For the past week, the British media has been trying to make various talking points “stick” when it comes to the Duchess of Sussex and her successful new show, With Love, Meghan. They tried screaming, crying and throwing up about how the show was horrible and the worst thing ever. They tried to say that it was so bad, Netflix planned to dump the Sussexes. They tried to say that no one should watch something so pointless and “inauthentic.” They even dragged out the Toxic Markles to talk sh-t. And in the end, WLM is a huge hit for Netflix, people are loving Meghan’s cooking and entertaining tips, Netflix already greenlighted a second season and it’s already been filmed too (and it will be out this fall). So what’s the new line of attack? They paid (???) a British chef to claim that Netflix came to him to work as a consultant on WLM, but he turned them down and he’s glad that he did because he hates With Love, Meghan.
A Michelin-starred celebrity chef has said he rejected an offer to work on Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show. Jameson Stocks said he was contacted by the streaming company to consult on a mystery lifestyle program which he thought was the 43-year-old’s upcoming series. But the cooking expert was worried about being ‘slammed for being a part of it’ and declined.
Stocks, 41, said he didn’t want to participate in something ‘forced and fake’ and wasn’t sure it would be a good series. And the celebrity chef seems to think he made the right choice, blasting the Netflix show as ‘terrible and painful’ to watch.
He told GB News: ‘I honestly thought it was terrible. Everything – the music is quite slow, it’s quite lethargic, it’s quite painful to watch.’
Stocks said people should stick to what they do best, and in Meghan’s case he thinks this is acting. He added scathingly: ‘I think she should go back to acting – she’s quite a good actress. In real life or on screen.’
He said: ‘I was asked last year by Netflix if I wanted to consult on a lifestyle program. They didn’t go into too much detail about who it was but I already kind of knew anyway. I felt like even if she produced a really great program – which I was quite sceptical of – that I might get a little bit slammed for being a part of it. I didn’t like the idea of me showing her how to do something and then it being forced and fake.’
‘I imagine Netflix would have had two or three consultants – a stylist, for her clothes, to give her ideas for the food. If she is going to do something herself, she should do something herself. Netflix is obviously such a huge company, they’re going to surround her with quality people to make her look good. At the end of the day, they’re trying to chase the money. I honestly thought it was terrible. Everything – the music is quite slow, it’s quite lethargic, it’s quite painful to watch. I think she should go back to acting – she’s quite a good actress. In real life or on screen. People should stick to what they do best.’
What’s hysterical to me is that these dumbf–ks apparently think WLM – a simple cooking and entertaining show set in California – would need British consultants like they were making The Crown. If Meghan needs consultants, I’m pretty sure she would, you know, go with California-based chefs. She even brought in California-based people on-camera in WLM, people like Roy Choi (LA-based) and Chef Ramon Velazquez, who is Montecito-based. Why would she need a British chef to consult? She’s actually seasoning her food. But this is what they’re left with – getting some British chef to claim that he was totally approached by Netflix to work on some unknown show, which he now claims is WLM. What a douche.
Update: The only pushback on Stocks’ claims – so far – are from an unnamed insider “close to the production” of With Love, Meghan. That insider told the NY Post that Stocks “was not invited to participate in ‘With Love, Meghan,’ and any claims to the contrary are incorrect. Jameson himself doesn’t even know which show it was for—he noted ‘he thinks it was for this show’ and [people should not be] taking his assumption as fact.”
Photos courtesy of Netflix, Avalon Red.
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- Jameson Stocks at the Urban Impressions Private View at Yield Gallery in Soho, London, United Kingdom on 19 September 2023.,Image: 806821351, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Cat Morley/Avalon
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- Jameson Stocks at the Trejo’s Tacos VIP Launch Party at the Trejo’s Tacos in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom on 18 April 2024.,Image: 866028076, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Cat Morley/Avalon
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- Jameson Stocks at the Trejo’s Tacos VIP Launch Party at the Trejo’s Tacos in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom on 18 April 2024.,Image: 866028086, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Cat Morley/Avalon
Who is Jameson Stocks? And GBN, really?
