Wootton: Duchess Meghan is succeeding at pulling focus from the coronation!

The Duchess of Sussex announced that she signed on with WME last week. There’s been some talk within the Sussex Squad about whether we could see an immediate change in how Meghan was discussed, analyzed and gossiped about within the British media. From what I’ve seen, most of the British media figures were simply surprised that their years-long campaign to smear Meghan has fallen flat. You have to remember, most of these people live in their own echo chambers too, just like the Windsors. They believe they can create their own alternate universe where “everyone hates Meghan and Harry” and “Hollywood shuns the Sussexes” and “Harry will eventually have no choice but to return to the UK.” They honestly believed that, and the WME news was reality crashing down on them.

Since the WME news came out, they’ve been testing out new narratives, trying to ensure that they still have some kind of power over Meghan and how she’s viewed. The Telegraph’s piece over the weekend was full of bizarre and offensive lies, antisemitism and misogyny. So, they’re seeing if any of that sticks. Meanwhile, Dan Wootton got the call and the palace talking point: Meghan’s moves last week were bad because she should have let the coronation have all of the attention! Wootton doesn’t even realize how pathetic he sounds, crying about “why is Meghan forcing everyone to talk about her??!?!?!” Some lowlights from Wootton’s latest Mail column:

Ah, good, compare Meghan to Diana: It was a predictable script taken straight out of Meghan Markle’s masterclass in ‘how-to-get-everyone-talking-about-me-again’ Hollywood PR 101. After months of purposefully shunning the spotlight, allowing her hapless husband Harry to shoulder the backlash against his grotesque and unnecessarily nasty royal shaming tell-all Spare, the Duchess of Woke has viscerally exploded back into public consciousness, with a three-step campaign seemingly taken straight from the Princess Diana playbook.

Even Wootton admits that Meghan doesn’t have to coordinate with the palace: Now, of course, Meghan is her own woman who is no longer part of the Royal Family and has no need to coordinate her media activities, something she hated doing with a passion while part of the Buckingham Palace set-up. But it is no coincidence that this trio of major interventions occurred just one week before the Coronation of King Charles III, the most important day in her father-in-law’s life.

Strategic Meg: It seems Meghan strategically timed her almost total disappearance from the spotlight for four months – a lifetime in Californian terms – in order to make maximum impact when she did emerge at this critical juncture. Even the Sussex Squad must concede there was absolutely no reason why any of these trio of PR events had to take place in the past week.

Shameless Meg: This is nothing short of a desperate and shameless bid to steal attention from the new King in his Coronation week because, I believe, she’s jealous she won’t be part of it. Having decided it is just too risky to join her husband at the Coronation, given the likelihood she would be booed by the royalist heavy crowds in London this Saturday, there was no opportunity for Meghan to re-emerge via the first Coronation in 70 years, as she may have initially planned. So now she’s doing it her own way: Guerrilla style.

[From The Mail]

Hilariously, I also kind of think that the WME news last week was probably timed specifically, but she probably thought “well, we can’t announce it in early May, because that’s way too close to the coronation, I don’t want to pull focus.” That’s why it’s so funny – the WME news came out, what? Nine or ten days before the godforsaken struggle-chubbly. The Sussexes went to the NBA Playoff game twelve days before the coronation too. Did no one tell Meghan that she wasn’t “allowed” to do anything or go anywhere for a full 30 days before the coronation? That’s why people like Dan Wootton and Camilla Tominey are screaming, crying and throwing up – because Meghan is the story, no matter when or where she shows up, and they all know it.

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  1. Molly says:

    bbb-but-but… she’s literally done *nothing*. complete invisible radio silence. jesusmaryjoseph.

    • theRobinsons says:

      Soon, the BP Tabloids will receive cease and desist letters from Meghan’s WME Reps… after the CONoration, no doubt. The Daily Fail (DM) is already curbing some of its online enthusiasm of lies against the Sussexes.

      • Mrs. Smith says:

        This right here 👆. I bet the WME news was timed accordingly. It puts the entirety of BM derangers on notice.

