There isn’t a ton of news coming out of the Sussexes’ Canadian royal court these days. As far as I know, Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan and Baby Archie are still on Vancouver Island, but truly, they’ve moved around Canada without people knowing their every step, and I could totally see them doing that again. In the vacuum of reliable news, the Sussex Silly Season has been upon us. We heard the curious story about how Meghan would give her first interview to Ellen DeGeneres, which was later denied. We heard that Meghan was actively looking for new representation… which has not been denied. And then Page Six strode into the conversation and claimed that Meghan’s first post-Sussexit job would be… a few appearances on a reality show?
It may not be Hollywood, but it’s a start. Meghan Markle‘s first post-Royal TV gig — albeit part-time — will be a Canadian reality show about second weddings, The Post has learned. Markle, 38, will make multiple appearances on “I Do, Redo,” joining her best friend, Toronto wedding stylist Jessica Mulroney, who is the star of the upcoming Netflix show, according to a source close to the production team.
Her guest spots will be “sporadic,” according to the source, who would not say if Markle will be paid. Union scale for a guest role on Canadian TV is $588 a day, which could jump-start the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex’ newly announced effort to become “financially independent.” The 10-part series “revisits first-time wedding disasters before re-making the wedding dreams of 10 devoted couples,” according to a press release.
Of course this was denied within hours, because no one actually believes that Meghan’s first big gig would be… guesting on her friend’s Netflix reality show. A “palace source” told People Magazine that the story is “categorically untrue.” CTV (producer along with Netflix) and Ben Mulroney (Jessica’s husband) denied it in tweets:
As confirmed to @PageSix yesterday, the Duchess of Sussex does not appear in upcoming @CTV series I Do, Redo.
— CTV Communications (@CTV_PR) February 1, 2020
Oh, for heaven’s sake, @pagesix. @CTV_PR told you yesterday that your facts were inaccurate. You ran the story anyway. So I’ll say this as clearly as I can: Meghan Markle is not appearing now was she ever set to appear on my wife’s show.
— Ben Mulroney (@BenMulroney) February 1, 2020
All of that is well and good and I completely believe the denials. But I am starting to wonder what is going on. I blame Camp Cambridge for many things, but Camp Cambridge has been cut off from knowledge about the Sussexes’ present and future plans. It’s easy enough to say, yeah, Page Six had the wrong end of the stick and they just completely made this up out of thin air. But, there’s a weird pattern to this leaks and stories. I’m starting to wonder if Harry and Meghan’s new Canadian royal court might have a few leakers, or perhaps there are people in the Canadian/LA film/TV community leaking. I don’t know anything, of course, but it’s just something to keep our eye on.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red and Backgrid.
Why do you keep saying “leaking”? When this is most likely just random people making crap up and the tabloids running with it as usual?
It was probably some lowly production assistant who thought it would be funny.
Seconded. They’re throwing mud and hoping some sticks
That’s a good point Lucia. I mean Mulroney’s statement above clearly indicates that Page Six chose to run a story they knew to be officially denied. I saw a story last night about their security team complaining about being demeaned because Sussexes are using them for coffee and takeout pickups. Can’t imagine any security personnel on active duty making a statement like this. Then there’s a story last night that Cressida (why not Chelsey!) called William super worried about Harry because he won’t get out of bed or take any calls. (Of course, this conflicts with earlier tales that William and Charles are talking to him on a daily basis 🙃.)….. Supposedly William is so worried he’s flying in with his best friend, Charlie VanDerseeze (sp?) and they are —- love this part — going to do an emergency intervention and then take Harry AND Archie home to England because he has had a complete breakdown. (Guess they’re going to bust in, push evil, grasping Meghan aside and save a Harry 😂.). It sounds like the wheels have come off the bus and the press are just making it up as fast as they can and throwing it out there. I call BS on 99% of these stories. There is no journalism in any of this it’s just garbage, garbage, and more garbage.
That security doing grocery runs story is so stupid, because there is a news story from a Canadian outlet – with real images and sources interviewed – that the people of Victoria Island not only see Harry and Meghan themselves, who will pop in and get food from a specific coffee shop and stuff themselves, but the business there have started straight up banning media and paps from coming into their shops and stores. There was even a Facebook group created by one local for people who live there to alert Harry and Meghan’s security people where paps have been seen and spotted to warn them in advance.
