One other one bites the mud.
Meghan Markle’s new podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder,” is already struggling to succeed in the numbers her earlier podcast “Archetypes” had generated.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, final week dropped the primary episode of the podcast, which featured her longtime good friend, Bumble relationship app founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.
However the podcast had did not safe the highest spot since its hotly awaited launch.
As of Monday, the “Suits” alum’s podcast was ranked quantity 10 on Spotify’s common High Podcasts chart within the US — a placing distinction to “Archetypes,” which was ranked no 1 following its launch in 2022.
Certainly, the critic opinions of Markle’s new enterprise had been equally as disappointing — as one reviewer known as the podcast “stomach-turning.”
Others insisted that Markle failed to ask the hard-hitting questions listeners wished to listen to and as an alternative redirected conversations “towards her own experiences.”
In its scathing, one-star evaluate, titled “Meghan’s vapid lessons in self-love,” the Occasions of London‘s columnist James Marriott was “seized by an urge to beat my head against the wall” after listening to the episode.
Elsewhere, the Telegraph‘s TV critic Chris Bennion gave Markle’s podcast two stars, describing it as having an “inane stream of mindless aphorisms” with “no confessions or secrets.”
In its two-star evaluate, the Guardian mentioned the “sycophantic interview podcast is stomach-turning.”
Beforehand, Markle’s now-defunct 12-episode podcast “Archetypes” loved a short reign on the high spot — earlier than she in the end parted methods with Spotify in 2023 following a profitable $20 million deal.
Within the wake of the breakup, Invoice Simmons, Spotify’s head of worldwide sports activities technique, known as the ex-royals “f–king grifters” and “lazy.”
“I wish I had been involved in the ‘Meghan and Harry leave Spotify’ negotiation,” Simmons, the founding father of The Ringer and the pinnacle of Spotify’s international sports activities technique, mentioned in 2023.
“That’s a podcast we should’ve launched with them. I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of this Zoom I had with Harry to try to help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories.”
The frosty reception to Markle’s “Confessions of a Female Founder” podcast debut comes simply weeks after her Netflix collection, “With Love, Meghan,” was additionally mercilessly dragged by critics following its launch in early March.
