Pamela Anderson Shrugs Off Meghan Markle Copycat Claims; Apricot Jam Backlash and a Royal Vampire Connection

Pamela Anderson dismisses comparisons between her cooking show and Meghan Markle’s With Love, Meghan as “one.” Meanwhile, a writer reviews Meghan’s shortbread mix—and her vanishing apricot spread. Elsewhere: Prince William teams up with Ronnie Wood for marine conservation, Luke Evans shares King Charles’ vampire lineage, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle has thoughts on royal titles. Oh—and Meghan’s ex-staffers say she was a nightmare boss. Again.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Calorogus Shark Media. Hello, and welcome to Palace Intrigue and
your host Mark Francis. Pamela Anderson, who does have a
new movie to promote, Who's addressed the chatter that Megan
Michael may have copied her cooking show concept. The speculation

(00:27):
kicked off earlier this year when Meghan's Netflix series With
Love Megan premiered just a week after Pamela's Cooking with
Love debuted on Amazon. Both shows featured glossy lifestyle content,
with Anderson's hitting screens in January and Meghan's delayed until
March due to California wildfires. Anderson stopped by Watch What

(00:47):
Happens Live with Andy Cohen, where Cohen asked her, on
a scale of one to ten, how much little rip
off she thought Megan's show was. Pamela coolly replied one.
I didn't, and when pressed love off the comparisons, adding
I didn't really look, but I didn't invent cooking shows.
She's just doing her thing. Martha Stewart had previously offered

(01:08):
a more fun take, telling Yahoo Lifestyle Meghan, I don't
really know very well, and I hope she knows what
she's talking about. Authenticity to me is everything. Ingrid Abramovich
tried Meghan's shortbread mix for eldecor dot com and writes,
it was a quiet morning last month when the text
arrived from my brother Seth in California. I just ordered

(01:32):
Meghan Markle's Apricot Jam, shortbread cookie mix and pepperin tea.
He announced it was sold out in an hour. Last time,
they just restocked, get on it. Thirty seconds later, I
was frantically searching for in stock products on Meghan's as
Ever brand site. The tea was already sold out. Kinna
sell it on eBay. My brother choked, but he was right.

(01:52):
Several items were still in stock. I grabbed a nine
dollars jar of the apricot jam that spread actually, but
I still wanted it. I ordered the two remaining items
that were available, a box of crape mix and the
intriguing sounding short bread cookie mix with flour sprinkles. Those
were fourteen dollars each. The order went through, or seemed to.

(02:13):
An email promptly arrived, letting me know that something delightful
has coming your way. Another note popped up from Megan herself,
Dear Ingrid, I'm so pleased, to have you here at
as ever, we celebrate the beauty and the details, and
cherish the small moments of magic that can be found
in the every day. By day's end, I also got
some surprising news, as did my brother, and to judge

(02:35):
from the uproar on social media, many other disappointed customers.
Due to high demand, the email announced we are unable
to fulfill your order of the Apricots spread at this time.
Clearly the duchess was spread too thin. I was informed
that I would get a refund and that when the
Apricot spread is back in stock, you will be the
first to receive it free of charge. I am still waiting.

(03:00):
The jam was clearly in a jam. But two weeks
after I placed my order, a plain brown box landed
on my doorstep with a sticker that warned open with care.
Inside a card said simply enjoy Megan. I brushed away
the popcorn peanuts, opened the short bread mix and set
to work. The box contained two packages, the cookie mix
and a small bag of flour sprinkles, which turned out

(03:22):
to be about a tablespoon of dried edible flowers, including rose, colendular,
blue corn flower, and hibiscus. There was also a note
for Megan on the package Let's call this a hug
in a box. She said, I fell in love with
a ritual of tea and biscuits during my time in
the UK. Ingrid then detailed her cooking process before revealing
that her husband Joel declared, but for short bread, they

(03:44):
are ten out of ten. In The Royalist, Tom Sykes
shared tales of Megan's management style. Sikes writes, when you
talk to people who have worked for Megan, you will
hear amazing stories of her brisk management style. Sikes quotes
one as saying there were bad, very bad, even psycho moments.
I witnessed people being chewed up in person and over

(04:06):
the phone and made to feel like crap. Another told
sychs she is lovely when it's all going her way,
but a demon when the worm turns more into the moment. Hey,
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(04:27):
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Trials wherever you get your podcasts. A Bafter winning photographer
known for her cheeky portrayals of the rich and royal,
says she's struggling to find anyone willing to pretend to
be Prince Harry and Meghan Markle because they've become too toxic.

