‘Deal Or No Deal’ Stylist Dina Cerchione Defends Show’s Outfits After Meghan Markle’s Criticism

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Clapping back. After Meghan Markle critiqued her Deal Or No Deal experience, the show’s former stylist, Dina Cerchione, has a different take.“To know me is to know I love my work.

It’s been a rough week watching a show I love SO much be criticized,” the fashion stylist captioned a Friday, October 21, Instagram post. “I had the privilege to design the looks for Deal or No Deal, for all of the women and, of course, @howiemandel.”She added: “It was one of the most wonderful, challenging, highs profile gigs of my career and I loved every minute of it.

Everyone on the show from my wardrobe team to the producers, the crew, hair and makeup, Howie and especially the models all worked SO very hard to make the shows the best they could be for the contestants and the fans who adored it.

I have thought a lot about this, I wouldn’t change a thing.”Cerchione’s comments come days after the Duchess of Sussex, 41, publicly dissed her appearance as a briefcase model on the game show.“Now, my experience on the show – which included holding said briefcase on stage, alongside 25 other women doing the same – was … for me, fascinating,” Meghan recalled on the Tuesday, October 18, episode of her “Archetypes” podcast, noting she felt reduced to a bimbo. “There were times when I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S.