Meghan Markle has confronted one other setback as her podcast is dealing with additional delays.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, inked a cope with Lemonada Media in Feb. 2024 to launch a brand new podcast collection after Spotify determined to not renew the steep $20 million deal for a second season of “Archetypes.”
Whereas the brand new podcast was imagined to launch final yr, the “Suits” alum was pressured to pump the brakes on its launch after Lemonada was reportedly “struggling to get off the starting blocks.”
A supply has now advised Howdy! Journal that Markle’s dive again into the podcast area should wait.
Insiders advised the outlet that equally to the delay of her upcoming Netflix way of life collection “With Love, Meghan,” the previous working royal’s podcast’s launch has been affected by the LA wildfires.
The Put up has reached out to Markle’s reps and Lemonada Media for remark.
After signing with the previous actress, Lemonada will now be distributing her earlier Spotify podcast collection to all platforms.
Particulars of the brand new collection have but to be made obtainable, however it’s recognized that Markle will host the present.
It seems as if Markle might want to work further arduous to make the podcast a hit after her former Spotify colleagues accused her of bullying.
One one who labored with Markle described the alleged expertise together with her as “really, really, really awful” and “very painful.”
In line with a number of unnamed sources who spoke to Vainness Honest, the previous actress and her husband, Prince Harry, 40, didn’t all the time foster a congenial working atmosphere.
The expertise was “really, really, really awful. Very painful,” the supply alleged to the journal. “Because she’s constantly playing checkers—I’m not even going to say chess—but she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board.”
“And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment,” the previous staffer claimed, which amounted to “undermining.”
“It’s talking behind your back. It’s gnawing at your sense of self,” they continued. “Really, like, ‘Mean Girls’ teenager.”
The Sussexes inked a profitable $100 million cope with Netflix again in 2020. Since signing on the dotted line, the couple launched their bombshell six-part documentary “Harry & Meghan” in 2022, adopted by “Live To Lead,” “Heart of Invictus,” and most lately, “Polo.”
Markle’s newest enterprise enterprise, a Netflix way of life collection titled “With Love, Meghan,” has additionally confronted delays following the devastating wildfires which have ravaged via California.
It’s not the one snag Markle’s enterprise ventures have been confronted with.
The previous actress unveiled American Riviera Orchard, her way of life enterprise enterprise in March 2024. However 10 months later, there’s nonetheless no launch date or details about the merchandise that clients can anticipate to be up on the market.
The mother of two has confronted a slew of ongoing trademark troubles whereas making an attempt to get her firm off the bottom, prompting her to request a three-month extension from the US Patent and Trademark Workplace to safe a trademark for the model in November.
Her extension request got here only one month after the corporate was slapped with one more trademark snafu when rival way of life model Harry & David filed a protest towards American Riviera Orchard, claiming the title is way too much like its “Royal Riviera” product line.
And in Sept. 2024, her trademark utility was refused by the USPTO, who warned that companies can not trademark geographical areas.
