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From chat present host Wendy Williams and shock jock Howard Stern to “The Actual Housewives of NYC” star Bethenny Frankel and motormouth comic Chris Rock, the celeb world is not shy about dissing Meghan Markle, many instances essentially the most divisive member of the British royal household. Even “The View” has lately turned on her a lot to our amazement. However even those that are apparently on her aspect do not at all times assist issues, both.

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Certainly, Markle, as soon as confirmed to be the laughing inventory of the palace, can simply ignore the customarily one-sided beefs that happen via social media, the tabloids, or right-wing discuss exhibits. Nonetheless, she is going to sometimes must cope with a face-to-face encounter that, for varied causes, makes both or each events — and everybody watching, too — need the bottom to swallow them up. Here is a have a look at a dozen well-known faces, together with so-called pals and acquaintances, whose encounter with the Duchess of Sussex redefined the phrase “awkward.”

In 2024, Brooke Shields appeared alongside Meghan Markle at an SXSW Worldwide Ladies’s Day panel presided over by Katie Couric. And whereas guesting on India Hicks’ podcast “An Surprising Journey” a 12 months later, “The Blue Lagoon” star recalled how she’d felt compelled to interrupt her royal fellow speaker.

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Not precisely famend for her humorousness, Markle spent a lot of the session discussing the feminist act she carried out on the age of 11: writing a proper grievance a couple of TV business that argued that washing dishes was solely an obligation for girls. Though the Duchess of Sussex’s act impressed the corporate in query to change the offending ad, Shields wasn’t precisely left impressed.

“It was simply too treasured, and I used to be like, ‘They are not going to need to sit right here for 45 minutes and hearken to anyone be treasured or critical,'” the previous little one star defined to Hicks (by way of The Impartial), who, notably, simply occurs to be King Charles’ goddaughter. “I’m going, ‘Excuse me, I am so sorry, I’ve received to interrupt you there for one minute.’ I used to be making an attempt to not be impolite, however I needed to be humorous as a result of it was so critical.” In a bid to level out how everyone seems to be completely different, Shields then reminded everybody that on the identical age, she was enjoying an on-screen intercourse employee. The plot then thickened when the podcast episode was mysteriously eliminated.

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Okay, so anybody who grew up within the period when the Spice Ladies dominated the pop world would wrestle to include their pleasure within the presence of Victoria Beckham. Even so, Meghan Markle was apparently fangirling so exhausting over her first encounter with the previous Posh Spice that she needed to be informed to tone issues down.

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In a chat with Mirror, celeb reporter Lizzie Cundy recalled the time she interviewed Markle lengthy earlier than she was the cool, calm, and picked up royal determine everyone knows right this moment. “She was so thrilled to be within the room with Victoria Beckham. This was the evening I really needed to inform her to cease squealing when she did see Victoria, it wasn’t too cool and she or he was very overexcited. This was the time earlier than she met her Harry, she was nonetheless in ‘Fits,’ I would by no means heard about it.”

In reality, surrounded by way more recognizable names on the time, Cundy’s producer needed to be persuaded to provide Markle any screentime in any respect. After all, the comparatively unknown actor quickly grew to become one of the well-known ladies on the planet. In consequence, she struck up a friendship with the Spice Woman-turned-fashion designer. She even invited the multi-talent and soccer famous person husband David Beckham to look at her get hitched to Prince Harry. 

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Meghan Markle additionally struggled to play it cool when she got here nose to nose along with her culinary idol whereas taking pictures her personal Netflix cooking present. Within the eighth episode of the critically panned “With Love, Meghan,” the Duchess of Sussex invitations farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters to assist her stage a particular celebratory dinner along with her nearest and dearest. And she or he spends a lot of their time collectively gushing about how grateful she is to be in her presence.

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“I really feel such as you’re watching me fall in love,” Markle, whose wardrobe on the present triggered sure audiences to lose it, informed Waters (by way of Individuals) within the method of a besotted schoolgirl as they began to organize a backyard salad. “It’s totally awkward. I am so sorry. I am blushing … You might be talking my language, however it’s a language I discovered from you.”

Markle additionally gave Waters a gift, which additionally allowed her to indicate off one other home ability. “I used to show a gift-wrapping class after I was an auditioning actor,” the “Fits” star remarked. “And there are a pair [of] tips that I feel you always remember and can make gift-wrapping simpler forevermore … double-sided tape.”

Drew Barrymore has now turn out to be simply as famend for overtly invading celebrities’ private house as her appearing profession. So, Meghan Markle ought to have identified what to anticipate when she ventured on to the “By no means Been Kissed” star’s daytime chat present in 2025 to advertise her new Netflix present “With Love, Meghan.”

