But rich friends eventually tire of being mooched off of.

Harry's always whining about what bodyguards cost him + security + housekeeping staff + nannies + all the people they pay to work in their company/foundation whatever it is + all the people they had to pay to produce their reality TV show, podcast and the ghostwriter on Harry's book + publicists + WME + polo + LAWYERS. Harry's turned into a vexatious litigant, a very pricey hobby.

They must be burning through a fortune.

Meghan and Harry seem to be ideal marks for grifting 'financial advisors' and lawyers. Harry never handled money, everything was paid for him. Meghan's earnings were modest and she certainly never had the means to buy herself $500K worth of clothes in one year as she did when she married Harry.

A fool and his money are soon separated. And they're fools.

On a bright note, did they get low, 2020 interest rates?

Imagine the insurance on the mansion $1M a month?

What did he expect?

Are we're supposed to buy that Dior went from Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman to... Meghan Markle?

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R146: Ja

I would be shocked to hear tan-spray Sparkles set to appear on BET. All those black people around would be alien and uncomfortable for her. My other theory is she cannit tolerate being in proximity to attractive women next to her lumpy stumpy short self

Hence her absence from the Gracie awards, r148? Or was that because she can't tolerate being around talented, accomplished women? Lots of movers and shakers there for networking opportunities. Or was it post-near-catastrophic slow chase incident embarrassment that kept her away?

R141 this struck me in their Netflix’s doc: there was a scene where they were at Tyler Perry’s house and Meghan was saying that Perry told them they could stay as long as they’d like (presumably rent free). Can’t remember exactly what Harry said but basically let’s stay forever rent free.

It was the first time I actively disliked him and realized what an entitled asshole he is. No clue that people pay to live.

To her credit, she dismissed him and said they needed to find their own place. First time I ever liked her.

Say what you will about her, she’s a hustler and has a work ethic. She’s also a humorless, talentless, self important harridan, but she’s not lazy.

Harry is dumb, lazy and a tattle tale. She should leave him. I’d side with her.

r145 Mught be as reliable a rumour as the presenting Oscars rumours that never turned out to be true.

R150, she's probably more savvy in knowing that staying rent-free forever (or even for a certain period) would be pushing it with whoever offered. That he can't figure that out makes him incredibly stupid as well as entitled. He sounds like a narcissist, too, being unable to empathize with others.

It doesn't matter what stupid offer someone makes you in a moment of sentiment (or maybe calculation in Perry's case), to be willing to take them up on it to the hilt signals an asshole. I wonder if she set Dimbo up with that comment, knowing he'd show his ass.

When they do split up, his access to the kids should be supervised. He seems like the kind of douche who'd get suicidal and think it okay to take the kids with him.

Mr. Simmons would like a word with you about your 'Markle has a work ethic' assertion.

They are grifters and I've heard they aren't even living together. Gays of LA - remember the old San Vicente Inn now exclusive members only San Vicente Bungalows. It's been reported that Harry is basically living in a bungalow there getting wasted every night. Meghan is reported to be living part time at the Beverly Wilshire across from WME (where she can also relive her 90's Pretty Woman fantasies at the Reg Bev Wil).

With regards to Dior, Jennifer Lawrence was the face and wore the clothes when she was at the absolute top of her game. I wonder if Dior was testing out their marketing strategy with Harry's wrinkled Dior morning suit he wore to the Coronation that looked like shit on him. I don't see it. Love them or hate them, their brand is considered toxic. I don't see a Dylan Mulroney situation, but it seems like a lose lose for Dior. They don't need them as ambassadors. Maybe Reitman's in Canada might consider another colab even though, as a nobody, Meghan stole a pair of $1000 shoes and treated everyone like absolute shit on the set.

R150 she is so lazy. Look at what it took to get a handful of lousy podcasts made. Dozens of people. She is good at self promotion but not actual work.

R150, R152, she knows perfectly well that someone else's house won't be HER house after divorcing the idiot princeling. THAT was the very reason for her to get herself a place for themselves asap.

When she was a struggling actress she hustled. It was in the Bowers book. She constantly put herself out there, networking, blogging, attending every event to which she could wangle an invitation, auditions, meeting magazine editors and proposing stories, filming commercials and print campaigns. All promotion all the time, selling herself, and she was successful, incredibly successful for a mediocre actress of average attractiveness.

But as a philanthropist with a podcast, her lack of managerial ability, talent, or charisma came to the forefront. She couldn’t manage a team, she couldn’t write anything except word salad, and the spotlight was on her poisonous personality. I’m sure she “worked hard” but she was spinning her wheels due to the aforementioned issues.

I cannot imagine anyone as ugly as Harry has become in middle age being the face of anything. What would Dior do about that lake-sized bald spot, Bozo fringe of red hair, scraggle teeth, moobs, and beady eyes?!

Yes, he wore a Dior suit to the coronation, and to say that he did nothing for it is to understate the sartorial truth.

And, the idea that Meghan would allow Harry to sign with Dior but without including her is also absurd. The jokes would write themselves.

Neither of them wear clothes well. She couldn't even manage a classy wedding gown with the help of Givenchy. And the woman who designed it was sacked from Givenchy a short time later.

Then there's the little matter of how much digital correction would be needed for both of them.

Why in God's name would Dior want either of those faces in magazine ads, especially after the Spotify fiasco. And what if Netflix follows suit either before or after it airs "Heart of Invictus", if it airs it?

Only an agreement simply to wear Dior to the many, many, many first-tier public outings they are always invited makes some sense.

Oh, wait . . . .!

So Meghan is a horrible boss ?

They look unkempt and hung over all the time - surely what Dior is looking for.

R140 That one is close to the truth. The house was $14 million and they put down about $5 million. So they are carrying a huge mortgage, and the property's maintenance costs, with the orchards, the guest house, the pool, and the main house with 16 bathrooms and nine bedrooms cannot but be enormous, from utilities to staff. Then there's their huge security bills (they were warned about this in their "summit" with the BRF before they bailed so precipitously), and, unsurprisingly, the battle Harry has fought to claw it back from the government and country he trashed has failed dismally. Instead, he's on the hook for hundreds of thousands in legal fees - including to the Home Office.

Which brings us to the amount of money he's spending on using the British courts as a channel for his undiminished toxic rage.

He will lose the case he's got going that actually challenges the law that public services are not for private hire. If he does, that will be hundreds of thousands more.

The Mirror Group case is crap shoot right now. He might get that over the line if the other witnesses do better than he does in terms of solid evidence.

But if he loses that, too, in addition to the challenge to public/private hire case, he'll be out so much money that they could well have to sell the house if another big card doesn't fall onto the table.

You can never say for certain that the card won't, they still have some friends in high places, which is where Tyler Perry would come in.

But if Netflix axes them, I would say that their brand is totally toxic and they'll have to start from scratch to rebuild.

R159 is that blind saying Markle was going to date Jason Sudeikis? Was that really a rumor back in 2011?

Morning Joe was reporting this morning on the Spotify cancellation which kind of surprised me. They said Bill Simmons - I'd never heard of him but they said he's a major player at Spotify - calling them grifters was quite a declaration. They also said the general consensus is all Meghan and Harry do is play victim, complain about the royal family and whine and people are tired of them. Their rebranding is not going well.

All American business need to blacklist them. They’ve more than worn out their welcome in this country.

"Spotify Mistreated Us!" premieres this Saturday on the Harry & Meghan Grievance Channel®.

R161 No it does not. A nine million dollar, 30 year loan comes to a bit less than $50,000/month. The property taxes are about $15,000/mo. I’m guessing the insurance is as much, so there’s another $15,000/mo.

That’s about $80,000 a month, or less than a million dollars a year. Staff and security and upkeep and repairs and travel and gowns? Even if all that came to triple the housing costs, that’s still only another $3 million a year.

And $4 million/yr is still a long way from the $8 million monthly nut initially quoted. They don’t have 96 million dollars - let alone spend that much every year. How could they? If you take every paycheck they’ve manifested or earned, every inheritance he’s supposedly gotten, and any money she had pre-nup, it comes nowhere close to that figure. They didn’t get $20 million from Spotify. He may have made money on the book, but the deal for three books was to have been $20 million. He may have inherited money from his mother and great grandmother, but those guesstimates never went higher than $25 million. Add in whatever speaking fees they earned and the alleged five million more from the Bank of Dad and you still don’t top sixty million bucks total.

They have been in Casa Olive Garden for almost three years. I’d love to think they’re stupid enough to want a $100,000,000 life but know they don’t have one because they’d have been outta there, broke, about eight months after they moved in if they did.

