I still haven’t finished With Love, Meghan’s Season 2! I watched the fifth and sixth episodes last night, and I’ll watch the last two episodes tonight or this weekend. What’s funny about that is… I’m a Sussex fan and I support Meghan’s projects and I buy her jams and teas, and even I haven’t finished the series yet. Meanwhile, Meghan’s most vociferous haters watched the entirety of Season 2 in one sitting in the first 24 hours and they’re now getting endless content from Meghan’s recipes, crafts and conversations. The Telegraph’s royal reporters slammed WLM, pouring scorn and rage at Meghan and Netflix… and then the same newspaper didn’t even blink at publishing “Meghan’s Apple Butter recipe.” And in case you’re wondering, Netflix also published all of the WLM recipes and crafting instructions on their site too – go here to see.
So, first they trash her and then they copy her. We’ve seen that time and time again, but every time, I’m sort of blown away by the audacity and the unblinking cognitive dissonance. Meanwhile, they’re also trying to exploit every WLM joke, every conversation, every guest appearance as some kind of slam or degradation for Meghan. The same Meghan who executive-produced the show – if she didn’t like something, it simply would have been edited out. The latest is one of WLM’s guests, mixologist Payman Bahmani-Bailey, saying he never watched Suits. Guess how the Mail reported it?
Meghan Markle was forced to laugh off a very awkward interaction during the newly-released second season of her show With Love, Meghan. During her ‘Weekend Away’ episode, the Duchess of Sussex and her friend Heather Dorak met with mixologist Payman Bahmani-Bailey for a cocktail-making class.
As they got to know each other, Meghan, 44, casually asked Payman how he became a mixologist, to which he replied he used to be a lawyer in New York before pursuing the craft.
Meghan perked up, asking him whether he watched Suits, the legal drama she starred in for seven seasons.‘No, no, I don’t watch basic cable,’ he brutally replied. All Meghan could do was chuckle as he explained: ‘I like shows with curse words and stuff.’
‘Great, I love it!’ Meghan laughed.
“He brutally replied” – you guys, what are we doing? It’s even funnier because… Meghan didn’t care, and she obviously doesn’t demand that every single person in her orbit needs to watch Suits! It’s like when these people were convinced that Meghan correcting or expressing a preference to Mindy Kaling was some kind of major scandal, remember?
And finally, reporter Ellen Coughlin continues to speak the truth on GB News:
Here’s @EllenCoughlan01 reminding the bitter British press that their opinions don’t matter.
“Nobody’s forcing anybody to watch the series … Regardless what the British press think of Meghan and think of her shows, the viewing figures do not lie.” pic.twitter.com/Q9tIQIDBy5
— Zandi Sussex (@ZandiSussex) August 27, 2025
Photos courtesy of Netflix.
Massive generational gap there. And they also have Angela?
Hey bigots, you aren’t her target audience. Move on. You lie, the viewing figures don’t.
It’s hilarious that they scoff at the idea that she was famous before she met Harry because you know who KNEW she was famous? WILLIAM AND KATE. THEY WERE OBSESSED WITH HER TV SHOW.
The irony of the maniacal obsession of the Brit toxic press slandering Meghan & her shows/projects at every turn is: it’s all free publicity for Meghan! 🙂 Their unending fixation on writing lies & BS about her just increases eyeballs on her projects & increases attention, which makes her endeavours even more successful! The Royal Rota Rats just can’t win…LOL!
Until Meghan entered the nuthouse of the dysfunctional Royal Family, neither the RF nor Meghan was on my radar. Since the RRR started writing racist diatribes about Meghan incessantly, I’ve become engrossed in the shenanigans of the RF & the RRR & their corrupt symbiotic relationship. And started watching Suits!
Wash rinse repeat. Haters need a new life.
It’s a pretty boring cycle at this point. And honestly if Meghan wasn’t doing a show or putting herself out there they’d be angrily talking about her hiding away. There’s no winning with haters, especially paid haters. It’s a rigged game and Meghan opted out a while back and is just doing as she does without a care for them. As she said, that’s for them to sort out with their maker/conscience.
I was very pleasantly surprised to see Ellen Coughlin give it to those crusty old presenters straight, no chaser. Meghan was famous BEFORE she met Harry, MILLIONS of people watch and enjoy Suits, even now, and their negative opinions DON’T MATTER, because the viewing numbers don’t lie. Bottom line. They don’t want to hear it, because they’re so invested in their negative view, and they’re really upset that they can’t control the narrative anymore. And I personally love every minute of it. And I’m so glad that Coughlin told it straight to their faces.
