Meghan Markle has been left 'distraught' following the criticism she received from Spotify executive Bill Simmons.
16.06.2023 - 13:47 / glamour.com
was more of a casual fling than a long-term romance. was not renewed by the audio streamer for a second season, and Spotify and Archewell have confirmed their mutual decision to part ways. At least the breakup seems mostly amicable. According to , part of the reason for the split was Archewell's “low output of content,” as Spotify usually requires more regularly released series or episodes for its exclusive deals.
So, Archetypes and Spotify are no longer exclusive, but that doesn't mean the podcast is necessarily gone forever. A representative previously told the that the Duchess of Sussex was “continuing to develop more content for the Archetypes audience on another platform.” There's a decent chance the duchess will follow the lead of former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama, who moved their podcast content from Spotify to Amazon's Audible in 2022, per . Though only one season, , having won a Gracie Award as well as the People's Choice Award for best podcast in Los Angeles in December of 2022. “I loved digging my hands into the process, sitting up late at night in bed, working on the writing and creative,” Meghan Markle wrote on the at the time.
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Meghan Markle has been left 'distraught' following the criticism she received from Spotify executive Bill Simmons.
$14 million Montecito home in 2020 after stepping back as senior royals. The 18,000-square-foot mansion boasts nine bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, and an outdoor chicken coop full of rescued birds.Their five-acre estate also features rose gardens, century-old olive trees, an outdoor pizza oven, a pool, playground, vegetable garden, tennis court, a two-bedroom guest house, a tea house, and a children’s house, Page Six previously reported. They’re also near celebrity friends, including Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey, who landed the couple’s bombshell tell-all interview in March 2021.Markle’s mom, Doria Ragland, lives almost two hours away, in Los Angeles.
Rolling Stone magazine, noting that Markle, 41, and Harry, 38, have had a string of failed deals recently, such as losing out on their $20 million Spotify contract. “Part of the issue the Sussexes are currently facing is that they have made their brand about their beef with the royal family.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle don’t think they’re “lazy,” as Spotify executive Bill Simmons says – just super “unlucky” right now!
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are ready to move forward after their Spotify deal fell through — but they aren’t too pleased with how news broke of their exit from the platform.
for a life closer to the stars in Los Angeles (well, Montecito), Hollywood power players were lining up to strike deals with the couple. Tyler Perry lent them use of one of his properties, and they inked lucrative contracts with Spotify and Netflix.As Harry had promised, the couple were trying to become fully of the royal family and British taxpayers, and trading on their star power seemed like a natural way to do that. And they have delivered a number of projects.
reported on by the Wall Street Journal, comes after Spotify and Markle announced they failed to reach an agreement on launching a second season earlier this month. Markle wrote a personal letter asking Swift to come on the podcast at some point, but the singer declined through a representative, the newspaper reported.The Wall Street Journal report detailed how Markle and her husband Prince Harry have struggled successfully producing shows and content for Netflix from their production company Archewell.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are “biding their time to fight back” after a series of crushing blows have left their media empire in tatters.
ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith touched on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to leave Spotify during an episode of his own podcast, following Bill Simmons, who torched the two last week. Harry and Meghan inked a deal with Spotify in 2020.
The Duchess of Sussex is set to follow in the footsteps of music icon Rihanna and sign with DiorIn 2015, Rihanna was named as the first black woman to front a Dior campaign and said at the time to MTV that “It is such a big deal for me, for my culture, for a lot of young girls of any colour. I think, to be acknowledged by Dior is just… it means a lot as a woman to feel beautiful, elegant and timeless. ”According to Forbes, Rihanna has a net worth of $1.