Show us how they’re paying 8 million dollars a month to stay there. They don’t have enough money.

Harry and Meghan have now signed up with some speakers' organization. Harry wants a minimum of $100K a speech and among the topics he claims to be expert on: foreign relations and politics.

[quote]Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Called “F–king Grifters”

But...

R166 Neither he nor his brother inherited a dime from the Queen or the Queen Mother. Harry's rep finally came out and put paid to the long-reported but never proven gift to the kids of the richest of her grandchildren. They were each left a trust fund by Diana based on her divorce settlement from Charles, who got taken to the cleaners by her solicitor.

They amount was somewhere around 14 million quid. In the ensuing 20 years, the funds grew to about 30 million each. That was Harry's sole inheritance. There are tax track records for it. It is a published fact. The rest is just The Rumour That Won't Die Despite Denials From Harry's Estate And No Proof Ever Anywhere.

The custom in families like this is to leave the whole thing to the direct heir and leave it to them to dole it out as they see fit, with "bequests" listed in the Will, which is sealed.

The Queen Mother died deep in debt in the seven figures. She left everything, which is mostly to say art, jewelry, furnishings, homes . . . And the Queen left everything to Charles . . . and Charles will leave everything to William, with bequests to Camilla, and perhaps some trust funds for the grandchildren with whom he had an actual loving relationships.

My guess is that Harry has decimated his trust fund to keep Meghan in the style to which she was dying to become accustomed.

Other than that - well, it's anyone's guess.

Though the deal for the books was 20M, isn't that an advance on book sales? Harry had to have made a fortune on Spare, but I don't presume to know how this works. Let's say 30M from Diana (interest over time), 20M from the book, 30M from Netflix (1/3 the projected amount of 100M), 5M from Spotify, plus side hustles and whatever other shady investment they might be involved in and for the sake of argument 10M from *possible* inhertances or heirlooms from the late Queen and Queen Mum. That's a realistic 95 million on the low side. They should be able to afford a 14M house without too much of a stretch.Everything someone else said about the house in Montecito is correct. I've heard same thing about the house, the problems, etc. 14M is on the cheap side for the area.

That Dior deal? You’ll be shocked to learn that it was news to the Dior team.

Someone upthread said they were spending 8 million dollars a month to live there. If under your generous assumption and they had 95 million dollars, how long can they be expected to still have that much when they're supposedly spending $96 million every year?

They're not. They don't have enough money.

R171 Not surprised at all.

Manifesting - thy name is Meghan, Duchess of Excess.

R171, link doesn't work.

If the Queen Mother (who was in debt up to her eyeballs given the lavish life she lived) had any money to leave to anybody, she would have left it to Margaret's kids. And Harry didn't inherit $30 M from Diana's divorce settlement. It was evenly divided between him and William. Which no doubt pisses off Harry no end. All those millions Harry supposedly raked in from Netflix, Spotify and his book - that wasn't his personal allowance and paid in advance. That was a sum put forward if he completed all the assignments he supposedly was going to work on less, of course, all the money he had to pay out to staff and the people who actually did the work on the Netflix show and the Spotify podcast.

I figure he's borderline broke. I loved the comment from Charles when the Queen asked him why he'd stopped taking Harry's phone calls: I am not a bank.

Markle is an idiot. Harry can fuck off forever for saying the First Amendment was "bonkers," the beady eyed inbred prick. And Markle bots, I can't stand royalty either, so fuck off forever, too.

[quote]I think Megs sees herself more as a producer…power…vs an actress being told what to do.

She's one small role in the next Star Wars away from going back to her roots, so to speak.

I think it has more to do with keeping up consistent cash flow.

Wealthy people can get themselves into serious debt very quickly when the inflow doesn't match the outflow.

Michael Jackson is an example.

?aybe much of their 'free cash' is invested and bringing in healthy returns? Could their investment returns be a good help to financing their lifestyle? Accumulate your capital and live off your interest, or something like that.

Hilarious that CNN is keeping the whole "grifter" story right up front on their web page all day today, complete with a picture of the Harkles no less. They seem to be giving it priority over other stories in their web page news cycle, lol

The Harkles have been "signed up with some speaker's organization," that was subsequently bought by WME, since the moment they left the UK.

Diana was getting into Versace in a big way at the time of her death. That Dimbo claims he owes his fondness for Dior to her shows he knows nothing.

The NY Post is reporting that the staff did some of the interviews and Meghan edited her voice in later.

Meghan: Here’s the deal, Conseula. You go to the studio and read these questions and you can continue your job cleaning our toilets. If you don’t do it, you won’t be our maid any longer. It’s either the studio or back to Venezuela.

Hey, designer schmesigner, they're all pretty much the same, amirite?

I didn't realize she copied the Duchess of Windsor's dress for her appearance at her lone Jubilee moment!!! WTF, man, she still looks like shit even while invoking the Royal Family?

Her new PR, WME, or whateverthematterfuck needs to sit this crazy bitch out and read her the rights about how the fuck money IS MADE IN AMERICA !!!, by folks like her...

[quote] That Dimbo claims he owes his fondness for Dior to her shows he knows nothing.

While she was very good friends w/ Versace, she was given a Dior purse from a friend in the mid 90's. She liked it so much and wore it so much, Dior called it the Lady Dior bag.

Dimbo has been angling for a Dior contract for ages. He even stuck a Dior product placement in his book, claiming his father wears Dior's Eau Sauvage (sp). Meanwhile, all the Royal Rota were scratching their heads at this because Charles famously only ever wears either one of several Penhaligon scents or a scent specially made for him from his Highgrove plants.

In other words, Harry verifiably lied in the book, even in unnecessary and small details, in order to line up his hoped-for grifts. Quelle Surprise. Wonder what else he lied about.

^^^ And Creed Irish Tweed, which is a great scent

The Dior deal is fake news.

I don't like H&M, don't really care that much for the Royals, and I loathe tRump. So whoever thinks it is MAGATS criticizing M, that's not correct.

Before Gianni Versace died, he'd booked In a slew of fittings for Diana. She may have loved the Dior bag (and probably wore a Dior slip dress when she accompanied Liz Tilberis to the Met Gala), but was getting a heap of Versace outfits before she died. She'd moved on from her divorce and was spending big on Versace.

R15 Fuck off with the tired cliches about people looking 10 years older than what they are. This guy looks fine for his age. Do you expect him to dye his hair, get Botox, a facelift, horse teeth? Grow up you idiot.

𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐎𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞 has launched into a furious tirade where she branded Prince Harry 'a whining, whinging, complaining t**t.'

The star, 38, delivered a scathing rant where she slammed the Royal's recent confessions about his struggles, insisting: 'Everybody's life is f*****g hard.'

Speaking on the I've Had It podcast, Kelly left hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie 'Pumps' Sullivan in hysterics when she branded Harry a 'f*****g t**t.'

She said: 'I think Harry is a f*****g t**t, I do! He is a whining, whinging complaining, woe is me, I'm the only one whose had mental problems, my life was so hard, everybody's life was f*****g hard!

'Everybody's f*****g life is hard, you were the Prince of a goddamn country who dressed up as a f*****g Nazi, and now you're trying to come back as the Pope. Suck it! No!'

You go girl!

Star?

Meghan is a rolling stone, and the only time she sticks with a person is when they’re useful. She loves the adrenaline rush of the grift, of constantly moving and living out of a suitcase, living by her wits. She doesn’t want to settle down or put down roots.

I think she’s gonna make a play for Ari Emanuel. He’s the kind of target she’s looking for. He’s qualified by being a straight married man with particular tastes. He’s a juicy one.

And where is her seduction of him going to take place? The most likely location: Fantasy Island. They'll both be *drenched* in Dior, LOL...

So the Sussex publicity machine fucked up and annoyed Dior, now making them look even more like grifters.

“So the Sussex publicity machine fucked up”

Again and again and again…

Didn’t Ari Emanuel just marry the woman who owns and designs for STAUD, that clothing firm?

[QUOTE]He’s qualified by being a straight married man with particular tastes

Particular tastes? What does this mean? He just married last year to a woman who's nearly three decades younger.

I think Tyler Perry would be a better target. He would get a beard, Archie and Lilibet new step sibling so they could do the blended family thing that sells magazine covers, and Meghan wouldn't have to have sex with a black man. Honestly, do you think she ever has, or has been attracted to a black man? Wins all around. And if he's wise, Perry could put Harry on a yearly allowance to keep his trap shut.

r196 A recent blind item on can if accurate, had her lunching with a billionaire Rothschild about 2 weeks ago.

