Well, this is unexpected!
18.10.2022 - 19:16 / glamour.com
, you likely already know that before she was an actor on Suits and later a , she had a brief stint as a “briefcase girl” on the gameshow Deal Or No Deal, where her job was to be hot and occasionally open a briefcase on stage. Shockingly, Meghan didn't find this gig to be particularly fulfilling—though she was grateful for the health insurance. On her podcast, the duchess opened her “Breaking Down ‘The Bimbo’” episode by sharing a few details from this era of her life, after chancing upon Deal Or No Deal while flipping channels recently.
Meghan called the experience “fascinating.” Like a lot of the other women who shared the Deal Or No Deal stage with her, Meghan was pursuing a career in acting, which she had studied in college. Being a briefcase girl wasn't really acting, but it did give her a paycheck and healthcare and a union card.
“And yet,” she said, "I had also studied international relations in college, and there were times I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina in Buenos Aires and being in the motorcade with the security of treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain.
Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite."In order to maintain the very “cookie cutter” beauty standards the show required, Meghan says she and the other women were even given weekly spray tan vouchers. One moment she says is stuck in her brain is a showrunner who mispronounced her last name like “Markel” shouting at her backstage, “Markle, suck it in! Markle, suck it in!”Luckily, didn't have to stay a briefcase girl for long, and quit after about a year.
Well, this is unexpected!
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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.
claiming she felt “objectified” while working as a briefcase girl on “Deal or No Deal.”The former royal, 41, made the assertion in an episode of her “Archetypes” podcast on Tuesday, saying she was “forced to be all looks and little substance” during her 34-episode stint on the game show back in the mid-2000s. But Goldberg, 66, did not feel sorry for the star during a segment on Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” where she bluntly stated: “That’s TV, baby … what did you think you were going to do? You know that’s what the show was.”Goldberg continued her diatribe against Markle, saying that she didn’t believe viewers were actively objectifying the star on screen.
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told Variety about any actors who might depict her on screen. “The silliness.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex felt "reduced to a bimbo" on 'Deal or No Deal. ' The 41-year-old royal - who tied the knot with Prince Harry in 2018 and has children Archie, three and 16-month-old Lili with him - previously worked as an actress and was "grateful" to have a job a "briefcase girl" on the US version of the game show after but felt that it was about "beauty" as opposed to "brains. " She said: "I was really grateful as an auditioning actress to have a job.
Duchess of Sussex has said she disliked feeling “forced to be all looks and little substance” during her stint as a “briefcase girl” on the US version of Deal or No Deal. Meghan reflected on her time working on the gameshow in 2006 on the latest episode of her podcast, which featured a chat with Paris Hilton about the labels of “bimbo” and “dumb blonde”. She added that she wants her daughter Lilibet to “aspire to be slightly higher”.
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.
Grateful, but distressing. Meghan Markle recalled her time on Deal or No Deal on the new episode of her podcast Archetypes. The Duchess of Sussex introduced her episode on “Bimbos” with Paris Hilton about what it was like to be a briefcase girl on the hit game show and how she felt reduced when she was on the show.
Not so fond memories. Meghan Markle opened up about her time on Deal or No Deal, revealing that she often felt like the show reduced her to a “bimbo.”