Meghan Markle now a 'total joke' as Hollywood not impressed: 'They are laughing at her!'

Meghan Markle "has become a total joke" in Hollywood as her new podcast is hit with delays, according to reports.

The Duchess of Sussex is planning to launch the new show with Lemonada Media.

But a source familiar with the project has claimed that Meghan's behaviour has caused issues at the company as the podcast is now not expected to be released until next year.

Speaking to In Touch, the source said: “Meghan gets greedy.

“She wants everything all at once, and it’s backfiring on her again. She’s become a total joke and is overplaying her hand.”

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The source also described how Lemonada bosses are worried that that Meghan's work with Netflix could overshadow their podcast.

They added: “That clearly didn’t go down well with Lemonada.

“They surely expected to be Meghan’s priority project, but she must have decided she had bigger fish to fry with Netflix.”

The source then said: “Almost everything they’ve tried has ended in disaster."

Meanwhile, another insider told the outlet that big names in Hollywood are not impressed with her projects.

They said: “Hollywood is glam and glitz on the outside, but the real stars have worked hard for their success — and you get the impression hard work isn’t really Meghan’s thing.

“Now, after all her failures, those A-listers — and the royals — are laughing at her!”

Meghan recently launched her new brand American Riviera Orchard.

Brand strategist Lucie Green says the lifestyle venture could present dilemmas for the Duchess.

She told Fabulous: “Positioning will be a tightrope, whether to go very high-end and exclusive or make the brand more accessible.

“How much she (even obliquely) makes royal references will always draw criticism but dialling that up will likely be appealing to many US audiences, just as Aerin Lauder and Martha Stewart make upper-class references in their brands but have wide audiences.”

She added: “If the story of the brand is literally about being grown and sourced on the American Riviera, scale could be a challenge — there's only so many strawberries you can grow in one place.

“And it seems like the philosophy is very tightly connected to sourcing in the Californian orchards and farms.

“As the brand grows, and if she wants a mass audience she might need to think about how she communicates how and where this produce is grown.”