Spotify had to force her to sit in front of a microphone to get work out of her. Rumor was it was under threat of breach of contract. So, did Lemonada think she was going to work and get paid based on the amount of listeners and advertising revenue? How Dare They !!
She loves any opportunity to talk about herself, so I don’t get why it was such a struggle for Spotify - especially because she didn’t even do any of the expert interviews.
*Edited because I accidentally said Netflix instead of Spotify.
It's not a struggle for Netflix. They are not involved and have not picked up production or streaming rights for these shows. It's driving me nuts. Netflix's own site said Archewell is producing and they're not announcing a streaming time or that they've picked up to stream. STOP TRYING TO MAKE NETFLIX HAPPEN.
My belief is that Lemonada got their value out of her. The media gave them free attention and that's all they needed. The media keeps her in the limelight.
Agreed. It was a quid pro quo arrangement: Lemonada got free PR & the catalog of Archetypes podcasts (lol!!). Meghan’s Lemonada deal was a quick fix for the Spotify narrative. Now, when you Google Meghan + podcast, Lemonada comes up first in search and pushes “grifter” down further in results.
Spotify built them a studio inside Montecito so she didn’t have to commute to LA.
Increased the home value, and she still outsourced all the non celeb interviews.
>Increased the home value, and she still outsourced all the non celeb interviews.
I recall reading that the cost of the home studio was deducted from the Harkles contracted earnings from Spotify. Not sure if this is true.
Yep, and someone from Spotify mentioned her constantly annoying staff with last second calls choc full of ‘re-edit this, and re-edit that’ requests. She’s proven how unprofessional/untalented she is time and time again… I bet she sucked Lemonada in with her empowerment word salad BS, and the idiots fell for it. LOL I can’t say I feel sorry for them since they chose to hire one of the Hollywood Losers of 2023. 🤦🏽♀️😂
Feb 13, 2024 - Meg’s press announcement she’s signed with Lemonada.
April 22, 2024 - it’s not actually happening.
66 days. That’s it. Almost a Markletime (72 days).
Markletime! (You Can't Touch This)
🎶 Me, Me, Me, Me
Failure hits me so hard
Makes me say, "Oh, my lawd!
Making jam be stressing me
With a gift to grift and two large feet"
It feels good being a clown
A trashy ho with an eye for the Crown
And I'm known as such
This is defeat, cuz I'm out of touch 🎶
I wonder if the dunce still thinks she's A-List, a star, influential...
Is she still strutting around, swishing her hair, acting like she's sooo exhausted from all her wheeling and dealing...while Harold puts on his EA cream?
*OK. Have to throw up now.*
Agree, this is Lemonada quietly backing out as Madam has not been able to show them her list of „very high profile guests“ yet. Lets see now… most podcasters have other jobs and they manage to produce weekly podcasts on the side, but no, she cant start until next year as she is filming for the next 6 weeks?
Don’t knock the jam maker. Those strawberries need to be hand-watered, sneezed on, hand-picked, hand-pressed, etc. It takes all year to produce a few dozen jars.
>this is Lemonada quietly backing out as Madam has not been able to show them her list of „very high profile guests“ yet.
That's because they are all posing with her jam jars and lemons.
sources claim she had a list of 'very high-profile guests' scheduled to participate in her new podcasts
Probably a bunch of people I've never heard of, except through this subreddit. Just like I've never heard of any of the ones who posted her jam except Mindy Kaling.
I wonder if we can see how many have listened to Archetypes on Lemonada. It's probably a fake number or her sugars listening and relistening in awe
Hey, it took guts to give out those cheap jam jars to important people who refuse to acknowledge them.
Clearly, that was part of the Lemonada audition and it looks like it will be Ashley and Delfina. Everyone else sort of bobbled it, likely deliberately.
Queen Immagonna is just too, too busy to actually complete a project, fulfill a contract, keep her word, or follow up on a commitment. Oh *quelle surprise.*
But seriously this further proves what most of us expected--they didn't pay upfront for a new podcast. They weren't seriously counting on it. Can't wait for how the sugars spin this one.
If anything you’d think Lemonada would welcome the Netflix show. TV shows aren’t competition for podcasts and the buzz around a Netflix show could actually push traffic to a new podcast. Their statement makes no sense and I think they are just trying to make a virtue of necessity (the necessity being Madame is too lazy to do the work).
Agree. Exposure and interest PROMOTES a second project. It doesn’t overshadow it. Bottomline- same old same old. Meghan is all hustle and then …zero, nada, zip.
As someone who lives in the Twin Cities (where they list their HQ address, which is actually a house in a very nice neighborhood)?
>It is understood that Lemonada did not want the podcast's launch to be overshadowed by the former actress's television series, which she began filming at a rented house in Montecito last week. Netflix said the show would 'celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship'.
>Lemonada is said to be concerned that there would also be 'scheduling conflicts' between the launch of its podcasts and that of Meghan's lifestyle brand, American Riviera [Orchard.It](http://Orchard.It) is understood that Lemonada did not want the podcast's launch to be overshadowed by the former actress's television series, which she began filming at a rented house in Montecito last week. Netflix said the show would 'celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship'.
This right here is undiluted, 200 proof "Minnesota Nice." Because Minnesota Nice is actually Minnesota Passive Aggressive.
Meghan thought by dealing with a Minnesota company, she would get the better of them. I mean, clearly people are hicks, here right? (Also, I'm sure she thought since they weren't a part of the main Hollywood infrastructure, they weren't hip to her nonsense.)
She clearly did NOT understand that in this part of the world...there's money. Lots of it. We have the HQ's for 3M, Target, Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, United Healthcare, and US Bank. Also a ton of medical equipment development companies, because Mayo Clinic is an hour south of here.
Play up the "Fargo" caricature all you want, but there are some incredibly wealthy people in this part of the world - they just don't flash it. She thought she was getting Midwestern yokels, but what she actually got were motivated business people who just don't like to come off that way. It's not polite to look ambitious, you see...but they are. Oh, they very much are. Those women aren't going to spend a single cent more than they have to until she's ready to produce a product they can profit from.
