Meghan’s Spotify podcast dropped after just one series
The Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes series – part of a $20 million deal with the streaming giant – will not be renewed
Gosh. No doubt society’s racism over ginger afros or summat.
Meghan’s Spotify podcast dropped after just one series
The Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes series – part of a $20 million deal with the streaming giant – will not be renewed
Gosh. No doubt society’s racism over ginger afros or summat.
Is it because they’re the most nakedly self-serving aristocrats since the Knights Who Say ‘Me!’?
Will she be returning the $20 million?
Jonathan,
No, because $20m is the potential. Roughly speaking, Spotify will do a lot of work on promotion early on, building profile etc and don’t want people walking away for more money if it takes off. So, they lock them into a contract.
They’d have seen a tiny fraction of that for series 1. Put yourself in their shoes… how much would you pay for these people? You need them to sign up as they’re names, but you have no idea. Me, I’d have paid $50-100K.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the $20M was for the whole series with stage payments and get-out clauses (at least for Spotify). If S paid up front then they are mugs.
Hello.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the $20M was for the whole series with stage payments and get-out clauses (at least for Spotify).
Agreed.
They wouldn’t have signed at that level because they’re “far too important” / “Don’t you know who we are?” kinda thing. Even at that level you’d be struggling to make money.
Who really wants to listen to two virtue signalling narcissists whine on about being oppressed from their huge Californian mansion. I mean, it’s not like they’ve ever done anything of significance on their own, just been part of the Royal Family.
Channelling Princess Di to recreate a faux mulatto version? Ugh. No thanks. As for Prince Harry, being a ginger whinger is not a great look either.
JG – So the plan was to become American celebs. I think they were going for something like Harry’s great grandfather and Mrs Simpson after the 1936 coup, but with Posh & Becks’ lifestyle, celebrity and branding partnerships.
Meghan hoped to get some plum movie or tv gigs as a royal actress, and no doubt her own perfume and whatnot, which she’d hawk in between UN ambassadorships and A-list gala charity fundraisers with Michelle and Beyonce. Eau du Ho.
Harry seems hilariously self-pitying for a millionaire prince, but also dangerously thick and easily led. That’s the kind of laddie they really should have gotten married off to a suitable gel. Dunno what he thought he’d do in America, except be a 38 year old foreign man complaining to strangers about his Dad.
From what I can tell, Megs was initially popular with the black American female audience in particular and bored housewives in general but their act was always a novelty and now Americans are tired of them too.
As you say, novelty wears off. With Princess Diana, she was still doing her own engagements (like the landmine thing), pushing her own charity stuff and attending other folks charity do’s – all of which had it’s own momentum and variety.
A wedding and a couple of limited engagements, years ago isn’t enough to create that ongoing momentum. Sure, a bit of Royal drama and accusations of racism are good for a news cycle and/or book, but they need more than that, otherwise it dries up.
I mean, unless Charles struts around Buck House in a Nazi uniform (something Harry did first), what more is to be said?
Steve,
Harry’s Great Great Uncle rather that Great Grandfather.
ANNRQ – avuncular pendantry, bloody well done my chap.
JG – also PiDi (as I feel sure her rapper name would’ve been) was a legitimate celeb.
She was a bonafide international sensation. People were eagerly, for some reason, interested in her and her clothes, shoes and handbags. She drew admiring crowds. Sworn republicans were known melt into warm puddles of deferential royal jelly at the mere touch of her slender white hand.
I was there, Gandalf.
Her less impressive son, on the other hand, has the charisma of a brillo pad and his wife is a 40-ish former basic cable TV starlet who mainly seems to exist for Daily Mail Online hateclicks these days.
The future’s shite, Marty. We’ve got to go back to 1985 and fix it.
When would the 1985’ers go back to, Steve?
1959.
Steve,
“JG – So the plan was to become American celebs. I think they were going for something like Harry’s great grandfather and Mrs Simpson after the 1936 coup, but with Posh & Becks’ lifestyle, celebrity and branding partnerships.
Meghan hoped to get some plum movie or tv gigs as a royal actress, and no doubt her own perfume and whatnot, which she’d hawk in between UN ambassadorships and A-list gala charity fundraisers with Michelle and Beyonce. Eau du Ho.”
The problem is that by whatever measure you want to use, America (and to a large extent Britain) is a meritocracy. Gwyneth Paltrow can flog garbage because she’s former A list. Rihanna sells perfume because she’s ridiculously hot, sexy. Beckham is a good looking bloke who was very good at set pieces in football, which is about the closest approximation of being a famous knight. People want to be like successful people, and being born rich just isn’t the same thing as making it because of your talent or looks.
The monarchy are a curiosity, but they aren’t aspirational. That title means shit. No kid in Croydon or Ohio wants to be Prince Harry. Most women don’t want to marry him, except for his money (which is why he struggled to get a wife). She isn’t Princess Grace of Monaco. She did a few prop TV roles, where Grace Kelly was an A list actress, arguably one of the most beautiful actresses of all time.
“Harry seems hilariously self-pitying for a millionaire prince, but also dangerously thick and easily led. That’s the kind of laddie they really should have gotten married off to a suitable gel. Dunno what he thought he’d do in America, except be a 38 year old foreign man complaining to strangers about his Dad.”
Women might love a man with £13m in the bank, and not be too fussy about looks, but they’d rather settle for a guy with £0.5m in the bank who isn’t an utter spastic. That’s his problem. Those nice Sloane girls didn’t want him. His wife’s reasons for marrying him are so awful and obvious but he’s too thick to see it. If she’s not banging another guy already, I’ll be surprised.
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I am really beginning to like Chelsea Davy
Looked like she dodged a bullet by binning Ginge, clearly a good judge of character
No idea why, just a female boat monkey whose had more dick than the Royal Navy.
I read in the Daily Fail that the property taxes on their place are north of $140k pa!. Perhaps they’ll now have to move to Idaho…