Aug. 9, 2025

Pamela Anderson Shrugs Off Meghan Markle Copycat Claims; Apricot Jam Backlash and a Royal Vampire Connection

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Pamela Anderson dismisses comparisons between her cooking show and Meghan Markle’s With Love, Meghan as “one.” Meanwhile, a writer reviews Meghan’s shortbread mix—and her vanishing apricot spread. Elsewhere: Prince William teams up with Ronnie Wood for marine conservation, Luke Evans shares King Charles’ vampire lineage, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle has thoughts on royal titles. Oh—and Meghan’s ex-staffers say she was a nightmare boss. Again.

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello, and welcome to Palace Intrigue and

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your host Mark Francis. Pamela Anderson, who does have a

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new movie to promote, Who's addressed the chatter that Megan

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Michael may have copied her cooking show concept. The speculation

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kicked off earlier this year when Meghan's Netflix series With

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Love Megan premiered just a week after Pamela's Cooking with

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Love debuted on Amazon. Both shows featured glossy lifestyle content,

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with Anderson's hitting screens in January and Meghan's delayed until

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March due to California wildfires. Anderson stopped by Watch What

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Happens Live with Andy Cohen, where Cohen asked her, on

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a scale of one to ten, how much little rip

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off she thought Megan's show was. Pamela coolly replied one.

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I didn't, and when pressed love off the comparisons, adding

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I didn't really look, but I didn't invent cooking shows.

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She's just doing her thing. Martha Stewart had previously offered

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a more fun take, telling Yahoo Lifestyle Meghan, I don't

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really know very well, and I hope she knows what

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she's talking about. Authenticity to me is everything. Ingrid Abramovich

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tried Meghan's shortbread mix for eldecor dot com and writes,

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it was a quiet morning last month when the text

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arrived from my brother Seth in California. I just ordered

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Meghan Markle's Apricot Jam, shortbread cookie mix and pepperin tea.

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He announced it was sold out in an hour. Last time,

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they just restocked, get on it. Thirty seconds later, I

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was frantically searching for in stock products on Meghan's as

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Ever brand site. The tea was already sold out. Kinna

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sell it on eBay. My brother choked, but he was right.

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Several items were still in stock. I grabbed a nine

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dollars jar of the apricot jam that spread actually, but

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I still wanted it. I ordered the two remaining items

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that were available, a box of crape mix and the

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intriguing sounding short bread cookie mix with flour sprinkles. Those

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were fourteen dollars each. The order went through, or seemed to.

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An email promptly arrived, letting me know that something delightful

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has coming your way. Another note popped up from Megan herself,

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Dear Ingrid, I'm so pleased, to have you here at

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as ever, we celebrate the beauty and the details, and

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cherish the small moments of magic that can be found

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in the every day. By day's end, I also got

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some surprising news, as did my brother, and to judge

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from the uproar on social media, many other disappointed customers.

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Due to high demand, the email announced we are unable

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to fulfill your order of the Apricots spread at this time.

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Clearly the duchess was spread too thin. I was informed

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that I would get a refund and that when the

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Apricot spread is back in stock, you will be the

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first to receive it free of charge. I am still waiting.

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The jam was clearly in a jam. But two weeks

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after I placed my order, a plain brown box landed

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on my doorstep with a sticker that warned open with care.

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Inside a card said simply enjoy Megan. I brushed away

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the popcorn peanuts, opened the short bread mix and set

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to work. The box contained two packages, the cookie mix

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and a small bag of flour sprinkles, which turned out

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to be about a tablespoon of dried edible flowers, including rose, colendular,

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blue corn flower, and hibiscus. There was also a note

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for Megan on the package Let's call this a hug

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in a box. She said, I fell in love with

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a ritual of tea and biscuits during my time in

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the UK. Ingrid then detailed her cooking process before revealing

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that her husband Joel declared, but for short bread, they

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are ten out of ten. In The Royalist, Tom Sykes

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shared tales of Megan's management style. Sikes writes, when you

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talk to people who have worked for Megan, you will

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hear amazing stories of her brisk management style. Sikes quotes

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one as saying there were bad, very bad, even psycho moments.

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I witnessed people being chewed up in person and over

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the phone and made to feel like crap. Another told

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sychs she is lovely when it's all going her way,

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but a demon when the worm turns more into the moment. Hey,

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known for her cheeky portrayals of the rich and royal,

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says she's struggling to find anyone willing to pretend to

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be Prince Harry and Meghan Markle because they've become too toxic.

