Meghan Markle suffers another setback as her podcast series is delayed: report

nypost.com:

inked a deal with Lemonada Media in Feb. 2024 to launch a new podcast series after Spotify decided not to renew the steep $20 million deal for a second season of “Archetypes.”While the new podcast was supposed to launch last year, the “Suits” alum was forced to pump the brakes on its release after Lemonada was reportedly “struggling to get off the starting blocks.”A source has now told Hello!

Magazine that Markle’s dive back into the podcast arena will have to wait.Insiders told the outlet that similarly to the delay of her upcoming Netflix lifestyle series “With Love, Meghan,” the former working royal’s podcast’s launch has been affected by the LA wildfires.The Post has reached out to Markle’s reps and Lemonada Media for comment.After signing with the former actress, Lemonada will now be distributing her previous Spotify podcast series to all platforms.Details of the new series have yet to be made available, but it is known that Markle will host the show.It appears as though Markle will need to work extra hard to make the podcast a success after her former Spotify colleagues accused her of bullying.One person who worked with Markle described the alleged experience with her as “really, really, really awful” and “very painful.”According to several unnamed sources who spoke to Vanity Fair, the former actress and her husband, Prince Harry, 40, did not always foster a congenial working environment.The experience was “really, really, really awful.

Very painful,” the source alleged to the magazine. “Because she’s constantly playing checkers—I’m not even going to say chess—but she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board.”“And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment,” the former.