In April 2023, we learned that the Duchess of Sussex had signed on to WME, one of the most powerful Hollywood agencies. Apparently, several agencies had tried to sign Meghan, and Ari Emanuel had personally pitched WME to Meghan. Ari has been working with Meghan personally, but she’s also got an extended team with the agency, including “brand architect” Brad Slater and Serena Williams’ longtime manager/agent Jill Smoller. In the Variety article last April, they noted: “WME will assume representation of Archewell, her and Prince Harry’s content creation label. Film and television production, brand partnerships, and overall business-building will be explored.” It’s been almost eight months and nothing has happened publicly, although there’s some indication that a lot of work is happening behind-the-scenes. People have been dying to see what WME can come up with. And yet, the Derangers have been insisting in recent days that WME has quietly dumped Meghan. O RLY? Even stupid GB News fact-checked that rumor:
Meghan Markle appears to still be a client of top Hollywood agency WME, despite social media speculation she had been axed.
The Duchess of Sussex’s popularity took a hit in 2023, following her and Prince Harry’s Netflix series documenting Megxit, and their “near catastrophic car chase” through the streets of a gridlocked New York in May.
However, GB News can reveal the bookings page to hire Meghan Markle as a “Speaker” is still active on The Harry Walker Agency website, which is a division of WME.
Described as an “exclusive” client by the agency, Meghan is described as a “feminist, champion of human rights and gender equity and a global role model.”
Yeah… I don’t know how to break it to the Derangers, but WME hasn’t dumped Meghan. I do wonder what advice WME has given Meghan in the past eight months though, and I wonder if she’s been following their advice or whether she believes she knows better. Like, who made the call on how Archewell (mis)handled the communications around the Spotify breakup? Is Ari Emanuel telling Meghan to stay silent when trade papers like the Hollywood Reporter attack her? Is WME anti-clapback? That’s what I want to know.
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You’re going to get this from all sides until she releases something because people still haven’t come to terms with the fact that she doesn’t have to let you know what she’s doing for your promotion (RR’s, “commentators”, and experts), and that what you want, anticipate, or would like to see her do may not align with her and her actual business management plans (fans/supporters). Every time a story like this comes out I wish people would just say in the mirror, Meghan is doing what she wants to do, and since I don’t have to support her financially in any way that’s fine.
@Dee (2): Indeed. If people want to see what Meghan is doing at all times they should call for her to rejoin the Royal Family because non-royal people are not telling the press about their plans every week or releasing pictures of their children to the public.
Agree @Amy Bee, except Meghan is still a royal, plus she’s always been royal, even prior to meeting and marrying Prince Harry. Meghan & Harry are simply independent royals, unbeholden to anyone, and earning their own private income. They do NOT need the BRF! They do NOT have to answer to the rota carnival.
Plus, whose leg are these fools trying to pull? 🙄🤦♀️
Meghan’s popularity has NOT taken any hits. M&H actually create hits! Their popularity has increased with the releases of Spare & the Netflix documentary, along with the unexpected revival success of Suits on Netflix, and their starshine shepherding of the Invictus Games in 2022 and in 2023! 🏅🏆🎉✨️
Well said Dee(2)
THANK YOU.
you said it all.
@DEE 👏👏
+ I believe, given WME’s and Ari’s positions and true insider understanding of how the industry really works, that they would know the true position of The Hollywood Reporter and its limited impact on the real decision makers. Bob Iger or any of the other ‘losers’ mentioned on that list didn’t respond either NOR did any of those on the winners’ list ( not that I saw) who promoted it as an accolade. WME’s time would be wasted responding, I prefer that their time is focused on building and all this is away from unhelpful eyes. Spotify wasn’t a complete failure, especially now that we have had time to learn the real story about SPOTIFY strategy failure in the podcast world, I don’t think Spotify themselves were happy about the press that was generated against the Sussexes as it also placed them in a negative light as partners. As when the podcast was live, they were raving about it. However, even if it was completely failure for M, then it was a gift as the lessons from the experience would have been tremendous for her growth and what she has to build for her and her children etc.
