The efforts of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to resuscitate her career are flatlining, according to a new report.
According to In Touch, Meghan’s recent ideas to keep the cash and fame flowing are foundering, and even A-listers who once gravitated to her are keeping their distance.
“Hollywood is glam and glitz on the outside, but the real stars have worked hard for their success — and you get the impression hard work isn’t really Meghan’s thing,” what In Touch called a showbiz source said.
“She was a nobody when she married Harry in 2018 but immediately thought she deserved a place at the A-listers’ table. Now, after all her failures, those A-listers — and the royals — are laughing at her!” the source said.
What In Touch said was a palace source noted that the couple have achieved their current state of disfavor.
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“Almost everything they’ve tried has ended in disaster,” the courtier said.
“Meghan gets greedy,” the source continued. “She wants everything all at once, and it’s backfiring on her again. She’s become a total joke and is overplaying her hand.”
The launch of Meghan’s lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, drew jeers, the report said.
“Meghan had the opportunity of a lifetime by marrying a real-life prince,” the palace source said. “She had the potential of being in the world’s spotlight forever just by accepting her royal role. But she gave that up for bigger things, and now she’s flogging jam.
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“No wonder people are laughing, on both sides of the Atlantic! We hear Harry’s laid down the law. He’s mortified by the blowback over their sketchy projects and is insisting he won’t tolerate another show business disaster. If the new projects go belly-up again, they are going to have to find new ways to pay their bills, including crawling back to the royal family,” the palace source said.
In February, Meghan made a deal with Lemonada Media to host inspirational content and replicate her “Archetypes” podcast. Then came the lifestyle brand and an announcement she was doing a lifestyle show for Netflix.
“That clearly didn’t go down well with Lemonada,” the palace source said, noting that the media firm shoved Meghan’s projects off until 2025. “They surely expected to be Meghan’s priority project, but she must have decided she had bigger fish to fry with Netflix.”
“It’s another miscalculation by Meghan,” the palace source said.
“Meghan’s new ventures are destined to fail. She has no experience in building a brand, and someone must tell her she needs to be more likable to be marketable. If the public doesn’t like you, they won’t get behind you, and no amount of money you throw at the problem will make it go away,” the palace source said.
“Meghan is a control freak who’s finding out you can’t order someone to like you. She should have learned that lesson during her disastrous time at the palace, but she’s too blinded by her own ambition to see it,” the palace source said
A New York Post report on Meghan’s woes said in its headline that she was being “laughed out of Hollywood.”
In a recent column in the New York Post, Caroline Bullock said the launch of Meghan’s brand by sending strawberry jam to A-list pals “combines all of Markle’s worst traits: the ego, pretensions, social climbing, limpet-like association with fellow rich and powerful.”
“What’s more, the eloquence and spontaneity that could impress when making school visits or casual speeches have given way to therapy-speak cliches in self-congratulatory podcasts,” she wrote.
On Wednesday, Prince Harry will give a reading at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral to mark 10 years of the Invictus Games for wounded soldiers, according to the Express. Meghan will not join him.
“She does not want to return to Britain in a hurry. There are many people here who won’t be sad about that. Meghan will be wary of getting booed at St Paul’s,” commentator Richard Eden said.