Never heard of him. Hope Netflix claps back if this is some thing he’s made up.
Also, is his restaurant about to go bankrupt and he’s trying to drum up business?
As for the actress comment, really Jameson, have a nap.
Never hear of him before either and I call 🐂 💩 on his claim, Meghan seemed to have friends and locals on her series, probably because they didn’t want leaks and that was the best way to start the series. I wouldn’t watch any show with him in it now after this, pathetic men are in abundance in today’s world he’s just another one to add to a very long list.
This is probably all anyone needs to know about Jameson Stocks
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/im-just-popping-out-to-the-bank-999568
https://www.thetimes.com/article/james-stocks-a-chef-with-michelin-stars-in-his-eyes-nm2tvgwjqnj
Thanks for posting these @pottymouth pup — I’ve never heard of the guy and he looks sketchy as hell. Guess he’s trying to claw his way back up the food chain (pun intended) after his scandals were revealed by bashing Meghan. What a tool…
@pottymouth Thanks for the article links. James Stocks sounds like just another salty and useless British man (*cough* Prince Peggington *cough*). Quelle surprise!!!
I hope Netflix is gonna come out confirming that this dude never was considered for consulting for WLM and that the show he was asked for, was not even greenlit lol he needs one of those famous slaps in the face
🙏
Great links, pottymouth pup. I love this quote about James: “He was a liar, he was lazy, he was dirty and he didn’t even cook but we all decided we would make it a great restaurant and we worked 60 hour weeks to do it. ” He does look dirty and gross.
I thought the picture was Russell Brand 😳
He’s envious he doesn’t have Alice Waters on speed dial.
Exactly. If you’ve got Alice Waters, you don’t need an unwashed British hairdo on your show.
Now he admits to lying.
Netflix sent their lawyers 😂
So he admitted it.. I hope he’s ruined by this forever.
He can say goodbye to LA, Netflix and to all the other indiscretions he’s made.
How to crash and burn in 90 seconds.
Wait really? He admitted he was lying?
No one knows who this person is.
And worse I felt like I smelled BO from the header pic. This dude’s a chef? Does the health department agree?
EXACTLY! I was like ‘I wouldn’t want THAT in MY kitchen!’
I’ve never heard of him either, but I think I saw something that looked like him scurrying under a kitchen cabinet once.
So, basically, this guy is not sure if he was approached about Meghan’s cooking series at all, but if he *were* approached, he’s admitting that he would be too cowardly to participate for fear of getting “slammed”? And he also just assumed that he would need to “show” Meghan how to cook? Bahahaha. What a loser.
Forget As Ever; how about As If?…..as if Meghan really would recruit a British consultant for her show which celebrates her successful escape from salty island. The British rags don’t even bother to pretend when they make things up anymore. This whopper is an insult to their own readers.
I’m imagining Cher from Clueless here…
He’s got crazy eyes.
Yeah, I had to zoom in if his eyes were dilated.
His hair looks like a cat dragged him.
His hair looks like a cat coughed it up.
His hair looks like a cat could be hiding in it Uugh gross.
He does have crazy eyes – maybe he did it for the drug money. My first thought was yikes, he looks like a cannibal! Would not eat his stew.
😂 Chianti with fava beans?
He doesn’t seem like Meghan’s vibe at all. Makes sense that he was lying and they didn’t actually approach him.
And terrible clothes! A polo shirt with a suit jacket? Where is Derek Guy when we need him?
I’ve never heard of this person, but I am going to give him props for his luxurious and abundant hair. Apart from that, it sounds like he’s making the whole thing up.
Wouldn’t want his hair in my food.
These people are so weird
LOL, shamelessly weird indeed.
