I do not believe for a second that Charles is trying or going to save her ass.
But given that Megs has already floated the idea that she has a Magic Burn Book of Doom on the royal family, she wants people to think he is because the Magic Burn Book of Doom threat didn’t work.
I’m assuming this is talking about Meghan and Kate. Not shocked here. Saw it in my post for Eugenie’s wedding these two don’t like each other. Meghan’s dislike obviously more petty than Catherine’s.
“AGC gossip (an insider source verified by Vanity Fair) has some very revealing exposés of Meghan. I will never look at her in the same way.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
AGC Gossip isn’t an original source for gossip. It’s a compilation of blind items from other gossip sites.
Something has been telling me to do a reading on Amy. Idk but it has been like that even before I touched tarot cards. Remember she disappeared for a while.
I did see some staff leaving/more bad treatment info getting released this month in my reading..
I just did two private readings. We gonna come back to this one.
Some ☕️ from a member in our MMTCD closed FB group!
Greetings My Lords and My Ladies!
This is an update regarding my post from yesterday.
I had direct contact with an the sound guy from Suits. Out of respect and his privacy I’ll keep his name anonymous.
Several of you had questions. I asked him. This is what he said:
– A representative of MM reached out to one of the executive producers of Suits asking, if MM decides to come back to the show, will she be welcomed. The producer responded no immediately. Some speculation is that she’ll be out of the royal family soon. Things do not look good for her. (His thought).
– Around season 2 of Suits ( she was still married to Trevor at the time) MM casually told the wardrobe department that she is having morning sickness and they even had to altered some of her outfits to try to hide her “bloating”. Then, all of a sudden, she wasn’t “bloating” anymore. This also happened another time, he just can’t recall what season.
– The producers even paid a podiatrist for her to see. She refused.
– Any rumor of we heard of throwing any tantrums and fits on the set are probably true.
– She played the race card many times.
– Last, just a rumor that she wanted to be on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills before Suits.
As always, you are more than welcome to send me a private message if you have anything you want to discuss.
Yeah, I was surprised about that one too. Assuming she really did make contact with the Suits people, I would guess that she’s prepping herself for the next shooting season. So not this current season but the next one. Episodes have to be written before they’re filmed. So if she’s really interested, she would need to let them know before they start writing, which I assume would be springtime 2019.
It’s a rumor that I’m not going to put much weight behind until there’s more evidence. I also think that the Suits team would probably be reluctant to have her back. I seem to remember hearing that she was difficult to work with behind the scenes, so why have her back unless they really had to? Well, they don’t have to, so she’s at their mercy.
We reported a few weeks ago that some of the more old school members of the Royal household didn’t know what to make of the new Duchess of Sussex, so invented the nickname “Meghan The Menace”.
Their eyebrows have been raised further with Ms Markle’s choice of personal aide. Not a tried and trusted Royal adviser or an experienced aristo to help her navigate the choppy waters of royal etiquette, but someone from the celebrity world, whose biggest previous job was working for Madonna.
Buckingham Palace staff are already dining out on a tale of how Meghan’s new girl was calling up big brands and asking for freebies, as if her boss was in the cast of Love Island rather than married to the Queen’s grandson.
(Credit to an anonymous poster who made the Melissa Crow connection)
According to IMDB, Melissa Crow/Crowe not only was personal assistant to Madonna during her heyday but also personal assistant to Julia Roberts for three movies. That is a very experienced personal assistant to have since those aren’t lightweight celebrities.
1. H&M didn’t send out thank you notes. A WEEK ago someone on KP staff sent out a form letter in lieu of a thank you note on behalf of H&M. Not even signed by them or from them. From a staff person apologizing for no note. The assumption is that they were jealous of a story about Eugenie handwriting thank you notes. It came out that they never sent them, so a staffer got to send the form letters.
2. This is from a closed facebook group that gossips about Meg. Tom Jr and his fiancee are in the group. LOL.
This is from the Charltan Duchess blog:
Some ☕️ from a member in our MMTCD closed FB group!