The place where they are living have clearly put up a protective shield around the Sussexs. It’s nice to see. So yeah, the RRs and British Press are forced to make up these ridiculous stories to try and keep their names in the headlines because they have nothing, not even leaks from KP, to go by anymore wrt them.
William ain’t flying to Canada to do anything, give me a break. Dude and his wife are too busy using black people and other poc as props to get the racist stink off of themselves wrt this whole thing.
@morrigan, do you mind if I ask you how you pronounce your name? I think it’s Morgan, but ever since I found out that Siobahn is pronounced Sh/Chevon I’m a little gun shy about repeating Irish names:)
I read on Twitter that it wasn’t the security people picking up coffee – but it was the housekeepers and they were buying coffee for themselves. LMAO, the tabloids are desperate.
What tabloid said that Harry couldn’t get out of bed? LOL sounds like fan fiction. The British press so baldly want Harry to be miserable in Canada.
@Lady D – it’s pronounced Mor-ri-gen. (The final “a” tends to throw people off). 🙂
@Marie – maybe why Harry can’t get out of bed is that Meghan and him haven’t been married very long and now they have some privacy to enjoy themselves! 😉 LOL
Morrigan01. It is so great when Canadians such as yourself post on this sort of stuff. Thanks for the more detailed and accurate info. Rabid Rota is obviously not choosing to pick up more accurate Canadian press info and prefer to spin their BS. I mean how they can turn housekeepers getting their own coffee into security personnel whinging is beyond belief. I hope Meghan’s lawyers aren’t adding all these printed lies to Meghan’s law suit. I see on ByLinesInvestigates that they sometimes update to show where Meghan’s lawyers have filed an updated list of printed tabloid lies to their long list of lies knowingly printed by those Meghan is suing. AND —— I love the local Facebook page to alert security where the paps are. That is so heartwarming.
You are right. More right is impossible. But…. The same bad hunch I had when DM started the campaign (fully supported by the trolls) “let’s send H&M to Africa”, I have now. Also, at the time, looked ridiculous. But….. it worked.
Of course no professional working on security field would give intel of what he/she did to anyone; of course an ex-girlfriend call would be answered by staff and given the excuse the owners of the house told (not that I believe she called);
What’s not very clear is if those news are so stupid as they look like. Sorry, but where H&M are concerned I prefer to be open minded to see from which side the hammer is going to fall.
Thanks, Morrigan. I did look your name up before I asked how you pronounced it and discovered that Morrigan was the shape-shifting Celtic Goddess of War, Fate, and Death. That’s a lot of responsibility:)
@JA LowcountryLady Oh, I’m not Canadian, I’m from the US. Southern California, born and raised, and still living here. I’ve just looked at some of the news reports coming out of Canada about this, that’s all. 🙂
morrigan01 – it’s Vancouver Island, not Victoria Island. Victoria is on Vancouver Island and is the capital city of British Columbia.
This exactly. Is it a leak, or is it, in the absence of any information, wild speculation?
Totally agree. It’s ridiculous to think they would ever do that! I think someone found out about Jessica’s new show (or was it well known she was starting this? Idk) and just assumed oh- I’ll bet M goes on that! So lame
Agree that this isn’t a leak and just run of the mill tabloid gossip. It’s only because Meghan is friends with Jessica. A lot of obvious fake rumours are coming out but enough people believe them.
Exactly. It’s not a leak if it is a flat out lie or wild speculation.
A leak has validity to it. The [UK] media making up stories and trying to push them as true even in the face of denials is not leaking.
It’s not a leak if it isn’t true. This is just made-up garbage by a Sussex-starved media. This is how trash magazines work. They make stuff up.
I highly doubt, given their experience in the UK, that Meghan and Harry have people on their staff that they can’t trust.
i really think the only stories we should believe when it comes to them are those they print themselves on their IG account and anything from direct interviews. There is just too much nonsense otherwise and it doesn’t do them any favors to keep “reporting” it.
Agreed. I’m not believing anything about the Sussexes until it comes from them. All other stories are just BS as far as I’m concerned.
Page Six needs to be more creative than a guest spot on reality TV.
