Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Ignore Expensive Podcast Deal As Spotify Takes 'Matters Into Their Own Hands'
25.01.2022 - 19:53
/ perezhilton.com
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are in the hot seat after not producing any content for Spotify in over a year, despite signing an £18 million deal! That’s $25 million!!
According to insiders who spoke to The Sun, the streaming giant has been waiting months now for the royals to finally produce material as part of their expensive deal, but the company is now forced to take “matters into their own hands.”
As Perezcious readers know, Harry and Meghan inked a deal with Spotify in late 2020 to produce content through their company Archewell. In December 2020, they even released a 35-minute holiday special featuring their firstborn Archie, as well as celebrity guests Elton John and James Corden. But since then they’ve been silent on the platform!
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Last year, Spotify announced that fans could be looking forward to a “full-scale” launch from the couple, and yet…. nothing. So rather than waiting around for them to get their act together, the company is taking charge by hiring a team of people to help produce new shows!
Spotify has already sent around applications to in-house staff to find people to work on creating a new show for Archewell Audio that will feature “the voices of high profile women.” Contracts are said to be six-month in length and based in Los Angeles. Spotify’s production arm, Gimlet Projects, released a description of the senior producer role up for grabs, saying:
There’s no word yet on how Harry and Meghan feel about this hiring decision, or why they’ve been incredibly slow to start podcasting in the first place. It’s not like they’ve been hiding from the media. They certainly made time to sit down for an