Grab your tea and try not to say “I told you so” to the #sugars!
Just a heads up this is a lengthy read.
Several weeks ago a childhood friend of mine came to our home town to visit. He is an actor. He has study at Juilliard He has been on Broadway, movies, and several tv shows. Heck, he has even been nominated for a Tony a couple of years back. I’m going to remain his name anonymous.
I asked him if he has ever met Meghan Markle or know any stories about her.
Well, he has met her and did he have stories.
In 2014 through a connection he had an audition for Suits. He was only going to be on two episodes. He had a reading with several actors. One of them was with MM. She came off rude, distrustful and any other negative description you can think of. She didn’t like my friend because he was 5’8. And, gave him a hard time. They had a short conversation about his experience. She walked away when he told her that he went to Juilliard. Several days later, he was offered the part. Though the same day he also got offered a part to a Broadway play, which got him a Tony nomination.
His connection he had with Suits was someone who worked with the sound. His gentleman shared many stories with my “friend” about MM.
-What you see from shots from her and the cast members are for the cameras. She treated those who worked behind the cameras with rudeness. Like they were not worthy enough.
– During an interview she talked about how she stood up the director, producer, and a writer about her skin exposure on screen. Not true. She enjoyed it. Because of that they were going to fire her. Perfect time, that’s when she was getting closer to PH.
-She does wear hair extensions or/and a wig. For the reasons we all suspect.
-She threw a fit when she wasn’t invited to any award shows.
-She is a regular at SoHo in Malibu and Toronto.
-Any rumor that anyone may have heard about her is more than likely true. Such as being a “yacht girl”. There was rumored on the set she was pregnant.
-Just recently (two weeks or so) MM reached out to the producers of Suits. Whispers are that she wants to come back. Which makes me think she knows she’s screwed with the RF.
I’m sure I’m missing something. It was just a lot of information that someone gives you. Also, if my “friend” here’s anything else, he’ll let me know. Please let me know if you need any more clarification.
Have a great day! And, as always, stay classy and true! 👑
3. Someone (Meg) tried to buy off/payoff Jess with a Jaguar. A person from Jag said a 105K jag was given to Jess. Jess and Ben denied taking ownership of said car in social media rantings. But, Jaguar stands by it claim.
4. The Soho house connections are surfacing again. Someone according to CDAN is ready to rat her out. People are guessing Markus bc is a secret boyfriend of an A list actor who is married (Eddie Redmayne). Pic of Meg w Eddie at Soho are coming out again in DM. Eddie is apparently former roommates w Markus.
I’m going to have to duck back into hiatus because my dead-in-the-water project is now alive and kicking (Yaaaaaassssss!), but I’m loving all this gossip right now.
I’m amazed that after all the crap this woman has pulled the one thing that gets her a slap in the wrist (in the form of courtiers talking to the press) is mistreatment of staff. Wow. Good for them.
What blows my mind is that this wasn’t some delicate aristo English rose having the vapors because Megs raised her voice. This was Madonna’s PA, someone who is used to divas and she was going to sue. Meghan must be hell on wheels if she’s out-diva-ing Madge. The leaks and blinds aren’t even calling her a diva. They’re flat-out calling her an abuser and whatever happened was so bad that the brf felt compelled to flatter the aide publicly.
We reported a few weeks ago that some of the more old school members of the Royal household didn’t know what to make of the new Duchess of Sussex, so invented the nickname “Meghan The Menace”.
Their eyebrows have been raised further with Ms Markle’s choice of personal aide. Not a tried and trusted Royal adviser or an experienced aristo to help her navigate the choppy waters of royal etiquette, but someone from the celebrity world, whose biggest previous job was working for Madonna.
Buckingham Palace staff are already dining out on a tale of how Meghan’s new girl was calling up big brands and asking for freebies, as if her boss was in the cast of Love Island rather than married to the Queen’s grandson.
CDAN/Enty has a podcast, and he did a short episode about MM. I typed out what he said. I paraphrased a bit, and left out some non-relevant stuff.