They are part of a new stratosphere now, even higher than their previous role in RF and responding to every slight would only serve the ones who desire them to fail and content creators as it gives daily content to monetize. Responding just feeds the cloud that just keeps growing and growing. When they don’t respond to the ridiculous speculation drive pieces or even the name calling , it eventually turns on itself or looses energy as no new feed and therefore dies out.
I think This continued narrative in its varied forms, trying to get her and WME to release details before they are ready to reveal what they are building is driven by the emotions of people genuinely missing Meghan and Harry and still hoping to get a version of the life they were hoping to see with them as members of the RF. It’s a void I think people haven’t yet filled. There was a promise of something different that really connected with many people and they wanted that promise to be a reality and they feel cheated. Even their foes, the ones who caused it , they can’t blame themselves so they project this on H&M. And especially the press, they know they have painted themselves in a tight corner. They have thrown every nasty thing they can imagine at them, especially M and many of it have splashed back, not even the Sussex Squad react the same to the headlines anymore. And even regular people now preempt their strategy as whenever a political or royal negative headline break in the UK, regular ole billy from the pub will say let’s see how they blame M&H for this. 😂
Can we focus on the REAL news ie Prince Andrew and the Epstein list and not give this thread any oxygen?
Oh Scobie you are a PRINCE! Wonderful clap back 😂😂😂😂😂
@Thelma, I absolutely support giving this thread oxygen. It’s about the Queen of Derangers (Levin) putting out false queries derived from her deranged subjects and GB News slapping it down. Which is shocking. Levin has proven time and time again that she gets her info from derangers (and has been proven wrong multiple times). She has no true sources for her, as Omid said in Endgame (paraphrasing), ‘ramblings and out-of-pocket conspiracy theories’. Levin repeated a certain exceptionally deranged derangers comments about having a friend of friend of a cousin who told them that Ferris Bueller heard that Netflix dropped Heart of Invictus and, Meghan was not actually pregnant. Yes, please. Give oxygen to Levin’s nuttery.
Levin, sold a book about Harry, based on a BIG LIE. I still believe that anyone that bought that book should ask for a refund. She did not spend a year/year and a half with him. She did not accompany him on events. I’ll stop now because I’ve said so many times before for years-Levin never had a relationship with Harry. Unless, of course, anyone we’ve spent 5 seconds with, qualifies as a relationship.lol I guess that means me and the UPS driver are tight, tight, tight. /s
Love Omid’s comment.
And the deflection begins…
More like desperation.
The derangers are as eager as the fans to know what Meghan is doing. Probably even more than the actual fans. They won’t admit it but the derangers know that Harry and Meghan are more interesting that the rest of the Royal Family. Plus, the comms did admit that Harry and Meghan had parted ways with Spotify they just didn’t explain why or feel it necessary to respond to Bill Simmons’ rantings. I’m sure Meghan will talk about Spotify at some point.
Oh the derangers and their silly stories. Maybe they could start to fashion themselves like the Squaddies and actually do some good for charities that their favorites are a part of. Oh wait the favorites don’t even do for their charities so why would the derangers. My mistake the derangers will continue to TRY to take Meg and Harry down but they will fail.
All these people do is show that they don’t know how anything works. Meghan was signed by WME, but around that time there was also a major strike going on in Hollywood so all projects were on hold. Also, quality productions take time, you don’t just sign a deal today and start pumping out material tomorrow. I know they’re pushing for Meghan to produce content asap so they have new things to shit on her for, but she owes them nothing. If she wants to be a full time sahm this year, that’s her choice. Leave her alone.
Exactly! 6 of those 8 months encompassed both the WGA and SAG strikes. How much work do people think got done during that time!?
They know, they’re just counting on their readers to be close to brain dead and not read or know anything other than what the rota rats write.
I guess it would depend on what she’s looking to do. Unless she’s looking to return to acting or become a screenplay writer she wouldn’t have really been affected by the strikes. Pretty much everything else, especially things like podcasts, were open as long as one didn’t discuss prior acting projects.
In fact it may have freed her agents up because they couldn’t handle most of their regular business. I just think they either haven’t found just what they want or it took awhile and now things are moving behind the scenes. Either way AL can kick rocks. Even People with sucky careers don’t get dropped within months. I doubt someone with Meghan’s name recognition would. And certainly not after the signing was made with such fanfare. WME would have egg all over its face.
