Netflix won’t be renewing the Sussexes’ $100million contract but may make one-off shows with them going forwards just in case they get divorced, it was claimed today.

Journalist and screenwriter Marina Hyde has said other streamers may also fight to work with the couple ‘to keep a vague hand in’ if one day Meghan and Harry split up.

‘The reality is that a lot of people are hanging around in case there’s a divorce’, she said. 

Amid dreadful reviews and poor viewing figures for With Love, Meghan, Ms Hyde has said that she believes the couple have already had their main TV hit with the Meghan & Harry documentary in 2022.

But if their marriage were to dissolve, she speculated on her The Rest is Entertainment podcast with Richard Osman that streamers would be queuing up to make a series about it because it would be a ratings winner after a string of Sussex flops.

‘They [Netflix] are not going to renew. They might say we’re continuing to develop projects with them’, Ms Hyde said.

‘The reality is that a lot of people are hanging around in case there’s a divorce. That might be why Netflix, or whoever it might be, who’s got to deal with them, might keep a vague hand in’.  

Meghan could also ‘name her price’ if she wanted to return to acting, Mr Osman said, adding: ‘It’s what she was known for. She’s good at it. Do that’.

Her Rest is Entertainment co-host Richard Osman, the best-selling author and also the brains behind countless TV hits in the UK, also laid into Meghan’s new show – and said the format was ‘flawed’ from the start.

‘If the whole show is my friends are coming over, it is fatally flawed. You should not get past a first meeting for a TV show. If you’re saying “Oh, the whole thing is about hospitality. The whole thing is about I love to cook for people, and I love to have guests over to my house. But it is not in my house”.

‘Just from a TV producer point of view. I have completely lost interest. You might as well just be in a lab somewhere’.

Both agreed that for the couple to make major money, a return to acting for Meghan would be the way forward.

Mr Osman said: ‘Meghan is an actress. Cast her in something. This is what I advise Meghan, take a job in something. You could pretty much name your price and project for the first thing you go back into acting for. It’s what she does’.

Marina added with a laugh: ‘I would have married him [Harry]. Got the two kids, got divorced, then ran back to Hollywood to be Julia Roberts for my 40s, but she’s not followed that plan’.

In December Prince Harry used a New York media summit to challenge persistent online rumours that his marriage to Meghan Markle is on the rocks after six years.

The Duke of Sussex was one of the star guests at the annual DealBook Summit live where he let rip at ‘trolls’, insisting he feels ‘sorry’ for them because they ‘hope’ they will split up.

And Harry revealed he and wife have no plans to return to the UK – with their children at the heart of the decision – because Archie, five, and Lilibet, three can do things in America that they ‘undoubtedly wouldn’t be able to do in the UK’.

With his wife Meghan 2,500 miles away at a gala event in Los Angeles with friend Tyler Perry, Harry was asked by the event’s founder Andrew Ross Sorkin about the public’s fixation on their relationship.

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‘They’re fascinated Meghan is in California right now, and you’re here. There are articles left and right about: ‘Why are you making, doing independent events? Why aren’t you doing them together?’

The Duke of Sussex then dismissed claims that he and Meghan are struggling.

‘Apparently we’ve bought or moved house 10, 12 times. We’ve apparently divorced maybe 10, 12 times as well. So it’s just like, ‘what?’,’ Harry said laughing.

‘It’s hard to keep up with, but that’s why you just sort of ignore it. The people I feel most sorry about are the trolls.

‘Their hopes are just built and built, and it’s like, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes”, and then it doesn’t happen. So I feel sorry for them. Genuinely, I do.’

It came after yet another Netflix star has laid into Meghan Markle’s new show, claiming it is a gigantic ‘f*** you’ to the Royal Family.

Whitney Cumming, who has two hit stand-up programmes available on the streaming service, has said that With Love, Meghan is about trolling King Charles and Prince Harry’s other close relatives. 

The focus on making tea and jam as well as her outfits and hair are all a ‘burn’ aimed directly at the British royals, she claims. 

‘I don’t think she cares if you like the show. This has nothing to do with making a good show. It is just her subtly roasting the Royal Family. This isn’t made for us. This is made for like 30 people in that castle. That’s all she’s doing’, she said in a video.

Ms Cumming is the third Netflix star to take aim at Meghan after fellow comedian Christina Pazsitzky said the show – and the Duchess – came across as ‘highly inauthentic’, ‘fake’ and ‘phony’. 

Stand-up Katherine Ryan, previously a supporter of Meghan, accused her of ‘cosying up to celebrities and acting humble‘, adding: ‘She is very Hollywood – even for me – and I don’t like that in people’.

Whitney Cumming claims With Love, Meghan is packed with direct ‘burns’ aimed at Harry’s family, comparing the Duchess of Sussex to a scorned woman posting on social media just so an ex-boyfriend would notice.

