The CEO of United Expertise Company blasted Meghan Markle as untalented after Spotify put the kibosh on the Duchess of Sussex’s podcast.
“Seems Meghan Markle was not an awesome audio expertise, or essentially any sort of expertise,” Jeremy Zimmer instructed Semafor on the 2023 Cannes Lions promoting competition final week.
“And, , simply since you’re well-known doesn’t make you nice at one thing,” he added.
Zimmer, who co-founded UTA in 1991, has represented main stars all through his profession together with Mariah Carey, Bryan Cranston, DJ Khaled, Chelsea Handler and Kevin Hart.
The leisure business exec’s harsh phrases come shortly after The Submit reported that Spotify lower ties with Markle, 41, and her husband, Prince Harry, as a result of they may not ship on anticipated numbers.
A supply confirmed that Markle’s podcast, “Archetypes,” received’t be returning for a second season regardless of topping the charts final 12 months and that the couple didn’t produce sufficient content material to obtain their full multimillion-dollar payout. They’d signed a $20 million-plus take care of the streaming large in 2020.
Markle and Harry’s manufacturing firm, Archewell Audio, mentioned in a joint assertion with Spotify that that they had “mutually agreed to half methods and are happy with the sequence [they] made collectively.”
The primary (and solely) season of the previous “Fits” actress’ podcast was comprised of simply 12 episodes wherein she interviewed company like Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Paris Hilton.
It’s understood that Markle, who signed for illustration with Hollywood company WME in April, has her eyes set on one other streaming service.
“Meghan is continuous to develop extra content material for the ‘Archetypes’ viewers on one other platform,” an Archewell Productions spokeswoman beforehand instructed the Wall Road Journal.
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Amid the information of the ex-royals’ Spotify exit, sources claimed that Markle faked a few of the interviews on her podcast.
Podnews alleged that a few of the present’s conversations had been finished by members of her employees and that the audio of her voice asking the questions was apparently edited into the episodes after.
Nevertheless, Andy Cohen, who appeared as a visitor on “Archetypes” in November 2022, known as the claims “insane” and confirmed that Markle had interviewed him on the podcast.
In the meantime, one other supply claimed final week that Harry, 38, had pitched a number of outlandish ideas to Spotify that by no means got here to fruition, together with a sequence wherein he would interview the likes of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin about their childhood traumas.