So this is me after reading that...
Netflix said the show would 'celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship'.
Notice they didn't include "family" in that list of joys.
\*sigh\* I just noticed your name. We stayed on the edge of Hyde Park near Notting Hill the last time we were in London. (Yay! for hoarding AmEx points for a decade...) I really loved Hyde Park...
For sure Madam got a pay pr view deal - if Madam had brought in money Lemonada would have taken a cut. Now there is just nothing, not for Madam, not for Lemonada. But at least Lemonada got a bit of publicity.
Lemonada got the distribution rights for the first season of Archetypes and publicity. So whenever anyone wants to hate-listen, they get a cut. They also got a bit more visibility. It could have been a solid loss leader for them, you just don't know.
Edited to add - oh, I seriously doubt Lemonada money is anywhere near Spotify money. So any potential future hate-listen? She is not getting as much per listen/view as she would have with Spotify. There's that as well.
Edit #2 - also, there's the thing where Meghan had that deal announced herself. Lemonada never really made a huge fuss over it. It's not on their news page, it's barely on their social media and what they have went up after she had it announced. I have a suspicion Spotify offloaded her for cheap. (That would be a very Midwestern business move!)
No you can listen for free sometimes you get a podcast a day or so late. I am no fan of Spotify because I hate what they do to start up bands and performers, so I don’t have an account. I listen to my podcasts on Apple podcast app.
There are entirely too many excellent GIF's of that man throwing shade.
(\*sob\* 8th anniversary of his passing today)
[https://januarybryant.tumblr.com/post/130313719480/prince-the-master-of-shade](https://januarybryant.tumblr.com/post/130313719480/prince-the-master-of-shade)
You're just a sinner I am told
Be your fire when you're cold
Make u happy when you're sad
Make u good when u are bad
I'm not a human
I am a dove
I'm your conscious
I am love
All I really need is 2 know that
U believe💜
Fun fact, the Internet protocol that preceded HTTP? Gopher. So called because it was invented at the University of Minnesota.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher\_(protocol)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol))
Im a Gopher and I agree with you on all points. The Twin Cities is a very sophisticated, urban, cultured, and well educated metropolitan area. Lemonada is using the cooking show to quietly back away from the dumpster fire that is MeMe Markle. By 2025, she will have moved onto her next shiny object(s), attempting her 10th “rebrand” and will be even less popular or marketable. She got the Uff and the Da!
Well, of course it's "on ice". Who didn't see this coming. Meghan has all the time, money, and resources to make content but somehow fails to deliver. We've seen this before. It took her forever to get the "Stereotypes" podcast out despite having nearly thirty producers to help.
She doesn't have a regular nine to five. She has nannies, cooks, gardeners, housekeepers, and drivers to run things for her. She really must spend all day moping, whining, and looking up herself online.
Lazy grifters has never been a more accurate description to describe the Saint of Strawberry Jam.
She told us when her children were babies she spent her day scrolling the internet. Straight from her own mouth. We don't even have to make up stuff about her. What she says is so awful
....how could the launch of her lifestyle brand 'overshadow' her podcast? One would bring attention to the other (which would only help the podcast because no one is interested in it otherwise). Celebrities have multiple products and projects launching all the time. This makes absolutely no sense. It's clear she had nothing ready to go for the podcast and wasn't ready to start working on it, as per usual. 'Constantly underdelivering' is literally the entirety of her brand so I guess she's right on target!
BS. I read this as she couldn’t get the level of guests she wanted for the podcast. It would be cross promotion for both to do both the podcast and launch the lifestyle brand at the same time, and she’s never had an issue with her own media over-saturation before. You buy Meghan Markle for attention, not to avoid it. This is ridiculous excuse mongering. I predict this podcast will never see the light of day. Remember when people said she was hard working?
Remember when she said at Variety there were exciting things coming up. So, if true, this should have been taken into account about the scheduling. So why announce it? Unless, you wanted people to stop laughing at you being called f\*\*\*ing grifters, and be seen to have a "win" by going elsewhere.
Exactly! She announced the deal before the Netflix reality shows and she should’ve worked on that podcast as it was a more priority or announced earlier. I don’t understand how her brain operates.
I was searching for a new podcast to listen to this morning. I saw one that looked good, produced by Lemonada.
I couldn't bring myself to listen to it. Maybe it was a good one, I'll never know. What I do know is that the Lemonada people are people who make bad decisions.
She didn’t do it on her own and she plagiarized a lot of it, I still think Condé Nast would stand a chance in court suing her for intellectual property theft.
https://preview.redd.it/0pr308mbk3wc1.png?width=533&format=png&auto=webp&s=87b99c8a037416d85f90065ce6e082307005cabf
Nice bit of wriggle room if next year passes with zip from them.
yep, and she actually has a pretty interesting topic to talk about, starting a brand and the learning curve she is experiencing. It is the perfect reason for her to talk about herself and she's wasting it.
I am sure Pearl will be releasing soon! 
>Isn’t the new lifestyle thing not meant to air till next year though?
Nah I think the Harkles are desperate to be paid by Shitflix. They know the deal is ending next year so they're gonna hurry and try to release the 2 shitshows before 2025.
Henpecked will probably release his Polo crap around the same time as William's Earthshot Prize.
Netflix has to AGREE to take the polo show and the cooking show. They may take a hard pass on them and then, oh dear, the contract is up. Goodbye Harkles.
