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News.com.au
a day ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Brooke Shields calls out ‘too precious' Meghan Markle after awkward SXSW panel gig
Brooke Shields didn't hold back when sharing comments about Meghan Markle's awkward appearance at a 2024 SXSW panel. The actress, along with the Duchess of Sussex, participated in an International Women's Day conversation called 'Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen' and moderated by journalist Katie Couric at the iconic film festival last March. 'Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women,' Shields told India Hicks on the latest episode of her An Unexpected Journey podcast, via the Independent. 'She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 — and she keeps saying, 'Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women' And she said, 'I didn't think only women wash dishes. It wasn't fair, so I wrote to the company.'' 'She kept saying she was 11!' Shields exclaimed. 'She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial. It was just too precious, and I was like, 'They're not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.'' Shields, 60, recalled intervening at one point in an effort to switch up the mood. 'I go, 'Excuse me, I'm so sorry, I've got to interrupt you there for one minute.' I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious,' Shields remembered. 'I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute,' she joked, referencing her 1978 historical drama, 'Pretty Baby.' 'The place went insane,' Shields shared, claiming the crowd became 'more relaxed' after her comments. The story Markle shared during the panel was nothing new, as she has previously spoken about how she took matters into her own hands after seeing the controversial Ivory dishwashing soap campaign. During the 2019 International Women's Day panel at SXSW, Markle said the ad — which originally featured the slogan 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans' — had inspired a formative feminist experience for her. 'Truth be told, at 11 I don't think I even knew what sexism meant. I just knew that something struck me internally that was telling me it was wrong, and I knew that it was wrong,' she said at the time, per People. 'And using that as my moral compass and moving through from the age of 11, at that age I was able to change this commercial. It really set up the trajectory for me to say, 'If there was a wrong, if there is a lack of justice, and there is an inequality, then someone needs to do something. And why not me?'' Ultimately, Procter & Gamble (the company who owns Ivory) changed the slogan to 'People all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.'
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Joy Reid reveals 'real' reasons for her departure from MSNBC
By Ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid (pictured) claimed she was fired from the liberal network due to her race and 'anxiety' over President Donald Trump. Reid, whose show The ReidOut was canceled earlier this year, spoke with former Today Show host Katie Couric on her new podcast Monday when she addressed her termination. 'I try not to speculate too much publicly, because again I can't get inside the minds of other people,' Reid told Couric. 'But I can tell you what other people have speculated about... There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming. So I don't think that's [it] but I do know there's a lot of anxiety both there and I think in every media. We're seeing it at CBS,' she noted, referring to the president's ongoing lawsuit against the network over a 60 Minutes interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris. 'We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly The View hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump,' Reid continued. 'There's a push for people to "Hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him."' When Couric then pointed out that fellow MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace were also hard on the president, Reid claimed the 'only way' she differed from them is because 'I'm a black woman doing the thing. I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms, specifically out of a black woman,' Reid claimed. 'It bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else.' 'He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against black woman journalists.' she continued. The former MSNBC host went on to say she 'tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country' on her show, which she said she can do 'because not only am I a black woman, but I come from immigrant parents who come from what Donald Trump would consider [expletive]hole countries.' Reid also denied that her show was canceled for failing ratings, claiming that it was 'down less' in ratings than any other MSNBC program except for Rachel Maddow's show. The ReidOut had shed 47 percent of its total audience following the 2024 presidential election, averaging just 759,000 viewers, according to Fox News. Throughout the election cycle, though, the show was averaging 1.4 million viewers. 'Our show was down less than any other primetime show,' Reid told Couric on Monday. 'We were down - other than Rachel Maddow - we were down the least. 'So we were just told that we were holding on pretty well,' she said, arguing that she still doesn't know why she was fired - claiming the reason MSNBC executives gave was 'perfunctory' and 'scripted.' She even noted that she was being careful on social media ahead of her ouster, apparently addressing a recent report suggesting her social media rants 'gave the Standards Department heartburn. 