Nacho is the star of Harry’s polo show Prince Harry making a show for Netflix about himself playing polo always seemed a curious idea. Isn’t the long term goal of Harry and wife Meghan Markle to encourage us to identify with them? And wouldn’t a film about playing polo—a famously expensive sport, requiring access to multiple pricey “ponies”—merely confirm suspicions that they live fabulous, millionairey lives while the rest of us struggle to pay vet bills for the dog, let alone maintain a stable of stallions? Well, now it emerges that, according to a report in the Daily Mail , the polo film is not about Harry at all. It’s star is actually his buddy, the handsome Argentinean polo player Nacho Figueras.
The efforts of the polo industry to promote Figueras as its figurehead go back decades—it’s hard to find a long serving magazine writer who hasn’t been offered an interview with him—and while he has plenty of followers on Instagram, its fair to say he hasn’t exactly cracked the mainstream. Needless to say this news that Prince Harry’s polo film doesn’t feature much of Prince Harry has reportedly been received by Netflix with about as much enthusiasm as a bunch of badly dressed, poor people would be not welcomed at the polo in the Hamptons. The series, titled Polo and due to drop later this year, has been nicknamed “the Nacho Show” by insiders at the streaming giant.
Dr Sophie Chandauka MBE, Chair of Sentebale, Nacho Figueras, Sentebale Ambassado.