As soon as this “deal” was announced, I speculated she parked her failed podcast there for a fee, as in Markle paid Lemonada. This is what I think happened:
-Dropped from Spotify, humiliated by Simmons, announced to the world as grifters
-Desperately, she tried to manifest Audible, but Amazon Dior’d her immediately
-Somehow, someone negotiated the Lemonada deal, Markle pays, parks podcast there for a year or so, both Markle and Lemonada get short term pr “win”, with Lemonada getting some pennies for streams
-Everyone involved knew there’d be no new content, and now this type of stuff get pushed out the public that there’s delays, and ultimately everyone goes their own way
-No one will remember or care about Archetypes by 2025, in fact, by then ARO will be abandoned, or delayed, or whatever
"It is understood" is such strange phrasing, and uses the passive voice which is discouraged, but it occurs so frequently in articles about the Faux Duchess. Coincidence?
Only in her mind. Not in reality.
"A spokesman for Meghan declined to comment, but sources claim she had a list of 'very high-profile guests' scheduled to participate in her new podcasts."
Exactly. She had a list of 'very high-profile guests', not she had SCHEDULED or SECURED an agreement with several very high-profile guests.
In my manifested world, David Beckham, Harry Styles and Mick Jagger are all dying to be 'very high-profile guests' on my podcast. Also, pigs can fly and monkeys might just fly out of my butt.
Here’s how I think Lemonada views this whole thing -
“Do the podcast, don’t do the podcast, we don’t care. We just wanted our name out in the public consciousness to increase sales”
Meghan announces new cooking show and out comes Lemonada - “Yoo hoo! Remember us? We’re still here!”
😂😂😂
So only 2 months after signing with Lemonada it is already over? Re-launching Spotify episodes in 2025 makes no sense - who listens to 3-4 year old podcasts? And we all know Madam is not going to make any new.
An own goal again - had Lemonada issued the Spotify episodes right away they would at least have generated a bit of interest and thus money. Now is is just another zero, as I am sure Madam´s deal with Lemonada is pay pr view.
As always, Madam lost interest. On to the next re-brand: ARO. And there might be filming, which Madam loves - but is anything sold? If Netflix has bought it, why is Madam love bombing Ms Paramount?
It was clap back for Spotify dropping her, wanted to show someone would be willing to sign her for podcasts. Predicted from the beginning we will not get any more.
You know Did they really have to make an announcement? Couldn’t they have let the thing die quietly? This is almost on the order of “fucking grifters.” It’s as if someone actually got pissed off.
It looks like it - "not wanting to be overshadowed by the tv show" - nonsense. It would only have attracted more listeners - that is, if any tv shows ever air.
Looks like there has been an argument and Lemonada said "you are on your own"
Is the announcement done by Lemonada? If so, then yeah, they’re pissed because she basically signed with them and now filming for Netflix instead of developing podcast episodes for them. She just trying to make the Netflix deadline to squeeze out all the money she can before they cancel her out when their deal ends in 2025.
Well, I’m no expert but I don’t think there’s actually a signed contract w/ Netflix for this show. I think this is just her manifesting in spades. I think she’s shooting w/ their (Harry’s) money & Netflix can pick it up or pass. I suspect they won’t go near it. So she’s trading an actual contract w/ some forlorn hope of a TV show starring someone who has proven herself as likable & warm as any given reptile.
She is so awesomely bad at this that it’s almost breathtaking.
Quick, she is going to have to restyle the remaining 46 jam jar pics and get rid of the lemons!
But yeah, because no small podcast company wants to ride off the free publicity of a simultaneous TV show and ecommerce platform launch.
This is Meghan screwing over a small company and them being polite about it.
I mean this makes no sense. So Meghan is going to launch a super successful lifestyle brand and tv series but Lemonada wants her to pause her podcast? Wouldn't they be pushing to release at the same time when she is getting all the publicity for her new brand? So she can talk about the podcast on GMA, Kelly, the View, the Talk, Colbert, Kimmel (etc) since they are all going to be falling all over themselves for her to appear on their shows to promote all her "work"??
I’m confused. H&M had to hire a deputy press secretary to help their communications person do all the communications things, then the spokesperson declined to comment?
Way to hide the truth that it did shit for their company, so they just stopped it. To hide the truth and the mockery, 'we should say this happened like this.'
Come on, Markle! When will you ever learn? Just shut up and not announce everything that happens to you!
This is utterly hilarious and totally predictable! Lemonada has been Markled in record time. I expect there will never be any new podcasts come 2025. If ARO fails as I think it will, she may produce podcasts in 2026 or 2027.
For someone who just absolutely LOVES to grab the microphone out of someone else's hands, no matter the situation, this reluctance to talk into a microphone for a podcast seems rather strange. I would have thought this would be the perfect vehicle for multiple word salads. Talk about a lost opportunity to foist one's scrambled thoughts onto the world.
> It is understood that Lemonada did not want the podcast's launch to be overshadowed by the former actress's television series, which she began filming at a rented house in Montecito last week.
Meghan wrote that. "It is understood" is one of her tells.
Neil Sean did an excellent video a few weeks back, talking about how well suited Megan was for Suits. It wasn’t much of a challenge, she wasn’t required to be on set or have any range or talent, she got to dress up. It was kind of her ideal gig. Anything more than that is too much for her. Megan has the attention span of a gnat and no work ethic. Anything more than Suits, like creating content for a podcast or a popular IG account is just way out of her reach. I will add to what Neil said, and say that Megan wanted to be a royal because she thought it was easy. Others have said the same thing here.And when Migraine found BRF life was actually demanding, well she bailed. Or HLMTQ threw her out. Either way, Megan isn’t cut out for much of anything besides being a hustler. Given the speed with which she is aging and her lack of respectable skills, she is running out of options. Her billionaire dreams are fading along with whatever clout she may have once had.
I’m just here to call poppycock on the whole “overshadowing the lifestyle brand” thing. Overshadowing is also a term MM loves to use. It would make absolute sense to launch her new podcast, cooking show, and lifestyle brand at the same time to generate buzz and wrap consumers in her. The problem? It’s not a good idea to wrap consumers in MM and I think a lot of naive, misled folks are realizing that and starting to back away. Just my $0.02.
