Taking issue with her perspective. Whoopi Goldberg still had some questions after Meghan Markle‘s candid comments about working on Deal or No Deal.During a new episode of The View, which aired on Wednesday, October 19, the comedian questioned Markle’s claims that she felt “objectified” while working as a briefcase girl on the NBC series.“On that show, you basically had a suitcase and they wanted to know: ‘Is this the deal you want, or is this not the deal you want?'” the Sister Act actress, 66, said to her cohosts. “I don’t know that the people who are sitting there are thinking about you like that.
They’re thinking, ‘I want the money.'”Goldberg noted that women who worked on other competition shows didn’t appear to take issue with their job. “[Wheel of Fortune hostess] Vanna White is always in something interesting and beautiful, and she’s been doing this,” she continued. “The objectification might be coming from you and how you felt about how these women were being portrayed, and that’s what you have to change — because we’re performers.
When you’re a performer, you take the gig.”The New York City native found it difficult to see the Duchess of Sussex’s perspective because of her own history in Hollywood.“We’re not journalists, we’re actors.
You left, and that was your prerogative. But I feel bad because I don’t think people were looking at these girls like this, I think people wanted the money,” Goldberg concluded. “That’s TV, baby.
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