I don’t think we should always say someone is leaking to the press when we know the media loves to lie and make up false stories about Meghan. Not everyone around the Sussexes has an agenda against them, the media just wants to make a quick buck by spreading all this fanfiction but they don’t know anything especially now that the Sussexes have left.
Exactly. Also, it’s not exactly wild speculation. It’s Meghan’s BFF’s show. She is well known for supporting her friend’s endeavors. Like when she went to see Serena play or the time she wore a hat with the name of the tv show her friend (don’t remember either the show or the friend’s name) was working on. Her past support for her friends makes this an easy lie to make up and believable to a lot of people.
This reminds me of that weird story last year when Prince George told a bystander that his name was Archie. Only a few months later, when baby sussex was born, he was named Archie. I think Kaiser mentioned then that maybe George overheard his little cousin would be named Archie and viola it was leaked. This kind of reminds me of that. I think maybe something was in the pipeline with the tv show before Sussexit and Camp Cambridge knew about it and leaked.
Don’t think it’s a leak, but a made-up rumor from someone on the show. So much free and wide-spread publicity!
She wants her privacy, let’s give it to her.
That sounds a little passive aggressive…
I so agree, grumpyterrier!!! I really wish we would let these people be and only see stories based on their *own* social media or interviews. Stop feeding the fire.
You clearly don’t like her – so why do you actively seek out articles relating to Meghan? Is it your turn in the Twitter/tumblr rotation?
What an odd waste of time.
Privacy = she didn’t want the media to tear her apart on a daily basis.
She did not say she wanted to become a hermit. I certainly hope she attends any/all charitable /gala events she wants to. In short, live her life.
Apparently The Fail had this up for a day and a half AFTER the denials, to keep whipping up the deplorables. When I posted a comment about it, basically saying that there was no way that M would do this, and that it’d been denied, I got an email saying “there were numerous complaints about my post “, and they were “exercising editorial discretion to remove my post” lol. Apparently, ANYTHING I’ve written in support of H&M is garnering “multiple complaints” these days 😂
That’s very interesting to know considering the level of despicable comments that remain on the Fail website.
This has happened to me THREE TIMES. I wanted to see if it was a fluke (as it said comments were NOT being monitored). Apparently they ARE monitoring…for only supporting ones, which are promptly removed.
I think you should send this information to Megan’s lawyers. They should use in their lawsuit.
Oh my gosh … that is so eerie. Honestly, what is our world coming to? Gross.
I have no doubts that Meghan was not going to appear on this show. It sounds tacky. But it certainly got everyone interested in it. Perhaps the person who would benefit from this publicity bump is the person behind it.
Jessica Mulroney has certainly had an interesting few years, huh?
+1, Mulroney IS tacky and this def got people interested, so well played.
Mulroney is super tacky so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happened @Mumbles
I think the press are just desperate and attaching Meghan to everything. They want to push the narrative that Meghan is “so Hollywood” so if any of her friends are doing something, they will attach her. They have nothing and it shows.
CTV denied it and Page Six printed it anyway. That’s not leaking it’s just straight up lying. Besides it’s not a stretch to see where a tabloid would decide that Meghan’s next job would be on a show that her friend Jessica Mulroney is hosting. Page Six is also a Murdoch owned entity so the malice in printing a false story is evident.
Isn’t the basis of her lawsuit the press is printing verifiable lies? She could sue for this too, couldn’t she? They knew it was a lie and printed it anyway, similar to her nonexistent copper bathtub or floating floor yoga studio.
The media is trying to Fergie Meghan.
This. Has anyone read the statements issued by the Queen and listened to Harrys speech. It was very clear in what they want to do going forward. Will they do something media related at some point, sure, if necessary. But what, who knows? I don’t think they’re sitting around doing nothing. People are missing them and there is no news, no photos, so lots of speculation. The haters and Piers want a Kardashian style reality show, but so far no indication what they’ll do.
These aren’t leaks, but dumb rumors instead because ppl have no idea what H&M are actually doing.
There is literally no evidence of “leaking” when all the stories that have come out recently have been flat out lies. If anything that shows that there aren’t any leaks and the UK media are desperate to create a story because Meghan still sells newspapers for them.
Awfully convenient that the husband of the TV host “denied” the rumors whilst promoting said TV show…
Stop.