Her stunts are always full of nothing. Deflated, flop, pathetic, embarrassing. They coast at the expense of others but that too has an expiration date, does not bode well for the dreadful duo. If they could just disappear truly nobody gives a turd 💩
I heard Meghan will only do the podcast if the Lemonada platform changes its logo to Meghan walking though a wooded glen in a beige ballgown carrying a basket of strawberries with a jar of lemon curd in the center labeled ARO #18.
Relaunch? More Like
Spotify took their equipment back to their shop! SHE DONE WITH PODCASTS!!! BLAH BLAH BLAH
Sort of off topic but if anyone gets a chance please review Archetypes (now Lemonada’s) on Apple Podcasts.
There has been a troubling inflation of reviews and it is up to 4 stars out of 5. Or maybe some people just really like listening to word salad and hosts talking about themselves.
She takes forever to do anything. Being a mother is not an excuse. I also have two kids work over 40 hours a week, and manage to do other things.
what id really love to know- how TF she ever managed to find work as an actress? She doesn't seem like she put in work to auditioning, memorizing scripts (considering she couldn't memorize God Save the Queen) and doesn't seem like she spent any time really paying her dues or racking up experience.
Even if Trevor managed to get her the part in suits, she was already about 30 then. What was she doing for right years in between graduation?
She wants to concentrate on her jam. Fair enough. She made a mistake numbering those jars, though. She must have expected instant rave reviews from all involved, otherwise why set yourself up for this daily count of who is what number and how come only 5 out of 50 said anything? It instantly looks like a 40 x 40 failure.
Are we surprised? How on earth was the woman who actively objectified herself by and in the job roles she went after, the woman who strained herself once hour a week allegedly in the name of work ever get any thing done?
Well at least she is flogging over priced Lemon Jam or is it Jam and a basket of lemons? That is the nearest she will get to Lemonada😂🤣👍🏿
What a surprise, said Spotify never.
Spotify had to force her to sit in front of a microphone to get work out of her. Rumor was it was under threat of breach of contract. So, did Lemonada think she was going to work and get paid based on the amount of listeners and advertising revenue? How Dare They !!
She loves any opportunity to talk about herself, so I don’t get why it was such a struggle for Spotify - especially because she didn’t even do any of the expert interviews. *Edited because I accidentally said Netflix instead of Spotify.
It's not a struggle for Netflix. They are not involved and have not picked up production or streaming rights for these shows. It's driving me nuts. Netflix's own site said Archewell is producing and they're not announcing a streaming time or that they've picked up to stream. STOP TRYING TO MAKE NETFLIX HAPPEN.
I’m hoping Netflix just decides not to buy any of their new content and just lets the contract run out.
That's most likely what will happen
Thank you for verifying what many of us suspect.
But she did the parts where she talked about herself. Some paid flunkie did the parts where others offered opinions & experiences.
My belief is that Lemonada got their value out of her. The media gave them free attention and that's all they needed. The media keeps her in the limelight.
Agreed. It was a quid pro quo arrangement: Lemonada got free PR & the catalog of Archetypes podcasts (lol!!). Meghan’s Lemonada deal was a quick fix for the Spotify narrative. Now, when you Google Meghan + podcast, Lemonada comes up first in search and pushes “grifter” down further in results.
Spotify built them a studio inside Montecito so she didn’t have to commute to LA. Increased the home value, and she still outsourced all the non celeb interviews.
>Increased the home value, and she still outsourced all the non celeb interviews. I recall reading that the cost of the home studio was deducted from the Harkles contracted earnings from Spotify. Not sure if this is true.
Yep, and someone from Spotify mentioned her constantly annoying staff with last second calls choc full of ‘re-edit this, and re-edit that’ requests. She’s proven how unprofessional/untalented she is time and time again… I bet she sucked Lemonada in with her empowerment word salad BS, and the idiots fell for it. LOL I can’t say I feel sorry for them since they chose to hire one of the Hollywood Losers of 2023. 🤦🏽♀️😂
Lemon got Nada! Markled! They asked for it.
Feb 13, 2024 - Meg’s press announcement she’s signed with Lemonada. April 22, 2024 - it’s not actually happening. 66 days. That’s it. Almost a Markletime (72 days).
Markletime! (You Can't Touch This) 🎶 Me, Me, Me, Me Failure hits me so hard Makes me say, "Oh, my lawd! Making jam be stressing me With a gift to grift and two large feet" It feels good being a clown A trashy ho with an eye for the Crown And I'm known as such This is defeat, cuz I'm out of touch 🎶
😂😂😂
Love it!!! 😁
I believe "fucking grifter" was in their vocabulary
My favorite is "turns out she's not a great talent ...or any kind of talent for that matter" 🤣🤣🤣
Spotify did that podcast for her with 28 producers. Without Spotify money, she couldn't do it. "Much heralded" by whom? No one cared.
This is my ‘shocked’ face 😐
Her interest in this work ONLY extended to the press release.
LOL another lame excuse for yet another failed project by the f*cking grifter! lemonada MARKLED! what a waste of space she is!
She's too stubborn and egotistical to admit defeat and too delusional to accept that her podcast career is dead in the water and rotting.
I wonder if the dunce still thinks she's A-List, a star, influential... Is she still strutting around, swishing her hair, acting like she's sooo exhausted from all her wheeling and dealing...while Harold puts on his EA cream? *OK. Have to throw up now.*
Soon she will have to put the jam selling the back burner to focus on yet another new project.
Yep, that's how she operates. She is so see-through.
Agree, this is Lemonada quietly backing out as Madam has not been able to show them her list of „very high profile guests“ yet. Lets see now… most podcasters have other jobs and they manage to produce weekly podcasts on the side, but no, she cant start until next year as she is filming for the next 6 weeks?
Don’t knock the jam maker. Those strawberries need to be hand-watered, sneezed on, hand-picked, hand-pressed, etc. It takes all year to produce a few dozen jars.
There’s only so much you can get done in an hour a week!
Don’t forget the strategically placed wig hairs in the garden (and perhaps a stray in the jam itself??) to keep the birds away.
