Meghan Markle receives major new title as she rings in new year

Meghan Markle has received a brutal new title as she prepares to ring in new year by former hometown newspaper.

In an article published in the Toronto Star, the Duchess of Sussex was called the "most disappointing celebrity of 2025."

Even though Meghan lived in Toronto for years and has often spoken fondly of her time there, writer Patricia Treble claimed the Duchess failed to live up to the hype this year.

The article pointed out several professional struggles of Meghan and her husband Prince Harry, including how Netflix ended their massive $100 million exclusive deal and replaced it with different agreement, as well as her podcast failing to get a second season.

The article also shed light upon the issues Meghan faced with branding issues as it noted that she had to switch her brand name from American Riviera Orchard to "As Ever" due to trademark problems.

“Meghan Markle was poised for a huge year. Instead, she’s our most disappointing celebrity of 2025,” Treble wrote.

“All the ingredients for Meghan becoming a worldwide hit were there: a beautiful, ambitious woman fronting a rapid succession of projects designed to keep her in the public eye from January to December.

“The strategy didn’t work. It wasn’t an abject failure or a scandalous catastrophe, but the Year of Meghan slowly deflated as each project failed to deliver as expected."

The author continued to bash Meghan, writing, “She’s got all the advantages — she landed in Hollywood in 2020 as a major international figure — but she has evolved into a bad celebrity because she doesn’t understand her role in the culture.

“Meghan could be famous by being open and real. It worked for the Kardashians, who got rich by working non-stop to sell themselves to a world eager to see their latest reinventions.

“Meghan is a flitter. She activated and then deleted a ShopMy page this year. She completed only 12 podcast episodes on Spotify and nine on Lemonada. (A Spotify executive called her a “grifter.”)

“She launched her brand as American Riviera Orchard, complete with a soft-focus video of her gliding through her mansion in an evening gown, only to switch to As Ever when she couldn’t secure the trademark.”