Meghan Markle's Critics Now Claim That She Copied Pamela Anderson, And It's So Grim
Heeeeeelp, people are trying to create drama between Meghan Markle and Pamela Anderso n.
Yes, the tabloids are all a-flutter with claims that Meghan's new Netflix show With Love, Meghan is actually a copy of Pamela's previous show Pamela's Cooking With Love. God forbid a rich lady be in an aesthetic kitchen!
Neil Sean, who's quoted as a "Royal expert" in the New York Post and Fox News (he's a former journalist who now makes videos saying negative things about Meghan), argues that Meghan copied Pamela "frame-for-frame." One of the pieces of "evidence" is that he — and other folks on Reddit and the like — say that a trailer for Pamela's show came out in 2023.
Pamela's Garden Of Eden was out in 2022, but that's a show about Pamela restoring her grandmother's home.
Except... Pamela's Cooking With Love was only commissioned in 2023. The trailer actually dropped last October. Filming for With Love, Meghan had wrapped by July 2024. What's more, With Love, Meghan was supposed to come out on Jan. 15 — before Pamela's show — but was postponed due to the California wildfires.
The co-creator of Pamela's show told the Daily Mail, "We take pride in planting the first seeds – creating original, distinctive programming that audiences love – and it's a compliment to see our work with Ms Anderson resonate so strongly."
The thing is, Pamela's Cooking With Love is a show where Pamela brings on chefs to cook vegan meals. Meghan's show is about cooking, yes, but also gardening and hosting. More broadly, cozy and escapist TV shows set in a well-lit kitchen aren't new. Google cottagecore.
The discourse is framed as being Pamela's "fans" who are criticizing Meghan but, as far as I can tell, it's less Pamela's fans and more people who just don't like Meghan Markle. What's more, I remember when Pamela was the pop culture punching bag. It feels grim to now celebrate her in order to rip into the woman who it's now more in vogue to hate. None of this is even getting into how often women are framed as rivals in the media for no real reason.
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So maybe keep that in mind next time you see people claiming to criticize the Duchess of Sussex in good faith.
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