Podcaster Bill Simmons Blasts Harry & Meghan After Spotify Axes $20M Deal: ‘F**king Grifters’

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On Friday, it was reported that Spotify cut ties with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, kiboshing the royals’ $20-million podcast deal with the music streaming service after just 12 episodes of Markle’s “Archetypes” podcast were produced.

Fellow podcaster Bill Simmons — who’s also Spotify’s Head of Podcast Innovation and Monetization after selling his podcast, “The Ringer”, to the company for a reported $250 million — is no fan of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and made his opinion crystal clear during a recent edition of “The Bill Simmons Podcast”. READ MORE: Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s Podcast ‘Archetypes’ Won’t Be Renewed By Spotify “The f**king grifters.

That’s the podcast we shoulda launched with them,” Simmons said, addressing Spotify cancelling its deal with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

According to Simmons, he’s dealt with Harry personally, and teased a great story he had to tell. “I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea,” Simmons said. “It’s one of my best stories.” This isn’t the first time that Simmons has blasted the Sussexes.