Just a few months after criticizing her for speaking at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, Billy Bush has taken aim at Meghan Markle again – and this time, it’s over her With Love, Meghan Netflix holiday special.
On Hot Mics with Billy Bush, the 54-year-old radio host slammed the former Suits actress, 44, for some of the things she’s doing in the special, including gift-wrapping presents with scarves and creating hand-made advent calendars, calling the latter “inauthentic.”
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Meghan Markle Slammed As 'Inauthentic'
Bush suggested the Netflix holiday special came off as manufactured rather than a heartfelt family program for Christmas. He referred to elements of the show as "inauthentic [expletive,] and questioned whether Meghan would really be performing these holiday rituals if she wasn't being filmed.
While discussing the hand-made advent calendars on an Instagram video, he says: "Meghan builds giant advent calendars for the kids, filling each day with handwritten notes like, 'I love you because you're so kind,' and 'I love you because you're so brave.' Little findings. She hopes the ritual sticks. Hopefully we'll all have these for quite a long time. A tradition has to have a beginning. So she has Archie and Lilibet and she writes little notes to them."
He then gestures in disbelief, running his hands through his hair: "I'm sorry. She bugs in such a huge way, dude, I don't know why. Are you doing this if it's not for television? Are you really writing a little note every day? You don't wake up tired one day and say, I'm not writing a [expletive] note?"
Naturally many people on social media felt the same way, thinking it was nauseating and inauthentic, among other things. "I've said it before and will say it again. Harry bringing her into the royal family was like bringing a skunk to a picnic," slammed one person in the comment section of his video.
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"No kid wants a note. They want a toy or a piece of candy," thought a second, as a third said: "She comes across as being completely contrived and inauthentic." A fourth echoed: "She is playing a part and taking it too far which makes it seem so insincere."
"It's so nauseating… you'd wonder how H puts up with it," thought a fifth, in referenc to Prince Harry, as a sixth declared: "It's just performative." "It's called narcissistic personality disorder," wrote a seventh.
"It's disingenuous for me. That and all the Oprah interview lies," an eighth chimed in, as a ninth added: "She bugs all of us because we can sense that she's not authentic/genuine." "She cut off her own dad! I mean how does that make her a family person?" asked an eleventh.
