Meghan Markle Discusses Deal or No Deal on Archetypes Podcast
glamour.com, you likely already know that before she was an actor on Suits and later a , she had a brief stint as a “briefcase girl” on the gameshow Deal Or No Deal, where her job was to be hot and occasionally open a briefcase on stage.
Shockingly, Meghan didn't find this gig to be particularly fulfilling—though she was grateful for the health insurance. On her podcast, the duchess opened her “Breaking Down ‘The Bimbo’” episode by sharing a few details from this era of her life, after chancing upon Deal Or No Deal while flipping channels recently.
Meghan called the experience “fascinating.” Like a lot of the other women who shared the Deal Or No Deal stage with her, Meghan was pursuing a career in acting, which she had studied in college.
Being a briefcase girl wasn't really acting, but it did give her a paycheck and healthcare and a union card. “And yet,” she said, "I had also studied international relations in college, and there were times I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S.
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