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Alison Jackson, the satirical artist famous for using celebrity lookalikes

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in provocative and humorous scenes, was preparing for a new

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show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but with just weeks

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to go before curtain up, Jackson said she hit a snag.

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Nobody wants to be Megan or Harry. I have a

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couple of Prince Williams who come forward as they look

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quite good, Jackson told reporters, but no Meghan or Harry

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has turned up. She claims the lack of volunteers isn't

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down to casting logistics, it's reputation. I think the people

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don't like Megan, they don't trust her, and they think

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she's an operator who sucks everything she can out of Harry,

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adding that her actors typically try to connect to the

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personalities they portray. In the Sussex's case, no one wants

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the job. Monty Python's Eric Idol told The Guardian, I

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feel really sorry for the Royals. Sometimes they're very nice

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and human and other times they become monsters because if

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you are called sir at five, you are putting trouble

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into people. King Charles is very funny. He was at Cambridge.

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He did comedy and loved Spike Milligan and would always

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come to Billy Connolly's. But it's not a society. I

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would be happy to live in. Rock Legend. Ronnie Wood

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has praised Prince William for his leadership and wildlife conservation,

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calling him hugely knowledgeable and committed to the cause, as

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the two joined forces to support marine conservation through the

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launch of the Tusk Turtle Trail in London. The Rolling

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Stones guitarist, who also paints in his spare time, is

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one of a number of prominent artists who have decorated

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large model turtles for the city wide trail, raising awareness

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the threats facing marine turtles. Six of the seven species

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are now endangered. The models will later be auctioned to

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raise funds for Prince William's long standing charity Tusk, which

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supports conservation efforts in Africa and beyond. At the London launch,

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Wood said he had a lot of respect for the

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way William uses his status and position for the greater

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good and to support wildlife, adding, we share a common

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belief that our children and future generations deserve to experience

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the wonders of the world's wildlife like we have. Wood's

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own contribution to the trail is a turtle. He's named

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the Prodigal, inspired by these species remarkable ability to return

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to their earthplace after years at sea. Turtles are incredible,

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he explained. They hatch on a beach, hopefully make it

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into the sea, go round the world, and come back

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to the exact spot where they were born. Of the

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design itself, he said, it was an idea that they

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came up with, built around the colors and the light

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you see in the ocean. Colours often change under the sea.

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Red colors, for example, tend to look blue because water

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absorbs red light more readily than other colors. His message

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to the public pay attention through the peace. I wanted

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to encourage people to look at what their surroundings hold,

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especially wildlife, flora and fauna, and look after everything that

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goes on around us. William, who became a patron of

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Tusk not long after leaving university in two thousand and five,

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has regularly appeared alongside Wood at the charity's annual awards.

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The two reunited again at last November at the Tusk

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Conservation Awards at the Savoy Hotel in London, sharing a

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laugh with fellow musician Mark Knopfler before the ceremony. Actor

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Luke Evans is offering a fascinating peak into his royal

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encounter with King Charles, and it involves vampires, Romanian castles,

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and centuries of royal bloodlines. In his newly released memoir

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Boy from the Valley's My Unexpected Journey, the Welsh actor

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recalls meeting the King back in twenty fourteen at a

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gala dinner for the Prince's Trust now known as the

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King's Trust. It was Evans' first time meeting the then

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Prince of Wales and their conversation quickly turned from small

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talk to centuries old history. At the times, Evans had

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just wrapped filming Dracula Untold, in which he portrayed Vlad

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the Impala, the fearsome fifteenth century Romanian ruler who inspired

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brown Stoker's Dracula. When Charles asked what he was working on,

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Evans mentioned the film. That's when, according to the actor,

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his eyes lit up I'll tell you an interesting story,

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Charles reportedly said, actually related to Vlad Tepez. To Evans's surprise,

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the royal then proceeded to talk me through his entire lineage,

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all the way back to the fourteen hundreds, even mentioning

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that he now owns several properties in Romania where Vlad

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once ruled. When Evans remarked on how incredible the story was,

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Charles simply smiled and said, yes, and not a lot

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of people know it. Evans wrote that he noticed the

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king lingered longer with him than with others that night,

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likely due to their unique topic of conversation, and added,

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the child seemed genuinely interested in what you have to say,

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which is remarkable when you consider he has to do

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this several times a day. The King has actually spoken

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of his connection to Vlad the Impaler, before, including in

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a twenty eleven documentary promoting conservation efforts and Romanius Transylvania region.

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The genealogy shows that I am descended from Vlood the Impaler,

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he said at the time, so I have a bit

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of a stake in the country, and there you have it.

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