‘It’s just a big f*** you to the prom court over there across the pond’, she said in a Twitter post. She added: ‘She’s just trolling them’.

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From the way Meghan makes tea on the show to the way she has her hair done and what she wears, it is all about subtle barbs at the royals in Britain, the comic claims.

Whitney says: ‘She’s doing the tea. She’s like: “Tea is not a big deal. You just put it outside, let it steep in the sun. It’s not fancy”.

‘Tea is like their thing over there, okay.

‘She’s like: “Tea should just be enjoyed. Like, it doesn’t even matter what temperature it is”,’ calling it a clear ‘burn’ aimed at the royals.

Whitney also claims that Meghan’s jam, which she calls ‘fruit spread’, is a competition with the King.

‘Charles makes jam. And she’s like “jam’s too sweet, it has way too much sugar. So I do preserves”.

She went on: ‘Everything she’s doing, it is not to entertain us.

‘The fact that she’s barefoot, which is like the fact that she’s making point to be barefoot. I don’t bind my feet the way they do in the Royal Family.

‘She’s wearing her hair with a tendril at the front – I don’t think you meant to have tendrils if you’re a princess’.

Meghan is hoping the royals notice what she’s doing, Whitney claims.

She says ‘We’ve all posted things at someone before. Hoping someone was going to text us back. Our crush was going to notice or post this pic so my ex-boyfriend would notice. We’ve all done that.

‘She’s just doing it with her in-laws. She’s making this show at them. It is not for us.

‘She says it’s not about perfection. Well, that is what the Royal Family is all about’.

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It comes after comedian John Mulaney joked at a Netflix season launch event in January that the prestigious evening was a ‘fun experiment’ and ‘not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan’. 

Now, Ryan has described Meghan as putting on a ‘very manicured and very forced’ act, adding: ‘She is very Hollywood – even for me – and I don’t like that in people.’

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She also said it ‘does feel like she has lied about whether she knew who Prince Harry was’ and that ‘details about her childhood change and don’t add up’.

Ryan cited how Meghan said on her new Netflix show during a discussion with Mindy Kaling that she ‘grew up with a lot of fast food and also a lot of TV tray dinners’.

But in 2016 while a judge on US children’s show Chopped Junior, Meghan spoke about growing up in eating ‘farm to table, sort of fresh, really simple ingredients’.

Ryan shares Canadian links with Meghan, having been born in Sarnia, about 150 miles away from Toronto where the Duchess lived while filming the legal drama Suits.

They also share a connection through both being on Netflix, with Ryan having two live stand-up specials on the platform – ‘Katherine Ryan: In Trouble’ in 2017 and ‘Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room’ in 2019, followed by her comedy ‘The Duchess’ which came out in 2020.

And in the latest episode of her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, called ‘I’m Sussex Now’, Ryan began a segment on Meghan talking about how she had admired her.

She said: ‘I liked Meghan Markle. I was rooting for Meghan Markle… several things can be true at once. I think a lot of the British viewing public do have internalised racism that they’re not even aware of.

‘This is a very racistly structured country – I mean colonialism is the most racist thing ever, we have a Royal Family in a palace, we speak about working class. We don’t even have words like that in Canada.’

She continued: ‘There is an unconscious bias in this country and in most countries really, that a lot of people don’t even realise they have.’

Speaking about Meghan’s claims of having suffered racism, Ryan added: ‘When she says ‘oh, I feel that I was victimised by institutionalised racism’, then you have to believe her.

‘Like, that is her experience, and it’s really weird for white people to say ‘no you weren’t, we’re not racist, we just don’t like you’. It must feel incredibly gaslighting as a woman of mixed ethnicity to be told ‘no, it’s not racism, you’re wrong’. Yes, of course.

‘So I think this country does have institutionalised racism, yes, and unconscious bias, yes. Not every single person, but a great many, yes. And to be someone with a mother who’s black, entering the Royal Family, I’m sure they had some feelings about that because that’s the Royal Family.’

But Ryan then turned her attention to what she does not like in the Duchess.

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She said: ‘In addition to that though, she is very Hollywood – even for me – and I don’t like that in people. I see now, and maybe it’s just the projects she’s choosing, it does feel like she has lied about whether she knew who Prince Harry was, and these details about her childhood change and don’t add up.

‘Like, she said on her new Netflix show that they ate TV dinners growing up. But then in an old interview, she was like, ‘we would eat farm fresh’. You know, just little things. Her whole act just seems very manicured and very forced. And I was rooting for her.

‘So I think, I’ve known a lot of Hollywood people – they’re not bad people. I certainly don’t think she’s a bad person, but I think she likes cosying up to celebrities and she wants the one million deal or ten hundred million dollar deal, anyone would, and she likes the fact that she’s married to a prince, like of course.

‘But I would rather someone lean into that and be like, ‘oh my God, look, I used to be on Suits and now I’m married to a f***ing prince! I would rather that than this act of: Oh, I’m just so humble.’

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