    • AnnaKist says:

      Wootton is completely and utterly obsessed with Meghan. He just cannot let go. Don’t you love it though? “So now she’s doing it her own way: Guerilla style.” 😂😂😂

      When are these people going to learn?
      1. Was Meghan actually invited to accompany her husband, son of the King, to attend his fancy hat parade? Or did Harry get told to keep her away? In any case, why would you turn up at a place you knew you weren’t wanted or welcome?
      2. Meghan is a free agent, living and working in her own country, that does not have allegiance to any king. She can make whatever decisions she pleases about her life and work, and accept any contract she chooses. She is not beholden to the royal family or British media. And that is what they can’t stand.
      3. Did she deliberately release the W ME news on that date? Who cares and what does it matter? Good for her, I say.
      4. They wanted Meghan gone from Britain, and she has gone, but they are still not happy. Because they expected Harry and Meghan to be a dismal failure, and have to go crawling back to England with their tails between their legs, ready to be lambasted and abused all over again.

      The RF and British media are choking on the anger, hatred and frustration.
      That means Meghan is winning, 😂♥️

  2. Tessa says:

    Hey Dan you are calling attention to her. Think about it

  3. equality says:

    So Meghan is in charge of basketball schedules? And the TED talks schedules?

    • Brassy Rebel says:

      As far as British media is concerned, Meghan is literally in charge of everything. She is omnipotent.

      • indica says:

        You know, I keep thinking about this. If Meghan is so powerful, why are we wasting her on the British monarchy? Seriously, if she’s so all powerful just her existence is bringing it down, why aren’t we sic-ing her on Putin? Or North Korea?
        I’m not arguing that the monarchy doesn’t need to go but seriously, if we have this all powerful woman, we need to get some things fixed in the world!

      • Lucky Charm says:

        Yet they keep insisting that she’s completely irrelevant! First they complained for months that she was hiding and nowhere to be found, now they complain she’s seen in public. They can’t seem to pick a lane lol.

      • Nicky says:

        I’m childish, but, I wish wish wish Meghan would become a media tycoon make enough money and start her own papers and show the hacks that you can be decent, life affirming and still entertain and inform with humor and humility. I’m off the view this woman can succeed at anything she puts her mind to.

        I know she has other causes and that’s not her thing and I know it’s silly of me, but I dream she’d enter a lottery and win billions as I’d love to see her put those fossilized losers out of the picture completely and do it only because she can afford it and needed a hobby in addition to her main loves.

    • Agreatreckoning says:

      Apparently, Meghan is in charge of all of the scheduling. Everywhere. lol

      I don’t know why, but the Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers game scheduled the night before shiny hat day felt serendipitous. Now I know Meghan scheduled it. /s

      Would like both teams to win that battle.

  4. Tessa says:

    Charles was already booed.

    • BothSidesNow says:

      Yes, and is still being boo’ed at every corner and opportunity. They just wanted to blame the boo’s on Meghan and not the awful KFC and his gin soaked mistress turned wife.

  5. Noki says:

    I wish some covert celebrity ring would hire some private investigators and dig up skeletons and everything lurid from these rancid rota rats and tabloid journalists and expose their personal life on a loop via twitter and see how they like it.

    • notasugarhere says:

      We have the Piss Morgan’s wife cheating story, Christian Jones’s husband openly taking a payoff from Wootten that endangered the lives of Sussex Family, and one of the female RRs was photographed sexing in a field with someone other than her husband. More needs to be unearthed and shared.

  6. No Dan you and your other gutter trash tabloids have been doing that by using her name in everything you write! YOU are pulling focus away!

  7. Brassy Rebel says:

    This particular narrative that the Sussexes, especially Meghan, must time their activities and appearances so as not to upstage royal events is so revealing. It reveals how easy it is to upstage the remaining “working” royals. And it reveals how royal media sycophants like Wootton just can’t quit the Sussexes. Not to mention how they were whining a few weeks ago because Meghan wasn’t providing material for them to drag her. Like I said, they just can’t quit her.

    • Amy Bee says:

      Exactly.

    • Tacky says:

      The tabs relentlessly cover Meghan and Harry and then bitch they are getting too much attention. I suppose irony is dead.

    • Louise177 says:

      What’s laughable about the upstaging is that they aren’t doing anything. The British media don’t realize how bad it looks that a pre-taped introduction and a basketball game can overshadow what’s supposed to be a once in a lifetime, historical event.

      • Christine says:

        This is what totally cracks me up! Um, calling it “a trio of major interventions” seems like an enormous stretch, don’t you think? She went to a basketball game, virtually introduced her friend, and signed with WME. No question, the WME part IS a PR move, but the other two are just leading her life. Without you, salty British media.

    • Becks1 says:

      Exactly! Meghan living is upstaging the royals – that’s not her fault, that’s the fault of the working royals who are incredibly boring (and for W&K, incredibly lazy) and that’s the fault of the press, because they magnify everything she does.