I’ll admit I don’t know all of it. I won’t pretend or put out information without complete knowledge. Try not to. The strikes effected so many things. If you were someone, as an active card carrying member of any group associated with the strikes, you were limited. Drew Barrymore was on the receiving end of sh*t and rightfully so. And, Drew comes from a long-standing Hollywood family name.
I have no idea what a many number of people were doing during the strikes and now. Are they all doing nothing because we haven’t heard about it yet?lol
They are all just trying to deflect from Prince Andrew. The derangers and their followers all work for the BRF and the British media anyway, throwing out some unsubstantiated nonsense. Some for cash and some just enjoy hating, and most, both.
THIS is it. I don’t know why any of the tabloids are wasting ink on non-confirmed, unsubstantiated Meghan news when Andrew DOES appear 67 times in unsealed court documents.
I listened to a podcast featuring Ari Emmanuel and yes, he would advise Meghan not to clap back, he said in the podcast that he doesn’t respond to negative stories but believes that ignoring them is the best way to handle them. I can see his point but the “grifter” comment from the Spotify executive should have been an exception to his rule.
It’s interesting that the press is forgetting that most of the end of last year, Hollywood was dominated by strikes so no one is putting out much content yet. All this being said, we know from experience that Meghan and Harry don’t say a thing until their finished product is ready for release so I’m not the least bit concerned.
That Spotify executive has a podcast. What would happen if H&M responded, do you think? He would hit back with more insults. Then what? Another pushback? At the time when this was happening, there was a Tyler Perry video making the rounds. He said the same thing on the panel, how hard it is not to push back to people who are talking sh*t about you, but still he advised people not to do that and just continue doing your job instead of going into fights with people. I am sure, this is the advice from people (who are rich and very successful) around H&M. It must have been very hard for Harry not to respond to that guy, but it is smart to listen to people who are good at their jobs and know the business.
I agree. Getting into a back and forth is pointless. How H&M handled it was fine and shows how unprofessional Spotify is. I’m glad they left.
It’s an interesting strategy for sure, but I actually think their communications under Sunshine Sachs was very strong. They had some nice, witty comebacks (“circus of so-called royal exports” comes to mind) and weren’t afraid to stand up for themselves/have a voice with personality without coming across as too much. They’ve done some amazing work since then that hasn’t received enough spotlight—everything about mental health day was amazing and I wish we could’ve seen the extended video somewhere. I wish to be updated on more solutions concerning the internet, tech/media companies and teen mental health because it’s an ongoing issue. I hope WME tightens it up a bit and amps up the promotion of all their causes, because I’m sick of hearing about the Keens’ nonsense ad infinitum and watching them fluff up air. Back to H&M, I also don’t think having a charity post an Instagram is enough—we really want to know more.
Lux and LeaTheFrench, I think they pay experienced agencies to handle this and doing what they advise against wouldn’t make sense. I think it makes sense not to give the lies and harassment any air. It gives them nothing to pounce on and keep the narrative going.
I’m sure there all kinds of people who would enjoy a back and forth between the media’s lies and inuendo, but I’m not one of them. I believe what they’re doing (or not doing) is what they need to be doing. When it counts, they respond with a legal letter. H&M know their business best and we should respect that.
@Lux, fyi, it was Meghan herself who pushed back with the phrase, “carnival of so-called royal experts.” Meg did not need handlers at Sunshine Sachs to respond with that particular clapback! 🫳🏽 🫡
I continue to believe the “real” Spotify story was how that platform (which still has a negative EBITDA, ten years into existence) was their broader strategic pivot away from Podcasts in general – there were multiple, multiple articles in business outlets (starting with the FT) about that. That pivot came from a push from (unhappy) shareholders who requested Spotify to end several of their podcast partnerships in an attempt to increase profitability. This shift has been explored and covered at length, and I wish the H&M comms team had done much more to reframe that story.
