The Rest Is Entertainment Roasts Harry and Meghan

0:00 Ah Calorougus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pallas Intrigue. I'm your host Mark Francis. The journalist Marina Hyde has delivered a withering assessment of Prince Harry and Meghan Markel, arguing that the couple have little left to offer beyond their royal backstory. Speaking on the rest Is Entertainment podcast with co host Richard osmond, I dismissed the Sussexes as just rich people and suggested public interest in them has sharply faded. She was particularly scathing about the couple's media output following the collapse of their Spotify deal, accusing them of repeatedly returning to the same grievance driven narrative about leaving royal life. I had said nobody cares about watching her make lavender biscuits for her ex headdresser. As she mocked what she sees as the increasingly thin premise behind some of Meghan's lifestyle and media ventures. She went even further, describing the output as bull and boring and argue that the deeper problem is not simply overexposure, but a lack of compelling talent or reinvention. I mean they are out of fashion. They are not very talented, and they have a hugely overstated idea of their cultural relevance, I had said.

1:16 She added that one major industry figure had reached a similarly blunt conclusion, saying, a guy who used to run one of the biggest talent agencies I think UTA said they're just not very good. In her substact, Tina Brown asks just how desperate does the House of Windsor want Harry and Meghan to get? The royals and their advisors don't seem to see the iceberg looming from sunny Montecito. Distracted by the Andrew mount Batman Windsor catastrophe, the Palace remains in a perplexed haze about one of the Andrew scandal's less discussed lessons, the perils of the monarchy when peripheral royals hang out with their uber rich and start to consider themselves by comparison. Broke Brown adds, look in the Crystal Bowl. People bad enough at Spotify bail on the Sussexes, and then Netflix deal was downgraded to a first look arrangement, though the Sussexes and the streamer announced this week that they are partnering on a drama series about Polo. Netflix has put a fork in Meghan's basted Turkey with Love Megan and cut loose her Domestic Goddess Home Products spin off after only eleven months, leaving a ten million dollar pile up of tea baking mixed and strawberry jam. The Sussex's revenue streams are starting to dry up.

2:26 They will soon be heading for that hinterland of free bee hell that draws them further and further into cheesy commercial gigs, or worse, towards dubious transactional acquaintances willing to underwrite their faux royal lifestyle and their astronomical security costs. Megan's upcoming a Stream and wellness retreats facing fresh questions after reports suggested would be attendees were not simply buying tickets, they were being chosen. According to the reports, several women who say they are attending the Sydney event claim they had been selected after submitting expressions of interest explaining why they wanted to go. One attendee reportedly wrote on x that she was so very excited to be selected for Meghan's retreat weekend, while also claiming she and others had to write about why they wanted to attend before being offered places. The article says organizers describe the retreat as intentionally intimate and told applicants they had received thousands of submissions, meaning they had to be very thoughtful about who would be invited. That has led to speculation that this is not simply a first come, first served, ticketed event, but something closer to a curated fan experience, with organizers seemingly deciding who gets access to Meghan's appearance. The retreat itself is already drawing attention because of its price tag. Tickets are reportedly selling between nineteen hundred and twenty three hundred, with higher tier attendees said to receive extras including a group photo with Meghan and access to a speech she is expected to deliver. Jemma O'Neill, a talent manager linked

4:00 to Meghan's retreat, has removed her primary Instagram account. Miss O'Neil, who represents radio personality Jackie o Henderson, saw her personal profile disappear amid scrutiny over her financial situation. Her talent agency, Jemmy Agency, entered voluntary liquidation last November. Harian Meghan have pushed back after a growing petition in Australia called for taxpayers not to foot any part of the bill for their upcoming trip, insisting the visit will be paid for privately. The online petition. The online petition, launched by advocacy group Beyond Australia, has now attracted more than thirty five thousand signatures. It argues that the Sussex's appearance next month should be treated strictly as a private and commercial visit and says no public money or official support should be used. Daily Mail reports spokesman for Haryan Meghan dismissed the campaign, saying it's a moot point. The trip is being funded privately, so I'm not sure what this petition hopes to achieve.

4:58 Of course, if you wanted to dive to the ridiculousness of this petition as an agenda for spreading misinformation, than one could equally hypothesize that there are approximately twenty six point five million Australians ninety nine point nine to eight percent of the population who haven't signed it, who must therefore agree with the taxpayer picking up the tab for their visit. Of course, that is another equally stupid assertion to make Meghan's lifestyle brand has ever faced a fresh round of online mockery after social media clip featuring one of its floral products sparked a wave of jokes. The reaction centered on Megan's edible flower petals, which a user on x placed inside ice cues before pouring a drink over them. The punchline came when the reviewer appeared on camera with petals stuck between their teeth, and Royal watches on social media had a field day. One commenter wrote, this is exactly what I can imagine happening, or stuck in the back of the throat more palas in just a moment. Harry and Meghan welcomed the outcome of a US court case that found two major technology companies liable over the harmful effects of social media on a young woman's mental health. The couple's reaction was reported during BBC Breakfast coverage of the case, with presenter Ben Bulos saying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had issued a statement calling the verdict a reckoning. According to the program, Harry and Meghan said, for two long families have paid the price for platforms built with total disregard for the children that they reach. The case focused on a now twenty year old woman named Keayley, who told the court her childhood had been dominated by compulsive social media use. BBC

6:32 Breakfast reported that she had spent as much as sixteen hours a day on the platform, and argued that the companies behind them had knowingly designed addictive systems that contributed to serious harm. A jury found Matter, which owns Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and Google, which owns YouTube, liable, concluding they had acted with malice, oppression or fraud. Keiley was awarded six million dollars in damages, with Meta ordered to pay seventy percent and Google the remaining thirty Both companies have said they disagree with a verdict and then ten to appeal. If you'd like to hear more about this case, check out our sister podcast, Daily Crime and Justice. It's a weekday, five days a week show that dives in on all the trials and cases and justice and verdicts happening around the country. And if you check out yesterday's show Monday, you'll see a whole breakdown of this case. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. Daily Crime and Justice, Former Prime Minister Liz Trust took aim at Harry and Meghan during a television appearance in the United States. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the former Prime Minister was asked about reports suggesting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex maybe under financial pressure in Los Angeles, and whether a return to Britain could ever be on the cards.

7:47 Truss brushed off the idea, saying it's really a matter for the King and the other members of the royal family, but as far as I'm concerned, you're very welcome to keep them in California for our news. Sarah Carson, commenting on the new Tom Bower book, adds Megan is suffering an identity crisis, unable to decide if she is a female founder, a princess, a regular American mom, a duchess, an eli latchkey kid, an outspoken free speech advocate, a reclusive private homemaker, switching between them whenever it suits her. Harry, as we have long known, is suffering a purpose crisis. Without the clear destiny of his brother, he has clutched at military, charity and family and hopes that one of them would give him direction, and perhaps all of them could have had he committed to them with some conviction and good advice. It's a shame because people really did care before, when they had the power to change brand windsor to transform the institution from within and say something new to the rest of the world about modern Britain.

8:44 When they decided to become plain old celebrities to trade on their name without a talent to talk to the rest of the world about nothing except themselves and everyone who has wronged them, it became clear that there was very little remarkable about them at all, and they have it. Should like to email us our addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice, and don't forget to check out Daily Crime and Justice for that story yesterday about the meta trial. I'm mind Francis my thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and contains