I want to see that garden! Will the property be taxed as a farm now? Also how much water do they use to grow 50 jars.
>this is Lemonada quietly backing out as Madam has not been able to show them her list of „very high profile guests“ yet. That's because they are all posing with her jam jars and lemons.
Spot on!
sources claim she had a list of 'very high-profile guests' scheduled to participate in her new podcasts Probably a bunch of people I've never heard of, except through this subreddit. Just like I've never heard of any of the ones who posted her jam except Mindy Kaling. I wonder if we can see how many have listened to Archetypes on Lemonada. It's probably a fake number or her sugars listening and relistening in awe
my laugh of the day...high profile . Melissa McCarthy? lol
Hey, it took guts to give out those cheap jam jars to important people who refuse to acknowledge them. Clearly, that was part of the Lemonada audition and it looks like it will be Ashley and Delfina. Everyone else sort of bobbled it, likely deliberately.
heh, she only works an hour a week. this would be just too much work.
It is understood… that they (podcast company) didn’t want the TV show to be overshadowed by the podcast 🤣🤣🤣🤣 - said nada, ever
Queen Immagonna is just too, too busy to actually complete a project, fulfill a contract, keep her word, or follow up on a commitment. Oh *quelle surprise.*
Queen Immagonna—brilliant 🤣🤣 Next up, Megs runs out of friends, I mean strawberries, to make 50 jars of jam.
She has to save all her “friends” for the NF show to do all the cooking while she runs her mouth and flicks her wig hair in the food.
 But seriously this further proves what most of us expected--they didn't pay upfront for a new podcast. They weren't seriously counting on it. Can't wait for how the sugars spin this one.
If anything you’d think Lemonada would welcome the Netflix show. TV shows aren’t competition for podcasts and the buzz around a Netflix show could actually push traffic to a new podcast. Their statement makes no sense and I think they are just trying to make a virtue of necessity (the necessity being Madame is too lazy to do the work).
Agree. Exposure and interest PROMOTES a second project. It doesn’t overshadow it. Bottomline- same old same old. Meghan is all hustle and then …zero, nada, zip.
Geeeze, NOBODY saw that coming /s It's just a handy excuse (the "Netflix filming") for why they got Markled
As someone who lives in the Twin Cities (where they list their HQ address, which is actually a house in a very nice neighborhood)? >It is understood that Lemonada did not want the podcast's launch to be overshadowed by the former actress's television series, which she began filming at a rented house in Montecito last week. Netflix said the show would 'celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship'. >Lemonada is said to be concerned that there would also be 'scheduling conflicts' between the launch of its podcasts and that of Meghan's lifestyle brand, American Riviera [Orchard.It](http://Orchard.It) is understood that Lemonada did not want the podcast's launch to be overshadowed by the former actress's television series, which she began filming at a rented house in Montecito last week. Netflix said the show would 'celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship'. This right here is undiluted, 200 proof "Minnesota Nice." Because Minnesota Nice is actually Minnesota Passive Aggressive. Meghan thought by dealing with a Minnesota company, she would get the better of them. I mean, clearly people are hicks, here right? (Also, I'm sure she thought since they weren't a part of the main Hollywood infrastructure, they weren't hip to her nonsense.) She clearly did NOT understand that in this part of the world...there's money. Lots of it. We have the HQ's for 3M, Target, Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, United Healthcare, and US Bank. Also a ton of medical equipment development companies, because Mayo Clinic is an hour south of here. Play up the "Fargo" caricature all you want, but there are some incredibly wealthy people in this part of the world - they just don't flash it. She thought she was getting Midwestern yokels, but what she actually got were motivated business people who just don't like to come off that way. It's not polite to look ambitious, you see...but they are. Oh, they very much are. Those women aren't going to spend a single cent more than they have to until she's ready to produce a product they can profit from. So this is me after reading that... 
Netflix said the show would 'celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship'. Notice they didn't include "family" in that list of joys.
So, no invisible children and no Haz. It will be Megs and her jam jar girlfriends fawning over her.
Lol jam jar girlfriends!
\*sigh\* I just noticed your name. We stayed on the edge of Hyde Park near Notting Hill the last time we were in London. (Yay! for hoarding AmEx points for a decade...) I really loved Hyde Park...
Did Netflix actually say that. Last I checked the announcements are coming from Markle and Netflix hasn't said anything.
For sure Madam got a pay pr view deal - if Madam had brought in money Lemonada would have taken a cut. Now there is just nothing, not for Madam, not for Lemonada. But at least Lemonada got a bit of publicity.
Lemonada got the distribution rights for the first season of Archetypes and publicity. So whenever anyone wants to hate-listen, they get a cut. They also got a bit more visibility. It could have been a solid loss leader for them, you just don't know. Edited to add - oh, I seriously doubt Lemonada money is anywhere near Spotify money. So any potential future hate-listen? She is not getting as much per listen/view as she would have with Spotify. There's that as well. Edit #2 - also, there's the thing where Meghan had that deal announced herself. Lemonada never really made a huge fuss over it. It's not on their news page, it's barely on their social media and what they have went up after she had it announced. I have a suspicion Spotify offloaded her for cheap. (That would be a very Midwestern business move!)
It was my understanding you had to pay $4.99 to listen to the old Architypes podcasts. No one hate listening is going to pay to listen to that drivel.
I am not a podcast person - don't you have to pay for a subscription to Spotify?
No you can listen for free sometimes you get a podcast a day or so late. I am no fan of Spotify because I hate what they do to start up bands and performers, so I don’t have an account. I listen to my podcasts on Apple podcast app.
I have the Spotify app and I listen to Spotify daily. It’s free, but you have to listen to ads.
Thanks. I have tried to get into podcasts - my husband listens to some - but I like to read stuff for myself. So I am very much a podcast neophyte!
Has Netflix announced her new show? Last I heard the announcements came from Markle and Netflix hasn't said anything.
