As Ever Part V . Two stunt lemons - With Love , Meghan

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For all who love Brand Management , glamorous lifestyles , and Bingo

Previous thread here www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family/5283793-as-ever4-as-usual?page=40&reply=142596997 ( link with thanks to my lovely devoted friend StickyStickySticky who just loves to see me succeed )

her long-lasting love of cooking, entertaining, and hostessing with ease.

Shouldn't that be 'long standing'?

And how does one hostess 'with ease'? Is 'hostess' a verb now?

I hope so, that way it would have been actually worth watching that bloody show 😂

Seriously!!! , well I didn't think much of her before but now!!!
Well I won't say on here!

Shouldn't it just be hosting? Hostess sounds very pre-feminist, heated trolley, Abigail's Party.

Jeff, in all honesty, it's confirmed the worst things people have said about her, but I didn't really want to believe.

I can always tell they’re mine because of the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors!

That's her vibe. Trad Wife Hostess pre Feminism.

I've just realised that when the Netflix/Meghan spiel in the run-up to this launch mentioned "re-imagining the genre" of lifestyle/cookery shows (whatever the exact language was), THIS is what they meant. This is the first time product placement is being blatantly and so prettily wrapped up to tie in with product sales, with the (any?) money being in the sales. To this end, Meghan is like the models you see draped over car bonnets at trade shows: she's the eye-candy helping to shift product. Netflix have already dropped $100m on them, why not use her this way to try to recoup some of that?

I don't think they have it quite right yet, as there is no product for sale on the day of the launch. But it's Netflix's first attempt, a joint venture with Meghan Markle so of course it won't go smoothly. But by jove, I think I have it!

Me neither @MissFenellaPrism , me neither!

I once plonked a cheese sandwich and a bowl of tinned Heinz oxtail soup in front of my Dcs when i had a hot incoming migraine and DH was away for work.

Did they eat it? Did they buggery. Maybe if I elevated it with some edible flowers or got the chef to cook them something. [Simpers - such an honour to be a present parent sometimes]

Isn’t there rules in the UK about Product placement? The show is just a vehicle for these cupboard products.

Isn't this the sort of thing Omid Scobie criticised Catherine for? In Endgame, he likened her to a Stepford Wife. What is Meghan being here exactly that is any different to some bloke's idea of a fuck buddy cooking robot?

That is absolutely my main take away from all this. It confirms that those children are being raised by staff. Elevated staff of course. Everything mention of her children rings false, to a bizarre degree.
I can imagine Meghan derives infinitely more joy from bullying and micromanaging the nannies than she ever could from actively engaging and caring for her own children in the first place. I'll never forget that early public appearence she made at some event when Archie was a newborn. She'd been a mother for a month or so by that point but it was very obviously to everyone that she'd barely handled him in that time. She was holding him like someone who had never held a baby before in their life and that is something I've never seen before outside of first time Dad's in the hospital on day one!

Also, the whole premise just seems really circa 2011 which was the year I had my first child and discovered Pinterest. Fruit rainbow platters and mason jar drinks.. its all so banal and amateur. As for putting Chinese takeaway on fancy plates and putting up balloon arches - chavtastic!

Yes but I'm not sure if it applies to non U.K. productions?
And the label normally has to be covered!
Did she actually have any of products with logo showing?

I question the extent to which NF is involved in her 'brand'. I don't think it would be such a shambles if a major organisation like NF had any serious investment in it.

Netflix have already dropped $100m on them, why not use her this way to try to recoup some of that?

A NF source told Vanity Fair that their deal was not worth that amount.

And NF don't just hand over large amounts of cash for nothing. Payments will have had conditions attached, such as coming up with content that people actually want to watch.

Actually thinking about it- tonight's dinner is a homemade chicken soup (followed by pancakes of course, I am not a complete heathen). That's just bone broth with added vegetables.

[penny drops]

I , like, SO need a lifestyle channel.

I'd watch it!

No, no label or the packet mix.

But for example.

She makes the shortcake biscuits. They are the exact ones we see she’s now selling as an As ever product. Down to the edible flowers. They are the same.

The jam doesn’t have the label, but it’s the same shape jar and it’s the same raspberry preserve.

We see her with her crepes and she serves them exactly how we see on the As ever crepe box

Awww thanks!

Why don't you plebs present peas like that???

Sadly even if it was a U.K. production , she's technically in the clear! @AtIusvue

no, it doesn't say that. You're taking the mick now

So annoying! The whole thing is just product placement.

Look at all the veins standing out on her foreheand and every tendon straining in her arm and hand. She's so disconcerting.

The website has Raspberry Spread. This makes me suspicious about quality as it's not called jam, which presumably has to contain a certain percentage of fruit.