'Anytime I would tweet anything, I would get calls - I would get "Please get off Twitter, we hate it,"' the liberal news host admitted. 'They just don't like that it pulls their talent and their reporters out of control, because now you're not running what you're tweeting through Standards and Practices,' she told Couric. 'It's giving your personality directly to the audience, which they don't like because it's no longer managed and curated by them.' But in the lead up to her firing, Reid said 'we were being very careful and I was trying to be more careful about anything on social media.' It has now been claimed that executives at the network had been trying to get rid of Reid since late 2023, before new MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler (Pictured) pulled the plug on her show this year. Reid's slot has since been taken over by The WeekNight, an ensemble program featuring former Kamala Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez - the daughter of disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, and former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele. Yet MSNBC's new lineup has failed to perform, dropping 41 percent in the primetime demographic and 34 percent in the total day demo last month when compared to the year before. The Weeknight had just 707,000 viewers on May 22, but only 56,000 of them were in the key demographic. The show has an average of 770,000 viewers, which is 36 percent lower than the 1.2 million that watched MSNBC at 7pm at the same time last year. Jen Psaki, who took over for Rachel Maddow during the 9pm timeslot from Tuesday to Friday, also saw a 46 percent drop from the average of 1.82 million who were watching her timeslot when Maddow was hosting during the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Psaki's numbers are also down 20 percent from the average of Alex Wagner, who hosted the show last year while Maddow was anchoring on Mondays. Even Maddow herself is failing to keep audiences interested. Her Monday program averaged 1.8 million total viewers since MSNBC launched its new shows, which represents a 24 percent dip from last year when she pulled in 2.4 million viewers.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Joy Reid: How MSNBC Tried to Silence Me Before Firing
MSNBC tried to stop Joy Reid from expressing herself on social media before ultimately firing her from its primetime lineup. Her MSNBC bosses were 'horrified' by the way she used social media platforms like Twitter, she told Katie Couric on her new podcast Monday. 'And anytime I would tweet anything, I would get calls—I would get, 'Please get off Twitter, we hate it.'' 'They just don't like that it pulls their talent and their reporters out of their control because now you're not running what you're tweeting through Standards and Practices,' Reid continued. 'It's giving your personality directly to the audience, which they don't like because it's no longer managed and curated by them.' Reid is gearing up to launch her YouTube show and podcast 'The Joy Reid Show' on June 9, but she got candid about her time at MSNBC a week in advance during a preview conversation with Couric, which she also uploaded to YouTube after hosting the livestream on her website. Her comments come after MSNBC canceled Reid's primetime show The ReidOut without explanation in February, as part of a network shakeup following Donald Trump's election win that resulted in the exodus of several of the network's non-white anchors. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann characterized the moves as 'an MSNBC purge so brutally racist it makes you think it was done by [Elon] Musk.' Reid opened up about The ReidOut's end when Couric asked her what 'really happened' on Monday. 'I've been asked this so many times,' she told Couric. 'And people think that I'm just saying it to B.S., but I'm being honest with you—I don't know.' Just before she found out the news, Reid said, 'We were emailing back and forth with the PR department, praising our win for the NAACP Image Award.' 'It wasn't ratings' that got the show canceled, Reid went on, 'because we had just had a ratings meeting a couple of weeks before that talking about the fact that our show… other than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least' after Trump's election win. The Daily Beast reported in March that Reid's ratings were actually increasing when she was let go. 'We were just told that we were doing… that we were holding on pretty well,' she continued. 'And then, you know, it's not like the ratings have gotten better since I've been gone.' Reid also said the way she was told that her show was canceled felt 'scripted' and 'just very perfunctory.' 'I wasn't told 'The ratings were terrible,' 'It's something you did,' 'You tweeted a terrible thing,'' she said, adding that she was already being 'extra careful' online at the time, since 'there was a real anxiety about social media.' Reid she doesn't necessarily think her show was canceled because of her outspoken criticism of Trump, as many of her fans have speculated—but she said there's one reason she's not completely ruling it out. 'I'm a Black woman doing the thing. You know what I mean? And so I'm not different' from MSNBC hosts and Trump critics Rachel Maddow or Nicole Wallace, but 'I think that there's a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms, specifically, out of a Black woman. It bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else.' 'There's a fear of him,' she also said, 'We're seeing it everywhere.'