A few fans of some other Royals have an axe to grind with Jessica over some post she made on Instagram, so think this rumor was also to get to her as well. If can’t attack Meghan directly, they go for her friends. Someone pointed out that when Harry’s friends like Nacho speak out, no one says anything, but when any of Meghan’s friends say anything, all of a sudden it’s “they need to be quiet, this is so indiscreet”, blah, blah, disapproval.
I’m sure that’s some of it – but plenty of people have been side-eyeing the Mulroney’s for years before Meghan was ever in our gossip sphere. They don’t have a great reputation on their own.
Precisely. Was anyone even aware that JM had a netflix show coming about weddings until this “leak.” Leak a rumor to the press then deny it — you still get your name in the paper.
Exactly. No one knew about the show until the Page Six story. Not a bad strategy – it’s gotten all of us talking!
Well Meghan has leaked to Ben’s colleague (Lainey) before
Did Meghan leak to Lainey or did she share this story with her friend and then her friend told Lainey? I noticed since that story, Lainey has been very very discrete about what she publishes about the Sussexes. I think Meghan shut down Jessica talking to Lainey about her and I think Lainey respects that. If Jessica leaked this story for PR, I believe Meghan will be discussing the issue with her friend. 🤔
lobstah: you are spot on. This is great PR for her show.
So page six knowing that CTV told them this wasn’t true went ahead and printed the false story, which opens them to a defamation claim for knowingly printing false information and significant damages, just so that Jessica Mulroney can get more PR. Yeah that sounds logical.
When someone doesn’t like Meghan, they (even the so-called intelligent ones) never let logic or common sense stand in their way of creating or spreading lies.
@ Erinn, I’ve heard about this show long before Sussexit. Don’t know why this is such a big deal. Maybe they’ll do a show about hermits and recluses, which seems to be the expectation of the Sussexes from all these people looking for purity tests and trying to shield them from dirty Hollywood. So over it. We’ll see them when we see them,and they’ll do what they want to do, like it or lump it.
How is $588 going to “jump start” their desire to be financially independent? This is just made up malarkey by people desperate for a story because they’ve been cut off. If Meghan didn’t do a reality show when she was a little known actress, why would she do a reality show now that she’s known worldwide? Make it make sense.
Since the Sussexes left England the Royal reporters and tabloids have zero access. They are pretty much are making up stories to see what sticks.
I do think it’s troublesome that there is no penalty for printing a completely false story .
The only thing I have seen going on is mud being thrown and them trying to see what sticks.
There have been so many false stories that I wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t a trap set-up by the Sussexes to smoke out the leakers. Give false information to “friends” and see what ends up in the press.
That does sound likely. I mean the Ellen thing and a reality show, so random.
If she did do something in television/film, would love for it to be something like a cameo on the Handmaids Tale . Can a wife who escaped Gilead, sort of true to life. LOL.
@Kaiser “but Camp Cambridge has been cut off from knowledge about the Sussexes’ present and future plans.”
The Sussexs are still in trasition period so the people magazine article hints about their palace source shows that they still use BP. Also, the theory about their security team leaking stuff back to the courtiers is becoming more credible. The daily fail article (with what looked like posed pictures of the security guys) about them being errand boys for the couple to bring up the taxpayer funded guards argument back (coincidentally after Charles’s jet debacle) its becoming clear now that the courtiers+tabloids still have their agenda
Yeah, but BP is TQ and not the Cambs. Anyways, I can totally see Charles using this as a distraction…
If H&M’s security team is leaking anything to the press, they would be fired immediately. Why would they tip potential threats to their daily routines, telling where they go for errands or get food from? And to risk their jobs to take pictures? No way. I think that is fake news for sure.
I agree with everyone who’s saying at this point when it comes the Sussexes, the media are just throwing mud at a wall and seeing what sticks. They’ll link anything and everything to Meghan’s name in an attempt to get something right and then go “See we were right! Our sources are amazing!1!!!1!1”
I saw this reported once on Page Six, then quickly proliferated everywhere within an hour or so yesterday.
The tabloids are feeding fake stories to each other in the absence of any real news, and lacking any legitimate sources.
Notice that as soon as the Cambridges were removed from the loop, the leaks got much less reliable.