). A Spotify insider told Variety that the company dropped the couple because the couple had made just one programme in just three years.
not be renewed for Season 2.The royal pair signed a $20 million-plus deal between their Archewell Audio and the streaming giant in 2020. However, with the cancellation of the one thing they’ve produced under the deal, the duo is possibly missing out on a big payout.Levin told the Sun recently that Harry, 38, and Markle’s “value isn’t as high as it once was,” and their radio deal tanking is proof that their media kingdom is “crumbling.”“People are fed up with them now,” the “Harry: A Biography of a Prince” author said, adding that their forthcoming content plans will be “disastrous.” Fitzwilliams also shaded the former actress, 41, and the Invictus Games founder, saying the conclusion of their Spotify contract is a “shocking failure.”“The idea was that several series would be produced.
Duchess of Sussex are parting way with Spotify after one lone series, in the form of Meghan's podcast Archetypes. The decision was "mutually agreed", according to the couple, but speculation has grown as to why they decided to part ways. Experts in the media field have spoken exclusively to Express.
Meghan Markle‘s podcast, “Archetypes,” will not be back for a second season despite its initial success as she and Prince Harry leave Spotify behind.
Spotify has confirmed that it will not be renewing Meghan Markle’s podcast Archetypes for a second series. The Spotify deal, which was estimated to be worth £18 million, was just one of many commercial partnerships that Meghan and Prince Harry entered into upon their exit of the royal family in 2020. When Archetypes was announced in late 2020, Prince Harry said it would 'bring forward different perspectives and voices that perhaps you haven't heard before.
Meghan Markle's podcast Archetypes has been axed from Spotify after just one season. Spotify, along with Meghan and Prince Harry's audio production company Archewell Audio released a joint statement on Thursday night, which said they had "mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together." Meghan, 41, and Harry, 38, signed a reported $20million deal with the streaming giant, but a source has claimed that the couple "did not did not meet the productivity benchmark required to receive the full payout," according to the Wall Street Journal.
reports, and it's not because they're as Meghan was during the . According to the outlet, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex weren't invited to this year's ceremony, which will take place this Saturday, June 17. Trooping the Colour is an annual summer celebration in honor of the monarch's birthday, which dates back to 17th century. (Charles's actual birthday is in November.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Spotify’s exclusive podcast deal with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is likely ending — with the couple having delivered just one show under the agreement, Variety has confirmed. Reps for Spotify and Archewell Audio, the couple’s podcast production shingle, declined to comment. According to a source familiar with the situation, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have wanted to move away from exclusive Spotify distribution to find a new home for their audio originals. Another source said that Spotify expected more content from Archewell Audio — noting that nearly three years after inking the pact, they have delivered only one series, essentially putting the overall deal in limbo. That show for Spotify is Markle’s “Archetypes,” in which she deconstructs the history of societal stereotypes about women, which had hit No. 1 on the company’s charts in multiple countries.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry won't be hopping across the pond this weekend. As the royal family gears up to attend King Charles III's Trooping the Colour on Saturday, a source tells ET that the couple «were not invited» to the ceremony.Trooping the Colour, Charles' official birthday celebration, is expected to be an especially big to-do this year, since it's his first as sovereign. The ceremony, dating back more than 200 years, will feature 1,400 soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians. The parade will start at Buckingham Palace and go down The Mall to Horse Guard's Parade.
Carla Renata An overcast June gloom day couldn’t cast a cloudy spell on the gala celebration held June 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles for the youth-focused arts nonprofit Everybody Dance LA! Hosted by Melvin Roberts, anchor of KTTV’s “Good Day L.A.” and a weekend anchor for “Extra,” the event was full of fancy footwork and fevered energy, with kids grabbing honorees and attendees to participate in impromptu flash mobs. That set the tone for an evening filled with fun, inspiration, and gratitude. EDLA was created to honor the memory of Gabriella Axelrod, daughter of EDLA founder Liza Bercovici, who died at age 13. Bercovici founded the organization in 1999 as a tribute to Gabriella’s love of dance. Today, EDLA offers a range of after-school, in-school, enrichment and summer programs for more than 6,000 students a year. In 2014, the organization was awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by first lady Michelle Obama.