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As anticipated, the host went straight in for a hug whereas welcoming Markle to “The Drew Barrymore Present” stage. And whereas the Duchess of Sussex reciprocated, it was clear that she was uncomfortable with the gesture. “I’ve heard you want to attach,” she later commented in what sure sections of the press interpreted as a passive-aggressive quip.

Physique language specialists additionally lined as much as give their two cents’ price in regards to the awkward interplay, together with Judi James, who informed Day by day Mail that Markle had basically reversed the standard roles: “It is a uncommon pose from Meghan who is generally the primary one to maneuver in with the hugs to register the nice and cozy, spontaneously tactile aspect that was apparently met with a tsunami of ice water from the royal agency again within the UK … It appears from this pose that what you get whenever you put two famously hugging ladies collectively is that one will bow out, specifically Meghan on this case.”

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That is a type of uncommon awkward encounters when even the fiercest of Meghan Markle’s detractors must concede that she bore no duty. In 2013, three years earlier than she met Prince Harry, the “Fits” star was invited to look on “The Late Late Present with Craig Ferguson.” And for some motive, the usually chivalrous host abruptly morphed right into a lecherous uncle.

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The cringiness began when, after refusing to imagine that she was born and bred in Los Angeles, the longer term Duchess of Sussex invited Ferguson to pinch her to show that she was actual. “Unusually hairless physique you might have,” the Scot famous, a lot to Markle’s discomfort. “You are fairly the dolphin aren’t you? You are completely hair-free.”

That wasn’t the one time that Ferguson made a questionable comment through the interview. Markle went on to debate how she spent a lot of her childhood on Hollywood units because of her father, Thomas’ work in TV lighting and images. After noting that her faculty uniform made her stand out, the late-night veteran responded with an eyebrow elevate and the phrases, “Oh yeah?” On sensing that he could have crossed the road, he insisted to the studio viewers that “it is type of a joke.”

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The squirm issue was actually excessive when Andy Cohen accepted an invite to look on Meghan Markle’s “Archetypes” podcast for what he believed to be his first encounter with the royal. However as he quickly came upon, to his horror and the host’s embarrassment, the pair had really crossed paths a number of instances earlier than.

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After Cohen opened the dialog with “Good to fulfill you,” (by way of Indy100), Markle dropped a much-needed reminder that they, in actual fact, went means again. “You are kidding,” the Bravo common responded. “Oh God, that is going to wreck my day.” The Duchess of Sussex went on to elucidate how she’d first approached him at a TV business occasion shortly earlier than the primary episode of “Fits” had premiered.

“You probably did that factor the place your eyebrows went up and I used to be simply gushing and also you mentioned ‘uh huh,'” Markle defined about her spot of “The Actual Housewives” fangirling. Though she insisted that the snub was effective, the actor then went on to deliver up one other incident, which left her visitor cringing. Markle had as soon as been determined to look on “Watch What Occurs Dwell” however was by no means deemed worthy of reserving. “It’s now the largest blunder within the 13 years of this present,” Cohen argued, desperately making an attempt to claw again some regal goodwill.

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Andy Cohen can take coronary heart from the truth that he isn’t the one celeb to overlook an encounter with Meghan Markle. Whereas talking to Greatest Well being in 2017, the royal recalled bumping into Ellen DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, at a canine shelter the place she was apparently inspired by the previous to undertake a Labrador shepherd cross. However on her daytime chat present, the comic claimed that she had no recollection of the assembly.

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If that wasn’t awkward sufficient, DeGeneres was additionally accused of throwing somewhat shade in Markle’s course when the Duchess of Sussex appeared on her self-titled present 4 years later. The latter, no stranger to being somewhat shady herself, had been discussing how she’d commonly visited the Warner Bros. studio lot the place the a number of Emmy-winning hit was filmed throughout her years as a comparatively unknown actress. In reality, she was such a well-known face that the studio’s safety crew would usually advise her to “break a leg.”

Whether or not intentional or not, DeGeneres appeared to query precisely why Markle, who’d usually rock as much as the studio in a Ford Explorer, was such a relentless presence: “However you auditioned that usually that they knew you, to say ‘Break a leg?'” she responded a lot to the amusement of her visitor’s many detractors.

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Mindy Kaling was actually put in her place when she appeared on Meghan Markle’s much-maligned cooking present “With Love, Meghan.” Whereas getting ready cucumber sandwiches within the second episode of the Netflix authentic, the pair began discussing the meals they relied on whereas rising up, with the latter remarking how she usually lived on prepared meals and quick meals.

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“I do not assume anybody on the planet is aware of that Meghan Markle has eaten Jack within the Field and loves it,” Kaling quipped in regards to the revelation. However the host and her obvious pal did not see the humorous aspect, not due to the chain restaurant talked about, however of how she was addressed. “It is so humorous you retain saying Meghan Markle, you realize I am Sussex now,” she mentioned, failing to cover her apparent disdain.

