Netflix deal, looking like it may be over for H&M

[Thedom]

The rumours have been doing the rounds for a while, but Puck News now reporting it, which means it is very likely that their contract with Netflix will not be renewed.

"The streamer is not expected to renew its five-year, $100 million deal signed in 2020 with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Meghan’s passion project, the animated kids show Pearl, has already been canceled, and the unscripted cooking and polo offerings didn’t connect the way the royal couple’s Harry & Meghan did. "

puck.news/the-best-and-worst-deals-of-peak-tv-part-1/

Rats leaving a sinking ship.

This is the original article, but I think she has been seen with the Sussex's (or Meghan at least) since then.

To be fair, if she is still with them in a PR capacity, she isn't very effective.

Now the Sun is at it:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/30201675/prince-harry-overshadowed-meghan-return-uk/

"Haz Been" - oh dear. Of course he's the Spare, what did he expect? Top billing ahead of his wife?!

Jeez, that is a really sad photo of Harry.

@Serenster If Ashley is "the hand" from that red carpet, then yes, I think she is still there. Pretty sure she's been there during their recent jaunts. This is an article from April of this year saying she has a new underling.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/harry-meghan-kyle-boulia-deputy-press-secretary-1235976179/

Harry really needs to park the idea of getting back in the family fold. He needs years of not leaking and drip feeding gossip to the press behind him before he can do that.

He needs to reconnect with his old friends, buy an isolated very private farmhouse that Meghan wouldn’t loathe (though I guess we know they’re not her thing these days!) and come back every few months for 5 days with no one ever finding out, catching up with god children or whatever, and he’s proved he doesn’t leak like a SIEVE, then they might be up for having him to Balmoral when everyone else has rushed off.

Megan loves the microphone doesn't she?

Yes, although the only places that you can find anything about the WhatsApp group now are on those ridiculous AI YouTube channels that clearly make up stories hoping to catch out the critics. The Times article was the only "legitimate" source for that story I can remember, and it went pouff.

Nearly as much as she loves herself.

I can’t imagine Harry would enjoy an isolated farmhouse. I suspect he’s not much good at being alone and without much to do. I’m sure he gets plenty of that at the moment . He isn’t the type to have a rich inner world. I suspect he misses going for drinks with his pals and attending social events.

He looks like her hostage.

She loves the sound of her own voice, the louder the better.

They’ve really nailed the headline haven’t they - he’s the spare in his own marriage. I don’t think it gets more brutal than that and will really hit home for him.

i wonder if we will start to see a few PR pics coming out soon of him at the forefront leading her to counter the Colombia pics? Is the American reporting of that trip really making it look as bad as it is here?

As for the NDAs, wouldn’t it be fascinating to know!

@Toastbuttermarmaladetea

"Sounds like a decomposing corpse"

Quite accurate

Google is your friend, but it was a well known thing. These threads are a fascinating look into the human psyche and how easily people can be manipulated by the media, and something as lame as the Daily Fail at that! It would be very interesting to know the IQ of some of the posters and how educated they are 🤔 People only see what they want to. Also love how racism is ok given the context, which you seem to be implying! Wow! 😳

'Google is your friend' seems to be popular on these threads. If there are so many examples, as you claim, why not simply provide an example?

”google is your friend” is the answer imo for those that don’t seem to have an answer. If that makes sense.

It does.

There have been numerous occasions when people have seen pigs flying.

Really? Give an example of one of those occasions.

'Google is your friend'...

Google being my friend tells me that one of H&M's aids set up contacts with UK tabloids, including the Daily Mail, to release information about the couple. So yes, their PR/publicists leaking to the tabloids.
Ashley Hansen, head of communications.

I also read that Ashley was part of their "Global Communications Team". Unfortunately, she has quit - correct me if I'm wrong - (please use Google) the 9th member of staff to quit in a short space of time?
Anyway. If you have a Global Communications Team, you're not going to shy away from the tabloids.

She was also head of the couples PR and remember last year there were a lot of ‘were absolutely fine, not divorcing’ PR going around August last year, she then leaves at the end of that year.

This is a great article demonstrating how H&M use the US tabloids and how they tackled the divorce rumours.

https://www.thecut.com/2023/08/prince-harry-meghan-divorce-rumors.html

https://archive.ph/aUHC9

@CarmelaBrunella The article I linked above from April 2024 is about an assistant hired to work under Ashley. She's also in the footage at the ESPY award. Unless she's gone really recently, she's still there.