Elegant gutting by Marina Hyde in the Guardian. I particularly liked the casual description of Archetypes - 'this is a 12-parter – though feels longer'

[quote] In fact, quite why Archetypes was settled on as a format in the first place has never been entirely explained. There seems to have been some vague handwaving towards synergies, given that Harry and Meghan’s company/foundation/whatever is called Archewell. So yes, perhaps they simply made Archetypes because it started with the same five letters. The series could easily have been about archery or arch-enemies.

^ More from Marina Hyde. LOL!

Southpark has more material. The don't even have to make anything up.

Now even lefty upmarket Guardian is sneering at them. Only People Mag left!

Spotify is a pretty big commercial concern. It terminated a business relationship with these 2 because they did not live up to their end of the business deal they made. One of Spotify's bigger stakeholders publicly stated that the relationship ended because the 2 were grifters, i.e. a euphemistic way of calling them thieves of a special kind. H & M are FINISHED as business people. No large company is going to trust them to do ANYTHING, going forward. Their goodwill as people who can induce the public to buy any kind of product through their endorsement has swirled right on down the toilet, this past weekend. They were taken seriously at the outset of their move to the US because Harry was bringing along the cache' of the BRF with him, even if he was "stepping aside" from the BRF in England. But it didn't turn out that any of that supposed royal cache' survived in the US after Harry and the Mrs. diligently and persistently savaged said BRF as part of their business model. They're both apparently fools. Smegma's avariciousness and Harhar's high-born sense of entitlement don't translate into any kind of real-world savvy, it looks like. I think they're done for, as far as employability at ANYTHING is concerned. The time for that extended "safari" over in Kenya is getting closer and closer. Once relocated to Africa, we'll never hear a peep about them again.

What happened to the when will Harry and Meghan divorce thread?

R208, you can never be sure why a specific thread got nuked. It might have collected a lot of F&Fs.

[quote]and Meghan wouldn't have to have sex with a black man. Honestly, do you think she ever has, or has been attracted to a black man?

Jesus Christ, people.

The reports that Meghan hadn't even done all the interviews herself is actually old news. That came out shortly after the podcasts ended, one of the less starry interviews put up a public post about how she appreciated being interviewed by a Spotify staffer for the Archewell series. It has never been challenged, and as one newscaster put it, it smacks of Meghan's diva-esque nature: she only showed up in person for the Big Names. The others were left to staff to pull together and then insert Meghan's voice asking the questions.

The story was never, ever challenged.

She really is slime.

The contracts with Penguin, Spotify, and Netflix are all built the same way: advance/retainer to produce the product, then the rest on a percentage basis if and as the product sells.

The Penguin deal included that ghastly children's book Meghan "wrote"; Harry's memoir; and, allegedly a second book from Harry, and a memoir from Meghan. Two down, two to go, and the first one lost money big time. But the worm has turned, and with the Sussexes realising how they shot themselves in the feet slagging off the Windsors for money, and the public tiring of the slagging, and the gossip likely used up, the primary reasons for another two books have gone. Anyone's guess what Penguin RH will be thinking.

Same with Netflix: it axed "Pearl". The Harkles shot their wad with the "docuseries". They know what it's like to work with the two petty monsters. What's the incentive for Netflix if the juice is gone?

So all those figures are dust in the wind. The Sussexes got their retainer fee, and whatever percentage was agreed upon for the Netflix dirt.

These companies aren't stupid. There is always an EXIT clause built into the contract.

The gruesome twosome did not clean up nearly as much as the media said. For that kind of dough, you have to put out. And with SPARE and the Trash the Windsors by the Victims of Same done, what else is there? They can't write, they can't produce, and they can't spill any more tea without making the hole they are in even deeper.

And, what's more, stories are beginning to leak out now how badly Meghan treated Spotify staff.

Meghan, especially, should never have forgotten that old sayin about treating nicely the people you meet on the way up: they'll be the same people waving at you on the way down.

R211 anyone who treats their staff badly is a complete asshole—whether you’re a princess or a line manager.

Kate and William have very low staff turnover. Hell, even Princess Margaret kept staff for years.

Anyone who’s ever held a job know how truly ghastly it is to have a terrible boss. People don’t leave good jobs just because their boss annoys them. They leave because they’ve been abused.

Spotify just signed Trevor Noah.

r213 He's left the Daily Show last year he's cheap to hire now

Now the rumour is being floated that she's "thinking" about Cartier.

The woman now realises that having blown the royal gig AND the post-royal gig, her only road left to hard cash is luxury brand deals and "influencer".

Tom Bower asserts that talks with Dior really were occurring but when the Spotify sacking came out, they pretended otherwise because she's damaged goods now.

He also said on Wootton's GBN show last night that Harry and Meghan want a "full break" with the past by changing their names legally from "Mountbatten Windsor" to (wait for it . . .) SPENCER.

Bower added that Meghan thinks this way she really can become Diana.

IF true, this supersedes in quality of derangement all the other seriously deranged shit the Harkles have pulled since they got married.

I would love to hear Earl Spencer's opinion on this.

And, of course, it would be a gift to those thinking it's time not only to remove the Sussex title (Prince Henry Spencer, Duke of Sussex? Think not - although Bower also mentioned that he thinks they want to give up the Sussex title, as well, to make a "clean break" of it).

Bower is well connected, but he's not always right. But if he's right about the move to Spencer and giving up the Sussex title, one must wonder if the Harkles have some inkling that both the government and the Palace are considering taking the Sussex title for real.

Whatever the fine details, it is clear that the Sussexes do need a rebrand, and they need it fast.

Thoughts?

[quote]He also said on Wootton's GBN show last night that Harry and Meghan want a "full break" with the past by changing their names legally from "Mountbatten Windsor" to (wait for it . . .) SPENCER.

If this is true, they're psychotic.

R216 well, psychotic certainly fits solidly in their wheelhouse.

I doubt very much that they want to willingly give up the Sussex titles. And I very much doubt that Meghan wants to be known as the Princess Henry

If you're getting your opinions from T Bower you are as mentally ill and gullible as the Sussex stans

Explain, r219, with details please.

Has Kohl's called yet?

That might actually be believable.

The hyper-litigious couple have not sued him for his extremely damning and detailed book on them, r219.

The book where he described Markle as a big shot in Hollywood with unmissable charisma, that sacred book? You are using frau logic. Bower repeatedly makes shit up about about Charles and the Harolds, and is topping himself with the Spencer name change garbage.

R223, he refers to her as “the unknown actress” and notes that while she worked hard she didn’t have star quality.

Vanity Fair which has been the Markles' biggest cheerleader this side of Scobie Doo, has an article about the debacle at Spotify up today and it is not flattering.

Could you please paste it, r225? Thanks

Spencer Sussex would have been a killer name for Lillibet; and no controversy.

^ agree but Princess Spencer is pretty awkward.

"Princess Spence" is so very LA...

More like Spencer for Hire...

[QUOTE]and Meghan wouldn't have to have sex with a black man. Honestly, do you think she ever has, or has been attracted to a black man?

[QUOTE]Jesus Christ, people.

Jesus Christ what? Do you have evidence to the contrary? Everything we know about Markle historically and pictorially tells us that she had no significant or even apparent social relationships with other African Americans either familial (except Doria) or romantic until she became entangled with Harry. She didn't even appear to have black friends until Serena, another Sunshine Sachs client, when her star rose.

Prince Spencer would have worked better than ARCHIE.

R219 I did say that Bower isn't always right. But he is well connected and there was a great deal in REVENGE that was factually correct.

I only reported the Spencer comment with a big IF in front of it.

In this game, I can't think of a single royal reporter whose info I would wholly trust, with the possible exception of the TIMES' Valentine Low, who broke the bullying scandal.

So that IF that I put in caps applies to most of these stories, including Bower's.

Just because the intel sounds dodgy in some places, doesn't mean it's dodgy all around.

The Sussex ship has taken a few more holes below the water line in the last few days.

Sir Trevor Phillips denounced the duo - the black former UK diversity/equality tsar and a long-time columnist, also with mixed race children, wrote a blistering column yesterday for the misrepresentation of Britain and dodging the opportunity their royal work offered to change perceptions and help millions., and for making everything about race.

Sentebale (Harry's only real big private charity) scheduled its next big international charity polo match in Singapore - three months before William's Earthshot Prize rocks up there. Apparently, there was so much backlash on SM that Sentebale took the announcement down and closed its SM. I didn't check this morning to see if that was still the case. I imagine the backlash was more to do with Harry's and Meghan's current damaged images than am attempt to upstage a later appearance by William.