This unwashed incel sounds like a hater seeking attention and using Meghan’s name and show for clout. An “insider” from her camp said no invite was expected. Who cares? I’d never heard of him before, and I’m ready to forget he exists.
*no invite extended
My goodness, someone is very full of themselves.
1. He doesn’t even know if the ‘mystery lifestyle show’ was Meghan’s. 2. He sounds like an incredible dick.
This is a lie and has already being debunked
Using her fame to get his 2 minutes of media. We see you.
Apparently he is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust. So we have the attack from bad dad and now bad dad-in-law.
Ewww. Is he the best Chuck can send? Must be a friend of Tom Parker-Bowles.
“Say Jameson, mummy has asked me if you could disparage that actress who’s made our lives hell.”
“Supply me your best and I’ll do anything.”
“Sure thing. Never left the trade at all.”
This guy is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, so we know where this is coming from. And if he thinks the music on WLM was slow and lethargic, he can’t possibly have watched the show.
Maybe he thinks Meghan should have used Charles’s new Apple playlist for her soundtrack….😜😜😝.
What an embarrassing ambassador. Makes the PT look bad really.
I’m sorry, who is this guy? Is he really that important?
Seriously, please someone let me know.
so they didn’t ask if he wanted to cook just to consult? what can he bring to the table, what kind of food does he cook?
Lying liar is lying, news at 12.
Meghan has proven time and again what a consummate pro she is, meticulously planning projects instead of jumping into something without being prepared for the task.
Seeing Alice Waters was part of WLM, why on earth would Meghan need to consult with a British chef when she hasn’t set foot on leftover island for 5 years? They do have renowned chefs in Cali, besides the two who have appeared on the show.
And great cuisine is exactly what Brits are known for….
What a load of horse shit. Looks like he is trying to be relevant or would like to be knighted and decided to join the hate parade.
So he’s a “Michelin starred celebrity chef”, is he??
Is he really, though?
Or is he just a fame-chasing bullshitter?
He’s not a Michelin-starred chef, he worked for a Michelin-starred chef.
😱
What a reach. Meghan has the level
of Alice Waters on her show and to think he’d be anywhere near that level.
One star, two stars, who and where?
@Blogger – He worked at The Oak Room for Marco Pierre White and his bio says he worked at other Michelin-starred restaurants, but doesn’t name them and he won some kind of award in the UK. He seems to have an interesting history and there’s something about him being hounded and hacked by the BM and being part of the Levinson inquiry. I can’t imagine why he’d want to wade into the Meghan story, except for the Prince’s Trust connection.
I’d love to know what “award” he won in the UK. He’s rather vague about that.
The man is a serial fantasist.
Supposedly, a National Restaurant Award, which seems to be like the US’s James Beard Awards – best new restaurant, rising chef, best in the Northeast, that kind of thing. Somewhere in his bio he says Brad Pitt optioned his life story. I have no idea what to make of this guy – he’s like a giant salad, like his hair.
A stylist? He’s out there saying Megan used a clothes stylist. Omg, please😂. Considering she wore her usual neutral color style I’m very much doubting Meghan used a stylist. He’s a liar who doesn’t even know a thing about Meghan if he thinks she needed help coming up with clothing ideas. But I guess all women use stylists in his pea Neanderthal brain. A liar and a misogynist.
He does not know anything, not even WLM was the show Netflix asked him to consult on. He does not know anything. Everything what he says is made up.
I saw the news article saying Nexflix didn’t invite this dirty looking chef to consult on WLM and he’s walking it back now? Netflix must have unleashed their lawyers on this guy. Honestly would you trust him to prepare your food?
Okay, I only read the headline so far . I wanted to comment on first impressions of that man picture. First off . I don’t know him . Second I hope if the headline is true that Meghan was hoping he could take out the garbage or mow the lawn because he looks a bit Dirty to be around actually preparing food of any kind. Ick
Where is the article?