Here it is:
This one is about MMand how she made it from a pay-to-play kind of person to a Duchess. I know that John Doe was worried for a while because it’s obvious that MM or at least somebody close to MM reads the site and reads the blind items and then passes them along on to her just because of the reactions. Then they try and get tabloids, or through other means, and to say that they’re going to come after – but you can’t come after the truth. You can’t. And to me there’s nothing to be ashamed about, that she did that; a lot of people come to LA and do they do it. And she kind of… I don’t want to say the admitted it, but she at least kind of talked about it in her secret diary of hers. Do you know the one I’m talking about? She used to have a blog that she started in 2010.
Now what was she doing in 2010 on tv? She had been on Deal or No Deal in 2006/2007, and now she’s in 2010 as an actress… what is she doing? She’s doing day parts: CSI Miami; Get Him To the Greek; The Candidate (which was a short film which means she did for somebody as a favour and nobody ever saw it); The Boys and Girls Guide To Getting Down (that was in 2011).. But she started this in 2010. She’s doing like everybody else does in LA when you’re starting; you work when you can, you do these commercials, you do these one-offs and you hope that your show gets picked up.
And what do you do in the meantime to make money? Well, a lot of people wait tables. According to MM though she didn’t do any of that stuff: “I don’t wait tables, I don’t have a side job. I’m in the club of the fortunate few that somehow make a living playing dress-up. When it’s good its f-ing awesome. The other 300+ days its harder than most think. Humbling, gruelling, sometimes mind-numbing; but at the end of the day it’s all worth it.” On twitter to promote it she said “Come read about the girl with the magical boobs. Come read about sex, lots of sex.”
You’re not making a living with those five credits I mentioned from 2010. I’m sorry you’re not. You’re going to make like $600-$1000.. Are you making a living off of $5000 a year? No, and you have had anything really paying decent… and Deal or No Deal is good steady work, but you’re going getting paid $20,000/week, you’re getting paid scale.. and you’re paid game show scale which is even less than scale. So that’s how MM was earning in 2006/2007; and that came straight from another suitcase person on the show. They would go out, and they would find some rich guys and they preferred the sugar baby route…There’s no shame in that; you do you… Don’t later on in life pretend you were something else when you weren’t. And that’s why the deal or no deal person came to me…
What really made me mad: The story about the guy who originally set her up with the pay-for-play date with PH is being kicked out of PH’s life because she’s afraid that he’s gonna find someone else to mess around with because that guy finds women like her. It wasn’t PH’s first time to that rodeo. Pay for discretion.
[…She was making money on Suits.. She didn’t get paid much in 2011 when Suits started, and she was living in two countries…]
What it does when you go on Suits is it gets you a little more name and visual recognition. People know who you are… you can raise your rates.
John Doe was so freaked out that the Palace was going to sue him.
From Nov 23 2016 revealed on Dec 6 2016: Paid her ex $50,000 to stay quiet about dates and timelines. Her friends are all selling damaging information to the tabloids. There’s that whole dossier. Apparently some nude photos and a sex tape.. Can you image a MM sex tape?
Scam: She gets clothes from her friends in North America for free, but then she tells PC how much the clothes cost and then splitting the cash with her friends. She’s just pocketing it which I guess will be great for her drug vacation here later. For her little coke and booze party.
(Rihanna and PH)
MM threw her potential sister-in-law under the bus by telling her gossip columnist bff a story. They do not like each-other, but they pretend. (Kate and MM)
Chef ex was going to come out and say that MM only broke up with him and the ex confronted her about dating PH and it was only then that she moved out. He was also going to saw that as a payment she hooked up with the guy that introduced her to PH, which she also did while living with the Ex. So the guy that arranged the pay-to-play with PH had himself a sample; and maybe that’s another reason why she would want him to leave. I wonder if he ever told PH. Oct 20 2017 BI#3.
April 19 2018. Hooked up with Brett Ratner during her Deal or No Deal days for free.
May 3 2018. Harvey. I don’t think she would admit to that. Do you really want a part that badly?