And, deafening silence from Oprah, Gayle King, Tyler Perry, Omid Scobie . . .

Tom Bower was pretty much insulting Meghan in his Revenge book, not praising her. He did say she worked hard at hustling, making connections with the right people but only because she was an unknown shitty actress and Suits was ending with no other prospects for her.

He detailed all of the shitty times she mistreated people: trying to get cooking shows or cookbooks using her connections with chef Cory, hanging out with McIlroy (hinting they fucked while she was dating Cory), getting a trip to Malta by pretending she had family ties there, going to Africa to help poor kids but bringing along a hairdresser and nice clothes and doing photoshoots all day, stealing shoes and mistreating staff at the Reitmans shoot. There was a lot of damning stuff in there about her past.

[Quote]Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup 2023 ; Date: 12 Aug 23 ; Price: To be Confirmed ; Time: 7:00 - 10:30 pm

According to google this used to be on the Singapore polo club site but not anymore

^ DAMN. I was really looking forward to getting to play some dodgeball.

Uh-oh. Vanity Fair which has been the Harkles' biggest cheerleader has turned on them. They get trashed in the article posted online yesterday.

Their submarine is now resting cumfably on the very BOTTOM of the ocean, it looks like...

I can’t imagine playing polo on the Equator. The air is like wearing a soggy blanket.

Ibble Dibble has great commentary compared to most of the right wing reactionaries on Youtube

^I suspect that there is a wide gulf between the Sussex's idea of being skint, and mine.

“Sussexes’”, R242.

Sussai?

Why aren't Smegma's trolls rallying around her here, coming indignantly to her defense? (I imagine her "cutting back" in the face of impending economic disaster has required her to let "staff" go, teehee.)

Lost the trademark bid today.

Markle meant stereotypes but as she's dumb as a post, she thought archetypes were the same thing.

[quote] Markle meant stereotypes but as she's dumb as a post, she thought archetypes were the same thing.

Do you think someone at Spotify had a meeting with her about that? I wonder why they let her go forward with that name?

I love that one of the reasons it was rejected is that they didn't sign the form. They're such total fuckups.

Maybe they should have went with "Markletype."

[quote]I wonder why they let her go forward with that name?

Because she argued with them.

“Should have went with”, R250?

They've gone full retard according to the UK public. Of course, Harry has always been FR, no matter what the polls say.

^Harry's "ratings boost" left him at -34 or something instead of -38. In other words, he's deep into negative territory.

One thing you have to know about the Express: it makes the DM look like The Financial Times.

The DE also ran a story yesterday "Huge boost to Meghan as Democrats think she can beat Trump!"

Interview based on 555 people, all Democrats, who would vote for Genghis Khan against Trump.

Never mind the fact that the poll is garbage, Meghan doesn't want a political career she wants celebrity luxury without too much stress, she's socipathically thin-skinned, carries a British royal title, quit her cushy role with the BRF because it was too much work, and that she has enough skeletons in her closet for a remake of "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad".

The DM isn't the absolute bottom of the UK tabloid industry: that honor is split between the DE and the Globe.

Oh, my goodness! Her blowfish face at r253! 🐡

Is that steroid face plus fillers? Or an AI rendering...

R255, it seems the backfat may have migrated.

This is a fun article!

If only they had been called that publicly by the King.

[quote]Harry and Meghan are also developing a TV show for Netflix called “Bad Manners” based on Miss Havisham, a Charles Dickens character from “Great Expectations.” The prequel would recast the lonely spinster as a strong woman living in a patriarchal society, though it is unclear whether the show will get a green light from Netflix.

From the article at R257. Meghan's ideas are so cringeworthy.

I really, really hope Simmons recorded his Zoom session and it somehow leaks. Yeah, I dream on. I'm still chuckling over the concept of Harry interviewing two the most consequential leaders of the worst type of the two of the most consequential countries on earth, one more vile than the other. And there was *plenty* of evidence that both are vile psychopaths of differing means and ability.

The BBC already did that in DIckensian.

[QUOTE]helped build a podcast studio in the couple’s mansion, said people familiar with the situation. ( News Corp’s Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has a content partnership with Spotify’s Gimlet Media unit.)

They grifted their very own studio despite Spotify having its own state-of-the-art facilities. I have a feeling it's going get as cobwebby as Miss Havisham's house.

[QUOTE]Choosing the right kind of guest was often fraught. Meghan wrote Taylor Swift a personal letter asking her to come on the podcast. The pop star declined, through a representative.

In her own "calligraphy" or official D&DoS business stationary where their titles appear three times in the letterhead, body, and signature line? Sounds like she didn't have Taylor's own personal phone number like she did the Democratic Senators she personally called. I guess Taylor doesn't have a Kristin Gillibrand on her team, fortunately

[QUOTE]Meghan would often ask for changes late in the editing process, at times recruiting senior Spotify executives, including then-Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff, to call producers and push them to make changes.

She sounds like a joy to work with. I wonder how much time and money was spent managing the "talent," listening to Harry's quarter-baked ideas (emphasis on baked) and explaining why they don't work, and reining in Meghan's megalomaniacal, controlling tirades.

R257, that article is on the *front page* of the Wall Street Journal!

LOVE the cuntiness of the article's final line:

[quote]Netflix canceled it (Pearl) in May 2022. Executives decided that few children would care if the show they were watching had been produced by a duchess.

And it was so abrupt. I thought there was more and kept scrolling.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐩𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐬 will rewrite DIckens

Taylor Swift turned down an invitation to appear on Meghan Markle's podcast despite receiving a 'personal letter' from Duchess, it has been claimed.

The pop singer was asked by Meghan herself to appear on Archetypes, but she declined through her representative, the Wall Street Journal reported.

It comes as the newspaper summed up Harry and Meghan's dealings with Netflix as 'big ideas, subpar execution' after executives of the streaming giant and Spotify reportedly said they were 'underwhelmed' by the pair's lack of strong ideas and productivity.

The pair are currently creating a Great Expectations-inspired show for Netflix called Bad Manners.

Described as a prequel to the Charles Dickens classic, the show retells the story of a lonely Miss Haversham living in a patriarchal society.

It is currently not known if the show has been commissioned by Netflix itself.

The Wall Street Journal analysis said that Harry and Meghan had suggested shows that were too similar to already popular Netflix programmes such as sitcoms like Emily in Paris but 'about a man', and a show about LGBTQ characters similar to those in Heartstopper.

Another suggestion was a documentary discussing misinformation - which also did not make it off the drawing board.

Also rejected was an animated show about powerful women in history called Pearl. When it revealed the cancellation of the kid's programme in May 2022, Netflix representatives said it was decided that children would not be influenced by the fact the show was produced by a duchess.

I wonder if they realize the Oprah interview was their downfall. They should have kept some mystique instead it made a lot of people tired of them before they had a chance to come out with their projects.

[quote]Meghan's ideas are so cringeworthy.

Bet you she only knows about Miss Havisham from seeing a movie. I just can't see Meg reading a real book.

Nobody has great expectations for Bad Manners.

She does read, apparently, but only crap like Eat, Pray, Love.

If that's true about Taylor Swift turning down Markle that could be speculated about in so many ways.

I'll try my hand a couple of them. In fairness to Markle, I'll begin with my "best possible light" speculation:

1. Maybe Swift has also turned down other requests, too. Maybe even from someone who is perceived to be higher up on the famous and celebrated chain than Markle.

I gather Swift has Streisand-level control on her career and image. She's not turning herself over to just any interviewer, perhaps not even to Oprah, when she can interview herself in her songs and release it to her fans and make money off of them.

Ok, now that's out of the way.

Holy shit, the knives are out.

Again, if the personally written request from Markle to Swift is true, at least, only 2 people know of it - Swift and Markle. Add in their agents. Somebody blabbed.

Which leads me to my tin-hat, pulled outta my ass speculation - Whoever leaked the "Taylor turned down Markle" has it in for WME, Markle's agency. They were the target, and Markle was arrow.

To be expected, I suppose, but all their 'ideas' were rip-off of other people's existing shows. I imagine Meghan asked for changes to Archtype editions as this was the first time she'd actually heard it, once other people had basically made them.

They should've stuck to being performing automatons for Harry's immediate family. Was that such a bad gig?

They don't know how to create content, only how to be content.

And if you're aging, is being immediately behind King William and Queen Catherine that intolerable?

True, you won't have their glory, but you won't have their headaches and relentless responsibility either.