I agree with how Harry and Meghan are handling the noise, and it is all just noise. As Harry mentioned in many forums when you repeat or address the noise, it just takes a life of its own and you then become a participant in spreading it. Loved how they handled the Bill Simmons noise. Anyone could easily ascertain that the bitterness was coming from not being able to manipulate either Harry or Meghan into doing what Spotify or he wanted . The Sussexes just packed their bags and bounced, for me this is called integrity. Simmons response was bitterness. Wishing the best for the Sussexes while looking forward to a great 2024 for them and us.
Maxine Branch, ITA.
I tend to agree too @Maxine, especially if, as someone said, the guy has a podcast where a feud would only give him higher ratings and be on more people’s radar. Screw him.
Agreed. It’s just like arguing with a deranger on social media. They get oxygen from it, and their little deranger friends quickly pile on.
This guy had a hard on for Meghan and Harry to respond to him.
Omid’s tweet is just perfect.
It boggles the mind how obsessed they are with her. I have literally never found myself thinking about someone I hate “hmm haven’t heard how they’re doing at their job lately- they must have been fired!” It’s unhinged.
It is! It’s yet another proof of what Harry’s been saying. Any bad stories about one royal, they throw another royal (him and Meghan) under the buss.
Still trying to make Meghan and Harry the scapegoats for Andrew I see. They know him being Epstein’s pal is a bad look, no matter how much they try to ignore it. Anyway, I’m happy that Clevr Blends got picked up by Target! I’m sure there is more to come.
Does WME also rep directors and other people who work behind the scenes? Maybe they helped Clevr Blends get picked up by Target. Maybe they are helping Meghan get some movies she wants to produce green lit. There are a lot of things they could have helped Meghan get accomplished. That doesn’t put Meghan out into the public. And no one would ever know.
WME deals in entertainment. So no.
If you go on the WME website, there is a division called WME Ventures that says it works with entrepreneurs to help accelerate their businesses. So I bet they did help with the Clevr Blends deal. They are pretty much into everything, including sports agents and book agents.
It’s just so exhausting to me how derangers (including Angela Levin) can just make up a story about Meghan being dumped by WME and then it gains steam and is treated as an even somewhat credible rumor that then has to be proved wrong. There is NOTHING that indicates she has been dumped by WME besides social media speculation led by the anti-Meghan brigade.
she signed in April, there was a huge writers and actors strike – everything they might have planned would have been put on hold. this reminds me of 2020, when the RRs were like THEY’RE GOING TO COME CRAWLING BACK bc they hadn’t announced any projects in the midst of a global pandemic.
It’s so irritating becks but I laugh because Meghan and Harry leaving has truly damaged the royal brand, ruined careers and made people literally lose their minds. While they’re out in California living their lives and being happy, you have a press practically begging for them for any kind of crumbs. You have these losers going to astrologers and tarot readers for clues. Royal experts and commentators are losing money and going to YouTube because their money dried up. They’re stuck with royals who are boring and can’t give them leaks. It’s desperation and I truly feel that they won’t last another year without not having access to the Sussexes. It’s come to a point, where I think somehow will have a complete breakdown.
I’m laughing, too – because now they’re resorting to stories about “What Hasn’t Happened to Meghan.” Next, it will be “What Meghan Didn’t Wear.”
The problem is that Harry and Meghan are a tight ship and there are no leaks and the press and haters alike don’t like that. This is a phishing expedition as well. I can only imagine the phone calls this agency gets from the British press stalking to find out information. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve been trying to find to employees to pay for information. We’re coming up on year 4 of them leaving. These people are antsy and regretful because their obsession and golden geese are moving on and they have no control or access.
You make a good point about the British press probably making many calls to American companies in an effort to find out what Meghan is up to, and I would also wager that they practically stalk some websites to get more information or to twist facts and write more stories about the Sussexes.
Ah the sour smell of deflection and of course from the Queen deranger LEVIN. I swear to god, this woman just breathes on a jar of onions to pickle them, and when she sneezes every flower within a five mile radius dies. LEVIN must be a hard worker, because no one could be born that sick and twisted
We know Andrews a pervert and a protected one. But the family is full of them. Burn them down Harry, publish the rest of your book
Stop!😂😂😂 she just breathes on a jar of onions to pickle them!
Mary Pester, LOL, you’re on fire this morning!
Angela’s twitter honestly makes me wonder if she has some kind of dementia, or if it’s just day-drinking. Always incoherent and rambly.
