Well, this is unexpected!
19.10.2022 - 10:01 / ok.co.uk
Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast dropped its latest episode earlier this week where she sat down with Paris Hilton to discuss the ‘bimbo’ stereotypes. During the interview, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, spoke to Paris, also 41, about her time as a “briefcase girl” on Deal or No Deal and claimed she was “objectified”.
However, her reality star co-star on the show fired back at her claims that she was “reduced to a bimbo” on the game show and was only valued for her “beauty”, not her “brains”. Real Housewives of Atlanta star Claudia Jordan, who starred on the show from 2005 to 2009, explained that the show “never treated them like bimbos” and that it helped provide “so many opportunities” for them.
“For clarity - yes getting a modelling gig on a game show isn't necessarily about your intellect, but every show the executive producers picked five models with the most outgoing and fun personalities to place mics on, who they knew would engage with the contestants,” she wrote in a post shared to her Instagram Stories. Claudia, 49, added: “And Deal or No Deal never treated us like bimbos.
We got so many opportunities because of that show. “That’s the kind of opportunity that IS what you make it.
If you just show up and don't engage - then you'll just get your check and not get much out of it. “But if you show up and seize your moments, there's no limits to what you can do with the opportunity.” Claudia added that appearing on the game show helped launch a major career for her and “paid all her bills”: “It was a step on the ladder I've been ascending on for 25 years that paid all my bills, put me in front of 13 million people a night, and led to me getting on Celebrity Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice All Stars, a breast cancer
.Well, this is unexpected!
Meghan Markle doesn’t have any regrets about revealing some of her personal experiences working on Deal or No Deal back in the day.
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.
Meghan Markle’s claims that she felt treated like a “bimbo” during her time on Deal or No Deal has a lot of people talking. Whoopi Goldberg and The View co-hosts had a lot to say about the subject.
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.
Claudia Jordan has slammed Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's claim that they were treated like "bimbos" on 'Deal or No Deal. ' The 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star appeared on the game show as a suitcase girl alongside Meghan - who was then an actress known as Meghan Markle before marrying Prince Harry in 2018 - and insisted that the modelling job presented them with "so many opportunities".
Claudia Jordan, who starred alongside Meghan Markle on Deal or No Deal, is clapping back against her “bimbo” comments!
A different experience. Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Claudia Jordan disputed Meghan Markle‘s recent claims that Deal or No Deal “reduced” her to a bimbo.
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.
“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.”