Meghan Markle rumored to be signing deal with Dior in bid to ‘re-invent’ herself: report

nypost.com:

The Mail on Sunday written by author Caroline Graham, an unnamed Beverly Hills socialite alleged that Markle is “all anyone is talking about.”“There have been rumors for weeks that she’s about to sign a deal with Dior which has put the gossip mill into overdrive,” the source claimed. “If she pulls that off, then no one will remember that her silly little podcast got cancelled after one season.”The Post reached out to Markle’s reps for further comment.This news comes just a few days after it was announced that the couple would be splitting from Spotify after Markle’s podcast, “Archetypes,” was not renewed for a second season.

On Thursday, a source close to the situation told The Post that the pair’s Archewell media company didn’t produce enough content to receive the full payout of the roughly $20 million deal that Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, 38, signed in 2020.A joint statement to the Post from Spotify and Archewell Audio said that they have “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together.”The 12-episode podcast series, in which Markle explored the “labels that try to hold women back,” was the only project that the couple produced during their two-and-a-half year partnership with Spotify, along with a one-off holiday special.

However, a source at WME alleged to the outlet that they knew that the podcast announcement was coming. The insider claimed that this rumored move to Dior may come as a “shock” to other members of the public, but that the agency has reportedly been “working on the rebranding of Meghan for weeks.”Markle has been in “immersed” in meetings since she signed, with WME CEO Ari Emanuel and his team in April, according to Variety. “Ari is the best in the business when it.