Report: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's influence in the industry is declining

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have rejected claims in a new report that they are unpopular, losing influence in the industry and being subjected to “poison” in Hollywood.

The report is in Daily Mail He says they weren't at the big Emmys bash hosted by Meghan's powerful Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel this week, and suggests his agency, WME, failed to prevent a highly critical story about the couple, which accused Meghan of being a “dictator in high heels,” from running at the big Emmys bash. Hollywood Reporter Last week.

In that story, a source said, Hollywood Reporter“Everyone is afraid of Meghan. She puts people down, she doesn’t take advice. They’re both terrible decision-makers, they change their minds a lot. Harry is very charming – he doesn’t put on a show at all – but he’s very facilitating. And she’s really terrible.”

Harry and Meghan's team called the report false, with one source saying: “These quotes are fabricated by someone who lacks knowledge of our company. The Duke and Duchess work from Montecito, and we are based in Hollywood. They probably think we are all in the same office and that this quote will work, but the circumstances don't even allow for that. If she is 'walking around' and 'giving orders' then no Archewell employee can actually claim that. It's utter nonsense.”

However, Mail The source, described as a “senior Hollywood PR executive,” is quoted in the new piece as saying: “Everyone, industry-wide, is reading this. Hollywood ReporterIt's really amazing that WME didn't stop this business. Normally, you might think, WME would threaten and block access to other stars. Did that happen here?”

mail As showbiz writer Allison Boshoff pointed out, there was a scathing attack on the couple on the Hollywood industry website, puckThe New York Times declared Harry and Meghan's $100 million deal with Netflix one of the “worst” in “prime television,” adding that it is not expected to be renewed when it expires next year.

The newspaper quoted a source described as a “senior producer” as saying that Hollywood’s biggest stars did not take the couple seriously, adding that the deal with the couple was widely seen as a “vanity deal” that would lead nowhere. However, with the entertainment industry now facing a “more austere climate” with thousands of jobs lost, “there is now a real hatred and distrust towards them from some”.

Harry and Meghan's allies dismissed such comments as inaccurate and exaggerated, in statements to the Daily Beast.

The couple have struggled to retain staff in recent years, with Harry’s chief of staff, Josh Ketler, resigning after three months. Ketler’s departure has reinforced the damaging narrative that Harry and Meghan are bad bosses. Previously, the couple’s UK staff were said to have Named They call themselves the “Sussex Survivors Club”.

Meghan has dismissed the bullying allegations as smear campaigns after her former assistant, Jason Knopf, complained that she “always” had someone “in her sights”.