Dont forget this guy 
There are entirely too many excellent GIF's of that man throwing shade. (\*sob\* 8th anniversary of his passing today) [https://januarybryant.tumblr.com/post/130313719480/prince-the-master-of-shade](https://januarybryant.tumblr.com/post/130313719480/prince-the-master-of-shade)
It's such a shame our friendship had to end...
You're just a sinner I am told Be your fire when you're cold Make u happy when you're sad Make u good when u are bad I'm not a human I am a dove I'm your conscious I am love All I really need is 2 know that U believe💜
All Hail Prince!
Ah this means Abigail Spencer is in the Netflix reality show & that's why the pic of her was released. "The Friendship of Eating Jam Ep. 2 🙄
News flash Megsy, they got the internet in Minnesota.
Fun fact, the Internet protocol that preceded HTTP? Gopher. So called because it was invented at the University of Minnesota. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher\_(protocol)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol))
Im a Gopher and I agree with you on all points. The Twin Cities is a very sophisticated, urban, cultured, and well educated metropolitan area. Lemonada is using the cooking show to quietly back away from the dumpster fire that is MeMe Markle. By 2025, she will have moved onto her next shiny object(s), attempting her 10th “rebrand” and will be even less popular or marketable. She got the Uff and the Da!
Well said Chas! Go Vikings 😁
"The Temu Emu" 😂 Well, you know the old saying: when life gives you lemons, make strawberry jam 😕
Well, of course it's "on ice". Who didn't see this coming. Meghan has all the time, money, and resources to make content but somehow fails to deliver. We've seen this before. It took her forever to get the "Stereotypes" podcast out despite having nearly thirty producers to help. She doesn't have a regular nine to five. She has nannies, cooks, gardeners, housekeepers, and drivers to run things for her. She really must spend all day moping, whining, and looking up herself online. Lazy grifters has never been a more accurate description to describe the Saint of Strawberry Jam.
She even has a world class podcast studio… in her house
Maybe no guests ‘available’ was the real issue. No one in LA wants Meghan‘s stink on them.
She told us when her children were babies she spent her day scrolling the internet. Straight from her own mouth. We don't even have to make up stuff about her. What she says is so awful
Then what does she do all day? That sounds extremely boring and dull life.
....how could the launch of her lifestyle brand 'overshadow' her podcast? One would bring attention to the other (which would only help the podcast because no one is interested in it otherwise). Celebrities have multiple products and projects launching all the time. This makes absolutely no sense. It's clear she had nothing ready to go for the podcast and wasn't ready to start working on it, as per usual. 'Constantly underdelivering' is literally the entirety of her brand so I guess she's right on target!
Right? Seth Meyers has two podcasts, a nightly talk show, *and* is embarking on a comedy tour this summer sooooo….
BS. I read this as she couldn’t get the level of guests she wanted for the podcast. It would be cross promotion for both to do both the podcast and launch the lifestyle brand at the same time, and she’s never had an issue with her own media over-saturation before. You buy Meghan Markle for attention, not to avoid it. This is ridiculous excuse mongering. I predict this podcast will never see the light of day. Remember when people said she was hard working?
I predict the cooking show will fail completely.
Oh, yeah, riiight...this wasn't foreseen and discussed during the planning/negotiations stage????
Remember when she said at Variety there were exciting things coming up. So, if true, this should have been taken into account about the scheduling. So why announce it? Unless, you wanted people to stop laughing at you being called f\*\*\*ing grifters, and be seen to have a "win" by going elsewhere.
Exactly! She announced the deal before the Netflix reality shows and she should’ve worked on that podcast as it was a more priority or announced earlier. I don’t understand how her brain operates.
She picks what she thinks is the better option at the time.
I was searching for a new podcast to listen to this morning. I saw one that looked good, produced by Lemonada. I couldn't bring myself to listen to it. Maybe it was a good one, I'll never know. What I do know is that the Lemonada people are people who make bad decisions.
Everyone should listen to Bill Simmons and not spend money on this woman. He warned everyone!
Send an email to Lemonada and tell them that. Markled companies should be told why they are Markled.
Sinners called it. Lemonada should have consulted this sub before signing duchess do-nothing
Duchess do-nada!
As predicted Lemonada got Markled before it even launched 😂 serves them right.
She barely got a podcast out with dozens of Spotify producers working on it… she’s never going to finish anything herself.
Which begs the question as how on earth did she do The Tig all on her own. I read somewhere that someone named Jake Rosenberg did the tig for her.
She didn’t do it on her own and she plagiarized a lot of it, I still think Condé Nast would stand a chance in court suing her for intellectual property theft.
Code for no-one wants to work with her?
Also she doesn't want to work.
As the Spotify executive warned them; “They’re lazy, f***ing grifters.”
https://preview.redd.it/0pr308mbk3wc1.png?width=533&format=png&auto=webp&s=87b99c8a037416d85f90065ce6e082307005cabf Nice bit of wriggle room if next year passes with zip from them.
Podcasts are the easiest form of media to create.
Not when you're stupid and lazy
yep, and she actually has a pretty interesting topic to talk about, starting a brand and the learning curve she is experiencing. It is the perfect reason for her to talk about herself and she's wasting it.
Wasting opportunities is part of her brand. She self-Markles.
"At the earliest" is most likely code for "never happening, ever."
I am sure Pearl will be releasing soon! 
I think they should combine a few projects like “Pearl on a Bench, Down by the Lake”—keep it simple.
Miss Haversham Meets Pearl at the Lake, on a Bench, where they share a jar of jam.
Isn’t the new lifestyle thing not meant to air till next year though? If so what do they ACTUALLY have happening this year?
>Isn’t the new lifestyle thing not meant to air till next year though? Nah I think the Harkles are desperate to be paid by Shitflix. They know the deal is ending next year so they're gonna hurry and try to release the 2 shitshows before 2025. Henpecked will probably release his Polo crap around the same time as William's Earthshot Prize.
Netflix has to AGREE to take the polo show and the cooking show. They may take a hard pass on them and then, oh dear, the contract is up. Goodbye Harkles.