Their attempt to minimize who she was before she met Harry is them desperately trying to make it seem as if the royals are who made her even though she was a fully formed and accomplished millionaire before she met Harry. There were millions of fans of Suits all over the world. There’s a reason she and other cast mates were on prime time talk shows and she was doing cooking segments and on Rachel Ray’s show prior to her meeting Harry. There’s a reason she did speaking engagements in Ireland, Australia and for UN Women prior to meeting Harry. There’s a reason Harry saw her joking around on social media with a designer for Ralph Lauren and decided he had to meet her. There’s a reason why Harry said that after looking her up and finding a dizzying number of photos of her, he was surprised how much more beautiful she was in person. There’s a reason that amongst the millions of global fans three of them lived right there in the UK (William, Kate and Piers) and have obsessed over her ever since Harry started dating her. They all have become unhinged because of their obsession with her.
It always annoys me. Meghan was a working actor, getting paid and getting health insurance. And she was proud of that. They way they minimize her as if she was nothing before that? F-ck that mindset. The royals are essentially snobby assholes, let’s be real, and the way they compare other human beings to them as if some standard isn’t being met. GMAFB. The royals are actually the least aspirational people ever. It’s more like how not to act like an asshole.
Who was that dried up old prune, the guy, who was talking over her and not even listening to what she had to say?!
He needs to be flushed down the waste pipe.
The old man who claimed never to have heard of Suits is ridiculous at this point. When told that millions of people watched it and still watch reruns of the show, he actually says “No they don’t.” First of all, there have been recent articles stating that even the BBC has gotten into the Suits act. Secondly, how would he know enough to refute the popularity of the show when he claims to know nothing about it? He is in such denial that, if he were a child, he would actually break out the typical singsong, “La, la, la. I can’t hear you!” He has stopped any pretense at journalism and is just a paid troll there.
How did the mixologist know the show was basic cable if he never watched it? The gutter rats are besides themselves with envy because of the life Harry and Meghan have created for themselves and the support they have in their community. The type of trolling they do of this couple is a sickness.
I can imagine that when he was invited to do the show he may have looked into Meghan more and seen she was on a show on basic cable. I don’t think it’s weird to know that a show is on a particular channel/whatever it may be even if you don’t watch that channel/whatever it may be.
There are many shows that I’ve never seen a single episode of but have heard of them and I know they were/are basic cable shows. Including Suits! I had never seen it but knew it aired on USA long before Meghan met Harry.
Ellen is doing the lord’s work. She has the patience of a saint. What jumped out at me was how they were saying it’s fake. She had to calmly explain American television and how not cooking in your own home was industry standard. I don’t know if it’s willfully ignorant or they just hate on anything she does.
In these sh@tty times I need a comfort show bad! I too loved McDonald’s Apple pies and I want to try that recipe. I haven’t finished either. I think I am pacing myself because I need something soothing to watch.
Agreed, and I’m also pacing myself because I don’t want it to.end too fast.
I’m just wandering if in England the TV chefs use their own kitchens and homes. Why is it so difficult for them to accept that Meghan is using a kitchen as a “set” because she is doing a show. Simple.
A lot of people have mentioned Nigella Lawson, so looked her up. Her first Brit TV cookie show was apparently shot in her own kitchen, but she now says she regrets that choice. After her initial foray she moved on to professional sets, some in studio. btw she’s not professional chef.
I thought that scene was really funny and Meghan was being jokey about it. What’s going on here? The British press give too much attention to somebody they hate. I know they make a lot of money off of Meghan but this is just obsessive and unhinged behaviour.
I made the mistake of commenting on an Independent article about it on Facebook. A good deal of trolls jumped on me but there were also a surprising amount of supportive comments in general – and one of the big takeaways from those supportive comments (including mine) was “no one is making you watch it.” If you don’t like her, or you don’t like lifestyle shows, or crafting, or cooking – don’t watch it. no one is forcing you!!
the “I dont watch basic cable” thing was such a nothing burger and honestly, I knew what he meant. I can’t remember the last series I watched that wasn’t on a streaming network (or a rerun), or HBO. I only watched Suits when it went to Netflix a few years ago out of support for Meghan (I enjoyed it but the lawyer in me eventually had to stop watching. the show’s intended audience is definitely not lawyers lol.)