R273 asks, “was that such a bad gig?” No. Harry doesn’t have all his older brother has and will get. It’s called primogeniture. That said, he has more resources to call upon than 99.999% of the world’s population. It’s not like the glass is half full - it’s overflowing but that’s not enough nor will it ever be for those who only want more.

“Is being immediately behind King William and Queen Catherine that intolerable?” To raging narcissists trying to monetize their discontent there’s only one answer: “Yes.” Especially when you have to bow to them.

It's hilarious that Meghan sent a personal note to Swift, and Swift declined through one of her reps. Meee-ow! I may have to start liking Taylor now.

[quote] I may have to start liking Taylor now.

Let's not get carried away

Harry and Meghan are simply VERBOTEN by anyone who is anybody.

In related BRF news, Fergie has undergone treatment for breast cancer.

Barbra said she would do an Archetypes episode only if they let her write and sing an emotional theme song for the podcast, "Can You Hear Me?: Love Theme from Archetypes," but Meghan said the song sounded like a dusty and irrelevant relic from ancient times.

R268, I don't agree.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mountbatten-Windsor of Montecito, CA, USA are "fucking grifters," but she's no dummy (he apparently is a "Thicko."). She grew up middle class, went to a private Catholic school, and graduated from college. I bet she reads.

He, on the other hand, probably hasn't cracked a book open since God knows when!

Do you mean she read in high school and college when it was part of an enforced curriculum or that she currently reads great works of literature for pleasure and enlightenment?

People like to praise Meghan's intelligence, presumably so that we don't think their dislike for her is motivated by racism. She doesn't strike me as particularly intelligent at all and I don't feel bad about saying that.

Like Meghan reads anything that's not on the internet or her phone.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘹 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴.

Jeremy Zimmer, who has guided the film careers of stars such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Damian Lewis, gave his withering verdict on the abilities of the American former actress after streaming giant Spotify axed its £18million deal with her and Prince Harry after just one podcast series.

Zimmer, the chief executive of United Talent Agency, said he was not surprised that Spotify had ditched the couple.

‘Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,’ he said.

Speaking to the news website Semafor at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in France, Zimmer added. ‘And, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜.’

I beg your pardon R283. Eat Love Pray rests on the nightstand next to Diana's hair.

[quote]‘Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,’ he said.

*Not* necessarily?

Holy Moly.

Based upon r284, it’s ON!

Markle, aside from the accuracy of what Zimmer said, is the pretext for making a go at WME.

Right now, I’d put my money on Ari Emanuel to either revive the Sussexes, or not hesitate to cut them loose if he can’t make commission money off of them.

“making a go” - meant taking a run at WWE.

Another fun article on our favorite failures!

The Spectator piling on…deliciously!

R281, I don't know, but I would not be surprised if she did.

There was that video which came out of her reading to her son when he was about one. People her scoffed at that, writing the kid was too young. I didn't think so. You're never too young to be exposed to reading. And I bet her mother pushed her in that direction.

Again, she and her husband are narcissists and grifters, but she's no dummy.

[quote]Again, she and her husband are narcissists and grifters, but she's no dummy.

Just because she can read a children's book doesn't mean she's ever picked up Dickens.

Except everything we see has been carefully staged, R291, and likely bears no relationship to her actual life.

When will BetterUp and Aspen dump dimbo?

I bet both entities are in discussions on how to drop the albatross with as little fanfare as possible, R294. They're probably waiting for the next natural disaster to dump the news (I'm only half kidding).

[quote] ...Except everything we see has been carefully staged

I remember that shot of her sitting in this white chair, at this white desk with a teacup on a tray beside her. White books(?) piled up on the corner of the desk, trying act all executive like with a dog relaxing on a cushion next to the fireplace behind her.

And her husband Harry seen outside the window. Juggling.

I mean.... Juggling and peering in the window at her.

WTF! Really??? WTF.

What did Netflix and Spotify see in Dimbo and his Harridan that led them to believe that they would be amazing content creators in the first place?

^ Their promises of access to Royal people and properties.

R296 - That was for Meghan's 40th birthday charity gimmick - spend 40 minutes mentoring someone! She was having a Zoom conversation with Melissa McCarthy when Harry popped up juggling outside the window.

[quote] Meghan's 40th birthday

Sad time for an old yacht girl. Too much fresh young talent out there.

That birthday gimmick was very symbolic, Meghan in the power seat, in control while Harry is juggling his castrated balls outside looking like the court fool that he is. She couldn't even pull that off, though, it was another of her comical failures.

Hilariously Meg's "big" birthday idea involved other people doing something while she sat around and did nothing. Or maybe she sent Doritos?

𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞

Former model and reality star turned TV producer and 'InstaMom' is the latest executive through the revolving door at Meghan and Harry's broadcasting business, it was revealed today.

Tracy Ryerson, 43, is the new Head of Scripted Content at Archewell Productions amid rumours the Sussexes are pitching to Netflix to make a feminist-focused prequel to Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, which focuses on the world's most famous jilted bride Miss Havisham.

Tracy is a TV executive who worked for the production company behind Peaky Blinders. But 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑆 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝐿 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑, which filmed her and her stand-up comic partner Stamie Karakasidis, who had three children from a previous relationship.

The couple took their relationship on screen after Tracy realised she was gay in her mid-twenties and met Stamie. 13 years later they still remain together. Tracy describes herself on social media as a 'TV producer, sometimes actress, always InstaMom'.

Ms Ryerson, who is nicknamed 'T Rye' by friends, could be tasked with working with Netflix, who signed the couple up for a reported $100million in 2020. There have been claims that Archewell is looking to hire writers to create 'feel-good' shows including romantic comedies for the streaming giant.

r303 Increasingly, especially now that Harry and Meghan are damaged goods losing their novelty, I don't really see the point of their Netflix deal. They are literally just slapping their name on a tin , giving everybody else instructions about what their idea is and just sitting back doing little as everybody else does all the work

They are not a creative force or popular artistic brand. They are just a label on a biscuit tin after everybody but them has done all the hard work making the biscuits.

[QUOTE]giving everybody else instructions about what their idea is and just sitting back doing little as everybody else does all the work

Not only this, but repeatedly returning the product with complaints and requesting changes after providing half-baked ideas and minimal sweat equity to the project. It frustrates and demoralizes the hardworking staff, drags out the production schedule/ delivery date, and adds costs.

Changing subject slightly, it occurred to me that one thing I haven't heard about as a money-making scheme is creating a design label a la Victoria Becham or Rhianna. So many celebrity females have lines of clothes, handbags, perfumes, etc. Granted she has atrocious tastes, but her followers likely do too, and she'd have professionals working for her much like the poor souls on her Spotify podcast.

The churn at Archewell is astonishing.

She definitely should try a product line of some kind. I said this years ago before their Netflix and Spotify deals.

Passive income is the only way to go for them. They don’t want to work.

I’m still waiting for my Sussex Royal towel set!

I ordered them back in 2020.

Can you imagine a line review with Madame? Nothing would ever go into production because she would keep insisting on changes.

What would a perfume named after her smell of? Stale sandwiches and doritos with the hint of blood from a school massacre scene?

Flop sweat, R310

Flop sweat.

[quote] I’m still waiting for my Sussex Royal towel set!

You should have skipped the dry goods and stocked up on the hardware

Wow, that coin is beyond creepy!

London Coin Company is nuts.

You can already find that "collectible" coin on eBay for GBP 28.00 ($35) or best offer.

R303 I watched that season! Think it was the first season. I liked this girl and her spouse. Nice, sweet, authentic. Meghan will eat her alive.

This is just sick 🤦‍♂️

"Prince Harry really does believe Meghan is in touch with Diana from beyond the grave" | Tom Bower

That's so sad and scary, r316. Bower has never been successfully sued, so it's probably true.

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Oh my, R318, Ozempic face on top of all the surgical alterations? He looks way thinner. I guess he's following in the footsteps of his earthly goddess, M. Markle.

Scobie's timing is good. He has to make bank now.

Pure surmise on my part, but, he must know the pattern. One day, he stands a very good chance of being ghosted by the Sussexes.

Which means the Sussexes may have more to fear from him than he does from them.

He knows all the dirt on them, too, and, to me, something about him signals that if they turn on him, he'll turn to another book - about them.

In a rumble between Scobie v. the Sussexes, I'd put my money on that Mean Queen Scobie.

I was going to comment that his face looks somewhat less "processed ."

The collapse of his jaw is complete!

Looks like even US Weekly has turned on the Harkles if the photo of them is any indication. Dimbo looks like a baboon!

