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American Riviera Orchard and Meghan Markle
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Anonymous
Clearly she doesn't want to. You can only catch rare glimpses of her, if you are lucky. See the Duchess cooking in the kitchen, her hands arranging flowers, dancing in a black dress but the door is closing...that's all for now. |
Anonymous
Ah, I see. So if Meghan announced she was starring in a new television show, you would be totally fine with that and not complain about how she is embarrassing the royal family and trading on her title to hack her way back into acting, and wouldn't rip apart whatever the show was as unbecoming of someone who married a royal, etc.? You'd be like "okay that is fine, it is after all her chosen profession and she'd been doing it for a long time when she met Harry." Somehow I don't think so. I am not the biggest Meghan Markle fan but it's so obvious that some of you will hate her no matter what she does and won't be happy unless Harry divorces her, publicly states he made a mistake in marrying her, and then absconds with he children back to England to grovel to his family to take him back. It is really weird. |
Anonymous
So lucky are we! |
Anonymous
You're wrong. Many people would love to see her acting again. |
Anonymous
The ominous “they” that forced Meghan to be described by a former boss as a “f’ing grifter,” the evil powers which forced Tom Bower to find impeccable sources calling her the nastiest, meanest person they’d met when doing a (prior cheaply made tacky shit) campaign for Reitmans (for all their litigiousness they haven’t found time to sue him over the past years), the terrible they forcing delicate Meghan to announce this imminent failure without benefit of products or good production values or even spell-checking “riviera” on the Instagram page initially. They have soooo much power, but not hashtag boss byyyitch power, unlike a certain uh creator. |
Anonymous
| So are they getting PR advice in their moves? I can't imagine that a good advisor would encourage their decision to name the brand "American Riviera Orchard"....its such a mouthful. And is the whole "launch with no products" part of their strategy? I totally buy how the whole beige California organic jellies thing can be a successful, but I don't understand why they are approaching it so haphazardly. |
Anonymous
William and Kate loved Suits! |
Anonymous
Surely she could finance her own project then. |
Anonymous
Why are you so worked up about this. Bill Simmons called her and Harry grifters. Okay, Bill Simmons is an obnoxious blowhard with a lot of wrong opinions, so I don't really care one way or another. Sounds like she was difficult on that one commercial, but she has a bunch of friends from her actual years on Suits who have nice things to say about her so she's probably not actually the meanest person in the history of mankind. I don't assume Meghan is some kind of angel sent from heaven to save us -- she's probably a flawed person like any of us and has good moments and bad. But in the grand scheme of things, what has she ever done that would merit the amount of vitriol against her? She was demanding on a commercial set over a decade ago? Okay, better cancel literally 90% of Hollywood then. She had a deal to make podcasts and she underperformed? Oh no, that is very directly relevant to my life and absolutely justifies anger towards her. I just don't get the hate. I don't get worship either, but I don't worship any celebrities so that never makes sense. But of all the people to just absolutely loathe, I don't understand how Meghan Markle, who frankly seems pretty middle of the road to me (and who I do think was treated pretty badly by both the royal family and the British press during her time there, whatever her other merits and demerits as a person) inspires so much outrage. She is launching some kind of lifestyle brand. Big whoop. Do you also hate Rachel Ray and Chrissy Teigan and Gwyneth Paltrow and Martha Stewart? Who cares? |
Anonymous
Its the victimization for me. |
Anonymous
I agree, PP. Thing is, you'd be hard pressed to find a MM worshiper on this board. Many of us (who are called sugars by the royal defenders) are like you--we are people who find the vitriol to be unjustified and bizarre and likely based on misinformation and jealousy. We question it, and we call out the hypocrisy when we see it. [DP] |
Anonymous
The PR strategy here makes sense to me. They are gauging interest and building a subscriber list, both things that will be essential/important for working with distributors or getting investors if necessary. It is much easier to go into a meeting with Nordstrom or Target or Sur le Table, or whoever their target is, and say "look we posted a video and a logo and had a half million followers within a few days." That's a decent debut and could get them through to the next stage with a lot of companies. Anecdotally, while I didn't follow this account, 10 of the 200 people I follow on Instagram did, and only one of them (the National Gallery of Art) is an institutional account -- the rest are friends and family members who were interested enough to follow. Likely the reason there are not products yet is that they are still selling the concept and want to develop them in collaboration with their vendor. It's not clear to me yet if they are actually going upscale, or are doing the Martha-at-Target route of selling "upscale" downmarket. Both can be profitable and both could work with Meghan's profile. So one thing they might doing is looking at demos on their follows/subscribers to see where interest lies. I agree the name is bad but also they have a horrible track record on this. I am mostly grateful they didn't try to turn Lillebet's name into a pun! |
Anonymous
| A girl has gotta eat, so I guess selling empty nonsense to fools easily parted from their money is pretty harmless. But anyone else find the name or the enterprise a pretty nonsensical lifestyle branding word salad? |
Anonymous
The only conspiracy theory I will buy is that Suits didn’t exist until after she was married to Harry. I had never heard of it. |
Anonymous
If Reese Witherspoon can, why not? I truly think Meghan is missing out by not returning to tv drama. Perhaps she has a knack for comedy, too. She would not be the first woman to return to the work she left to marry and start a family. People would respect her for that. |