The CEO of United Talent Agency blasted Meghan Markle as untalented after Spotify cancelled the Duchess of Sussex’s podcast.
“Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,” Jeremy Zimmer informed Semafor on the 2023 Cannes Lions promoting competition final week.
“And, you know, just because you’re famous doesn’t make you great at something,” 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, experiences Page Six.
The leisure business government’s harsh phrases come shortly after The Post reported that Spotify reduce ties with Meghan, 41, and her husband, Prince Harry, as a result of they might not ship on anticipated numbers.
A supply confirmed that Meghan’s podcast, Archetypes, gained’t be returning for a second season regardless of topping the charts final yr and that the couple didn’t produce sufficient content material to obtain their full multimillion-dollar payout. They had signed a $29 million-plus take care of the streaming large in 2020.
Meghan and Harry’s manufacturing firm, Archewell Audio, stated in a joint assertion with Spotify that that they had “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series [they] made together.”
The first (and solely) season of the previous Suits actress’s podcast was comprised of simply 12 episodes through which she interviewed visitors like Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Paris Hilton.
It’s understood that Meghan, who signed for illustration with Hollywood company WME in April, has her eyes set on one other streaming service.
“Meghan is continuing to develop more content for the ‘Archetypes’ audience on another platform,” an Archewell Productions spokeswoman beforehand informed the Wall Street Journal.
Amid the news of the ex-royals’ Spotify exit, sources claimed that Meghan 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 workers and that the audio of her voice asking the questions was apparently edited into the episodes after.
However, Andy Cohen, who appeared as a visitor on Archetypes in November 2022, referred to as the claims “insane” and confirmed that Meghan had interviewed him on the podcast.
Meanwhile, 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 collection through which he would interview the likes of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin about their childhood traumas.
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
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