On December 4th, GB News presenter Carole Malone repeated a particularly insidious and racist lie about Doria Ragland. The lie: that Doria had been in jail for part of her daughter’s childhood, and Thomas Markle had raised Meghan during that time and something something that’s why Meghan should fly to the Philippines to see her father. Doria was never in jail or prison, but that lie has been festering on the internet for years. The deranged royalists have repeated it endlessly. Well, two days ago, Carole Malone apologized on air, on GB News, for her defamatory comments. She was so clearly reading from a script prepared for her by the channel’s lawyers. Well, Team Sussex responded to Malone’s apology:
A spokesperson for Team Sussex has weighed in after U.K. network GB News issued an apology for a broadcaster’s recent comments about Meghan Markle‘s mom.
“Broadcasters have a responsibility to inform, not inflame,” read a statement shared with Us Weekly. “This lie was conclusively debunked more than two years ago, yet it continues to be recycled by irresponsible commentators, causing recurring harm. Ms Ragland proudly raised her daughter and has never been in prison. GB News did not apologize voluntarily, but only to escape a defamation lawsuit — and it speaks volumes that GB News removed any trace of that apology within 24hrs of making it.”
It’s true about the deletion of the apology – GB News has wiped all trace of the original Dec. 4th segment, and now they’re trying to delete the apology. The problem is that people keep receipts and those receipts are all over social media. The fact that GB News doesn’t want anyone to see the apology is fascinating, because surely that would have legal repercussions too? Well, sources told Newsweek that Doria might still sue the f–k out of these people.
Malone issued a formal apology after a complaint from Ragland to GB News. She said: “I apologize sincerely to Ms. Ragland and her family for any pain my comments may have caused.”
A source close to Ragland, whom Newsweek has granted anonymity so they could speak freely, did not rule out a libel action when approached by Newsweek: “A complaint was lodged with the channel regarding false and highly defamatory allegations made by Carole Malone on a GB News program. As for whether this marks the end of the matter, that will be for Ms. Ragland and her lawyers to decide.”
Suuuuuue them, Doria. Sue the f–k out of all of them. This is not the first time one of these contemptible people has made similar comments on-air or in an interview with the British media. While libel/defamation laws are different in the UK, I think Doria has a pretty cut-and-dry case.
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- Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, arriving at Cliveden House Hotel on the National Trust’s Cliveden Estate to spend the night before her wedding to Prince Harry.,Image: 515239971, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR SEVEN DAYS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon.red – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251 Madrid: +34 91 533 4289, Model Release: no, Credit line: – / Avalon
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- Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, arriving at Cliveden House Hotel on the National Trust’s Cliveden Estate to spend the night before her wedding to Prince Harry.,Image: 515240003, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR SEVEN DAYS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon.red – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251 Madrid: +34 91 533 4289, Model Release: no, Credit line: – / Avalon
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- Meghan Markle and her mother Doria Ragland leave Cliveden House Hotel to make the journey to Windsor Castle for her wedding to Prince Harry,Image: 515241721, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR SEVEN DAYS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon.red – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251 Madrid: +34 91 533 4289, Model Release: no, Credit line: – / Avalon
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Sue them into 2028 Doria!
Sur them Doria and KEEP THE MONEY
And it should be required that dm comments,sections and other sites do not allow this libel to be posted.
I was all for move on now that that evil b!tch has apologized but now…to hell with them.
They “apologized” to get it out of the way so as not to be sued. They hate that they had to apologize to the Black American woman and would rather act as though non of it happened. If Miss Doria wants to pursue a lawsuit against them, good on her. F!ck GB News and that beast Carol Malone.
I was always of the mind that she should sue. This lie has been festering for years, doing irreparable harm to Doria and Meghan. The fact that GB news immediately deleted all trace of the apology is indicative that they will continue to spew their lies and aren’t sorry at all.
ATP, it seems pretty obvious that only a defamation suit can end this madness. And, yes, GB News deleting the apology says it all. I think Meghan and her mom are going to have to be as litigious as Harry!
I guess the question is how much Streisand effect is Doria willing to take on. GB News deserves to be sued into bankruptcy.
@Mac, there would be no Streisand effect in this case – except that it will broadcast far and wide how reprehensible and racists some British “journalists” are and the fact that they have wilfully lied and spread smears they fomented online about both Ms. Ragland and her daughter. As such, Ms. Ragland (the victim here) would not be taking anything on by suing. And as Kaiser noted, she has a cast iron case, and GB News apologised because they knew this.