      But honestly, even when Meghan is completely quiet and we don’t hear from her or see her in months, she’s still all the RRs can talk about.

    • Carmen says:

      I’d like to try an experiment. Have Kate and Meghan enter a crowded venue at the same time, and see which way all the heads turn.

      Meghan lights up a room. Kate sucks all the air out of a room.

  8. lanne says:

    Mister is a legend in his own mind, isn’t he? If Meghan is pulling focus, it’s because YOU WRITE ABOUT HER, DIPSHIT!

    There are lots of royals to write about. What are the Ford Fiesta and her husband up to? They are a Duke and Duchess now! What about the Wales? You have a new Queen with an entire klan of brand new royal adjacents!

    Ten years from now, if Meghan appears on another continent within 10 days of some random royal event, will these ratchets be shrieking about it? They are all shitty propagandists. They may think they are following the Goebbels rule: “Tell a lie often enough and it will become true,” but they sound completely deranged instead. I don’t understand how the royals don’t view these creeps as liabilities. It’s like having Perez Hilton as your press secretary.

    Get thee to a padded cell, rota ratchet. Seriously, whenever I see his posts, I keep thinking of that song I heard on the old Dr Demento radio show: “They’re coming to take me away, ha ha, hee hee ho ho to the funny farm!”

  9. Snuffles says:

    I genuinely feel like Meghan is actually HOLDING BACK until the coronation is finished. If they think she’s pulling focus now, just they wait until WME gets to work.

    • notasugarhere says:

      This ^

    • L84Tea says:

      Yup!

    • Becks1 says:

      Agreed.

      Also, like @lanne said above, she’s “pulling focus” bc the RRs are so hyperfocused on her. No one is making them cover her every move. they choose to do that.

      • kirk says:

        To be honest here, these tabloids and other Brit media do not exist in a vacuum. Let’s talk about the public who are paying for it all. The ‘attention merchant’ business model adopted by newspaper business 100 years ago still holds today. Advertisers won’t. Unless they get some proof of attention delivery. Unfortunately they have another master – BRFCo.

    • Iolanthe says:

      Why aren’t they hollering about that child Charlotte’s birthday portraits being dropped one at a time a couple of days before this sorry event?

  10. Delphine says:

    She could literally sneeze and pull focus from this snooze fest.

    • Christine says:

      I seriously want Meghan to do something utterly banal on Saturday, like take a trip to Costco, just to see if the Chubbly or Meghan with a jumbo pack of Kirkland wipes gets more front page space in England.

      • Deering24 says:

        I have often wondered if Meghan does secret Costco/Target/BJ’s Warehouse runs. I would imagine Harry would be mind-blown at all. That. Stuff. 🙂

  11. JM says:

    If they think she’s this planned and coordinated now, wait until WME rolls out the whole PR brigade. I can’t wait!

  12. Harla A Brazen Hussy says:

    I hope that Meghan and Harry release a birthday photo of Archie immediately after the televised Conanation!

    • Amy Bee says:

      I guess you can hope but that’s not going to happen. They haven’t release a photo for his birthday in two years and the last time the photo was taken from behind.

  13. Chantal says:

    But she hasn’t pulled focus. Black Twitter and Irish Twitter have already decided to join forces to roast the ridiculous ClownFest. Apparently, Scottish Twitter and Welsh Twitter will also be reporting for duty. So C-Rex and Shagnasty (thanks Jim Butcher for that nickname from the book series the Dresden Files), will get plenty of attention but they might not like it, judging by Black Twitter and Irish Twitter reactions around QE2’s funeral…

  14. Amy Bee says:

    If Meghan was truly jealous of the coronation wouldn’t she make sure she was there so she can pull all the focus off Charles? Dan Wootton is not only unhinged, he’s stupid. The press is going to outraged when she goes to NY on May 16 as she attempts to reclaim the spotlight from Charles and Camilla following the coronation.

    • notasugarhere says:

      Isn’t Meghan also receiving an award next weekend in L.A.?

      • Amy Bee says:

        She’s picking up an award from the Ms Foundation on May 16 in NY and the other one on May 23 in LA.

  15. ThatsNotOkay says:

    “Guerrilla style”?!?!! Seriously??? That wasn’t an accident. Just giving himself plausible deniability. Dog-whistling-Dixie racist piece of shit.

