29.10.2022 - 04:13 / deadline.com
Meghan Markle claims she felt like a bimbo when she was a case girl on the game show Deal or No Deal.
Former show host Howie Mandel doesn’t mind her comments. He’s speaking out in the wake of Marklegate, saying the Duchess of Sussex was only expressing how it made her feel.
“I’ve never really heard anybody complain and I don’t think Meghan is complaining,” Mandel said to Us Weekly. “I think Meghan just said she wanted to do more. It wasn’t fulfilling for her. So I don’t know why there is a big hoopla, except I have to say that me standing there with 26 women staring at me made me feel like a bimbo.”
Mandel admits he doesn’t remember Markle from the show. But he said he understands how she feels because he suffered similarly during his four years as host.
“I get it because — I’ve never said this before — but they had this pyramid of 26 beautiful, intelligent women standing there just staring at me like I was a piece of meat,” he said. “I was in the center, just dressed up in a suit, and I felt like I am more than this. And they would just look at me and I had to do nothing.”
Markle drew ire from some when she admitted on her podcast, Archetypes, that she quit the show because she was “so much more than what was being objectified on the stage.”
“I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance, and that’s how it felt for me at the time being reduced to this specific archetype: the word ‘bimbo,’” she said.
Well, this is unexpected!
Not a big deal. Howie Mandel doesn’t understand the big fuss being made around Meghan Markle’s comments about her experience on Deal or No Deal.
Meghan Markle doesn’t have any regrets about revealing some of her personal experiences working on Deal or No Deal back in the day.
Rising above. Meghan Markle “doesn’t regret” speaking up about her experience on Deal or No Deal, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
Turns out Whoopi Goldberg isn’t the only one fed up with Meghan Markle right now!
OMG. Whoopi Goldberg is PISSED OFF!
Taking issue with her perspective. Whoopi Goldberg still had some questions after Meghan Markle‘s candid comments about working on Deal or No Deal.
Whoopi Goldberg and ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ alum Claudia Jordan have called out Meghan Markle over her claims of feeling "objectified" during her time as a briefcase model on "Deal or No Deal." The 66-year-old talk show host and the 49-year-old former No.1 briefcase model questioned Markle, 41, after the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she felt conflicted about her experience on the show during an episode of her podcast "Archetypes". Markle said she eventually quit after feeling "forced to be all looks and little substance." "On that show, you basically had a suitcase and they wanted to know: 'Is this the deal you want, or is this not the deal you want?'" Goldberg said to her co-hosts during Wednesday's episode of "The View." "I don't know that the people who are sitting there are thinking about you like that," she added.
TMZ. "I didn't know she felt like a bimbo because that certainly wasn't the intention of the show.
It looks like one of the other briefcase models who worked on Deal or No Deal had a different experience than Duchess Meghan Markle.
Meghan Markle’s fellow former “Deal or No Deal” “briefcase girl” Claudia Jordan has responded to those “Archetypes” podcast comments.
Claudia Jordan, former star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is opening up about her own experience on the Deal or No Deal set after Meghan Markle claimed they treated her like a bimbo.
Meghan Markle’s claims she was treated like a “bimbo” and “objectified” during her time on “Deal or No Deal.” The former “Deal or No Deal” briefcase No. 1 model turned “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum took to Instagram to defend the popular game show that catapulted her career after the Duchess of Sussex slammed the show in the latest episode of her “Archetypes” podcast.
Meghan Markle’s latest episode of the podcast is hot! During episode 6, the Duchess of Sussex has a candid conversation with Paris Hilton, where they break down the term “bimbo” and the dumb blonde trope that stuck with the star for most of her career. At the start of the episode, Meghan reflects on her time on in 2006, where she was a briefcase girl. The 41-year-old says that the experience was «fascinating,» but she ultimately quit because she wasn’t valued in the way she wanted to be.
“There was a a very cookie-cutter idea of what we should look like,” said Meghan Markle said on her Achetypes podcast about her early-career time on NBC’s Deal or No Deal. “It was solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains.”