Yeah. And I didn’t realize that Murdoch owns The New York Post/Page Six until somebody above mentioned it; but I just found out he also owns The Times of London. I think Murdoch’s vast network of multi-country media are all barking in unison.
The best part about that rumor was that being in North America, the denial stopped that story from blowing up, at least in Canada and US. Page Six is tabloid and we treat it as such. If anything, I look at this as a positive in disguise because the rota and tabloids don’t have control anymore and they’ll be called out and denied immediately without having to wait for the papers to issue a statement. If the BM really think the Canadians and Americans are going to turn and abuse the Sussexes the way they did, they have another thing coming. They have tried to start drama in the last few weeks and nothing has stuck because guess what? There are bigger issues in NA to worry about.
You blame the Cambridges even though there is no way they could know?
Sums up the narrative here pretty well I think..
Because they suck and no one really cares about them. They’re a blank walk to project onto.
I’m sure Meghan is still high clickbait but royal press have been cut off as they aren’t surrounded by leaking courtiers.
However they still need their clicks & plus as per the Daily Beast- it’s an all out war against the Sussexes as they proceed with their lawsuits. So the press will attach her name to anything to get clicks but also to continue what they did when she was in the U.K.- sully her name& any future projects.
Yeah, they’re scared about those lawsuits and are trying to bully her into dropping the case. The only thing the media has done was prove why they left and using Thomas Markle is backfiring because everyone can see him for the abusive loser he is and the blatant double standards in coverage and racism has been on display, I’d say the media are on the losing end.
I always thought that threat to put Thomas Markle on the stand was an empty threat. Like, what is he supposed to do on the stand, embarrass her with the same crap he’s already been saying about her? If he had any more real dirt to spill (and he barely has much to begin with) he would have already spilled it.
And all him talking to the media is going is giving Meghan’s lawyers more and more ammo to use against him if he ever DID take the stand.
Were they trying to appeal to some latent daddy-daughter feeling she might have about her father having to take the stand? Like, really? Man has proven time and again he isn’t on her side, so why not just get him under oath? He’s a grown man, if he lies under oath and caught doing it, that’s on him.
Trying to use Thomas Markel to get her to drop the lawsuits was always going to be a no-go.
This isn’t a leak. It’s Page Six. That’s what it is.
Thank you. Nuff said.
A “palace source” didn’t tell People, Page Six, the Daily Mail or anyone else this was untrue. They were told it wasn’t true by Netflix and CTV *before* they first ran with the story that it wasn’t true, and then Ben Freakin’ Mulroney and CTV *again* on *twitter* told them it was not true when they went and ran the untruth anyway.
Twitter needs to bring back the “MyPalaceSource” hashtag again because this was another instance of making up a source in the palace, when it’s really just RRs making stuff up or talking to each other. They have NO sources in the Sussex camp. Not even leaks from KP anymore.
People issued the rebuttal but Page Six was to blame because they ran the story anyway. I have a feeling that paper will be a lighter version of the Daily Mail for Meghan is North America.
Thanks for the correction on People issuing the rebuttal. And yeah, you’re likely right about Page Six, given that it’s an offshoot of the New York Post which is owned by Murdoch. But, even as a tabloid it isn’t omnipresent in that sphere like I think TMZ is here in the US. It’s one of those tabs I honestly keep forgetting exists.
This weekend I saw a story about how Kim Kardashian’s endorsement company was taking offers on behalf of the Sussex’s. The company did post this on instagram but the Palace and camp Sussex denied it. They did make a statement that they were in talks with Meghan’s inner circle about branding and appearances…he has connections within her camp since before she entered the royal family he recently said. Either he jumped the gun and they had to deny it when he made it public or he is just talking bs. He did a radio interview and he said he is going to make Meghan 100x bigger than Kim K (he made Kim K) He also said he has several million dollar offers that he received for Harry and Meghan.
The press have been trying to Kardashian Meghan for years now and it’s not worked. That man is a clout chaser who is using Meghan and Harry for publicity. Unfortunately, since Harry and Meghan have star power in spades, that clout chasing will continue. It’s all a money grab. People with sense know that Harry and Meghan aren’t that damn tacky and desperate. Both of them are already wealthy anyway.
Exactly @Brit.