Okay, I only read the headline so far . I wanted to comment on first impressions of that man picture. First off . I don’t know him . Second I hope if the headline is true that Meghan was hoping he could take out the garbage or mow the lawn because he looks a bit Dirty to be around actually preparing food of any kind. Ick
As a business owner with products to sell Meghan’s team should be on the look out for defamatory statements that will affect her sales.
Surely , Netflix should reply if this guy, Jameson speculated wrongly that he was asked to consult on Meghan’s show. Did GB News check with Netflix before airing the interview
Also Meghan’s agent or lawyer should take Variety to task to remove from the internet the review on Meghan’s show since the reviewer is a known Meghan troll and was prejudiced and not objective in his review .
@Pottymouth thanks for the links to the articles.
He wouldn’t be out of place in a film like Trainspotting. He must have cooked and eaten the wrong type of mushrooms before he appeared on GBN.
This is the British media and clout chasers once again pissed about being ignored and excluded by Meghan that they are literally trying to force themselves into her world. They’re pissed she’s not giving them access or did interviews for none of her project. She didn’t promote archetypes or the bench over there either. They must’ve went off when she went to the Drew Barrymore show. This is about sections of the British press pissed because their cash cow doesn’t want them.
This guy must be saying the £50 he got paid to lie was not worth.
He is a proven thieving liar.
He stole thousands of £s from his last job, the restaurant owners knew his reputation and decided to gave him a chance, and he proved his reputation was true.
How many restaurants has he run into the ground.
He looks like he need a flea dip.
Hmm…looks like this chef was looking for attention. A show based in California and about California is not hiring a British chef who lives in the UK and as he even admits he’s not sure that it was Meghan’s show that he was going to work on.
He looks like a Tate bro with hair. That’s all I’ve got.
That is shockingly accurate.
Wow, can’t unsee this
Brit media in true colonizer fashion is desperately inserting themselves in something that has nothing to do with them.
Yeah, no. Never eating anything that hairy dude hovers over.
GBN is so fixated on abusing Meghan that they are willing to bring someone on their show to flat out lie about her, her show and Netflix. He’s admitted to this being a lie and GBN didn’t care enough about their reputation as a news outlet to confirm his story. Anyone with sense would have known that a show based in California and centered around farm to table cooking in California and the various cultures in California wouldn’t invite someone from a place that has a history of lying and leaking about her. Then to see him and think that she would want his unwashed and unkept self anywhere near her or any food that she or anyone she loves would be eating…please 🙄.
@nerd yes ! 😄
When I saw this story, all I could think of was that actor who had been in a movie with Meghan years ago who said that the British media tried to bribe him to say he had slept with Meghan when she got engaged to Harry. I can’t quite recall his name (Simon something, Rex?), but he said that he refused the “offer” to lie about her, even though he was in need of money at that the time. Some people have integrity, some don’t.
Never heard of this guy but notably it seems she only invited California based chefs? Roi Choi, Alice Waters, and Ramon Velazquez are all California based. I doubt she even considered inviting any UK based chefs for this. It’s very California centered. Maybe Jose Andres shows up in season 2?! We know she is friendly with him given Archewell’s work with World Central Kitchen.
I’m really curious who’s on season 2. Lips are clearly sealed.
VilleRose, that was something I noticed as well. This show, at times, seems like a mini love letter to California. WLM makes Montecito California look so beautiful and as you said, the chefs are all California based. No UK chef would fit that vibe. Look how well she and Roi Choi got on because they are LA kids!
I think it’s 💯 a love letter to California. The Roy Choi episode is prob my favorite in which I don’t mind watching again just because their conversations about growing up in LA is so relatable( we did the Roger rabbit in HS dances too lol) . And look at the show location backdrops, the deep blue skies, the scenic train ride along the coast to Santa Barbara(btw highly recommended even my kids love it), the birds chirping in the backyard every morning, the mtns and the forests.