  16. Snuffles says:

    “the Duchess of Woke has viscerally exploded back into public consciousness,”

    Why does it sound like he was rage masturbating while he wrote this?

  17. Bubblegum Dreams says:

    Just for one day I would like to have these imaginary powers these fools claim Meghan has. Just for one damn day.

  18. Noor says:

    Wootton is making a lucrative living by writing hate pieces on Meghan in the newspapers and encouraging and enabling Tom, and Samantha Markle as well as others to talk negatives on Meghan in GB news , etc

    Whilst Meghan together with Harry are working hard on their projects to feed their family and provide them with security as well as doing charity work.

    • Polo says:

      And that’s really what it comes down to. He’s making money pushing any narrative he can come up with. Most of his articles and segments on GB News are about Harry and Meghan. He doesn’t make that much off YouTube but clicks he gets for daily mail are more profitable!
      Even a screenshot of this headline draws eyes to his article!
      The best option is to ignore him because his reach is very local

  19. Steph says:

    Is it Meghan’s masterclass or Diana’s playbook?

    What’s the third thing he’s crying about? Wme, basketball, and?

  20. Mads says:

    Wow! I gasped at the statement, “So now she’s doing it her own way: Guerrilla style.”
    Guerrilla Style! Or gorilla style you racist scum. (You just know he pronounces Guerrilla like gorilla, and thinks he is so clever).

    When will this guy rot off the vine already?

  21. Lili says:

    I dont see how she is pulling focus, apart from what was said above, she hasn’t released a podcast, docuseries, given money to charity the work she normally does. so what is their problem. they should be focusing on what ever godforsaken things going on with the con a nation, since these guys have a reach , that would probaly turn the tide in favour of it. instead parties and events are getting cancelled all over the country due to lack of engagement.

  22. Carrot says:

    What they’re really saying is:
    Meghan is breathing
    They resent her breathing
    They want her to stop breathing

    • lanne says:

      But then what would they talk about?

      • Elon's Sink says:

        “How dare she stop breathing!”

      • Lexistential says:

        Like Diana, they would turn on a dime and create an industry out of mourning her, making an eternal story out of “what could have been”, a forever set of post-death talking points to monetize over and over again while never acknowledging their role in creating her misery.

        (God forbid this ever happens to Meghan. I hate the tabloid press.)

  23. AnneL says:

    Well, I am so used to their crazed rants about Meghan that all I can do is roll my eyes.

    But to talk about “Diana’s Playbook” that way? Basically side-smearing Diana as though she was some manipulative attention hog and flame-thrower? You do NOT come for Diana. The woman has been gone more than 25 years. Respect for the dead. And especially for her. We all know she is the one who should have been crowned this weekend.

  24. Feebee says:

    It’s a bit like the chicken or the egg… is Meghan News pulling focus or is all the talking they do about it pulling focus?

    Now it did also cross my mind in terms of timing esp the WME news… the basketball game was different, they had no control over the NBA schedule. But they could decide when to announce the representation. Of course if they waited until after, the BM would accuse them of interrupting some Coronation honeymoon or whatever. I could imagine though Meghan getting the thought of holding back the announcement and Harry going “no, do it now” before she finished the sentence.

    In addition, either way, her new agent also DGAF about Palace or BM imaginary sensibilities. Which also makes Wootton’s musings even funnier, like “oh you think we’re f**king with you? LOL we’re totally f**king with you now” and there’s nothing they can do about it. Except what they’d do anyway, bleat about it endlessly.

  25. truthSF says:

    “That’s why people like Dan Wootton and Camilla Tominey are screaming, crying and throwing up – because Meghan is the story, no matter when or where she shows up, and they all know it.”

    Not only is Meghan the story, she’s theee top story for the UK, yet the BM have absolutely no access to her. Every breaking news, information, and access gets to the BM after every U.S. outlet breaks the news! So they’re not even making money like they did when she & Harry lived in the UK.

    That’s why they NEEDED her at the con-of-a-nation, so that they could finally have the Meghan breaking news for a bit! But our girl took away every opportunity for the bullies to make serious money off of her. They’re only making coins now!! 🤣

  26. MsIam says:

    If a frickin once in a lifetime Coronation gets overshadowed by someone going to a basketball game then that’s on you boo. You just ain’t all that. Bye.

    • MSTJ says:

      @MISIAM ….and living no less than 5000+ miles away too. What an icon she must definitely be to command such attention just by appearing for a few minutes on a screen for a screen grab photo of her to be captured. Go Meghan!!!

