Meghan Markle’s receives biggest ever dusting down: No common sense!’

Following the Variety piece that exposed quite a bit about the Sussexes and their inner circle, the chief correspondent Matt Donnelly has just come on The Royalist Podcast and has weighed in on what they feel is ‘nightmare’ fuel that is just descending.

For those unversed, the Variety piece was no holds barred, and called out everything from their “poor communication” to “lackluster ratings,” and even how they “ruffled feathers” around them.

Now weeks after it went live he’s sat down to say, “it defies common sense,” when questioned by Mr Sykes about the claims made by As Ever.

They are that they claim to have sold $60 million worth of jam “and more than major jam manufacturers” but as the host said, “the truth is, it’s hard to imagine that Netflix would have split from them if that was the case.” Hence, chances are the truth is that perhaps “the brand actually hasn’t worked out”.

In Donnelly’s eyes, what’s most important to keep in mind is the fact that “Netflix is a publicly traded company, so if they’ve decided to take a huge gamble and invest in an experimental field, like consumer goods, as they did with As Ever... Ted Sarandos told this to me on the record in a cover story we did with him last March: He said that this model, this business, this venture for them was a huge discovery model for Netflix.”

Furthermore, he said, “I can tell you personally from sources and from my prior reporting, Netflix paid everything. Netflix paid for the manufacturing, Netflix paid for the shipping, Netflix paid for the branding. This is a massive investment, so if they are going from success to success to record-breaking jam haul to record-breaking jam haul”.

This prompted him to throw out questions prior to signing off, questions like, “why then, after a year, does Netflix bail? Doesn’t that contradict the responsibility they have for shareholders, which is to provide value? It defies common sense.”

It’s precisely this that sparked such a reaction that the couple came forward and spoke out via a letter from their attorney, Michael J. Kump. It calls claims, including but not limited to Meghan interrupting him in metings “categorically false”

He also emphasized the biggest point which is that Meghan “works from home, is the mother of young children aged 4 and 6, and often encounters (as many parents who work from home do) children who enter the space unexpectedly during a meeting.”

Furthermore, the letter included another paragraph of words that read, “Independent of being a parent who works from home, Meghan is also conscious of shielding her team from the distraction of children. Nearly all professionals can attest to needing to turn off the audio or camera during a virtual meeting at some point during many hours of virtual business calls.”