That this guy is/was an ambassador for Prince’s Trust explains quite a bit. The first series is a paean to California so even the idea of hiring a British consultant makes no sense at all. The series is everything not British, which they themselves are pointing out by calling the show and Meghan “inauthentic.” They have no understanding of California or the fact that Meghan is a Cali girl through and through. I happened upon a sad little podcast put out by Hello Magazine
on which the 2 female guests and one male criticized the show and ended up revealing their own narrowness and resentment. I was too annoyed to listen to the end, but they said things like who has time to do all that for guests, who has a guest bedroom anyway, who has time or money to buy all those flowers, and it was filmed in a ridiculous White House, and oh, yes, Meghan was so inauthentic, which I guess is the new Deranger theme. Seriously, so provincial, so incapable of looking at something from any point of view but their own. So incapable of expanding their minds and horizons, able to only see things from the view of the closed society of Salt Island. They also managed to criticize the guests, saying the celebrities were not really celebrities (because they didn’t know them). Obviously they don’t believe in doing their research on who Meghan’s guests were, all highly accomplished. I guess there is no need to check out any other podcasts from this close-minded little group.
All of this. In their obsession with trashing Meghan, a lot of commentators are showing themselves to be absolute snobby assholes. And yes, demeaning the guests. Many Kaling has the number one show on Netflix right now and she’s a really successful producer. Roy Choi is a legend. But the way they dismissively talk about everyone on there is snotty as hell.
Dude needs a new do. Ye gods.
If Meghan ever wants a chef from UK on her show, it will be the three Michelin stars chef Clare Smyth, not this guy. Read somewhere he falsified his CV, so he has no credibility at all.
Stocks, who I never heard of before his bitching, is rumored to be in need of money and reportedly left his hotel restaurant employment with money missing (true or not). I really don’t see an American of Meghan DoS’ superior culinary background asking a British Chef to consult for her series (very unbelievable). This guy is looking to be in the limelight…
As soon as I saw GB News mentioned I took the rest of the story with a pinch of salt.
They seem desperate to try to fit in their narrative but miserably failing, not to mention never heard of the guy. Agree with @kaiser, why do they need a British chef when the theme of the show is more like California lifestyle- the different location shots is also very familiar to me, and I have been to those places. My sister was telling me some of the cottage vac rentals around that area is already getting booked for the whole summer.
greenLIT
“greenlighted”!?
Slow music, did he really watch the show? They literally played a Freak Nasty song in the episode with Roi Choi. Meg has these people in shambles and I love it.
“Jameson Stock” ha ha ha – Well, if he ever wanted to make a show for Netflix, he’ll be serving up humble pie – ’cause – ha ha ha
Hmmm? Brad Pitt to play Jameson Stocks in bio-pic?
He actually sounds like an interesting guy. But, hard to know whether all the “facts” about him have been checked out. Honestly – why did he step in it here? Can he not help himself?
He’s giving a real early 200s-vibe, isn’t he? Lad mags and all that.
???
https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/food-and-restaurants/from-homeless-to-hollywood-the-incredible-journey-of-celebrity-chef-jameson-stocks-2f14da4a-ffba-4b7b-8ea8-15a4bfcddeae
The British media continues to pretend they have no fucking idea how TV gets made. Of course there’s crew on the show to make her look good! Literally all TV and movies have crew who make the leads look good. Make up, hair, consulting, camera crew, lighting, writers, set designers, set decorators, directors, etc.
This hairball acting like if Megan’s show would only be legit if she made it ALL by herself is so stupid! Does he run a restaurant where he does everything with no kitchen staff, waiters, decorators?
What in Marie Antoinette’s desiccated wig is happening on top of that man’s head?
Bird’s nest – a Jameson delicacy with plenty of lice protein.
I’ll take “things that never happened” for $100, Alex.
Grampa Napoleon Dynamite needs to take several seats