Re: “intended audience is definitely not lawyers.” Back in the day (when Suits was fresh on USA network) people asked if they used legal experts and the answer was always “no.” Aaron Korsh pitched a TV show about financiers and investment banking (his background), but TV execs changed it to lawyers. Anybody who expects to learn about corporate law by watching a TV drama series is as clueless as somebody watching a cooking and crafts lifestyle show expecting to see the show hostess grovel on her knees in abject humiliation supplicating the Holiest Royal Highnesses for re-entry to their Highest Royal Horror show. (At least that’s my guess as to what BRFCo’s Associates are hoping to see 🤷♀️.)
Keep watching haters. Netflix and Meghan are laughing all the way to the bank. Hate watch on repeat to capture each thing you’re going to complain about registers the same as watching because we love to watch it. Views are views.
Whenever Royalist or others proudly claim they never watched Suits, name drop Willy and Kate watched it religiously.
This is them just purposefully misunderstanding what basic cable means. There’s a lot of people that prefer to watch HBO and other networks because they want the full throttle nudity, swearing, violence that you’re not going to get on TNT or USA. There’s no shade there, he clearly preferred watching Game of Thrones over watching Burn Notice and Suits. It is what it is.
Why would she be humiliated by this when there were literal streaming records set last year by all the people watching Suits on Netflix, and UK media entities literally had a bidding war to be the ones to have the rights to it in the UK?
And that’s the rub for them in my opinion. You don’t have to purchase As Ever
It’s not just one pound or just 2 pounds per person or whatever other justification they give for the taxpayer funded royals. People are actively choosing to spend their money to buy her wine, to buy her jam. The TV shows that she puts out for Netflix are not required viewing on terrestrial television.
You have to actively have a subscription to Netflix and then actively screen their show in Netflix’s immense online library and it’s still hitting top 10s. People are CHOOSING her, and that’s their issue.
Even funnier, I saw a report showing a disclosure in the fail following a Meghan article on her wardrobe that told readers that any clicks on the clothing in the article would result in the paper getting compensated from the retailers. They really have made her into a multi million pound industry for the publishers.
That was one of the reasons why she opened a ShopMy account. Also that people were buying the wrong things eg inaccuracies in What Meghan Wore as she said in the Bloomberg interview.
Full disclosure, I haven’t watched a single episode of this show and it’s not because I hate it or her in the slightest. Cooking shows just aren’t my thing. Neither are cooking videos. I’ve always preferred to read recipes, and to learn by reading (then trying/doing) rather than watching. Now, I see the clips and pics of the show and think it all looks gorgeous. I love the kitchen settings and love her personal style. If other people want to watch and order the products, that’s great.
Their hate is performative because who does that? Who watches a show they hate and KEEPS watching it so they can diss it? I can understand it when all of your friends and everyone at work is watching something and talking about it and you just want to know what the fuss is and be able to converse about it, even snark on it. But that’s not WLM. It’s a niche show, made for a certain audience and hardly worth the time or energy of anyone whose cup of tea it just isn’t.
@MaisiesMom — if you think it looks gorgeous (and it is) I’d be really curious to see you try one episode and see what you think. It’s not just a standard cooking show, though there is some cooking in all the episodes I’ve seen so far.
Maybe try episode 2 of season 2. The guest is Samin Nosrat, a chef, but the episode is really more about creating connection than it is about cooking.
Not saying watching WLM is necessary if you’re a Meghan supporter: it’s not. It’s just that I’ve watched a lot of cooking shows, and even though WLM does have cooking, that’s not how I would categorize this show.
Disparage and pillage is a standard colonizer mindset. That what empires are built from.
I hadn’t quite thought of it that way, but you’re absolutely right, disparage and pillage is the colonizer strategy.
“Oh you poor backward brown people, you just don’t know how to run your own lives properly! Look at these terrible things you’re doing! You’re just like out of control children! We, the educated powerful white people, are going to take over your country, but don’t worry, it’s ALL FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! Now we’re going to take your artworks, jewels, tea, slaves, trees, and whatever else we want home with us, and no of course we’re not going to pay you for what we take, because you belong to us now, and we’re taking care of you, because you don’t know how to take care of yourselves and you’re a lesser species than us…” Ugh.
“Meghan is so awful, how dare she think she has a right to join our royal family when clearly she’s a lesser being, and then she left! How dare she! Look at all the money she spends on clothes, isn’t it awful? Let us show you the details, and of course we get paid when you look at them, we deserve it for pointing out how awful she is!”
It’s really quite sickening.
Fuck those 3 old crusts….
