PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Harry and Meghan weren’t just lampooned by South Park’s satire they were harpooned

Could it only be a couple of months since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex toasted America by accepting the Ripple Of Hope award at a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation gala in New York?

Honored for their humanitarian work highlighting racism and mental health issues, they were on top of the world and in illustrious company: Ukraine’s President Zelensky was another honoree.

And yet today, despite Meghan’s six-part Netflix documentary series, her popularity has plummeted with 45 percent of Americans believing they should be stripped of their titles.

But it gets worse. Now they are the absolute target of ridicule on one of the most popular comedy shows in the US, one watched by the young demographic that their own Netflix series was aimed at.

This week, the satirical animated series South Park brutally lampooned them with an episode in which a couple, one with a reddish beard and the other unmistakably Meghan, embark on ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’. He carries a banner that reads: “We want our privacy!!” She holds one that says: ‘Stop looking at us!’

In this ruthless takedown, Harry is plugging in his autobiography, called not Spare but Waaagh. Named the Prince and Princess of Canada, they are portrayed as self-pitying hypocrites flaunting their green credentials as they fly around the world in private jets.

In one scene, they walk onto the court at a basketball game with Meghan yelling through a megaphone: “We’re here because privacy is a basic human right.” Appearing with Harry on a TV chat show, Meghan says: “We just want to be normal people, this attention is so hard.”

When the host asks Harry if maybe his social media-savvy wife really doesn’t want his privacy, the pair rage to continue their privacy world tour.

It’s excoriating. Although I’m not a fan of Meghan, even I thought the cruelty went too far in some places. But satirical comedy doesn’t work unless it has some element of truth in it.

Whatever their plans to take America by storm, Megs and Harry’s show is failing spectacularly. South Park not only lampooned the Sussexes, it harpooned them.

Superintendent? Oh just call me Super!

A newcomer to Twitter, I tweeted Thursday after criticism of police over the search for Nicola Bulley: “Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith at yesterday’s press conference: skintight navy dress, heels, straight hair, whatever It happened to a policeman.” uniform! Or is she auditioning for Love Island for middle-aged people? Show some respect for a missing mother!

Last night, almost 4.5 million people had seen it. I hope the next time we see DS Smith, she’s dressed appropriately.

Joanna Lumley says her chain-smoking, champagne-drinking, cocaine-snorting alter ego Patsy on Absolutely Fabulous would never take over today.

The Awakening Brigade would call her off in a heartbeat, especially for her emotional abuse of Eddie’s snowflake daughter, Saffy.

Even one of Patsy’s most famous quotes, “The last mosquito that bit me had to go to the Betty Ford Clinic,” would have to carry a health warning about insect abuse.

One hell of a Raquel

Upon learning of the death of 82-year-old Raquel Welch, I was reminded of a friend’s experience sitting next to her in first class on a flight 20 years ago.

Even walking to the bathroom, he exuded sexuality as if he were on the red carpet.

Then, finishing his meal, she wrapped those famous lips around a long stick of cheese and ate it so slowly he wished he’d packed his smelling salts.

Rihanna is ridiculed for having two stylists prepare her son for a Vogue cover shoot when he is wearing only a diaper.

It’s refreshing that a star would allow her son’s face to be photographed, but how silly that he refuses to reveal his name.

praise the good

Graffiti artist Banksy’s latest installation ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’ of a 1950s woman in an apron with a black eye and missing teeth throwing a man into a freezer will be preserved in a gallery.

It’s a powerful message for shaming violent men, but on Valentine’s Day?

Can’t we occasionally celebrate the fact that most guys are nice guys with big hearts who just want to make us women happy?

Kudos to Cate Blanchett for standing up to the awakened mob attacking artists like Pablo Picasso because they acted “in a way that could now be considered unacceptable.”

She said it means that “we will never deal with the minds of the time and we are destined to repeat those things.”

Picasso’s treatment of women was criticized by his granddaughter Marina. But she wasn’t upset enough to refuse her share of the fortune from him.

Helena Tartan Tribute

The most moving moment at Vivienne Westwood’s funeral came courtesy of her friend Helena Bonham Carter, who was wearing one of her creations and said: “This dress does all the work for you.”

Every other actress on the red carpet hasn’t eaten in weeks. I’ve had a full English breakfast.

Lifted breasts, longer legs, instant engineering but no lipo.

A close second in the non-religious service was when Vivienne’s friend Nick Cave sat at a grand piano and sang his hit Into My Arms, a song as beautiful as any hymn.

News Bruce Willis has dementia that reminds me of when they told us about Mom’s Alzheimer’s. The doctor said it was ‘a family disease’ as it would affect us all. He did it. The best advice? It doesn’t matter if mom can’t remember who you are, you know who she is.

Good news for men, their penises have grown in the last 30 years from an average of 4.8 inches to 6 inches today. Even better for them is that scientists say it is due to sedentary lifestyles and junk food. So we women should stop complaining the next time you order extra cheese with your pizza delivery while watching footie on TV.

After a university in Virginia was renamed the TC Williams School of Law because TC was a slave-owning 19th-century tobacco manufacturer, his great-great-grandson Robert C. Smith says, ‘Since the Williams family’s money is tainted, show your ‘virtue’ and give it all back to me.

All $3.6 billion.