(04:47):
Alison Jackson, the satirical artist famous for using celebrity lookalikes
in provocative and humorous scenes, was preparing for a new
show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but with just weeks
to go before curtain up, Jackson said she hit a snag.
Nobody wants to be Megan or Harry. I have a
couple of Prince Williams who come forward as they look
quite good, Jackson told reporters, but no Meghan or Harry

(05:11):
has turned up. She claims the lack of volunteers isn't
down to casting logistics, it's reputation. I think the people
don't like Megan, they don't trust her, and they think
she's an operator who sucks everything she can out of Harry,
adding that her actors typically try to connect to the
personalities they portray. In the Sussex's case, no one wants
the job. Monty Python's Eric Idol told The Guardian, I

(05:34):
feel really sorry for the Royals. Sometimes they're very nice
and human and other times they become monsters because if
you are called sir at five, you are putting trouble
into people. King Charles is very funny. He was at Cambridge.
He did comedy and loved Spike Milligan and would always
come to Billy Connolly's. But it's not a society. I
would be happy to live in. Rock Legend. Ronnie Wood

(05:56):
has praised Prince William for his leadership and wildlife conservation,
calling him hugely knowledgeable and committed to the cause, as
the two joined forces to support marine conservation through the
launch of the Tusk Turtle Trail in London. The Rolling
Stones guitarist, who also paints in his spare time, is
one of a number of prominent artists who have decorated

(06:17):
large model turtles for the city wide trail, raising awareness
the threats facing marine turtles. Six of the seven species
are now endangered. The models will later be auctioned to
raise funds for Prince William's long standing charity Tusk, which
supports conservation efforts in Africa and beyond. At the London launch,
Wood said he had a lot of respect for the

(06:37):
way William uses his status and position for the greater
good and to support wildlife, adding, we share a common
belief that our children and future generations deserve to experience
the wonders of the world's wildlife like we have. Wood's
own contribution to the trail is a turtle. He's named
the Prodigal, inspired by these species remarkable ability to return

(06:59):
to their earthplace after years at sea. Turtles are incredible,
he explained. They hatch on a beach, hopefully make it
into the sea, go round the world, and come back
to the exact spot where they were born. Of the
design itself, he said, it was an idea that they
came up with, built around the colors and the light
you see in the ocean. Colours often change under the sea.
Red colors, for example, tend to look blue because water

(07:20):
absorbs red light more readily than other colors. His message
to the public pay attention through the peace. I wanted
to encourage people to look at what their surroundings hold,
especially wildlife, flora and fauna, and look after everything that
goes on around us. William, who became a patron of
Tusk not long after leaving university in two thousand and five,
has regularly appeared alongside Wood at the charity's annual awards.

(07:44):
The two reunited again at last November at the Tusk
Conservation Awards at the Savoy Hotel in London, sharing a
laugh with fellow musician Mark Knopfler before the ceremony. Actor
Luke Evans is offering a fascinating peak into his royal
encounter with King Charles, and it involves vampires, Romanian castles,
and centuries of royal bloodlines. In his newly released memoir

(08:07):
Boy from the Valley's My Unexpected Journey, the Welsh actor
recalls meeting the King back in twenty fourteen at a
gala dinner for the Prince's Trust now known as the
King's Trust. It was Evans' first time meeting the then
Prince of Wales and their conversation quickly turned from small
talk to centuries old history. At the times, Evans had
just wrapped filming Dracula Untold, in which he portrayed Vlad

(08:30):
the Impala, the fearsome fifteenth century Romanian ruler who inspired
brown Stoker's Dracula. When Charles asked what he was working on,
Evans mentioned the film. That's when, according to the actor,
his eyes lit up I'll tell you an interesting story,
Charles reportedly said, actually related to Vlad Tepez. To Evans's surprise,

(08:50):
the royal then proceeded to talk me through his entire lineage,
all the way back to the fourteen hundreds, even mentioning
that he now owns several properties in Romania where Vlad
once ruled. When Evans remarked on how incredible the story was,
Charles simply smiled and said, yes, and not a lot
of people know it. Evans wrote that he noticed the
king lingered longer with him than with others that night,

(09:12):
likely due to their unique topic of conversation, and added,
the child seemed genuinely interested in what you have to say,
which is remarkable when you consider he has to do
this several times a day. The King has actually spoken
of his connection to Vlad the Impaler, before, including in
a twenty eleven documentary promoting conservation efforts and Romanius Transylvania region.

(09:33):
The genealogy shows that I am descended from Vlood the Impaler,
he said at the time, so I have a bit
of a stake in the country, and there you have it.
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