Valentine Low has added more to "Courtiers" paperback edition. Apparently, the then Duchess of Cambridge insisted on the inclusion of the phrase "Recollections may vary." before it was sent to the Queen for approval. Backbone.

Article for non-subscribers.

Link doesn't work, R325.

It opens for me. Don't know what else to do.

It opens for me. Don't know what else to do.

It opens for me. Don't know what else to do.

That's also how Her Late Majesty the Queen used to refer to them too.

The link is fine

Gad, I can understand a double posting, but weirded out by thrice!

ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 06/30 **9**

For the first time that I have heard, the ginger haired one spent two consecutive nights away from the marital home in his local hotel suite.

Thanks for the link, r325.

And the latest, r333.

No way Harry would spend two nights away from home. He's intensely devoted to his family and especially his children!!!

Meghan just seems like a typical Millennial asshole, but Harry seems truly crazy.

Meghan so reeks of lower class skank, it’s mildly interesting that they ever got together. Maybe that’s Harry’s thing.

Chelsy really was perfect for him. A little trashy, but still with money and social position. He should have tried really hard to make that work.

Thank you R325

[quote] it’s mildly interesting that they ever got together

She told him she and his dead mommy talk

Dead mommy to daughter-in-law:

“If only I had buckled up, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

R336, he couldn't make it work. People with personality disorders usually have zero self-insight. Harry has made this abundantly clear, repeatedly. Chelsea was wise to get the fuck away from him.

Chelsy and Pippa have the right idea. Marry anonymous billionaires and enjoy your privacy. (Of course Chelsy has her own family money and a law degree to boot.)

I guess Kate’s marriage to William paved the way for Pippa, but she must have had other options. One wonders why anyone with a bit of sense would marry into the Royal family. It’s as if she had some very antiquated idea as to what successful husband hunting looks like.

There is a woman in my social group whose husband is a surgeon. He seems to have a pretty lackluster practice with his father in a working class town. In other words, he’s no plastic surgeon to the stars. They are also a middle Eastern, and she is from a Maryland Eastern Shore family (blue collar.)

Anyway, she carries on like they are just the most fabulous people who ever lived. Meanwhile I’m thinking she didn’t get the memo that doctors are not the “must have” rich husband since at least the 1980s. Now it’s all about tech bros and hedge fund managers.

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They did have some bad luck in that COVID happened when they left as working royals, but their constant complaining with Meghan throwing out accusations which can't be verified isn't helping them. Mostly it's their self involvement that is a big turn off to people and a constant source of entertainment for me and other DLs.

[quote]Chelsy really was perfect for him. A little trashy, but still with money and social position. He should have tried really hard to make that work.

They both always looked so happy when they were together.

Another staged paps likely trying to down play rumors that their marriage is on the rocks. And yet again Meghan wears ill-fitting clothes and a outfit choice that would be better suited on a woman 20 years older than Meghan.

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Harry doesn't seem to be smiling, and my guess is that they had no business with any of those businesses—other than the need to be photographed to give the appearance that they actually do anything.

I see the chicken legs are back out.

But they're mile-long, r348!

If that`s the way they both dress for business meetings; her looking like she popping in to CVS to pick some nail polish, him looking his usual unkempt Saturday morning coffee in chicken coop with a doobie chaser, then you can be certain they these a totally light in the loafers business meetings .... i.e replacing a lost post office box key .... but hell, make sure the paps are called!

Ugh, her two favorite fashion props are back -- the white boyfriend shirt and the ridiculous Panama hat. "I wasn't sure what to wear this morning so I just threw on one of Harry's shirts!" She's so easy, breezy, and spontaneous! And rumpled. She really should have gone to the ladies room and retucked before swanning out in front of the paps.

Those shorts are exactly the wrong length for Markle.

A just above the knee, or, at the shortest, lower mid-thigh trouser shorts would be better. No clingy biker shorts, just a classic cut width.

She really does have chicken legs and I agree the short length is a problem. His legs aren’t looking much better in those jeans.

Looking at those legs, she also looks like she might developing that condition women get when they wear stilettos too much. They shorten the calf muscles and make a thicker, stiffer Achilles tendons. This can cause long-term damage and other problems with feet.

And if anybody harboured doubts that this was anything but a pap stroll - check the photo credits.

Backgrid! Miraculously always there when the Harkles pop down to Coast Village Road for bagels and coffee.

r355 And no sign of the paparazzi cameras traumatise Harry like he claimed they did...!

Ozempic Booty

Markle used to have an ok ass. Not great by Hollywood standards, but ok and kinda perky. Now it’s flat and wide.

Don’t they take their kids anywhere?

What kids???

ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 07/01 **3**

Bookmakers are about to set some odds as to whether the ginger haired one ever returns to the marital home after he films his documentary overseas.

[quote] Prince Harry: I want to do a documentary about Africa

[quote] Netflix exec: Sure that could be interesting. What part of Africa, and on what subject?

[quote] Prince Harry: I... AFRICA!

Very interesting r360. I tried to read that site but the black background boggles my eyes.

[quote]The role Meghan thought she was getting is more like the one Lauren Sanchez is in.

Not quite. At least Meghan knew she was dealing with a stupid rube. right?

I get a kick out of, and respect, Lauren Sanchez.

She’s the GOAT “marrying to her advantage”; truly in a class by herself.

Forgot to add, it’s laughable, if true, Markle ever saw her herself in Sanchez’ league.

Markle didn’t even have the good sense to tell Harry to marry some other fool, and she’d be his mistress, money and swank condo upfront and maintenance costs paid for.

They ARE grifters. Admitting they only spend one week each on their foundation...it wouldn't even be that much time, but to let that information out into the public domain! She must have been bullying their handlers for that to 'slip' out.

No idea and no shame.

Oh, let's do yet another documentary about Africa! We'll have wildlife and stuff, and talk about systemic racism in the kingdom, the animal kingdom that is. And, of course, climate change, we have to talk about climate change!

Yes, we all eagerly await Harry's unique insights into "Africa." Is anyone surprised that African-American Meghan has declined to accompany him?

Growing up my mom and dad would have parties with their friends and we would have to go up and stay in our bedrooms, also they mainly took us to family style restaurants, they went to the upscale restaurants by themself.

But now I noticed with my brothers and their wives and with my coworkers/friends that people take their kids everywhere now and when we go to their house the kids are involved in everything (too much sometimes for me). So it is really strange that you don't see or hear about H&M taking their children shopping or to dinner or somewhere fun.

You have no idea about "fun" things the children might do. None, frau.

R370, I find this is also true with people and their dogs. We would never think of bringing the mutt anywhere, especially to other people's houses. It seemed to become a thing like 10 years ago.

r368 I do wonder what about Africa he thinks he's qualified to talk about. I get he likes the place. Sub-Saharan Africa is beautiful in places, and the paparazzi aren't dedicated enough to follow him into the bush. But he's spent at most what 6 months there in his entire life? He doesn't seem particularly knowledgeable about animals so wildlife show seems out, as does an Anthony Bourdain type food show. British royal does a normal travel show around Africa with history thrown in should be... Interesting given the locals blame his family for quite a lot. He's going to have to apologise 4 times an episode or get pilloried on Twitter. Only one I can see maybe working is Prince Harry does Lesotho since its not a country that gets covered much and he's in with the Lesotho royal family so they can do most of the heavy lifting.

r371 I am not a frau and neither do I have children but I am around a lot of families in my job and I have married brothers who have children. No I don't know everything H&M do with their children but the way they like to toot their own horns you would think we would hear about it.

[quote] You have no idea about "fun" things the children might do. None, frau.

What an ominous sounding statement.

If their future projects are not focused on themselves and family gossip, they will tank. No one care what they think about Africa or the environment. Harry has shot his wad, for now, with "Spare." Meghan's inevitable tell-all will be the only cash cow they have left, until we get "Spare at the Coronation: A Date that Will Live in Infamy " and other scandalous sequels.

Lauren Sanchez has a rocking bod and had a decent career before Bezos. She trumps Markle any day.

Lauren Sanchez fucked up her face though

Yup, what r376 said.

R373, supposedly, Harry's white savior mind believes 'Africa' belongs to him. One of his points of contention is that William was named Patron of the Tusk Trust (African elephant conservancy) which Harry dearly coveted. If Harry cared for actual conservancy or any other aspect of Africa, patronages would not matter and he would find another way to spearhead work. Additionally, if he really cared he would be happy for the visibility his brother brings to the cause. But no, it is merely a prize to be prised from his brother.

