Prince Harry & Meghan Markle End Deal With Spotify After 'Archetypes' Podcast Didn't Get Renewed

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Pearls were clutched all over Hollywood on Monday in the wake of an unlikely press beef – United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. On a media spree at the Cannes Lions for the past week, Zimmer was asked about the recent meltdown of a $20 million multi-year deal Meghan and husband Prince Harry signed with Spotify in 2020. The pact produced a single series, “Archetypes,” which was not renewed. The termination of the deal was announced June 15. “Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,” Zimmer told Semafor at the marketing festival in the South of France. “And, you know, just because you’re famous doesn’t make you great at something.”

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Spotify’s breakup with Prince Harry, 39, and Meghan Markle, 41.“Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,” Zimmer told Semafor during the Cannes Lions advertising festival.“And, you know, just because you’re famous doesn’t make you great at something.”The Duke and Duchess of Sussex inked an agreement with the audio giant back in December 2020, estimated to be worth a whopping $20 million.They told The Post in a joint statement that they have “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together.”Spotify and Harry and Markle’s Archewell production company spectacularly ended their partnership last month after the couple released just one podcast series, titled “Archetypes.”A source previously told The Post that the Archewell media company launched by Harry and Meghan didn’t produce enough content to receive the full payout of the $20 million deal they agreed to in 2020.These remarks from Zimmer, whose business focuses a lot on audio platforms, show the shift in the podcasting industry, with A-list celebrity hosts and big-budget podcast on the ousts while personalities similar to those on the radio or talk shows are on the rise.The comments come shortly after a royal expert said Spotify executives were likely “horrified” by comments Prince Harry made to Oprah Winfrey after he signed a multimillion dollar deal with the company.Speaking about Spotify and a separate arrangement with Netflix during the sit-down with Winfrey, Harry downplayed their significance, saying they were “never part of the plan.”“That was suggested by somebody else by the point of where my family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us,” he added, implying

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The Daily Express reported that the couple have reputedly discussed “ditching their Windsor surname” and adopting the late Princess’s last name, Spencer, in a bid for a rebrand, according royal author Tom Bower.Now, Levin, who authored the book “Harry: A Biography of a Prince” in 2018, is calling the attempt a “load of nonsense” and alleged that Princess Diana “wouldn’t have been good enough” to Markle “if she was still alive.”“When something’s on the front pages about them, they come up with something else,” Levin claimed during an appearance on GB News this week.“So that they can, you know, divert the discussion… I think it’s nonsense, I think somebody’s just spreading something,” she continued.Princess Diana — who is the mother of Markle’s husband, Prince Harry, 38, — tragically passed away on August 31, 1997 after a high-speed car accident in Paris.Levin pointed out that Markle had never met the late Princess, but revealed that she has visited her grave before, referencing the moment that was described in Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir, “Spare.”Prince Harry wrote that the Duchess visited his mother’s gravesite on the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. “She’s never seen Diana, she’s never known her,” Levin said. “She did lie flat and pray to her once when she went to visit her grave, but that’s about it.”The royal biographer even claimed that the late royal would not like her because she supported the monarchy.

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Did Taylor Swift think Meghan Markle was trouble? Did she know all too well about the familial friction between the British royal family and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex? Was she not ready for an appearance on Markle's "Archetype" podcast?  The world may never know. A little over a week after it was announced that Markle and Prince Harry's organization Archewell had mutually parted from its partnership with Spotify, it was reported that Markle wrote a personal note to Swift, requesting she come on her now-defunct podcast.

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Taylor Swift was one of the stars invited to join Meghan Markle on her now-cancelled “Archetypes” podcast — but decided to take a pass.

Taylor Swift turned down an opportunity to appear on Meghan Markle ’s podcast Archetypes, it has been alleged. The US singer, who is set to bring her The Eras Tour to Europe next summer, is reported to have been asked to appear on the Duchess of Sussex’s podcast and received a “personal letter” from Meghan.

reported on by the Wall Street Journal, comes after Spotify and Markle announced they failed to reach an agreement on launching a second season earlier this month. Markle wrote a personal letter asking Swift to come on the podcast at some point, but the singer declined through a representative, the newspaper reported.The Wall Street Journal report detailed how Markle and her husband Prince Harry have struggled successfully producing shows and content for Netflix from their production company Archewell.

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