A Streisand effect, as I understand it, would be if the victim here had been the aggressor and ended up calling more attention to the offence by suing. Any Streisand effect here would therefore be if GB News had sued or loudly protested being called out on their racism.
Wouldn’t the discovery phase prove just how much Doria was raising Meghan? Those aren’t even the kind of details the papers want to hear about so it’s kind of a win in that regard. I bet they’d barely even want to cover it.
I’m so happy to see them push back hard against these disgusting malicious liers. Same with the stealing accusation. Don’t let that kind of sh!t fester.
Drag them, empty their pockets.
GBNews knows they screwed up, they’re trying to brazen it out now.
The fact that they took down the apology? Are you kidding me? It should be left up. That makes it so insincere.
There apologies should come with a requirement that they stay on the site or are accessible.
That’s the thing though. The sussexes can’t force that unless they sued. So it’s like they’re baiting the sussex team imo.
100%. What is that ‘ apology’ if it’s taken down so quickly?! Also is this like ‘ we can say whatever we want and dominate the news cycle for a bit and then apologize for it’?!
This is so despicable and racist. That’s what we should call it. I’m disgusted by GB!
The Sussexes may have let it go if GarBageNews didn’t delete the apology. FAFO.
Yep. Their lawyers must be freaking out about the idiocy of this move. Or at least they should be.
They deleted the apology?? AYFKM?? So this lie can continue to be used to attack Doria?? what BS.
They’re really just as jealous of Doria as they are Meghan (maybe not as much, but close) because of her proximity to Harry. She gets to see behind the scenes, she gets to feed Harry, and she gets to shower him with mama love. They haaaate that.
They’re not jealous, they’re mad. They’re mad that she’s black, they’re mad she’s American, and most of all, they’re mad that she has ultimate access to the Sussexes and their kids but, unlike Carole Middleton, won’t be a source even for fluff stories. They thought they had a goldmine in Thomas Markle but he didn’t know how to be discreet and now they’re left with nothing.
What a truly bizarre take. Who is jealous of someone for feeding a strange grown man? This “journalist” is garbage, but this is a bizarre take on her motivation nonetheless.
I think it was a reference to all those sugary stories about Carole feeding William cheese toast and whatnot.
I am with you Kaiser and everyone else who says sue the fuuuuuuuuukkkkk out of Carole and gb news. It’s time to own all their azzzes, lock , stock and f——//barrel. Heifers will think 6 times before they lie about you or Meghan or Harry again. Sue them all back to the bowels of hell share their racist. Hateful, decrepit looking behinds came from. Mama Doria minds her own graciously beautiful business and bothers no one . She is one classy lady and I absolutely adore her. Why they think it’s okay to come for her ? Well bet when they woke up that morning they didn’t see that mama Doria don’t play that .
Every time I think about Doria’s sweet voice and mannerisms, I get more enraged. She appears to be a truly lovely human being, has caused harm to no one, and these wretched excuses for humans cannot leave her in the peace and grace with which it appears she carries with her everywhere. Every single member of the Middleton family sells stories to the British media, Doria is the only parent any of these people have who is trustworthy and a true testament to the meaning of family.
Sue them. Also, Doria is very beautiful.
Yes and yes
Please sue, Doria.
I hope they do sue. This mess went all over the place in two weeks and people used that lie to smear Meghan and say she’s terrible to her poor father who raised her.
And Tom Markle gets “all the credit” from the derangers. He even was said to have “clout” to get her acting work (he was lighting director not any sort of influential actor or director or producer). Meghan had to go through auditions to get acting roles. And Meghan got scholarships and worked during University years so Tom did not “pay for it all” the way derangers claim.
they’ve yet to produce receipts backing up any of their lies.
Tom gets the credit for raising her from these people, and yet they think she turned out to be such an awful person. Then why should Tom be lauded for that? Wouldn’t they be more likely to blame her mother’s influence on her? It does not compute.
@Gabby – I wrote the very same thing, but got distracted by a phone call and never posted. You’re absolutely right. If they think Meghan is such a hideous person, a lying and hypocritical grifter, then what kind of “credit” is that for Tom as a father?
Yeah I’m not usually one that says that they should sue, but in this case Doria should sue. They removed the apology so that they could pretend that it didn’t occur and allow the lie to not have a definitive way to be challenged online. That’s what they want for it to live indefinitely on social media where they can wink and nod at it.