I am a huge suits fan . I have lost count on how many times I have rewatched it / the guy should give it a chance because they is plenty of Cursing. Lol. Also Meghan was in the editing room as Kaiser pointed out. If she didn’t want that part showing, it would have been removed . I also want to say thank you to Meghan and Netflix but especially Meghan because of her love for California. I am here wanting to move there permanently. It is absolutely gorgeous and the state should make her their ambassador. She really does California proud. Her entire show is a love letter to them.. I have one episode left and then I will rewatch season 1 and then 2 again . I am so proud of Meghan. This woman has the biggest heart and is so thoughtful and compassionate to all she meets . The left behinds truly f themselves when they let her get away but I am glad she did because if they didn’t shit the bed so badly , I got that from suits lol. Then we won’t be here enjoying this amazing, beautiful. Sweet show from her . Thank you left behinds and your media and thank you Netflix for giving us this wonderful show .
100%. Until last night I haven’t watched any episodes. I was going to binge this weekend but I was so curious I watched the first 2 last night – which I loved. I was able relate to some of it growing up in California(as it’s another love letter to CA as well). But for the haters watching all 8 when it came out, that was a lmao moment 😆. And then to say they hate it even more of a lmao. They’re jokes.
Yes to all the above. And my favorite person to dislike, there’s Angela Latrine to the right who automatically starts wagging her (empty) head back and forth in negation when anyone starts talking truth about Meghan or in any way approves of her. It’s just the old hag’s job, late in life, to make her money off of a beautiful, sweet young woman. Slather that lipstick on Latrine and hate talk on British TV to earn your money. Yes, that’s such an honorable thing to do. You are such an honorable person. I won’t mention one of my favorite channels on YouTube, who’s creator/host also greatly dislikes Latrine and imitates her. I love it. Oh. And by the way, Latrine has been called out before on air, and I am here to say SHE CAN’T TAKE IT. She regularly hate dumps for hire, but you say one word against her in dissent, SHE CAN’T TAKE IT. So, she can dish it out, but she can’t take it. Hag.
Fascinating, really. I watched it about 8 times just to see Mr. Bitchy Face and Mrs Headshake Sourpuss become more and more still as Ellen explained reality to them.
Jolly good show, Ellen!
Bonus – Ellen’s lovely Irish accent. The GB jokers really stiffened up when she said “…the British press …”
Ha!
In any other area, the continued daily dehumanising, brutal stalking to which Meghan is subjected – to the point of acute suicidal thoughts on the part of the person threatened – would be prosecuted and classified as a serious criminal offence. In addition to this brutal stalking, the couple also receive racist and misogynistic death threats against themselves and their children, not least through the many lies written about them. They also receive no security from the billionaire Windsor family and the only safe place in the UK, Frogmore Cottage, has been ripped away from them by their father. Furthermore, their economic and humanist actions are constantly undermined by threats against anyone who works with them and even attempts to undermine the organisations they have set up.
So why should Prince Harry apologise for anything, why should Meghan ever set foot in this hateful country again?
Politicians should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of criminality. It’s not just about this completely innocent couple. It’s about freedom, justice and truth. And that’s what the right-wing press and their minions are destroying on a daily basis. Nobody wants to read this anymore, many expect a reaction from the judiciary, from politics.
Okay , I just finished the entire series again and can I say, anyone who walks away from this show with nasty things to say . Is seriously bitter , bitter , bitter . The show is light and beautiful and Meghan is such a joyful person. The British media is just doom and gloom so I can see how all that sunshine and sea and beauty would make moldy out of touch people bitter . Yup . They mad because they can’t have sunshine and beauty in their pathetic damp lives . Well I hope they choke on their misery. Dear Netflix and Meghan , I am going to need at least 8 more seasons of with love Meghan please. Like becks said above . All the holidays and if you feel so incline to tour all of California and showcase dishes from different parts of it with different chefs in or out of their restaurants. Do a neighbor special, invite all the locals who help to make your community so special. I love this show . Bring back Abigail and Kelly and Tracy . They are funny and I just want more . I seriously can’t get enough of this show . Thank you Netflix and Meghan . Oh I so love Jose . He is such a happy, caring person.
I watched 7/8 episodes so far. I think my fave has been when she’s connecting with long-time friends and hanging out and reminiscing on memories. Ep 7 was really fun having a wknd getaway with a close friend in Malibu(I also liked the excerpt at the end where they dedicated the series in support of the wildfires that happened in SoCal earlier this year). Growing up in CA, even these local and short road trips around LA county/Ventura captures the beauty of CAs diversity. I also did not know that about Hedy Lamar – thanks M and Netflix on that bit of info!
Btw.. People, Vogue, VF, Harper’s have been pretty positive about s2. It’s just been mostly the BM with their gloom
And doom stories- Go figure with that island.