  27. lleepar says:

    So I guess the photoshoot of W&K abseiling in Wales presents no danger of pulling focus from the côrônation — mainly because they can’t get people to care. But let Meghan go to a basketball game …

  28. Eurydice says:

    Lol, that’s what “global icon” means. All Meghan has to do is go to a basketball game and the press drops all interest in the most historic royal event in a lifetime. She says two words in a TED talk and Charles can’t get his own pet media guys to pay attention to him. She gets more attention for NOT attending an event than the people who actually attend. Yes, Wootton, you’re right – Meghan has succeeded.

  29. PC says:

    👆 That!!!

  30. one of the marys says:

    Did she announce it or was it announced via the agency? I see a difference there. The media made the same complaint about Harry’s book didn’t they, disregarding contracts and bookings and timelines? Ugh these people are so tiresome

  31. PC says:

    “Even the Sussex Squad must concede there was absolutely no reason why any of these trio of PR events had to take place in the past week.”

    That line right there was the icing on the cake! This fool’s lame attempt to use the Squad to bash Meghan. Dan Wootton has fallen down and bumped his sad little head. We have been cheering Meghan! I bet he was crying real tears when he wrote that sentence. Sad Little Man.

  32. QuiteContrary says:

    Dan is going to need to be sedated later this month when Meghan collects the honors she so richly deserves.

    I look forward to his rage-stroke.

    • tamsin says:

      i think he will try to denigrate the award and everyone involved with it. That would be his MO.
      It’s nice how the fates have made May a Sussex month-specifically a Meghan month. Mind you, Charles did not have to choose May 6. He could have had it the same weekend as Trooping. It would have helped get him a bigger turnout and probably bigger crowds. People love to come out to see the military parade. Mind you, he will have military at his coronation. If I recall correctly, Archetypes debuted towards end of summer last year. Maybe it will be a Sussex summer with Invictus coming to finish it off with a flourish.

  33. IlsLaura says:

    If I was Meghan, I would take the Prince and Princess to that iconic American Disneyland on Saturday and let all the public take pics.

  34. Maple Plains says:

    No one cares about the coronation, Dan, so Meghan simply existing is more interesting and will “pull focus.” I’d be more interested in hearing what kind of nail clippers Meghan uses than in watching the coronation.

    • Debbie says:

      I’m positively anxious for an update on how her lawn is growing. I’d take that over “Coranation Street — The Electric Boogaloo” going on over there.

  35. kronster says:

    I swear they’re like a bridezilla: “how DARE you do ANYTHING 6 months before – and post – MAH WEDDING! IT’S MAH WEDDING! MAH DAY!”

  36. Angie says:

    Meghan should under no circumstances dull her light for these a-holes. She owes them nothing. I can’t believe they send their pet media spokespeople to dictate to her when she can or can’t appear in public. They have no say so over her life at all. She is free to do whatever she wants. Those people care nothing for her at all and have no business telling her what to do. They’re leaking that they are glad she’s not there. They don’t even have the decency not to answer that question when asked.

  37. Well Wisher says:

    All Meghan did was straighten her hair, used make-up to accentuate her features and signed a contract to produce art with a management team.
    Her father-in-law was preparing for this event for over 70 years, how can innocuous actions reported by media be used as reason for the disinterest in the coronation is beyond logical reason??
    Another reason to rant?? to continue to fact reality?? another instance of projection??

  38. ChattyCath says:

    I wonder how Dan and Angela see how their own futures will pan out? Or do they envisage writing this rubbish forever?

  39. Edith says:

    I can’t believe he’s forgetting that she deliberately sabotaged the coronation by having given birth to a child on that day, years back. She’s clearly playing the long game….

  40. AC says:

    This one sentence: HM are being represented by Endeavor. With that said, Wooten and his cronies are just a small fish in the big pond .. :). Let’s see how much the BT and BM try to Psst more people off and how that will work for them . For sure , They are way too invested with Hollywood and its celebrities even though they sometimes mock them as fake. The stories they have about HW celebrities, HM , and the US are the ones that usually dominate their headlines. I was in London years ago when Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise broke up – This was way before social media – I literally saw everyone in the tube reading a newspaper with Tom and Nicole on the front cover.
    @ILSLAURA – I was thinking the same thing . Meghan should take the kids to Disneyland this weekend for Archie’s bday . We were just there as we took my cousin from New Zealand. Disney is also celebrating their 100 years. So That would be fun for a day out for them .