AMANDA PLATELL: Whatever happened to Meghan the feminist? By Amanda Platell for The Daily Mail Published: 01:52, 10 August 2024 | Updated: 01:58, 10 August 2024 e-mail View comments Having made millions from her nasty narrative about the Royal Family , Meghan is back taking the Netflix shilling. She's just finished filming a cookery show to complement her jam-making brand American Riviera Orchard. It's part of her reinvention as a homely mum celebrating the 'joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining and friendship'.
The plan is to sell Meghan as 'a beacon of inspiration and attainability', says celeb website Page Six (which is laugh-out-loud, as there's nothing everyday or attainable about her lifestyle). Crikey! What a far cry from the fierce defender of women who, in 2019, declared: 'The rights of women and girls is..
. the cause I have spent the majority of my life advocating.' Now it's cooking lessons.
From feminist pulpit to the kitchen stove, flogging a domestic dream to stay-at-home mums – that's quite a switch. Meghan Markle has just finished filming a cookery show to complement her jam-making brand American Riviera Orchard Read More AMANDA PLATELL: My friends say I look ten years younger now I have a fabulous new fringe! Her image will reportedly be centred on being both 'family-oriented' and 'regal'. Family-oriented? Wonder what the King, Camilla, William and Kate think about that.
Or the dad and half-siblings she's jettisoned. As for regal, what will be first on the menu, the late Queen's favourite chocolate cake? Victoria Sponge? Eton Mess, in honour of hapless husband Harry? The sad truth is Meghan will do anything to make money from her royal connections, even though they are fast disappearing. Few royals speak to her or Harry any more, not even the King, who refuses to take his calls.
It is a desperate bid to make Meghan seem wholesome as the Sussexes' popularity tanks in the US. But it's also a demeaning retreat from the feminist frontline. And it's hardly inspiring to rely on regal family connections to make a buck.
Two years ago, Forbes magazine reported a speech by Meghan in which she said there was a 'misconception that if you're an ambitious woman you have an agenda, you must be calculating, selfish, or a climber...
I still believe being ambitious is a beautiful thing'. As a proud member of the sisterhood, I couldn't agree more. Which is why I find myself asking whatever happened to Meghan the feminist of old? Tory Robert Jenrick torpedoed his leadership chances by absurdly suggesting that shouting 'Allahu Akbar' in the street should lead to arrest.
Crikey, they'll be banning 'Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey' next. Rih-ly bad choice We all know that feeling – desperate for something special to wear to a family reunion and spotting a gorgeous outfit in the shop, but is it too much? Then seeing snaps afterwards and saying, 'OMG, what was I thinking?' I reckon that was Rihanna's reaction on a trip to Barbados. Bet this unflattering sequinned monstrosity was in a charity shop the next day.
Rihanna wears a bedazzling costume as she takes part in carnival celebrations in her home country of Barbados Arrested at Heathrow after failing to appear in court on bankruptcy charges, Katie Price, head bandaged following her sixth facelift, said she didn't feel ashamed. Though she pleaded for police to allow her some dignity because being chucked into the back of a police car would be 'extremely disturbing' for her disabled son Harvey. A bit late to be playing the caring mum card, isn't it Katie? Katie Price was arrested at Heathrow after failing to appear in court on bankruptcy charges Westminster wars Well done Keir Starmer for implementing the 'full force of the law' on violent protesters who disrupted towns and cities around the country.
Can we now expect similarly swift justice for eco-nutters such as Just Stop Oil protesters who also bring cities to a standstill and vandalise property – and that they, too, will be quickly imprisoned? Who thought it was a good idea for former shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to interview his own wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, about the riots on ITV's Good Morning? Clearly not the more than 8,000 viewers who complained to Ofcom. Ed should stick to what he does best – Gangnam- Style dancing. Good on Kate Winslet for refusing to 'sit up straight to hide her belly rolls' on the set of her new movie playing war journalist Lee Miller.
The star was fat-shamed filming Titanic aged 21 when director James Cameron nicknamed her 'Kate Weighs-a-Lot', even though she was Rubenesque perfection. Kate was the only thing that kept that movie afloat. Kate Winslet refused to 'sit up straight to hide her belly rolls' on the set of her new movie playing war journalist Lee Miller Let fiend rot in jail Speeding, uninsured Joe-Lewis Tyler drove a stolen car high on cocaine and cannabis having downed five pints of lager and four Sambuca and Jager-bomb shots, and crashed into a taxi, killing its driver, a woman passenger and six-year-old Leo Painter.
He was sentenced to 18 years in jail but could be eligible for release in 12. If there were any justice, he'd serve three life sentences for the lives he took and rot in jail. NHS England proudly announces the launch of its first de-transitioning service for people wanting to return to the gender they were born as.
Jolly good – but remember we foot the £10,000 to £20,000 bill for each to do so, while more than seven million people are languishing on NHS waiting lists. Men are suffering severe 'ab and pec envy' over the daily sight in Paris of Olympians' supreme bodies – such as that of Italy's gold-medal swimming champion Thomas Ceccon – while they sit on the sofa resting a beer on their tummies. If it's any consolation, lads, no woman wants to go to bed with a god when none of us are goddesses ourselves and have bulgy bits in all the wrong places.
Italy's gold-medal swimming champion Thomas Ceccon shows off his toned physique during the Paris Olympics Strictly bosses aren't listening to fans like me frustrated at the unfairness of a contest supposedly for novices which has celebs with dance experience. Signings for 2024 include Miranda star Sarah Hadland and JLS singer JB Gill who have danced professionally. My hopes lie with the brilliant blind comic Chris McCausland.
A judge's assertion that Kyle Walker's ex, Lauryn Goodman, treated him like an open chequebook, and the publication of her wild financial demands, has 'hit her like a ton of bricks'. She's so distraught she's turned for advice to fellow Wag Rebekah Vardy, who was humiliated in the Wagatha Christie trial. Finally, I pity Lauryn.
Turns out both GB swimming hero Adam Peaty and US sprinter Noah Lyles had Covid when they were pipped for gold in Paris. The virus has morphed into what scientists predicted – not a death sentence requiring the lockdown of countries, crashing their economies, but a bad cold. Achoo to that! Great Britain swimming hero Adam Peaty had Covid when he was the favourite to win gold at the Paris Olympics Cate Blanchett moans she got paid peanuts playing Galadriel in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, which raked in more than £2billion.
Not sure what she's bleating about, given she appeared for just over 11 minutes in the more than 11-hour duration of the films. Cate Blanchett says she got paid peanuts playing Galadriel in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, which raked in more than £2billion My moggie's grief is fur real My moggie Ted spotted Oakland University saying cats have feelings and grieve for lost friends. They yowl and go off their food.
After his buddy Rocky was killed by a car, Ted sat on the wall every night for months howling and still sleeps with his pal's best toy. Though he insists he never went off his food. Netflix Share or comment on this article: AMANDA PLATELL: Whatever happened to Meghan the feminist? e-mail Add comment.
