{"id":579339,"date":"2026-08-25T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579339\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:00:18","slug":"meghan-markle-savaged-over-humiliating-pr-stunt-as-acting-career-in-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579339\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle savaged over \u2018humiliating PR stunt\u2019 as acting career \u2018in | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a>\u2019s wife was understood to be in early-stage discussions over a possible role<\/a> in a third series of Guy Ritchie\u2019s Netflix<\/a> hit The Gentlemen, Deadline reported. The show, starring Theo James and Kaya Scodelario, has yet to be renewed for a third season. But new reports claimed that Meghan\u2019s casting has been dropped due to the backlash in the UK and some fans were not impressed.<\/p>\n

A number of people criticised the duchess online and said the whole thing was a \u201cPR stunt\u201d to get publicity.<\/p>\n

One user said on X: \u201cHollywood<\/a> Reporter is also reporting that Meghan’s been dropped from consideration for ‘THE GENTLEMEN’, citing Tina Brown. As a reminder, neither Meghan nor Netflix denied that her casting was a possibility, meaning that both could have been using the news for a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I find the idea rather hilarious that Netflix may have used the news to boost the profile of ‘THE GENTLEMEN’ before its September 3rd premiere, at the expense of Meghan.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe definitely comes out of this all rather humiliated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another user opined: \u201cThe whole thing is a joke. Meghan never said she was going to act in the UK. That\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third one added: \u201cThis whole episode brought that series to the public attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

A fourth user commented: \u201cI suggested it was a PR stunt when I first heard about it. No one in their right mind would hire Meg, as she just devalues all she touches. She is a laughing stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lastly, another user said: \u201cMeghan is not strategic. She needs that narcissistic fuel in that moment. She enjoyed the speculation about it and never thought thru that she would get backlash and look dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry\u2019s wife was understood to be in early-stage discussions over a possible role in a third series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,15858,285391,15859,4866,87655,4870,22699,90970,22466,285390,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-579339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-breaking-news","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-acting","tag-meghan-markle-latest","tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","tag-meghan-markle-netflix","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-meghan-markle-role","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}