Meghan Markle Throws Netflix Under the Bus

British royal family news reveals that after her Netflix cooking show bombed, Meghan Markle has the perfect excuse—she never wanted to do it on the first place.

Yet Meghan went to great lengths to market her runny jam and paint herself as a domestic goddess. The result? The usual Markle Fail.

As the Daily Mail notes, the show got nothing better than “stinging reviews and weak ratings” and now the Discount Duchess wants to distance herself from her latest failure. Here’s what to know.

The Duchess of Sussex Is a Failure Queen

Meghan was eager to rebrand herself as the next Goopster but now she’s saying that she “was initially shy to reveal her homemaking ways.” Maybe she should have listened to the nagging voice in her head?

At the Time100 Summit Meghan told the audience that it was actually Bela Bajaria, chief content officer of Netflix, who suggested she should do a cookery/lifestyle show.

Modest Meghan cooed: “I hadn’t at the onset thought that was something I wanted to share in that way.”

Modest Meghan Blames Netflix for Failure

Then she said “Creatively we worked as partners to really find a way for it to land and for me to be able to share it and just have fun, which I think is really the goal in this chapter.”

Just as with her newest podcast fail, Meghan struggled to find VIPs to feature in her project–unless you count Mindy Kaling.

The Netflix show was connected to the delayed debut of her lifestyle merch via As ever: jam, crepe mix, and honey. The ‘With Love, Meghan’ debut was also delayed, from a January launch date to March. Critics and fans alike were in agreement that the wait was not worth it.

Even domestic doyenne Martha Stewart got in a dig this week, asking an interviewer if the show was on yet.

Meghan’s Netflix Show Savaged by Critics

WLM was described by reviewers as “gormless lifestyle filler” marked by a “tangible desperation.”
Another critic said Meghan’s vanilla efforts show that Walmart Wallis is “attempting to cling to fame by any means possible.” Ouch.

But wait, there’s more! The Guardian described the WLM as “sensationally absurd and trite … a ghastly artefact of a particular cultural era that recently met its apocalypse.”

Part of the problem was Meghan’s misrepresentation. She claimed the show would provide viewers a “intimate glimpse” of her life at home but it was filmed in a rental property and showed glimpses of the hands and feet of Harry’s kids, while Harry was allowed in the last episode for like 30 seconds.

So much for truth in advertising.

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