‘To Di For’ podcast host Kinsey Schofield discusses how Netflix Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos defended Meghan Markle amid backlash over her new show, ‘With Love, Meghan’.
“No one wants to be associated with failure, you know, and you are who you associate with so of course, he’s going to talk Meghan Markle up and Prince Harry because it’s embarrassing for the company,” Ms Schofield said.
“I think this is just his way of trying to save face but at the end of the day, he is a numbers person … the numbers just don’t cut it when it comes to real viewership for Meghan’s new program.”
“No one wants to be associated with failure, you know, and you are who you associate with so of course, he’s going to talk Meghan Markle up and Prince Harry because it’s embarrassing for the company,” Ms Schofield said.
“I think this is just his way of trying to save face but at the end of the day, he is a numbers person … the numbers just don’t cut it when it comes to real viewership for Meghan’s new program.”
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00:00Joining me now is celebrity and royal reporter Kinsey Schofield.
00:04Kinsey, let's start with the latest developments in Prince Harry's US visa saga and according
00:10to Heritage Foundation lawyer Samuel Dewey, a series of newly released documents relating
00:16to the case infer that Harry may have in fact lied about his history of drug use on his
00:22visa application despite the documents being heavily redacted.
00:28What else have you found out?
00:30Well, based on the papers themselves, very little because they were so heavily redacted.
00:36But Dewey also said that the Heritage Foundation believes, and I think you will get a kick
00:40out of this, that Prince Harry is here on an O-1 visa, typically submitted by a sponsor.
00:46In this case, they believe it's probably one of his charitable foundations, which would
00:50have argued for his attendance based on a fundraising ability or another exceptional
00:56talent.
00:57I'll leave it to you to determine what his exceptional talent is for why he should be
01:00in the United States, but that's what the Heritage Foundation suspects.
01:05That's how they suspect that he is in the United States today.
01:09Exceptional, I don't know, making very, very boring documentaries.
01:15I don't know if that is a special category that allows you into the country.
01:18But talking about that, the other Sussex is being defended.
01:24Netflix's co-chief executive, Ted Sarandos, has stepped in to defend Meghan, saying that
01:31the backlash to her latest media venture is unfair, saying that the public is underestimating
01:38her, and the pair have been overly dismissed.
01:41I mean, that's a weird characterisation, given that they've got these enormous contracts,
01:48they've been given project after project.
01:51It's hardly dismissive.
01:54Look, no one wants to be associated with failure, you know, and you are who you associate with.
01:59So of course he's going to talk Meghan Markle up and Prince Harry, because it's embarrassing
02:05for the company for Meghan and Harry to fail, especially given those high profile contracts
02:11that you mentioned.
02:12So I think this is just his way of trying to save face.
02:17But at the end of the day, he is a numbers person, that's how he keeps his job.
02:22And you and I both talked about how the numbers just don't cut it when it comes to real viewership
02:28for Meghan's new program.