Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been named the year’s “big losers” by The Hollywood Reporter.

2023 was pretty crazy in Hollywood. Two historic strikes have paralyzed the city for months, the Disney empire is reeling after struggles with its streaming service, while several powerful women have found success. They include Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig and Taylor Swift, who were recently named Person of the Year. Time magazinee. Based on this observation, the journal The Hollywood Reporter compiled a list of the industry’s biggest success stories, but also its most embarrassing missteps. On the “winners” side, we find actress Jenna Ortega, who appeared in the Netflix series. wednesdaybut also director Christopher Nolan for his film Oppenheimer. On the “losers” side, the media especially focuses on the couple formed by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

“A moralizing bubble just waiting to burst”

“After the Netflix documentary and the lamentable memoir (Spare “Even the title is a mindless complaint), along with an inert podcast, the Harry and Meghan brand has become a moralizing bubble just waiting to burst, and it was South Park that latched onto it,” he wrote. The Hollywood Reporterin his December 7 report.

In February, the people of Sussex were the subject of a particularly sour portrait in a popular satirical cartoon. in the episode titled Privacy World Tour (you see, “Personal Life World Tour”), the couple is caricatured rather harshly. We especially see their characters, presented as the Prince and Princess of Canada, invited on TV to promote the book of the title. Wow!whose cover looks like Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare (The substitutepublished by Fayard in France).

The two animated characters held signs in the air with the messages “We want privacy” and “Stop staring at us.” The Canadian presenter then asks if, by writing about the royal family in this way, the prince has now become a journalist himself, despite his pronounced hatred of the profession. “We just want to be normal people, all this attention is so hard,” his wife replies. A scene mocking the 2021 interview of Charles III and his wife’s youngest son with Oprah Winfrey.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry no longer smell holy in Buckingham or even in the newsroom. The Hollywood Reporter, and the ruling couple is unlikely to see the tide turn anytime soon. according to the information received from Daily Express Their Archewell fund will post an unprecedented loss in 2022, they announced on December 12. According to the charity’s tax return, which was obtained by the British daily, the California-based couple lost about $11 million in donations over the course of a year. . A result that is anything but encouraging. And there is no doubt that this new designation of “big Hollywood losers” is unlikely to improve the situation.