Harry and Meghan don’t and aren’t going to have one thing to do with this guy, no matter what deals and offers he’s trying to get in their name. What he’s clearly trying to do is get a large portfolio of offers and such so that he can get a meeting with Harry and Meghan and then make a pitch to them. Hence this nonsense. He’s never going to be called into a meeting by them to ever give that portfolio pitch however.
Wanna see what this guy looks like? Look up the word “opportunist” and I’m sure his picture will be there.
Ha! I know you don’t believe his ish, or do you?
Maybe they will show at the Oscars?
Maybe who will show at the Oscars?
Who, Harry & Meghan? No they won’t. There is ZERO reason for them to, given that they aren’t nominated for anything, and aren’t members of the Academy, let alone being in line to present or perform something. Tickets for the Oscars aren’t that easy to get – not just anyone is allowed in the Dolby Theater for that show.
The President of the Academy isn’t like the President of BAFTA btw. The position is term limited and voted on among members of the Academy, (the only ones eligible for the position), not just given to someone because.
I don’t see them going to any of the after parties either. (Though I wouldn’t rule out them having been invited to some at least, especially to Elton John’s after-party. Lots of wheeling and dealing goes on at the after parties, ngl, and I’m sure there are people who want to meet and make deals with them and such).
Maybe as presenters as Michelle O did one year? I think she did – or might be my rubbish memory 😏
Did Michelle present because of some doco she was involved in?
@Carrie
Michelle presented Best Picture in 2014, and it was because she was heavily involved in arts education, and hosted some films showings at the White House of films that were nominated that year due to that initiative.
Call me when Meghan and Harry are heavily involved in some similar project, then we can talk about them presenting Best Picture or the like.
Really? SMH.
I occurs to me to wonder if the Sussexes are feeding key bogus stories to particular individuals to see what leaks. They’ve definitely had someone (or more than someone) in their camp leaking to either the palace or directly to the press. It’s a tried and true way to find a leaker – give out a few false but plausible stories to people on the team, and wait for the press coverage.
That’s my vote. No way they would trust anyone without confirmation.
ITA, and maybe it’s someone from their security team? That story about their security staff running errands was bizarre…
The Sussexes have a strong community around them here on Vancouver Island. Shop owners are shooing away photogs and posting “NO MEDIA ALLOWED” signs in their shops. It’s also a tight community where they’re staying and everyone pretty much knows everyone in the area. It’s not tourism time here so a mob of strangers showing up with cameras are going to stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. That’s making the gutter press pissy and they’re throwing out completely false and ridiculous stories, no doubt encouraged by the Cambridges and KP, who are also pissy because they can’t get across the wall of silence Meghan and Harry have erected.
The story about Jessica’s new show was already in the news. So anyone at Page 6 could have put this story out there. Imagine a gossip page printing false gossip! Whoever heard of that happening before. Plus, the Sussexes are quite capable of publicizing their own endeavors and don’t need a Murdoch gossip rag to do it.
Yeah, at least here in Canada, Jessica’s show was announced a few weeks (maybe months?) and there was some PR around it.
I think it’s a matter of the tabloids throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.
Jessica’s wedding show; Redo, is all over instagram, well publicised. The media, is just making an educated guess, because Meghan is Jessica’s friend, and Mefhan has appeared on some fashion shows, and Cookery shows, before Harry. They want to see what sticks. That publiciry guy, has such big mouth, can’t be trusted
. Hiwever, read the sentence carefully; He said, I have recieved endorsement offers for THE SUSSEXES, it means other companies are
intrested in the Sussexes name, and have approaced this guy to work on them for these companies, but whether H&M will do it is a different matter. I don’t think they will work with this guy, too loud.
am I the only one who thinks someone on Jessica Mulroney staff member or she herself spread the rumour.?! Freeeeee publicity especially in the US as I doubt her show was well known outside her IG fan base. Then her husband Ben had to chime in for morrrre exposure. Ugh the Mulroney are an example of white privilege and giant egos. Her ego is almost as big as her inflated lips. They like to think of themselves as our Canadian Royalty..*eye roll*
Lay low Harry and Meghan, these press bullies will get bored eventually and go elsewhere.
Not to point out the obvious, but P6 isn’t exactly hard hitting news. I’d take all their stories with a grain of salt. That said, I wouldn’t trust someone as thirsty as Mulroney.