GB News presenter, Dan Wootton, hinted that Netflix are considering their position in relation to the Sussexes in the light of the royals parting ways with Spotify.
Speaking on The Clash segment of his show, Wootton said he had been told some insider info by an unnamed “top Hollywood source.”
Wootton said: “Quote me on this, I’ll be proven right within a few weeks or a few months: Netflix wants to follow Spotify out the door and dump the Sussexes.”
Last week, Harry and Meghan’s podcast series Archetypes was axed after producing just 12 episodes and a Christmas special in 31 months.
Dan Wooton
GB News
Meghan Markle has since been accused by whistleblowers of faking a number of interviews for her axed Spotify podcast.
Bill Simmons, Head of Podcast Innovation and Monetization at Spotify, used his own podcast as a platform to rant against the Sussexes.
On Friday, Simmons said: "The f***ing grifters. That's the podcast we should have launched with them.”
Simmons claimed: “He just whines about s**t and keeps giving interviews. Who gives a s**t? Who cares about your life? You weren’t even the favourite son.”
Lady Victoria Harvey
GB News
He continued: “You live in f***ing Montecito and you just sell documentaries and podcasts and nobody cares what you have to say about anything unless you talk about the royal family and you just complain about them.”
On Simmons comments, Lady Victoria Harvey told GB News’ Dan Wooton: “I was actually quite shocked when I first heard it.
“I was like wow he is savage, he is going for the jugular here.
“Obviously it must have ended so badly, I don’t know how much they did get paid of the total amount, but they feel ripped off, Spotify obviously were promised the world.”
Nina Myskow
GB News
On Dan Wooton’s show, journalist Nina Myskow stood up for the Sussexes, telling Dan “you have no idea about the Netflix [deal],” and claiming the podcast and Netflix partnership to be successes.
Unconvinced, Dan described Meghan as “entitled and too lazy to work hard,” while Lady Victoria Harvey pointed out that “people loved Prince Harry before” and so Meghan “has dragged him into the dirt.”
The Duchess of Sussex reportedly palmed off the podcast grunt work of interviewing guests deemed less VIP onto her staffers, adding her voice to the discussion afterwards.
Rumours had been swirling for some time over the extent of the Duchess’ involvement in the project, with the Spectator’s Cockburn branding Meghan “America’s laziest interviewer” back in November 2022.
The comments came following a major slip up by a guest, that might well have been intentional shade throwing, which appeared to reveal that Meghan doesn’t do her own stunts.
Taking to social media after an appearance in the episode To B’ or not to B’ of Meghan’s podcast, New York journalist Allison Yarrow thanked an audio producer called Farrah Safarfi for being an “excellent interviewer”.
Yet, in the episode, Yarrow could be heard apparently discussing “the origin and plague” of the word b***h with Meghan.
Meghan Markle, 41, wanted the Archetypes podcast to investigate, dissect, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back, with interviewees including Serena Willaims, Mariah Carey, and Paris Hilton.