Bigger bedroom, more sausages, better patronages. This is a generational pattern for tpatronage. 😂

Former Buckingham Palace maid Janette McGowan lifted the lid on Andrew’s childish tantrum at Christmas 1999 — when he was 39.

She said household staff were alerted to an “ongoing situation” after the Duke of York had bagsied the wrong bathroom.

He then refused to move his toiletries when told that it had been reserved for his older brother and future king Charles, then 51.

“We were told not to move anything and not to touch anything in that bathroom because there was an ‘ongoing situation’.”

But she told how it was eventually sorted out by the Queen having words with Andrew while Charles waited patiently for a resolution.

Harry reuniting with The Spice Girls in Johannesburg would probably appeal to far more viewers.

All of the royal anti-poaching initiatives are a little cringey to me.

Looking forward to Harry's possible foray into Africa documentary making. He's obviously coming from a white savior, magical Negro mindset, so the clash of that with his rebirth as an unconscious-bias-doing-the-work true believer will be entertaining.

He should have lived in South Africa and lived out the movie 'White Mischief'

How did Harry go from that nice smooth hair in r382 to the brillo pad he now sports?

I still can't believe Harry didn't release a single podcast in the two and a half years he was at Netflix. He must have assumed someone else would simply come along and do everything for him - write the script, book the guests, etc. I suppose he's never known any different. In a strange way, it makes me feel a bit sorry for him. Being born into royalty must mean there are so many basic skills you never get the chance to develop. In the Oprah interview, he said that when Meghan told him she was depressed, he went to the Palace and they didn't help. You're a grown man, Harry, contact a doctor.

Meghan took possession of his flat iron, R386.

R385 Might be difficult, if only because “White Mischief” was set in Kenya’s Happy Valley, about 2500 miles or so from South Africa.

R386 - I asked the very same question on the "What happened to the Harry we all knew" thread. I had a hunch about cocaine abuse and Googled. Found a study with these results. This is what I posted

[QUOTE]Ultra-structural alterations of hair obtained from cocaine users -- In the examination of the hair shafts of cocaine abusers, it was found that the keratinized structure was damaged in all individuals and 97.2% of their hair samples, and hair shafts were detected as ribbon-like and irregular (Figure 2A). Electron microscopic examination of hair also reveals that cuticle layer, which is the most outer layer of hair shaft, was almost disappeared in 95.8% of the samples.

[QUOTE]Hasn't DL suspected the couple uses cocaine prior to some engagements? A few years ago a YouTuber posted a compilation of pre-Harry clips with Meghan grinding her teeth/jaw.

^Here's the source. Cocaine fries hair.

[quote]Cocaine fries hair.

Oh, NOW you tell me.

r384 Its going to be great! I'm guessing at least half of every episode will be given to contemplative reflection.

[quote] This is one of the original forts used by Europeans to kidnap millions of Africans and sell them into bondage in the new world *Harry gazes sadly into the middle distance for a full 10 seconds*

[quote] Here is the prison were Nelson Mandela was unjustly held for 27 years by the brutal apartheid regime *Harry gazes sadly into the middle distance for a full 10 seconds*

[quote] - of the thousands killed by Britain in the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising *Harry gazes sadly into the middle distance for a full 10 seconds*

[quote] Cocaine fries hair.

Disco Stu suddenly makes much more sense

[quote] Here is the prison were Nelson Mandela was unjustly held for 27 years by the brutal apartheid regime

...and his eventual release brought joy to South Africans that would only be matched when an American actress married a British prince!

[quote] How did Harry go from that nice smooth hair in [R382] to the brillo pad he now sports?

Some guys use a perm to make it look like they have more hair on top. The brillo pad hairs are actually longer when they're stretched out, with the curls used to cover more area as well give some "density."

Damn you, r396. I just had an intrusive thought of Meghan doing Harry’s hair every fortnight as a foreplay ritual.

r396 I picture him teasing and then backcombing his hair like my Mom used to do back in the day

Hair changes texture over time, and medication/drugs can change it; not sure about a perm. Stylists can add a tempirary fibrous substance to hair, plus there's photoshop.

Each passing day these two clowns drop down another notch.

The lack of self awareness is laughable, he actually put in his book that William looked worse bald. Does he not think we can see the top of his head?

They let a picture of Harry with Lili be published, it is just the side view of her but she has Thomas Markle all over her face.

Markle and Archie were there as well but somehow only pics of Harry and Lili were papped and sold but in wide pic from across the street they are all there. More hijinks.

Both the kids are rangas?

Lili dressed in a smocked dress and knee socks like a miniature Charlotte. She did look cute from what I could see.

The alliterate one sent her husband home from a party early because he was annoying her. Meghan Markle/Prince Harry (Meghan Markle Parties Without Prince Harry In LA, According To Rumors)

This was a blind reveal

Why the fuck would you copy Charlotte's clothing for your American daughter? Markle is a fucking lunatic. We're Royal!!! Don't you forget it bitches!!

What's a ranga?

Well, if only pictures of Harry and Lilibet were released you know Markle is PISSED

R408 I secretly love the fact that MM is pissed.

R407, it's slang for ginger, short for orang-utan.

Piss off the media and they choose the most interesting photos!

Given the hair, that photo has to be at least two years old.

R411 that photo represents how Harry is feeling now after he got married to a selfish, narcissistic, worm like MM. Has there been very many pictures of them together or even smiling? He is miserable. I bet she is sitting there thinking it’s all Harry’s fault, not owning all her dysfunctional mindset. I also think she thinks when she leaves Harry her fame will rise. Gurl, you are in for a wild downhill ride to ass town.

[quote] Given the hair, that photo has to be at least two years old.

Versions of that stock photo can be found as far back as five years now. The one below, which shows the entire photo, is from July 2018. As R411 suggests, many publications like to cut and enlarge his face from it when they're doing a somewhat 'less than glowing' report on him. Even the London Times has used it.

More interesting photos...

Basic media rule of headlines: 'could' and 'might' mean 'but won't'.

LOL yeah Meg, Harry is holding you back from superstardom

R414, Meghan looks unimpressed there too, which is unusual for her.

Oh my!

Oh Yawn, at r419

I find the fall of the Sussexes interesting.

It turns out that the astute Dler of long ago who posted after they left to find fame and fortune "The Queen has granted them Enough Rope" was prescient and accurate.

But there exists a dedicated contingent of their haters that find sex and how it's transacted as grist for their hate. The other side finds it somehow something to ridicule that William may like anal stimulation.

Sheeesh, Grow up.

That sin of what's depicted in that tweet isn't the sin of that tweet. It's that it simply isn't clever or funny.

I didn't find it clever or funny, more like oh my they went there

sure juan

r420 lighten up Moral Oral, we don't need a dissertation on some silly gossip

No , but apparently you, r432, need a dissertation on how sexual activity, or, its depiction isn’t good silly gossip.

It’s bush league, sophomoric, juvenile.

Again, grow up.

Meant for my post at r424 to be about r423.

Her lips look fake and awful in the pic on the left at r419.

Cut-price collagen?

Even Radar must be pissed with him...

Looks like a doofus.

Naturally the cocaine White House would cover for druggie Harry

r427 he is holding onto those scraps of brillo pad on his head for dear life in that photo

maybe no visa application was ever filled out in the first place? rode in on his royal status?

Why doesn’t he get a hair transplant? I get that it’s probably not the done thing for a future king, but he’s just a California boy now

Yeah, I don’t care about his visa status. Of course he’ll get special treatment. I’ll save my ire for how Melania Trump got hers.

When is the court expected to rule on Harry et al. lawsuit against the Mirror? If he loses after that excruciating witness statement and fact-free testimony, I'm going to laugh.

Good question, r433. And he was the star witness.

Interesting photo gold! The Mirror gets their revenge!

Like a tourist and a zoo monkey

"after THEY WAS snubbed" what kind of grammar is that for a newspaper?

Scroll down for shot of his bald spot.

Did the DimDims really think that because their fictional tale got a lot of views that it was award worthy?

It's the Mirror but allegedly Harry might be looking to get back into the royal family.

r438 and that was a few years ago. It is now worse. I read she tells him to wear a hat when he goes out so she must be embarrassed of it. Baldness can't be helped and normally I feel kind of bad for somebody losing their hair, but after his comments about his brother losing his looks it's pretty funny the same is happening to him.

I know it's petty but I am glad their series did not get an Emmy nom

Did these comments get lost amidst his "fucking grifter" tirade and Harry's hair-brained ideas for his own webcast? They're not as thunder-worthy, but entirely correct.