Let the Spotify thing go….it happened, its water under the bridge….Ari Emmanuel definitely handled it once UTA head got too comfortable shit talking so stop with the BS about wondering if Meghan knows better. It sounds like deranger crap. Spotify is self combusting at this point, their podcast division is toast. The obsession with that one incident has got to stop. Meghan isn’t going to update anybody anytime soon or with the frequency people want. That means 0 content for a lot of people and I love it for them. Btw, this mess was started by Angela voices in my head Levin. Just like the Dior crap.
Really and truly they need to. Spotify in 2023 lost the Obama’s, Harry and Meghan, Jemelle Hill, and Kim Kardashian never released anything, and they just canceled two major podcasts including one that won a literal Pulitzer prize. This idea that Spotify was some huge misstep for the Sussexes just doesn’t work in reality. Spotify sank a billion dollars literally into their podcast division and realized they were not going to get anywhere near that return on their investment and had to make scapegoats. And people are just buying into it and helping them out. They are still laying people off 6 months after the Sussexes left, how could anyone possibly think it was a bad decision on Harry and Meghan’s end?
She’s been gone for four years and they are still using her as a distraction for the members of the RF. They always . It’s why they’re so angry with Harry and Meghan. If they were in the UK they could make up stuff fed to them by whomever needed a cover in the RF. Now they’re limited to making up things about their business, because their inner circle is tight and they’re not getting anything personal they can use to smear her or Harry with.
Maybe in the UK they haven’t noticed because their film and television production did not stop, but the strikes really did slow everything down in the states. So projects couldn’t move forward because many are either part of one or both unions.
Look for more deflection because they have to protect PED Andrew.
Yep, let’s wait and see the level of deflection madness they come out with tomorrow when the next lot of pages drop.
Angela Levin’s desperation would be funny if it wasn’t so twisted.
So it seems the tabloids are pretending that the unions for writers, directors, and actors weren’t on strike in America for nearly 7 months since last April. By definition, very little new content is created during any talent strike. There are penalties and consequences for those productions and talent without special waivers. (I know because I’m a union member.) But the British tabloids would rather pretend that somehow “Hollywood” has grown impatient waiting for Meghan to do something.
Stop. You rota 🐀🐀🐀 keep trying to make fetch happen, but it’s an insult to those of us who are too intelligent to believe your sycophantic drivel. Besides, clearly we Americans understand how the Hollywood machine works better than any of you rota fools!
🐀🐀🐀 Keep showing your collective ass. In retrospect you’ll have to admit it ain’t pretty.
I saw Angela Levin’s article on Yahoo and just had to laugh. It took me about three minutes to find Meghan’s name on the WME website. I think that old fart just doesn’t know how to navigate the internet. Immediately after I wrote how fast I found her name, the article quickly disappeared.
I really wish you would stop picking on their comms strategy. Once they respond to foolishness, they’ll get sucked into always doing it. Also, these people just want to be in business that isn’t theirs, showing up at places without giving the public prior knowledge spares them things like her Dad , Scammy or unhinged Rota showing up to show out. They move in silence and it drives them crazy.
Leave it to Angela Levin, for a old woman like that she is always writing a whole lot of lies and some people are believing her.
Willing to bet that Ms. Loony Levin couldn’t find Meghan on the WME site because she was looking for “HRH Markle” instead of “Duchess of Sussex.”
You are so right, she such a fool
Angela Levin is sitting in her diaper poop-she poops out of mouth without getting clarification on the subjects she talks about-sooner or later she will be sued for flat out lying about someone ‘s life-Levin lives in the UK-the UK is not Hollywood-how Hollywood runs its business for their clientele is entirely different than any work done in the UK-What Harry and Meghan interests and projects are to be discussed with them and the people who guide and promote them-a third rate hack with no journalistic skills cannot write something without checking real sources-she needs to say I will put Meghan’s name in this article because I need to make money off of her name whether the article is true or not or whether the article has anything to do with the Sussexes at all-Let’s see if all the UK media will write about the neo nazis who threaten Archie as a creature to be put down and Harry and Meghan needing to be gotten rid of-they were sentenced to 10 years-Now ask Harry again why he and his family needs security.