Just catching up on last thread.
Someone asked whether an actual blooper real wouldn't be fun to watch? Not for me. I would feel very uncomfortable watching someone quiet shout at people doing their jobs, bullying people who know better into doing what she wants, a dictator strutting around in high heels or Hermes slides or even barefoot manipulating and switching it on/off for the camera.
I do also notice that her munificence seems to be reserved for men who look deeply sceptical. If that video is a teaser, lord help us. Aren't teasers meant to be the best bits?
Also, there's something about the lighting on that set/kitchen that makes the whole thing feel really depressing. Maybe it's meant to be gentle light, moody? To me it just looks like a wet and overcast day in suburbia. I'm sure the outside shots will be better.
Welsh cakes and spanakopita are THE BOMB.
Cake and pancake mixes are shit and disastrous for anyone seeking to launch a brand, let alone one based on cooking and entertaining. Fuck I'd be so pissed off if someone invited me over and fed me a box mix cake! They're the easiest bloody thing to make.
The focaccia didn't prove overnight, hence why it looked flat. It needs a short prove, a mix and then a longer (8-12 hour) prove. It's that darn attention to detail again.
The clothes are so, so, so wrong. That blush pink shirt and trouser combo is from the Jane Pauley interview. Love a rewear but that really isn't lifestyle-show-shot-in-a-kitchen clothing. Gah, why can't she get these things right??
Finally: I'm going to repeat my suspicion that they have no team. When you imagine Harry and Meghan as they might have been without the RF connection, they're (her) a mediocre, cosmetically enhanced, excessively skinny ex-actress past her best and (him) a terminally thick and entitled bozo with issues. They don't deserve to be taken at all seriously and the only reason they are is because of who he was born to. Without A LOT of help, these two have nothing to offer in a very crowded field. They come across as having nothing to offer right now, and that I think is because they have not much help at all. There is no social media team. There is no on-tap stylist and MUA and hairdresser. There is no on-tap security other than that one guy who's always photographed with them. There is no on-tap PR person or on-tap booking agent. All these things cost an ungodly amount of money and these two don't want to spend it even if they have it. This all looks like amateur hour because it is amateur hour: it's just the two of them, a laptop and phone each, and an awful lot of self-belief and aggrandisement. For all their tuning their backs on the RF, they are holding onto it with a white-knuckled grip.