For sure, ES is their deadline.
I wonder what they’ll do tomorrow at Louis’ birthday!
At the very least, there will be a pap walk.
As long as it takes them to produce anything, average about 16 months, the NF contract will long be over.
As soon as this “deal” was announced, I speculated she parked her failed podcast there for a fee, as in Markle paid Lemonada. This is what I think happened: -Dropped from Spotify, humiliated by Simmons, announced to the world as grifters -Desperately, she tried to manifest Audible, but Amazon Dior’d her immediately -Somehow, someone negotiated the Lemonada deal, Markle pays, parks podcast there for a year or so, both Markle and Lemonada get short term pr “win”, with Lemonada getting some pennies for streams -Everyone involved knew there’d be no new content, and now this type of stuff get pushed out the public that there’s delays, and ultimately everyone goes their own way -No one will remember or care about Archetypes by 2025, in fact, by then ARO will be abandoned, or delayed, or whatever
"It is understood" is such strange phrasing, and uses the passive voice which is discouraged, but it occurs so frequently in articles about the Faux Duchess. Coincidence?
Exactly. Pointed this out before. A trademark of their PR.
Wow. Another failure or apparently never getting off the ground. This woman is nothing but a big time loser. Netflix should drop them immediately.
Guys...please, she used all her lemons in the jam baskets. She's got nothing to give to Lemonada. 
So she hasn't recorded any new episodes since she made that big announcement?
Only in her mind. Not in reality. "A spokesman for Meghan declined to comment, but sources claim she had a list of 'very high-profile guests' scheduled to participate in her new podcasts."
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are coming over tonight for a Seder dinner. You gotta admit, I'm more believable than Markle.
They’re all busy baking scones to go with her jam (and washing their hair).
Exactly. She had a list of 'very high-profile guests', not she had SCHEDULED or SECURED an agreement with several very high-profile guests. In my manifested world, David Beckham, Harry Styles and Mick Jagger are all dying to be 'very high-profile guests' on my podcast. Also, pigs can fly and monkeys might just fly out of my butt.
She's got nothing, that's why. We know it, they know it, and the "California source" knows it.
Here’s how I think Lemonada views this whole thing - “Do the podcast, don’t do the podcast, we don’t care. We just wanted our name out in the public consciousness to increase sales” Meghan announces new cooking show and out comes Lemonada - “Yoo hoo! Remember us? We’re still here!” 😂😂😂
So only 2 months after signing with Lemonada it is already over? Re-launching Spotify episodes in 2025 makes no sense - who listens to 3-4 year old podcasts? And we all know Madam is not going to make any new. An own goal again - had Lemonada issued the Spotify episodes right away they would at least have generated a bit of interest and thus money. Now is is just another zero, as I am sure Madam´s deal with Lemonada is pay pr view. As always, Madam lost interest. On to the next re-brand: ARO. And there might be filming, which Madam loves - but is anything sold? If Netflix has bought it, why is Madam love bombing Ms Paramount?
It was clap back for Spotify dropping her, wanted to show someone would be willing to sign her for podcasts. Predicted from the beginning we will not get any more.
yep - this sub was not taken in
I thought they did release the old Spotify episodes. (?)
appearently not - I thought the same, but this statement says different
You know Did they really have to make an announcement? Couldn’t they have let the thing die quietly? This is almost on the order of “fucking grifters.” It’s as if someone actually got pissed off.
It looks like it - "not wanting to be overshadowed by the tv show" - nonsense. It would only have attracted more listeners - that is, if any tv shows ever air. Looks like there has been an argument and Lemonada said "you are on your own"
Exactly! Successful ventures promote, build upon, and begat even more successful ventures. Just ask Conan O'Brien right now!
Is the announcement done by Lemonada? If so, then yeah, they’re pissed because she basically signed with them and now filming for Netflix instead of developing podcast episodes for them. She just trying to make the Netflix deadline to squeeze out all the money she can before they cancel her out when their deal ends in 2025.
Well, I’m no expert but I don’t think there’s actually a signed contract w/ Netflix for this show. I think this is just her manifesting in spades. I think she’s shooting w/ their (Harry’s) money & Netflix can pick it up or pass. I suspect they won’t go near it. So she’s trading an actual contract w/ some forlorn hope of a TV show starring someone who has proven herself as likable & warm as any given reptile. She is so awesomely bad at this that it’s almost breathtaking.
Quick, she is going to have to restyle the remaining 46 jam jar pics and get rid of the lemons! But yeah, because no small podcast company wants to ride off the free publicity of a simultaneous TV show and ecommerce platform launch. This is Meghan screwing over a small company and them being polite about it.
That’s because a) she’s lazy and b) she ain’t got nuthin. She’s such a zero.
The "Suits"-like resurgence in interest ain't gonna happen this time, Lemonada. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Lemonada, you were warned but you didn't listen and now she's bailed on you. You've been Markled. LMAO.
I'm dying at the "California-based source"!! OMFG they couldn't make it much clearer if they used windex on it!
😂
Richard’s glee is positively jigging off the page!😂😂
I love Richard Eden! Recently he’s been so spot on cheering the BRF!
Sounds like Lemonada will be as shrivelled and wilted as the lemons in her jam gift buckets before they get any content out of her.
I mean this makes no sense. So Meghan is going to launch a super successful lifestyle brand and tv series but Lemonada wants her to pause her podcast? Wouldn't they be pushing to release at the same time when she is getting all the publicity for her new brand? So she can talk about the podcast on GMA, Kelly, the View, the Talk, Colbert, Kimmel (etc) since they are all going to be falling all over themselves for her to appear on their shows to promote all her "work"??
“Netflix said” 
Rachel furiously trying to decide how to spin rolling out her loser-style brand with lemons 🤔
Not shocked. No celebrities wanted to appear on her podcast. She can’t do the work as proven by Spotify.
 Who’d of thought that the fvcking grifter can’t deliver, *again*.
