Well, this is unexpected!
19.10.2022 - 07:57 / deadline.com
Claudia Jordan, former star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is opening up about her own experience on the Deal or No Deal set after Meghan Markle claimed they treated her like a bimbo.
“Flor clarity — yes getting a modeling gig on a game show isn’t necessarily about your intellect but every show the executive producers picked five models with the most outgoing and fun personalities to place mics on who they knew would engage with the contestants,” Jordan shared on her Instagram Stories.
In a second post she continued, “And Deal or No Deal never treated us like bimbos. We got so many opportunities because of that show.”
“That’s the kind of opportunity that is what you make it. If you just show up and don’t engage then you’ll just get your check and not get much out of it but if you show up and seize your moments then there’s no limits to what you can do with the opportunity,” she added.
Jordan she enjoyed her “experience working on Deal or No Deal” as it was a good opportunity in her career and helped her pay “all her bills.”
She also clarified that her response was not an “attack on Meghan cause Lord knows I’ve been defending this woman in the media for years and I still will but I just didn’t want any misunderstanding about the climate and environment on the Deal or No Deal set.”
Jordan said she was “especially protective of Howie Mandel who was nothing but kind and respectful to all 26 of us.”
Markle opened up about her time on the NBC game show on the most recent episode of her Archetypes podcast.
“I was surrounded by smart women on that stage with me, but that wasn’t the focus of why we were there,” she said. “And I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach, knowing that I was so much more than what was
Well, this is unexpected!
Not a big deal. Howie Mandel doesn’t understand the big fuss being made around Meghan Markle’s comments about her experience on Deal or No Deal.
Meghan Markle doesn’t have any regrets about revealing some of her personal experiences working on Deal or No Deal back in the day.
Whoopi Goldberg and ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ alum Claudia Jordan have called out Meghan Markle over her claims of feeling "objectified" during her time as a briefcase model on "Deal or No Deal." The 66-year-old talk show host and the 49-year-old former No.1 briefcase model questioned Markle, 41, after the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she felt conflicted about her experience on the show during an episode of her podcast "Archetypes". Markle said she eventually quit after feeling "forced to be all looks and little substance." "On that show, you basically had a suitcase and they wanted to know: 'Is this the deal you want, or is this not the deal you want?'" Goldberg said to her co-hosts during Wednesday's episode of "The View." "I don't know that the people who are sitting there are thinking about you like that," she added.
claiming she felt “objectified” while working as a briefcase girl on “Deal or No Deal.”The former royal, 41, made the assertion in an episode of her “Archetypes” podcast on Tuesday, saying she was “forced to be all looks and little substance” during her 34-episode stint on the game show back in the mid-2000s. But Goldberg, 66, did not feel sorry for the star during a segment on Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” where she bluntly stated: “That’s TV, baby … what did you think you were going to do? You know that’s what the show was.”Goldberg continued her diatribe against Markle, saying that she didn’t believe viewers were actively objectifying the star on screen.
Meghan Markle’s claims that she felt treated like a “bimbo” during her time on Deal or No Deal has a lot of people talking. Whoopi Goldberg and The View co-hosts had a lot to say about the subject.
TMZ. "I didn't know she felt like a bimbo because that certainly wasn't the intention of the show.
It looks like one of the other briefcase models who worked on Deal or No Deal had a different experience than Duchess Meghan Markle.
Claudia Jordan has slammed Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's claim that they were treated like "bimbos" on 'Deal or No Deal. ' The 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star appeared on the game show as a suitcase girl alongside Meghan - who was then an actress known as Meghan Markle before marrying Prince Harry in 2018 - and insisted that the modelling job presented them with "so many opportunities".
Claudia Jordan, who starred alongside Meghan Markle on Deal or No Deal, is clapping back against her “bimbo” comments!
A different experience. Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Claudia Jordan disputed Meghan Markle‘s recent claims that Deal or No Deal “reduced” her to a bimbo.
Meghan Markle’s fellow former “Deal or No Deal” “briefcase girl” Claudia Jordan has responded to those “Archetypes” podcast comments.
Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast dropped its latest episode earlier this week where she sat down with Paris Hilton to discuss the ‘bimbo’ stereotypes. During the interview, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, spoke to Paris, also 41, about her time as a “briefcase girl” on Deal or No Deal and claimed she was “objectified”.
Meghan Markle’s claims she was treated like a “bimbo” and “objectified” during her time on “Deal or No Deal.” The former “Deal or No Deal” briefcase No. 1 model turned “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum took to Instagram to defend the popular game show that catapulted her career after the Duchess of Sussex slammed the show in the latest episode of her “Archetypes” podcast.
“There was a a very cookie-cutter idea of what we should look like,” said Meghan Markle said on her Achetypes podcast about her early-career time on NBC’s Deal or No Deal. “It was solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains.”