It was back in 2020 that Meghan and Harry secured their Netflix deal reportedly worth $100 million after quitting as working royals and demonstrating their willingness to trash the Royal Family they had left behind.
Since then, fortune has smiled less favourably on them, as evidenced by the humiliatingly less lucrative contract they signed with Netflix in August, a more laissez faire arrangement where Megs and Harry have to go cap in hand to pitch ideas to the streaming giant before any money is forthcoming.
But that did not stop Meghan striding forth at the Fortune Most Powerful Women In Business summit this week, and comparing the deal she and Harry have struck with the one Barack and Michelle Obama have themselves agreed with Netflix.
Which even for Megs is a laugh out loud moment. How absurd of her to think her vacuous jam-making series could be on a par with anything produced by the Obamas, with their immense global appeal and stellar achievements.
It is beyond parody for her to associate her ‘career’ as a home cook with that of the twice-elected former US President and his wife Michelle.
In August, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex agreed to a more laissez faire arrangement where they have to go cap in hand to pitch ideas to Netflix before any money is forthcoming
That did not stop Meghan comparing the deal she and Harry have struck with the one Barack and Michelle Obama have themselves agreed with Netflix
You must wonder what planet Meghan thinks she’s on, appearing at the Fortune Most Powerful Women In Business event in the first place
Yes the Obamas have renegotiated their original Netflix deal worth nearly $1billion through their media company Higher Ground, but they are still working full tilt for the company and according to the Hollywood online magazine Deadline, Higher Ground was one of Netflix’s top suppliers of film and TV projects.
Only a fool would fail to realise the Obamas are in a completely different stratosphere to the Sussexes, despite Meghan’s attempts to ingratiate and associate herself with them.
And you must wonder what planet Meghan thinks she’s on, appearing at the Fortune Most Powerful Women In Business event in the first place. There she is, turning up alongside extraordinary female CEOs of some of the biggest companies in America each earning tens of millions of pounds a year for their business acumen.
Her qualifications? She’s a TV actress who married a Prince, launched vindictive attacks on his family for cash and she’s now sprinkling dried flowers about in a streamed series that’s been universally derided.
For her to think she’s on the same level as these women, who have forged their way to riches and power through their own talent rather than famous connections, shows Meghan has no shame.
Another incredible moment last week was when both Meghan and Harry vaingloriously and without a shred of self-awareness accepted the Humanitarians Of The Year Award at a gala in New York for their work in mental health raising awareness through their Archewell Foundation.
It is extraordinary that the entitled couple who have caused untold misery to the Royal Family, even as Harry’s father King Charles and sister-in-law Kate fight their battles with cancer, have the gall to parade themselves as humanitarians. Because they so often appear to care about no one but themselves.
Let’s not forget that true humanitarians put others first, and live their lives trying to be kind and generous promoting wellbeing wherever they go. Yet the Sussexes seem to have done the very opposite, promoting themselves at the expense of others – and all for profit.
Not for nothing did the Spotify executive and popular podcaster Bill Simmons famously dismiss her and Harry as a pair of ‘grifters’.
Meghan’s decision to associate herself with the Obamas and their Netflix trajectory was an own goal of monumental stupidity.
Everyone can see that the former US President and his wife earned their credentials as hugely talented individuals and hard-working humanitarians. Not something that can be said of the Duke and Duchess of Delusion.
Kiss me Katy!
Singer Katy Perry has been spotted kissing former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on a yacht – and neither can believe their luck
Singer Katy Perry has been spotted kissing former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on a yacht. Friends say ‘he can’t believe someone as glamorous as Katy is interested in him, whereas she’s flattered such a respected politician wants to date her’. Lucky Katy. This is the first media hit she’s had since her single Part Of Me in 2012.
Woody Allen’s response on hearing that his famous former muse, lover and co-star Diane Keaton, 79, had died was that he was ‘extremely distraught’ because her passing made him at 89 ‘think of his own mortality’. Which reinforced what many of us thought about him all along – he’s a nasty little narcissist.
MI5 boss… Can Q believe it?
Maybe I’ve watched too many 007 movies but the head of MI5 Ken McCallum is underwhelming as he vents his anger over the failure to put on trial two Britons accused of spying for China. He doesn’t look like the head of a counter-terrorism unit. He’s more like Ben Whishaw’s Q – the nerdy guy who makes widgets for Bond.
As Tom Cruise splits with actress Ana de Armas, we’re left wondering why he is still single at 63. Maybe as he’s already reportedly paid ex Nicole Kidman tens of millions and third wife Katie Holmes $3million a year for each of the six years they were married, like lots of divorced men he now thinks marriage – and the cost – is not a mission he wants to accept ever again.
Yes she’s the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin but, seriously, would this sweet but ordinary looking girl really be the face of a fashion campaign if Apple’s parents weren’t so famous?
Even the serpent she’s holding looks bored rigid.
Apple Martin, daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, stars in a new campaign for London-based brand self-portrait
Bruce Springsteen’s new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, with Jeremy White Allen playing the singer as a young man, gets mostly awful reviews. This won’t deter us fans who won’t have him sold down the river by snobbish critics and would happily drive all night to see the movie which is in cinemas from October 24. Meanwhile, as we can’t get enough of The Boss, we all planned to watch him on The Graham Norton Show last night. Glory days, indeed.
William should put the boot in
After outrage over the banning of supporters of an Israeli club attending a match at Aston Villa, isn’t it time for Prince William as a lifelong Villa supporter and patron of the Football Association to man up and take the lead in condemning the ban. A word from our future King would do more to shore up our increasingly fragile monarchy after the Prince Andrew scandals than he and Kate underwhelmingly sipping glasses of apple cider vinegar on a surprise visit to Northern Ireland, as they did last week.
A staggering 60 per cent of parents don’t think their children need to be toilet-trained before starting school, a poll reveals. The solution’s simple: kids dropped off in a nappy should be sent home with their parent, who is then reported to social services for child neglect.
Kong star Jack is now King sized
Much attention is focused on actresses when they pile on the pounds, but appearing with former King Kong co-star Naomi Watts a larger-than-life Jack Black is now so ginormous he could have played the gorilla himself.
Appearing with former King Kong co-star Naomi Watts a larger-than-life Jack Black is now so ginormous he could have played the gorilla himself
Westminster Wars
The number of households living in temporary accommodation is at a record high of 132,000 while we have 32,000 asylum-seekers in hotels at a cost of more than £2billion a year. More statistics that will bring the roof crashing in on Starmer’s government.
As a report shows 35 per cent of Jewish people now feel unsafe living in Britain, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan says: ‘The London I know isn’t a city where people are scared to go to their synagogue.’ So how does he explain that most synagogues and Jewish schools now require police protection?
Wonderfully mischievous of Jeremy Clarkson to hint he may run against Ed Miliband in his Doncaster seat at the next election as he was born there and is a critic of Ed’s Net Zero agenda. What irony. Petrol-head Jeremy would likely win by a landslide.