There’s a picture of her in Europe… She did some proper yachting when she got the suits gig. That’s how she got involved with the guy that set her up with PH. He was a middle man for Europe. She wasn’t having a quickie for $200 in some guy’s apartment in LA anymore; this was the big time. She was in Toronto, and it’s really easy to hop on a flight on a Friday night and go over there for the weekend. Look at all the pictures over there. She was making a decent living on Suits, don’t get me wrong. But you get paid by the episode and there weren’t a lot of episodes. Plus she’s paying taxes in Canada and the USA, and she’s paying an agent and a manager and she’s taking these trips every weekend? Please. Yeah, she’s making more money than Instagram models but she wanted more.
I think when she started living in Toronto, who is she going to date? A co-star on her cable TV show? … So she sees Europe as the place to go. Let’s go find some rich guy! So she does, she meets the guy who introduces her PH and he’s introducing her all around and at some point takes a turn with her. You know what, PH is sort of looking for someone.. so she turns a one time transaction into a lifetime deal!
And I think that she likes certain aspect of it; from what I hear (I’ve got some people in Australia) basically MM is acting like a diva. I wrote a few weeks ago that she likes all the trappings but does like visiting the regular people. But if you look at someone like Kate, she enjoys visiting the regular people. I think of MM as more of a Fergie; she didn’t want to go to public functions. She just wanted the title and make some money of the deal. Just like Andrew does. Kate had to make that decision; William was cheating on her with everyone and she had a boyfriend for a while.. and you know they were back and forth. It’s not that I think they didn’t get along it’s because she didn’t that she wanted to make that commitment. You are giving up your life to be looked at and have to follow the rules and do as your told.
For MM its easier because PH is never getting to the thrown; but she doesn’t like doing the little meet and greets… Just look at her wedding; she had never met these people before, she just took a chance. That’s why Reese Witherspoon sent back her invitation… I’ve never met this woman before why is she inviting me to her wedding?? It makes no sense. She was inviting them because she wanted to meet them and be like them.
She partied hard when she had to come back for her Visa in Chicago. And she’s going to come back and party solo without harry because he can’t be around that kind of stuff. They’re not going to arrest MM but it’ll leak out and PH can’t do that because he has a responsibility and I don’t think she really cares about the responsibility; she wants to party. Granted, she’s pregnant now so the coke and the booze might have to wait for next year to come around.
She told her ex she couldn’t get pregnant, so I’m guessing it’s IVF. The booking odds are down on twins and they’ve stopped taking bets because everyone is guessing they’re having twins. So if it’s twins; it’s IVF.
Yep, Tom Sykes/Lainey/Celebitchy et al are desperately trying to argue that the Cambridges are jealous and upset about all the attention that Harry and Meghan are getting, but I just don’t think that is the case.
Meghan is great for Will and Kate. They look mature, serious, discreet, and functional in comparison.
Kate’s outfits came across as a bit too girly and unprofessional before, but they are uber appropriate compared to Meghan’s un-ironed blouses, dirty shoes, and oversize bathrobe coats. Will looks more regal than Harry. Kate’s clothing bills appear frugal in comparison to Meghan’s. The Cambridge’s appearances, which used to seem too superficial, are better planned and a lot more substantive than Meghan and Harry’s.
Even Meghan’s crap family works in the Cambridge’s favor. Uncle Gary is no longer an issue. Carole is actually described as “staying behind the scenes” now. Pippa’s wedding was amazing (and discreet!) compared to Meghan’s. In addition, the Cambridges are now growing closer to the other royals.
I am not sure why the sugar gang is trying to spin the Cambridges as jealous or insecure. Meghan is the Fergie that Kate didn’t know she wanted.
P2: My main issue is most people have to try to conceive for 6m to a year before extra steps are taken. Usually clomid comes next. Then there’s the fact that if for whatever reason MM already knew her chances were decreased, she’d have to go through egg retrieval and if she really does have fertility issues she’d more than likely have to go through multiple retrieval processes. After that they’d have to see how many eggs are actually viable.
