Hollywood Reporter - Meghan and Harry

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Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (hollywoodreporter.com)

Why’d they all leave? What explains the churn? “Everyone’s terrified of Meghan,” claims a source close to the couple. “She belittles people, she doesn’t take advice. They’re both poor decision-makers, they change their minds frequently. Harry is a very, very charming person — no airs at all — but he’s very much an enabler. And she’s just terrible.”

I’m also curious as to why WME weren’t able to prevent this. The Sussexes were offered the opportunity to comment, so they had warning that this was coming. Were WME not able to stop this….or not minded to?

My personal rule of thumb is that anyone who describes us as Brits is a)clearly not British and b) knows nothing about this country.

And someone who claims most "Brits" think ol' Charles et al were chosen by God to rule has probably never met "a Brit" 😂

I'm also slightly puzzled as to what any of it has to do with a Hollywood publication writing about Meghan's poor treatment of staff in California.

Maybe the poster is just confused. All the talk of living off their own purse whilst recognising the money given, why they have their earnings, ie for selling out the royals, and leveraging their titles, and the fight for the British tax payer to pay for their security speaks to a lack of knowledge,

the whole men are held in the highest regard for bullying and abusing staff like Megan is accused of , is deeply disturbing though. That goes past confusion and into a level of something really distributing.

I think this is a very good analysis.

Plus the later comment that Prince Harry must have known what was up, but still insisted (including in Spare) that it was Palace smears and planted stories.

In the HR interview on X, that is said to be simply not true. And that what they've gone public with is confirmed by multiple sources.

So if they are right, the malevolent, leaky, story-planting, feeding to the wolves is exposed as all Harry's invention. Which means there is unlikely to be any way back to British public life for him. But as so many accounts say how happy the family is in Montecito, the return to British public life is unlikely to be on his horizon (I think the recent spate of stories were the end of silly season speculation, not a sign that he wants to return to The Firm)

But this article is mainly about Meghan, so I suspect the direct consequence will fall much more on her. And what was already a key thing - the launch and success of the cookery/lifestyle/friendship show (+/- ARO or successor) - has assumed even greater importance.

The most recent thing I've seen was a puff piece (from her side; not from Netflix) saying release early next year.

How could they stop it. It’s clearly true. You can’t stop true without a super injunction

There is a persistent Internet Myth which wrongly talks about the Divine Right as if it was a present concept, not one that was abolished in the Glorious Revolution of 1688

And which really only the Stuarts believed in anyway. It wasn't a fundamental aspect of the English monarchy.

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starts off ok but towards the end there is the systematic humiliation of the reporter in the guise of flirtation- snatching his cue cards and reading from them, showing them to camera and disparaging his handwriting, taking control of the interview by reading out his prepared questions, suggesting he had mis spelled her name, and laughingly implying with hand gestures they had made a connection. ( he's an ordinary looking, slightly overweight guy).

Sorry, I realise this was said a while ago and I'm just catching up, but that's exactly how I saw it.
I wasn't sure in what capacity the interviewer was there - half wondered if it was for a college magazine - but it was obvious he was inexperienced and flustered. Meghan wrestling his questions out of his hand and poking fun at them made me feel so sorry for the poor chap.

In the video statement though, Harry has taken a fatal hit. As he, the editor, has said it’s not true the palace made up these allegations to smear megan so Harry has lied in spare, their reporting shows it to be true, she is abusive and bullying, and she’s doing it to her American staff too.

so Harry is fatally wounded here,

megan has been bullying and abusing people. Harry knew and witnessed it. Instead of having the balls to stop it. Or even just look the other way, he stood up and lied it was his family making it up. Choosing to smear his own.

that’s low. As low as it gets. Can you Imagine doing something so so low?

I don't think the notes they are working from have been updated yet to cover this particular debacle. Hence the repetition of old material.

@Sparklywhiteteeth WME probably couldn't stop it by legal means, but major PR firms have ways of ensuring that negative stories about their clients don't make it into the press. That's sort of their job. They could threaten to deny the publication access to their A list clients, for example.

The fact that that hasn't happened suggests that WME don't care enough about Meghan to bother. And given that they've supposedly been repping her for some time without her scoring any lucrative deals, you can't really blame them. Do we know if she's still on their roster?

when Ellen had something similar it killed her career. Megan is no Ellen.with no where near the success that Ellen has enjoyed. I can’t see how Megan can come back from this,

irelevant of spaceshooter thinking being abusive is held in high regard when it’s a man, the truth is male or female, being an abusive bully is always the end of the road in the developed world.

I don’t think hr would give two shiny shits about being denied access to Megan and Harry.

Oh do you mean their other a list clients, I don’t think any of their a list clients would allow that in this situation,

Of course not, but what I'm saying is that one way PR firms prevent negative stories is by telling the publication something along the lines of 'If you print this hit piece about Client C then you don't get that front page interview with Client A.' WME don't seem to have been bothered to do something like this for Meghan, if she's even on their roster anymore.

What’s more hateful than bullying? How can you defend the indefensible?

I do feel at times that it can be like dealing with the parents of a bully, who’s child can do no wrong in their eyes. Thus enabling the abysmal behaviour. The fans of H&M seem to be able to excuse anything and everything.

This does feel like a turning point - I guess Meghan might still get away relatively unscathed if nothing else comes out, and if she can argue that it's all just misogyny and/or coming from staff who are simply disgruntled because they are not talented enough to keep up with someone as brilliant as her.

But just as likely imo is a situation where more articles with new info come out and Meghan ends up kind of cancelled. This would be a nightmare for her given that there isn't much to fall back on - she can't just concentrate on eg her business career or her writing career because they don't exist, and what brands will want to be associated with her now? Who will pay her to carry their bag for a pap walk? Which foreign governments will want her? All the humanitarian / compassion / joy / kindness shtick is obviously no longer possible for her either.

I also think it's significant that there doesn't seem to have been any response, either direct or indirect, from the Sussexes or their representatives (unless of course you count posters on here claiming it's all down to a random Brit 😂)

Perhaps Meghan required the big wigs at WME to curtsy, call her ma'am and tried to bully them? Perhaps they have offered her opportunities and she's turned them down and refused to listen advice about how to progress. Perhaps they are exasperated about all the big deals she has blown and all the non starter projects that have made her look foolish. She's a nobody who would not have had their representation but for her marriage. Maybe they have decided she's not worth the effort anymore.

spaceshooter

Most Brits think royals are a superior breed chosen by God to rule.

Oh, right.
I thought that only a few crumbly royalists liked the RF and they'd soon die off leaving a young, M&H loving population.
Now apparently most of us think the RF are God's Chosen Own.

Hard to keep up with all the weirdness.

A BIG thank you, for hoisting this whole thing down to earth and making it real.

It is just me that thinks Harry has something to do with this ... put them up to it??

Now there's a thought. Harry is the insider talking to Hollywood Reporter!!

Plus if they’ve got 12 people to
speak, they must have tried to contact even more……so they would have known HR was trying to get a story for weeks with this info getting back to them.

Maybe explains the PR push in recent weeks.

Why didn’t WME kill the story? Maybe they have in the past but it’s out of control now?

The consistency in the stories from different publications over the years is pretty telling. Remember the story that even the Queen told Meghan not to be rude to the wedding caterers.

I thought that too. Apart from the 'working with the couple' but if the HR statement it could literally be him.