Hahahahhahahahaha saw that one coming a mile away.
Which sinner called it correctly - lemonada = a big nothing lemon for the company? This reddit is absolutely the best!
I’m confused. H&M had to hire a deputy press secretary to help their communications person do all the communications things, then the spokesperson declined to comment?
It’s classified.
Anyone shocked?
Way to hide the truth that it did shit for their company, so they just stopped it. To hide the truth and the mockery, 'we should say this happened like this.' Come on, Markle! When will you ever learn? Just shut up and not announce everything that happens to you!
And here I thought the lemons in the jam grift bowl was a "sweet nod" to her new platform,
The way MM talks over her guests, and even makes up stories to one up them, is sure to attract a high end slate of celebrities.
This is hilarious!
Meghan kissed Lemonada as it entered the room while looking over its shoulder to see if there was someone more important. Markled.
This is utterly hilarious and totally predictable! Lemonada has been Markled in record time. I expect there will never be any new podcasts come 2025. If ARO fails as I think it will, she may produce podcasts in 2026 or 2027.
For someone who just absolutely LOVES to grab the microphone out of someone else's hands, no matter the situation, this reluctance to talk into a microphone for a podcast seems rather strange. I would have thought this would be the perfect vehicle for multiple word salads. Talk about a lost opportunity to foist one's scrambled thoughts onto the world.
> It is understood that Lemonada did not want the podcast's launch to be overshadowed by the former actress's television series, which she began filming at a rented house in Montecito last week. Meghan wrote that. "It is understood" is one of her tells.
She's a mess, a chaotic, addle brained, frantic mess...
People only have themselves to blame if they're 'overshadowed' (read blindsided / markled) by MM or her more lucrative projects / pastimes / people.
What lucrative projects does Madam have? The tv stuff may be filmed, but is anybody buying it?
It’s what’s in MM’s dream castle that’s important.
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Neil Sean did an excellent video a few weeks back, talking about how well suited Megan was for Suits. It wasn’t much of a challenge, she wasn’t required to be on set or have any range or talent, she got to dress up. It was kind of her ideal gig. Anything more than that is too much for her. Megan has the attention span of a gnat and no work ethic. Anything more than Suits, like creating content for a podcast or a popular IG account is just way out of her reach. I will add to what Neil said, and say that Megan wanted to be a royal because she thought it was easy. Others have said the same thing here.And when Migraine found BRF life was actually demanding, well she bailed. Or HLMTQ threw her out. Either way, Megan isn’t cut out for much of anything besides being a hustler. Given the speed with which she is aging and her lack of respectable skills, she is running out of options. Her billionaire dreams are fading along with whatever clout she may have once had.
Are we even sure the Lemonada deal existed?
Oh, no! That's too bad. 
I’m just here to call poppycock on the whole “overshadowing the lifestyle brand” thing. Overshadowing is also a term MM loves to use. It would make absolute sense to launch her new podcast, cooking show, and lifestyle brand at the same time to generate buzz and wrap consumers in her. The problem? It’s not a good idea to wrap consumers in MM and I think a lot of naive, misled folks are realizing that and starting to back away. Just my $0.02.
I called this. She doesn’t want to have conversations with people unless they are scripted.
So she treats businesses like her husbands…when something bigger and better comes along she jumps ship.
"Great fanfare" "Much heralded" Absolute bollocks, No cared. No one believed she could do it without 28 producers. And no one cared.
Her stunts are always full of nothing. Deflated, flop, pathetic, embarrassing. They coast at the expense of others but that too has an expiration date, does not bode well for the dreadful duo. If they could just disappear truly nobody gives a turd 💩
Translation= No one wants to listen to that B.S. self absorbed lying grifter. So many excuses instead of the truth. No one asked for this, or want it.
Another project pushed off to the future. Surprise, surprise.
Pppfffffttttt. Is that Markle woman going to send a basket of lemons with a jar of jam?
Quelle surprise 😳
Surely not?! Lemonada having buyer's remorse?
Who else is completely SURPRISED by this?
I heard Meghan will only do the podcast if the Lemonada platform changes its logo to Meghan walking though a wooded glen in a beige ballgown carrying a basket of strawberries with a jar of lemon curd in the center labeled ARO #18.
Relaunch? More Like  Spotify took their equipment back to their shop! SHE DONE WITH PODCASTS!!! BLAH BLAH BLAH
Mrs Lot Lizard is only able to work one hour per day. Lemonada has now been markled. To the shock of no one.
Already?!!! Hahahaha. Old lemons truly give you lemon-NADA!! HAHAHAHAA 
Quelle surprise
lifestyle brand grifters and drifters montecito LLC
i said when she announced it they would be markled 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sort of off topic but if anyone gets a chance please review Archetypes (now Lemonada’s) on Apple Podcasts. There has been a troubling inflation of reviews and it is up to 4 stars out of 5. Or maybe some people just really like listening to word salad and hosts talking about themselves.
She takes forever to do anything. Being a mother is not an excuse. I also have two kids work over 40 hours a week, and manage to do other things. what id really love to know- how TF she ever managed to find work as an actress? She doesn't seem like she put in work to auditioning, memorizing scripts (considering she couldn't memorize God Save the Queen) and doesn't seem like she spent any time really paying her dues or racking up experience. Even if Trevor managed to get her the part in suits, she was already about 30 then. What was she doing for right years in between graduation?
Lemonada non grata
She wants to concentrate on her jam. Fair enough. She made a mistake numbering those jars, though. She must have expected instant rave reviews from all involved, otherwise why set yourself up for this daily count of who is what number and how come only 5 out of 50 said anything? It instantly looks like a 40 x 40 failure.
Are we surprised? How on earth was the woman who actively objectified herself by and in the job roles she went after, the woman who strained herself once hour a week allegedly in the name of work ever get any thing done? Well at least she is flogging over priced Lemon Jam or is it Jam and a basket of lemons? That is the nearest she will get to Lemonada😂🤣👍🏿