An understandably bewildered Kaling was then informed, “You’ve got children and also you go, ‘No, I share my identify with my youngsters.’ I did not know the way significant it might be to me however it simply means a lot to go, ‘That is OUR household identify. Our little household identify.'” Making an attempt to diffuse the awkwardness of the state of affairs, the comic responded, “Nicely, now I do know and I adore it.”

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In 2023, Insurgent Wilson and her mother ran into Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at a swanky polo occasion in Santa Barbara. And whereas the “Bridesmaids” star appeared to get on like a home on fireplace with the fifth in line to the throne, her interplay together with his different half was decidedly chillier.

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Whereas talking to Andy Cohen on “Watch What Occurs Dwell,” Wilson recalled (by way of Newsweek) how her royal assembly was one thing of a blended bag. “[Harry] couldn’t have been nicer … However then Meghan was not as cool. She wasn’t as naturally heat. However possibly, I do not know, my mother being Australian simply requested her all these like, barely impolite questions … like, ‘the place are your children?’ and issues like that. I used to be like, ‘Mother do not ask her that!'”

And so as to add to Markle’s protection, Wilson had simply made a really public joke at her and her husband’s expense. Certainly, whereas presenting the Excellent British Movie class on the BAFTAs two months earlier, the Aussie poked enjoyable on the couple’s latest particular with a chat present queen. “From drama to horror, to fantasy, Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah had all of it. Sadly that is not nominated on this class, however some unimaginable movies are.”

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Whether or not it is refusing to do stairs, tasking her assistant with holding her drinks straw as much as her mouth, or demanding 20 white kittens on her backstage rider, Mariah Carey certain is aware of what it takes to be a diva. Sadly, Meghan Markle did not take too kindly to being labeled one by the “We Belong Collectively” hitmaker on her personal podcast.

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Throughout her 2022 look on “Archetypes,” Carey abruptly remarked (by way of Individuals), “You give us diva moments typically, Meghan.” The Duchess of Sussex was so bowled over that she later felt compelled to relate her ideas on the matter in the identical episode: “You could not see me, clearly, however I, I began to sweat somewhat bit. I began squirming in my chair on this quiet revolt, like, wait, wait, no, what? How? However? How may you? That is not true, that is not … Why would you say that?”

Markle then puzzled aloud what Carey had learn to make her say such an announcement earlier than questioning whether or not the singer was now not her final woman crush. On listening to Markle’s considerations, nevertheless, the a number of Grammy Award winner refused to stroll again her remark. “Actually loved speaking to Duchess and Diva Meghan Markle about ‘The Duality of Diva,” she tweeted. “Sure! I referred to as her a diva, in essentially the most fabulous, attractive, and empowering that means of the phrase!!!”

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As a millennial, Meghan Markle little doubt grew up watching the antics of New York’s most coffeeshop-obsessed gang in ubiquitous sitcom “Associates.” So, when the longer term Duchess of Sussex landed a small half alongside Jennifer Aniston — aka Rachel Inexperienced — in 2011 comedy “Horrible Bosses,” she could effectively have dreamed of securing a brand new celeb finest bud.

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Sadly, issues did not fairly work out that means. “Jen barely even observed she was there,” claimed an nameless insider (by way of Mirror) whereas talking to New Thought in 2023. And to make issues worse, the position that she additionally thought would elevate her profession turned out to be little greater than a 30-second cameo.

Markle, whose transformation from toddler to fortysomething is one thing to behold, was apparently so dissatisfied by the expertise that she regularly trashed the movie. However she by no means gave up hope of changing into BFFs with Aniston. And in 2025, she received one other potential in-road when the latter moved into her unique California group. In reality, RadarOnline alleges that Markle basically love-bombed her new neighbor with presents in a bid to lastly win her friendship.

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If being snubbed by one Hollywood A-lister wasn’t embarrassing sufficient, Meghan Markle was reportedly additionally given the chilly shoulder by a complete host whereas attending a philanthropic occasion in 2024. The Duchess of Sussex had accepted an invite to the G9 Ventures Summit within the hope of reasserting herself inside the showbiz elite. However apparently, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow had been simply two of the large names who had little interest in hitching their mast to her trigger.

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In an interview with Warmth journal, an insider allegedly on the identical occasion famous (by way of Specific) how awkward issues received for the previous “Fits” star: “With latest ventures seemingly falling flat, Meghan’s determined that changing into a philanthropist and throwing herself into charity work is one of the best ways to salvage her public picture.”

“She was gutted once they merely ignored her,” the nameless supply went on so as to add. “She hoped the summit could be a possibility for her to attempt to make some A-list connections.” The person then claimed that the shunning by Tinseltown’s most interesting served as a wake-up name for the wounded Markle.