The universal mockery over Netflix’s With Love, Meghan had barely died down before Mrs Sussex (as she now demands to be called) launched her podcast modestly titled Confessions Of A Female Founder.
The eight-parter will be released next month and Meghan promises a sneak preview behind the scenes of her new business venture, As Ever, making jam and candles. Or, as some in the media have dismissed it, ‘Whatever’.
‘I’ve been having candid conversations with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities,’ she gushes in her new breathless baby-voice.
‘They’re opening up and sharing their tips, tricks (and tumbles) and letting me pick their brains as I build my own business.’
The Duchess of Sussex’s latest venture is a podcast called Confessions Of A Female Founder
The eight-part series will be released next month, and it comes following her recently released Netflix show With Love, Meghan
So now we have Meghan presenting herself as a businesswoman offering us advice.
But before we take it, shouldn’t we have a brief frolic through Meg’s business ‘successes’.
Like the $20 million deal with Spotify that was cancelled early – with her Archetypes podcast deemed a snooze-fest.
And the $100million Netflix deal that’s hanging by a thread following the thumbs-down reception of With Love, Meghan.
Not forgetting her previous jam making business American Riviera Orchard which was canned with copyright issues.
To think she is launching this podcast portraying herself as a business ‘founder’ after the years she’s spent living off her royal connections is laughable.
She’s a flounderer, not a founder!
A more honest podcast would be one with the title Confessions of A Serial (Business) Failure.
Ta-ta Donatella
Jennifer Lopez on the catwalk for Versace in 2019, wearing a dress reminiscent of an iconic green gown she wore in 2000
Much lamenting after Donatella Versace steps back from the fashion brand after 30 years at the helm. What will happen to the empire now? Perhaps without her they will stop dressing women like high-end hookers – think of Liz Hurley in that infamous safety-pin dress, Angelina Jolie as a tacky dominatrix in black leather and how they made even the eternally elegant J-Lo look like a green salad, without the dressing.
Ahead of the Oasis world tour, Liam Gallagher is hauled back into court in the US because the mother of a love child born after a brief fling in 2012 is seeking additional child support. Liza Ghorbani says he’s paying her a measly £3,000 a month. He retorts it’s 300 grand a year, and she’s nothing but a gold digger. Whatever, instead of looking back in anger, how much cheaper it would have been if he’d just used a one dollar condom.
Westminster wars
- Keir Starmer announces the abolition of NHS England, the world’s largest quango, with the loss of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds redirected into frontline services. He’ll also take a chainsaw to the benefits bill and force the 500,000 or more workshy claiming sickness benefits into jobs. Blink and you might have thought Lady T was back in charge!
- The Princess of Wales and deputy PM Angela Rayner both wore red for the Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration – the only difference was that Kate looked like a Ferrari and the fulsome Angela like the back end of a London bus.
- Depressing that Speaker Lindsay Hoyle – hailed as a breath of fresh air after his odious predecessor John Bercow – is having to justify spending more than £250,000 on 19 foreign jaunts since coming to office. We thought Hoyle was a good guy.
Joke helped writer Lee hit heights
Sonya Cassidy stars as Susan Duffy alongside Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher in the Amazon Prime show Reacher
The 6ft 4in author Lee Child says the name of the tall hero in his Reacher books – played on Amazon Prime by 6ft 3in Alan Ritchson – came from a chance encounter in Asda when he was asked by a short elderly lady to reach up to a high shelf for her. His wife said: ‘If the writing gig doesn’t work, you could be a reacher in a supermarket.’ Tall tales, but true for once.
Much consternation after George Clooney appears with his thick grey hair dyed brown for a theatre role, especially when it somehow makes him look older. Ironic when we women of a c ertain age can’t go a week without a dye job – in our vainglorious attempts to make us look younger!
Kate Moss’s daughter Lila, who has followed in her mother’s modelling footsteps, attends a dinner during Paris Fashion Week
Supermodel Kate Moss’s daughter Lila, 22, – also a model – captures attention wearing her mum’s old clothes and having her hair cut and coloured like her. It’s all a bit sad really. Why can’t this nepo-baby try at least for one moment to be herself and step out from under mum’s shadow? But then if she did she wouldn’t have already made £4million as Kate’s mini-me.
After Stella McCartney’s fashion empire is hit with £25million losses, some are asking if ‘green fashion’ for which she is famous has lost its appeal. And whether customers once happy to pay over a thousand pounds for an It bag made of recycled plastic bottles feel that’s now, with all apologies to her dad Paul, just so Yesterday.
Cruel twist to Letby legacy
Police say individuals who worked at the same hospital as baby killer Lucy Letby are being investigated for ‘gross negligence manslaughter’, the maximum sentence for which is life in jail. Will it be welcome news for the parents who lost their babies? Or more suffering with years of long court cases?
BBC’s Comic Relief 2025 line-up includes ITV’s Jonathan Ross, Alison Hammond, Davina McCall, Alesha Dixon and Rylan Clark.
Crikey, why should we pay Aunty’s licence fee for these ITV third-raters?
On the 70th anniversary of her hanging, Ruth Ellis’s grandson, the author Stephen Beard, is seeking a posthumous pardon for her from the King.
Ellis aged 28 was the last woman to be executed in Britain and his lawyers claim it was a miscarriage of justice.
Probably true, but why rake over historic injustices when she put four bullets into her lover David Blakely’s body with one motive – to kill him – as she admitted in court.
Name is a shame
They are head over heels in love and can’t believe they have created this tiny person.’
So said a pal of TV stars Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright after the birth of their daughter Palma, named in a nod to their love affair with Mallorca’s capital.
Oh do get over yourselves! Couple have child, as do nearly 700,000 in the UK every year. The difference is most parents don’t give their kids stupid names. Palma? Not to be confused with ham. It’s almost child cruelty.
