EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Meghan Markle in tricky lifestyle brand launch as Netflix won’t air her cooking show until 2025
Meghan’s global troubles with her American Riviera Orchard jam have been exacerbated by Netflix.
The launch of the jam is inextricably linked to a cooking show that has already been recorded for Netflix, but it appears that Netflix is in no rush to air the show.
Somewhere in mid-2025 is planned. Will we see her new range of dog treats then?
When she revealed it on the same day that Kate attended Trooping the Colour – her first public appearance of the year – the Princess of Wales won that headline-grabbing battle, with a footman dubbing Meghan the Pedigree Chump.
Netflix has exacerbated Meghan Markle’s global brand name problems
Her American Riviera Orchard jam (pictured) is linked to a cooking show that Netflix apparently doesn’t want to air anytime soon
The show is now scheduled for 2025. Will we get to see her new line of dog treats then?
Emmanuel Macron’s spending just over £400,000 on a banquet for King Charles’ state visit is said to have shocked the late Queen.
The notoriously frugal monarch had reduced her dinners from eight courses to four and in 2011, for Barack Obama, she eliminated soup and limited the number of courses to three.
Instead, she surprised her guests with George IV’s gold and silver tableware, pudding served on Queen Victoria’s 1877 Minton, and fruit on George III’s hand-painted Tournai.
Prince Andrew, concerned about the palace budget for replacing missing teaspoons, would often sneak into a corner at receptions to spot miscreants. Sometimes he would ask the Master of the Household’s office for a report on the losses.
A former member whispers that teaspoons regularly disappeared, as did napkins, cutlery in general, butter dishes, sugar tongs, glasses and, in the past, ashtrays.
Basically anything that can be quickly and easily hidden in a ‘pocket, bosom or handbag… and avoid the attention of the Duke of York!’
While relaxing at her beach hut in West Sussex, Kate Winslet is approached by a passing teacher who struggles to identify her.
“I’ll give you a hint,” Winslet offers. “I was in a movie about a boat.”
“Bridget Jones!” the teacher shouts triumphantly.
Kate Winslet was approached by a passing teacher who had difficulty identifying her
Former Match Of The Day presenter Des Lynam, 81, recalls his first BBC salary of £2,030 a year in 1969. Radio Times asks him if his successor Gary Lineker is worth £1.3m a year.
“I don’t think you can justify it based on what a nurse or a firefighter does, but it’s the market,” he says.
“You can’t say that someone who says a few words on a television screen is worth more than someone who saves lives but dictates money. He is a very happy person.”
The closing credits of the BBC’s final spectacle of the Paris Olympics featured more names than a Ben Hur-themed Hollywood blockbuster, raising questions about how much the coverage cost.
Certainly more than the Beeb paid the International Olympic Committee for the London Games in 1948. The Corporation offered £1,000, but the IOC gave the cameras away for free.