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Former MSNBC star whines about the 'real' reason she was fired from struggling network
Ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed she was fired from the liberal network due to her race and 'anxiety' over President Donald Trump. Reid, whose show The ReidOut was canceled earlier this year, spoke with former Today Show host Katie Couric on her new podcast Monday when she addressed her termination. 'I try not to speculate too much publicly, because again I can't get inside the minds of other people,' Reid told Couric. 'But I can tell you what other people have speculated about... There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming. 'So I don't think that's [it] but I do know there's a lot of anxiety both there and I think in every media. We're seeing it at CBS,' she noted, referring to the president's ongoing lawsuit against the network over a 60 Minutes interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris. 'We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly The View hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump,' Reid continued. 'There's a push for people to "Hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him."' When Couric then pointed out that fellow MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace were also hard on the president, Reid claimed the 'only way' she differed from them is because 'I'm a black woman doing the thing.' Reid discussed the sudden cancelation of her show The ReidOut with former Today Show host Katie Couric on her podcast Monday 'I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms, specifically out of a black woman,' Reid claimed. 'It bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else. 'He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against black woman journalists.' she continued. The former MSNBC host went on to say she 'tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country' on her show, which she said she can do 'because not only am I a black woman, but I come from immigrant parents who come from what Donald Trump would consider s***hole countries.' Reid also denied that her show was canceled for failing ratings, claiming that it was 'down less' in ratings than any other MSNBC program except for Rachel Maddow's show. The ReidOut had shed 47 percent of its total audience following the 2024 presidential election, averaging just 759,000 viewers, according to Fox News. Throughout the election cycle, though, the show was averaging 1.4 million viewers. 'Our show was down less than any other primetime show,' Reid told Couric on Monday. 'We were down - other than Rachel Maddow - we were down the least. 'So we were just told that we were holding on pretty well,' she said, arguing that she still doesn't know why she was fired - claiming the reason MSNBC executives gave was 'perfunctory' and 'scripted.' She even noted that she was being careful on social media ahead of her ouster, apparently addressing a recent report suggesting her social media rants 'gave the Standards Department heartburn. 'Anytime I would tweet anything, I would get calls - I would get "Please get off Twitter, we hate it,"' the liberal news host admitted. 'They just don't like that it pulls their talent and their reporters out of control, because now you're not running what you're tweeting through Standards and Practices,' she told Couric. 'It's giving your personality directly to the audience, which they don't like because it's no longer managed and curated by them.' But in the lead up to her firing, Reid said 'we were being very careful and I was trying to be more careful about anything on social media.' It has now been claimed that executives at the network had been trying to get rid of Reid since late 2023, before new MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler pulled the plug on her show this year. Reid's slot has since been taken over by The WeekNight, an ensemble program featuring former Kamala Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez - the daughter of disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, and former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele. Yet MSNBC's new lineup has failed to perform, dropping 41 percent in the primetime demographic and 34 percent in the total day demo last month when compared to the year before. The Weeknight had just 707,000 viewers on May 22, but only 56,000 of them were in the key demographic. The show has an average of 770,000 viewers, which is 36 percent lower than the 1.2 million that watched MSNBC at 7pm at the same time last year. Jen Psaki, who took over for Rachel Maddow during the 9pm timeslot from Tuesday to Friday, also saw a 46 percent drop from the average of 1.82 million who were watching her timeslot when Maddow was hosting during the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Psaki's numbers are also down 20 percent from the average of Alex Wagner, who hosted the show last year while Maddow was anchoring on Mondays.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Brooke Shields calls out Meghan Markle's gender equality story as 'too precious'
Brooke Shields once dubbed Meghan Markle as "too precious." During a recent appearance on India Hicks's podcast, the 60-year-old actress recalled the moment she interrupted the Duchess of Sussex during a panel at the South by Southwest Festival last year after the former royal seemed to have lost the audience's attention with an anecdote from her childhood. To mark International Women's Day, Katie Couric asked the panel a question related to gender equality – and Markle answered right away. "Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women," Shields said, per Sky News. Markle, who shared the exact same story with Vanity Fair in 2017, referenced the time she wrote a letter to a company that promoted women washing dishes. "She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 – and she keeps saying, 'Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women. And she said, 'I didn't think only women wash dishes. It wasn't fair. So I wrote to the company.'" "It was just too precious, and I was like, they're not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious." Shields recalled interrupting Markle during the panel. "I go, 'Excuse me, I'm so sorry, I've got to interrupt you there for one minute.' I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious. 'I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.'" Shields, who earned a laugh from the audience, was referring to her role in the 1978 film, "Pretty Baby." "The place went insane. And then luckily, it was more relaxed after that," Shields said. During the same panel, Shields reflected on being sexualized as a child star in Hollywood. The actress rose to fame at the age of 11 when she played a child prostitute in "Pretty Baby," which featured Shields in multiple nude scenes. As a 10-year-old, Shields posed naked for the Playboy publication Sugar'n'Spice. "I was at the center of it," Shields said. "And I was promoting it and I was doing it." She continued, "And I was lucky because I was surrounded by a very strong mom. I never did move to Hollywood. I always went to regular school." "So I had this sort of community around me that was protecting me, buoying me. And so I did not become the type of statistic that Hollywood created," Shields added. "Hollywood is predicated on eating its young." Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume contributed to this post.
