Get ready to ‘elevate’ that ham sandwich and scatter flower sprinkles on your spag bol, because Meghan Markle is back to enrich our lives with a second series of her lifestyle show.
During the first episodes of With Love, Meghan, which aired in March, the duchess’s culinary tips included how to plate up a takeaway and tie a bow around a bag of shop-bought pretzels.
And, if this trailer promoting series two is anything to go by, things look set to be just as ridiculous.
In the same week it was revealed that Harry and Meghan’s Netflix deal has been ‘downgraded’, the Duchess of Sussex shows her skills slicing bread, crumbling cheese, cutting a cucumber and washing fruit. Groundbreaking.
‘There are easy ways to show up lovingly,’ she tells the audience in her trademark gobbledygook, as she packs what look like Jammie Dodgers into a cardboard box and ties string around them.
‘I love finding new ways to show people you care,’ she trills. The eight-part series airs on August 26 and comes just five months after the first.
Both were filmed at the same time. A ‘holiday’ special has been recorded too, for the Christmas period.
Netflix will surely be hoping that this follow-up performs better than the first instalment, which was mercilessly mocked by critics and failed to crack the streaming giant’s top 300 programmes.
Meghan Markle is back to enrich our lives with a second series of her lifestyle show. Pictured: The Netflix trailer for season two of Meghan Markle’s critically challenged show With Love, Meghan has dropped today
And, if this trailer promoting series two is anything to go by, things look set to be just as ridiculous
Meghan in the new trailer for the second season of her lifestyle and cooking show
Netflix claims: ‘Meghan returns with a fun and heartwarming new season, welcoming celebrity chefs, talented artists and beloved friends for hands-on adventures filled with laughter and discovery … Meghan and her guests explore bold flavours, experiment with new techniques, and discover simple ways to add beauty to everyday life.’
Special guests include: model and TV producer Chrissy Teigen, American chef Christina Tosi, British Michelin-starred chef Clare Smyth, restaurateur David Chang, British-Indian podcaster Jay Shetty and former Queer Eye presenter Tan France.
Not quite A-list, then, and some of her guests aren’t without controversies of their own.
Teigen, who is married to singer John Legend and has her own food brand, Cravings, is shown in Meghan’s home ‘getting creative and learning something new’.
‘Little things like this make me so happy,’ gushes Teigen who, four years ago, had to issue
an apology for her earlier cyber-bullying of US reality star Courtney Stodden, who was then just a teenager.
As well as prepping food, we see Meghan arrange flowers, sit with a potter’s wheel between her legs and make what might be a tea towel (it’s hard to tell).
Harry is nowhere to be seen –this is Meghan’s baby – but he gets a passing mention when she tells chef Jose Andres that Harry doesn’t eat lobster.
‘And you married him?’ jokes Andres. Meghan throws her head back and laughs – perhaps just a little too hard.