[QUOTE]Simmons, Spotify executive, also criticised the couple's one-sided approach. He doesn't believe Harry and Meghan are relying on a narrative that doesn't actually include any talent said: “What does he do? It’s one of those things where it’s like, what’s your talent? Why are we listening to you? So you were born in a royal family and then you left."

R443 Similar to the Netflix observation that kid's wouldn't give a fuck that the proposed animated show was produced by a duchess.

R440 There is no chance of that happening. Harry can never be trusted again, he can’t take back what he’s already said.

Actually, r445, while there is good reason to agree with you, still, I would not be surprised if, one day, Harry went back to the UK and somehow was eased back into duty.

I would be shocked if Dim simply lived in Britain again. Good luck getting past William and Catherine, numb nuts.

Meghan was photographed out at a Farmer's Market this past Tuesday but somehow the pictures only came out today, while Catherine makes a scheduled appearance at Wimbledon.

Meghan is nothing if not predictable.

What is so interesting about shopping at a Farmers' Market that Meghan called the paps? I'd be shocked if she actually bought anything. Kind of like when she was papped shopping with a "friend" (assistant) and carrying around an empty shopping bag.

And she brought her dog but no dogs are allowed?

R450 Meghan has a history of pap strolls when her sister in law has a high profile event. It’s a tactic to draw attention, which it mostly does, but for all the wrong reasons as people more and more see through it.

Apparently, the pap is Montecito native with some notoriety.

Again with the baggy shirt and this time an oversized bag.

R454 she’s obviously trying to get some pregnancy rumours going.

R442, it may be petty to glory in their lack of an emmy nomination, but it's still fucking fantastic that they were overlooked!

Another bit of bad news (more "bad luck?") And another unflattering picture.

The farmers' market pics don't look very upscale--busy streets in the background and flowers wrapped in plastic?

Harry looks really, really bad in that pic. Like stroke bad.

You'd think a Duchess would have her flowers delivered by a local shop. Maybe she's marching that hideous oversizes bag.

God he looks awful in that pic, kind of depressed and defeated. And he has to do something with that hair, it looks ridiculous.

He looks like he knows that it’s all falling apart and they have become a huge laughing stock. Regret is practically tattooed on his forehead. Unfortunately I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for him.

The only solution to his hair is to embellish with a big red clown nose

His wife is no oil painting either, with her hairline starting at the top of her head and bad skin. Ugly inside and out, they belong together.

Catherine looking slim and elegant at Wimbledon. Time for another pap stroll Megsie!

In my eyes, Katherine, the Princess of Wales, can almost do no wrong in her apparel choices.

From now on, however, I think she should avoid pleated skirts.

The combination of them and her age is giving her a slightly matronly look.

That’s a shame /s

Bad luck? More like a series of bad decisions on their part. From the Oprah interview, to merching a funeral wreath to the phony car chase. However, I think it was Meg's mocking having to curtsey to The Queen that really turned off a lot of people who may have been in their corner up to that point.

It seems they expected to be nominated and then win and so had a whole program worked out around this and now they are floundering.

Their delusion is eye-popping!

Meghan received a Gracie (for women in the industry) for either Archetypes or the doco, can't recall which. She didn't bother to go to the ceremony which was the week after the Hertz Prize and near catastrophic car chase. It's an event attended by all sorts of women on the industry from editors, writers and producers to actual top stars.

An excellent opportunity to rub elbows and subtlety network, but Meghan didn't show. Too embarrassed by the fallout from their near catastrophe or is she too embarrassed to be around women with actual talent and experience under their belts? Is she capable a non-superficial conversation that's not laden with therapy jargon and platitudes?

She knew that nobody would have a thing to say to her. That she would not be deferred to. That her title means nothing in that milieu. That she has no talent to showcase.

What on earth would Meghan say to women who are actually talented and accomplished? I doubt they are interested in her word salad that is focused on "me me me!!!"

R469: "Meghan received a Gracie (for women in the industry) for either Archetypes or the doco, can't recall which."

Archetypes and the award went to "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex."

I'm picturing an "Ivanka at the G20" situation, R471.

Radar is confirming what we already know.

Oh boo hoo! They are the ones who started the feud.

I don't particularly believe it, considering the source and considering the two devious bozos. A lot of Will They Or Not will ensue, with loads of anti-Royal Family crap about two losers who have nothing else going on and are desperate to stay in the news, any news.

Page Six (which has generally been pro-Meghan and Harry) is picking up the story now. Where there is smoke...

Radar Online.- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 'taking time apart' after public backlash, failed business deals, and public feuds with their loved ones.

Of course, in Harry's mind his marriage is falling apart because "my family literally cut me off financially." "All I wanted was enough money to get security and keep my family safe." Would he even dare suggest his father is responsible for his marital dissolution? I think so. You know that saying "insanity is repeating the same behavior expecting different results." These dolts are undisputed world titleists for scoring own goals very publicly.

I don't don't expect things to get much better once the court rules on his Mirror lawsuit. I am also eagerly awaiting a new episode of South Park. I hope the writers had the episode complete before the strike.

[QUOTE]The source added that the Sussexes — who moved to Montecito, Calif., in March 2020 after stepping back as senior members of the royal family — are “under tremendous financial pressure to fund their lavish California lifestyle, including their $14 million mansion and huge security costs.”

[QUOTE]“That stress, coupled with their emotional issues, has likely made life a living hell,” the source continued.

Text me when tbe papers are filed.

[quote]Harry doesn’t fit in Meghan’s tacky Tinseltown world,” a source told the outlet

lolz

Text me when she mails the ring back to Harry.

They tried to ride on Air Force One and were told no.

The nerve. They don’t even have the grace to be embarrassed.

Another excuse for not coming up with content...

Harry and Meghan's cheerleader appears to have "left" his job at Yahoo!.

Next the person on Olivia Munn's payroll at Yahoo needs to go. Most people I know don't even know who she is yet Yahoo often has cutesy baby articles about her and Mulaney.

H&M Allegedly banned from LA club.

[quote] God he looks awful in that pic, kind of depressed and defeated.

That has been his standard appearance since around the time of the wedding. Like he knows he has ruined himself and has lost hope. But perhaps he will soon cheer up.

Thursday, July 20, 2023 Blind Item #7

The ginger haired one has a realtor looking for a place for him in Africa. Just him.

Meghan scores an own goal again!

[QUOTE]Lady Victoria Hervey says Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been banned from a private members’ club in Montecito as people ‘don’t like paparazzi’.

The ginger haired one has a realtor looking for a place for him in Africa. Just him.

Harry: I need a place in Africa.

Realtor: Any location in particular? It's a pretty big place.

Harry: Perhaps someplace that Granny used to own where they'd still be interested in me.

CDAN is mostly fan fantasies.

I still don't think they will divorce any time soon. They have foisted this big love story on the public, their pride can't admit defeat.

Harry and Meghan don't have sex anymore and she drives him nuts begging him for it. Another reason he stays away.

Hollywood key players see H&M as an unjustifiable financial risk.

Dimbo always thinks everyone is interested in him. All the tv shows, interviews, PR statements (eg the invasion of Ukraine), and that fucking book about his every whinge and whine...humble he isn't.

And there is intense interest, it's just that's in seeing how much more he can fuck up his life.

“Spare” has become the most discarded book of the summer, according to travel company On the Beach. Over 100 copies of the controversial tell-all have been ditched in hotel rooms, garbage cans and by pools in resorts across Europe.

“We’ve never witnessed anything quite like it. Lost property offices in our most popular resorts are brimming with copies of ‘Spare,’” Chief customer officer Zoe Harris told the Express.

“We thought it was funny at first but, over the past few months, several other hotels have been sending the books back.”

Harris said the company now has “bookcases full” of “Spare” and has asked hotels to “stop sending them over otherwise we’ll never get rid of them all.”

I hate Rupert Murdoch, but, it can't be denied that Hollywood eventually siding with Will and Kate was predicted many times here, way, way before Page Six said so.

Now, I wonder if even WME can rescue this situation.

R498, there was an article saying she should have announced new projects in the amount of time since signing with WME.

She did! She's the new face of Dior! Oh, wait...

What a shame the strike has put a halt to her plans to star in The Bodyguard.

What can they do in Hollywood? And the way WAAGH! has been discarded, there's unlikely to be a second book.

I doubt Dimbo is conceding any ground to the BRF, though. Still getting high and playing video games, no doubt.

I hope the Middletons' genes eradicate those sharp, long, kinda pointy noses that Philip brought into the family.