Pamela Anderson's very surprising response to Meghan Markle 'rip off' cooking show as Baywatch star breaks silence on With Love, Meghan's similarities to her Cooking With Love

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Pamela Anderson has finally broken her silence on claims Meghan Markle "ripped off" her cooking show.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, released her Netflix series, With Love, Meghan in March.
Her show featured almost identical themes, language, and overall aesthetics to the Baywatch star's Cooking With Love on Foxtel.
Fans of Pamela were livid to see Meghan parade around her kitchen decorated like the blonde bombshell, with both women making meals with famous chefs to share with family and friends at dinner parties.
Pamela spoke to Andy Cohen on Sunday's Watch What Happens Live!, where the host asked her what she made of the copying claims.
"On a scale from one to 10, how much of a rip-off did you feel like With Love, Meghan was of your show, Pamela's Cooking with Love?" he said.
Pamela shut down the question and surprisingly defended Prince Harry's wife.
"One. I didn't - I didn't really look, but I mean, I didn't invent cooking shows", adding Markle 'is just doing her thing'," she said.
Pamela first teased Cooking With Love in February 2023 and shared the official trailer released last October, months before Meghan shared hers.
Both series open with the stars strolling in a garden and admiring the crops before echoing each other's sentences.
"I just always have wanted to take things to another level," Pamela said.
Meanwhile, Meghan declared: "I've always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it."
Pamela and Meghan also said they are reaping knowledge from the guest chefs, and both double high-fived their guests.
The former Playboy model likened herself to a "sponge soaking it all in", adding, "I'm learning a lot".
Similarly, Meghan tried her hand at beekeeping where she said she's "just learning."
Eagle-eyed viewers took to X to say Pamela's series was "a more authentic version of what Meghan was trying to achieve."
"And it looks as though Meghan has copied everything! The trailers are so similar it's freaky," one person wrote.
Another viewer said "the Duchess of Plagiarism" had "copied" Pamela down to almost every scene.
A third bemused fan added Meghan's cosplay of Pamela was unbelievable, and her ideas and words don't have "a dust of authenticity".
"It's all fake, contrived, edited, scripted but still messy and shallow," they said.
Nevertheless, other people said the Duchess was likely developing her trailer when Pamela released hers, making their similarities coincidental.
It comes after Netflix last month decided not to renew the Sussexes' $100 million deal when it expires in September following a series of flops.
New figures released by the streaming giant found With Love, Meghan failed to break into the top 300 shows.
Meanwhile, just 500,000 people watched Harry's Polo project, described as an "unintentionally hilarious profile of the world's stupidest sport".