They are pissed that the American Media is covering this as well, because I saw it in a few magazines yesterday online. And I was actually pretty pissed because OK magazine had quotations around ‘false’, as if there was still some dispute that this was a lie. These people are very angry that the traps that they are trying to lay aren’t working any longer and more people are asking why everything is such a huge deal to them about two people who aren’t really doing that much different from a lot of other wealthy celebrities. It’s getting old and their targeting is becoming harder to justify.
What in the rain-soaked haystack is on that woman’s head?
Her fright wig, raccoon eyeliner, and bad wardrobe are low budget looks from the 1980s.
Did GB also scrub any evidence of the December 4th broadcast with Malone’s lies? Because this broadcast seems like the definition of permanent libel.
I think they did? Pretty soon after she said it but I could be wrong.
So they apologized to avoid a lawsuit, but then they deleted it? The outcome of any potential lawsuit wouldn’t just be an apology; it would include (a) how much coverage/emphasis the apology receives, and (b) a deletion of the original erroneous stories. Doing the bare minimum because there’s no court order is a short-sighted move, and I hope the Sussexes continue to hold them accountable.
Isn’t Doria a LCSW? You need background checks and licensing for such work. Reputational harm will hurt your career.
I was going to comment the same thing. She is a Social Worker who has most likely went through a full background check prior to her employment. Not only is this defamation, but pure harassment.
Ms Malone is a frequent guest on Jeremy Vine’s Channel 5 news discussion show so I emailed them to enquire about her suitability as guest given her gross stupidity in repeating online misinformation. I explained that as a so called reporter she should have done due diligence and actually checked whether it was true or not before repeating it on live TV. I pointed out she’s a legal liability if she doesn’t learn from this disastrous mistake and continues to regurgitate nonsense from online trolls. I also referenced Jeremy Vine’s own recent misery at the hands of Joey Barton posting nasty stuff about him online. I told them that viewer trust is important and that I was cross that an innocent, private woman had been publicly slandered on GB News by Carole Malone.
Excellent e-mail. Calm and factual. Good that you mention that man’s hypocrisy as well, albeit without stating it outright. Nicely done.
I hope she sues. The lie was especially hateful because it inflames deep-seated racism, and how easy it is for racists fo believe that black people are all criminals. So this wasn’t just an ordinary lie, but one rooted in racism.
I hope she sues them.
Sue. Sue. Sue. Sue ’em all.
The British media is part of the establishment (institutions of power which includes the monarchy) that upholds the class system.
The sooner the ‘lower classes’ understand that dynamic, the sooner they will realize that the media is not operating to serve the broad public but operating to serve its barons, the bosses, who are a part of the higher echelon of the establishment.
The establishment decided very early that Meghan does not deserve a place in the upper echelon of the establishment. The treatment she continues to receive is a reflection of that early decision. I don’t expect anything will change their position on Meghan (and possibly her children) regardless of how much Harry tries to ‘mend fences’ with his paternal family.
The fact that they’ve attacked Doria in this manner demonstrates to me that the establishment intends to continue to malign the Sussexes into oblivion like they did Diana and her circle of family and friends who supported her. Doria is not a public figure and has always remained private so this move by a GB News journalist on air is egregious.
GB News deleted the misinformation clip shortly after posting it and did the same with the apology clip. In my opinion, that was intentional to provoke a reaction from the Sussexes. Any lawsuit will take years to move through the courts, including discovery and cost limits. They are baiting the Sussexes to file a lawsuit. There is no upside to a lawsuit following the apology in my opinion as financial damages in the UK are minuscule while the cost to pursue action will likely be much higher than restitution. I think the current result is the the best outcome under the UK system. The apology has been broadly published (globally now) despite the deletion by GB News. I think further action would lead to diminishing returns.
But she could sue them in a US court, couldn’t she? And this is such a clear-cut case which will definitely shed light on ALL the other times GB News has slandered both Doria and Meghan and bring their other awful reporters to the attention of a worldwide audience. I cannot imagine that those people want that. The fact that the man who was on the programme with Malone also apologised even though the lawyers didn’t appear to have given him a script to read from suggests that it might be beneficial to sue. The apology can be said to have been in bad faith. Plus my understanding is that they kept the lying clip up for far longer than they did the apology. The only thing these people understand is money. Hit them where it hurts and they will eventually go away.
To many white people, Black = criminal. So of course GB News deleted the apology. They want the lie to flourish. They know many people will be happy to believe it.
Just because it was deleted doesn’t mean there aren’t receipts in the year of the internet.