After her much-anticipated home-spun series about being the most fabulous yummy mummy in the world went straight into Netflix’s top ten, she gushingly thanked her fans saying: ‘Thank you for loving me so much and celebrating with me.’
Within hours, however, laughter could be heard across the world as the series was panned and Megs’s rating fell down faster than a new bride’s knickers.
Hollywood’s revered Variety magazine decried With Love, Meghan as a ‘gormless lifestyle filler’ laced with ‘tangible desperation’. Others were less complimentary.
Yet inexplicably, we learned yesterday that Netflix has already filmed a second series of the show in which Meghan is ‘attempting to cling to fame by any means possible’, in the words of one critic.
Was that why she ticked off a supposed bestie for calling her Meghan Markle, insisting her family name is Sussex? Was Megs reminding us she married a prince and she’s the star who’s going to save the Sussex fortune as her hapless husband is sidelined in the series?
We learned yesterday that Netflix has already filmed a second series of With Love, Meghan
Who knows? There’s no keeping up with the reinventions of Meghan Markle, TV actress, duchess, royal nightmare, proud feminist and now perfect little woman in the kitchen.
Perhaps the mystery of Meghan’s changing characters is why Netflix thinks people will keep watching. Perhaps it thinks, that in this bleak world, there’s no better escape for viewers than her vacuous twitterings as she bakes her lemon drizzle cake and turns into her latest incarnation – the Duchess of Drivel.
I’m delighted by plans for a two-tier justice system with pre-sentence reports for minorities (we Aussies make up about 0.25 per cent of the UK population), those from deprived backgrounds (raised in the bush) and trans folk. If the first two excuses fail after the police catch me, I’ll go free by identifying as Andrew Platell.
Charli’s X-rated
When pop princess Charli XCX collected five Brit awards she wore a completely transparent frock, nipples on view and hardly even bothering to cover her modesty.
For decades we’ve been fed the mantra that it’s evil men who exploit women, especially in the music industry. But these days, it seems, it’s women sexualising themselves for profit.
What kind of message is that for teenage girls, suggesting that to get ahead they must exploit their bodies while male stars such as Chris Martin and Ed Sheeran make millions in jeans?
When pop princess Charli XCX collected five Brit awards she wore a completely transparent frock
Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, accused of misappropriating charity money in his name for her benefit, says her devout Christian father would have ‘lost faith in humanity’ if he had seen the way she has been treated since he died. Sorry Hannah, had he lived, your heroic father would only have lost faith in humanity because of your shameless betrayal of his legacy.
King Charles has shared his personal music playlist in a collaboration with Apple Music. But was it wise to choose Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Could You Be Loved among most loved songs, given that we all wondered if he could ever be loved as monarch after his mother died.
Rotten parents = bad teeth
The Government is spending £11 million to teach under-fives how to brush their teeth. What an absolute waste of money. If the kids’ parents can’t be bothered to teach them the basics of life – and then feed them junk food and fizzy drinks – they’re not fit to be mums and dads in the first place.
Kaleb Cooper, Jeremy Clarkson’s lovable sidekick on his Amazon farming series, has made his first million aged 26. Good on Kaleb, a real farmer since he was a teenager.
Yet it’s a strange world where TV farmers like Clarkson, worth £55million, and Cooper, make fortunes – while those who have grafted a lifetime on the soil may lose everything under Labour’s spiteful death taxes.
Kaleb Cooper, Jeremy Clarkson’s lovable sidekick on his Amazon farming series, has made his first million aged 26
Boring, boring Ko Zzz-samui
Backpacking with my then husband John in the 1980s, I stayed on the Thai ‘paradise island’ Ko Samui – setting for the miserably disappointing third series of The White Lotus. I can testify it was as dull as the show. Visitors were offered, if they were so inclined, a magic mushroom omelette simply to alleviate the interminable tedium.
Sad to hear of the death of Dolly Parton’s reclusive husband of 60 years Carl Dean. As for the mystery over them never being seen together, Dolly said they took regular campervan holidays but without her wig and rhinestones. So no one recognised her – not even Jolene.
The Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith says the unsayable: today’s youngsters are so mollycoddled many are unfit for modern life. ‘We are encouraging a whole generation to think about themselves… when they should spend more time thinking about others,’ she adds. Full-fat chance of that with narcissistic Generation Z.
Pop goes Kim’s balloon stunt!
Promoting her new Skims range, Kim Kardashian put a 60ft balloon body double of herself in a bikini in New York’s Times Square, complete with ginormous surgically-enhanced breasts.
Maybe the joke was on Kim, as who can tell the difference between the blow-up doll and the real thing?
Promoting her new Skims range, Kim Kardashian put a 60ft balloon body double of herself in a bikini in New York’s Times Square
On World Book Day, we’re told a kid’s book called Heatwave got a special mention in one of the world’s top publishing awards. It’s the story of a boy who endures a hot day on the beach due to global warming. Is it any wonder kids don’t read any more?
Pamela’s paradox
Just weeks before David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife Pamela Bach, 62, was found dead in her home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, she had posted: ‘Happy New Year, everyone! As we step into 2025 my heart is full of gratitude, especially for my precious grandbaby, London.’
Such mixed messages from the mother of two grown-up children with David – a soul full of hope and thanks, yet driven to despair.
Clearly she was beyond the reach of those who loved her and has now left them with memories no one should ever have to bear.