P3: Then she’d have to go through treatments which usually take 6-8 weeks. So unless they started this process way before the wedding, I’m calling bs. If this is a PR stunt to make her seem more relatable or add to her damsel story, it’s a really crappy thing to do. Oh, and if she were having twins as small as she is she’d be way bigger at 4 months. Unless she’s not really that far along.
Maybe, but according to the blinds she’d already been told she’d have trouble conceiving. In that case, trying for six months would not have made sense.
Also, if the rumors are true that Harry’s fertility is impaired, then they would likely go to IVF since male factor infertility is one of the reasons people use IVF, even when the mom’s fertility is fine.
The buttons, the sausage curls, the identical pieces of clothing, the faces, the mom moving in, getting security and cars and even attending events, friends using them for promo, the two homes, even MOAR wiglets, embarrassing family members… The list goes on and on. I’m very amused by how Meghan does EVERYTHING that they hated in Kate a thousand times worse than Kate and yet they keep claiming that “it’s different for Meghan because reasons.”
Yeah, um, she could stay in Australia and attend all of the Invictus Games events, but that would mean that Megsy would have to do work. I doubt she wants to do that.
I bet this blind is more about Megsy trying to get her way on something rather than actually being pregnant. It would be nice if people remembered she looked like this 10 days ago (Oct 3):
Rather than this yesterday (Oct 12) where she kept her coat on and tried to look pregnant:
I personally don’t think she can bring a baby to term. Could she conceive with the help of some artificial reproductive technology such as IVF? Possibly. Bu I don’t think she would be able to maintain it. Just my opinion. I’m sure she will try for a variety of reasons. I don’t think the surrogacy thing is going to float with the Queen though. Or Charles. The legal reasons in the UK have already been mentioned, and I’m sure that’s why the Queen particularly and Charles would not pay for it.
But yes, she’s definitely nothing without him. She has more to lose than he does if–actually when–this thing unravels. Harry will always be a royal; she will not.
If you use the Google link, it leads to an error page. You have to search within the website to get the blind.
And, yes, the blind is pretty much an early draft of the People article. I don’t think Meghan realizes that she just confirmed everything her friends, family, and colleagues have been saying since Day One. I think she truly thinks that it’s touching and relatable that she has finally found “the family she never had.”
It’s what everyone does in a divorce. The wealthier, non-custodial parent uses money to gain more access to the children and the less wealthy custodial parent uses the children to get more money.
The weird part, imo, is that Angelina is acting like someone who is really short on money. I’d heard rumors about her out-of-control spending, but I was skeptical. I guess the rumors were right.
And I have no doubt this is one of the reasons why Laura Wasser quit being AJ’s lawyer.
Well, regarding the alleged embezzling, I think it’s good to keep in mind that not everything that CDAN publishes is accurate. There are always a lot of people in Hollywood submitting things to that site with various agendas. Those agendas are never held in check or verified by the publisher (CDAN) to ensure accuracy for the readers. There are a LOT of things submitted to that site that seem purely based on fan speculation or a pr rep needing to get a certain rumor out to benefit a certain pr agenda. I do not believe that everything published there should be taken as fact.
That said, I think what some people like to forget is that Harry got in this situation by not listening to what his family likely told him. Harry was dumb, lonely, and desperate to get married. So now he is. He could have waited to get married for another 6 months. If it’s the true love that Harry and Megs fans like to say it is, then there is no reason they couldn’t have had a wedding further down the road. Except they didn’t. And now it probably isn’t going to work out for a bunch of reasons including that Tweedledee and Tweedledum aren’t suitable for a long-term relationship.
Prince Fuck-Up will do what he does best: fuck up.
CDAN cracked the merching. Jess gets the clothes for free in exchange for advertising the designers. Jess then gives the clothes/jewels to Meg to wear. Meg gives Charles the full price receipt for “reimbursement.” Then Meg and Jess spilt the money Charles has paid.
This is a really big deal. Much bigger than a protocol breach. Is she paying US and UK taxes on those funds? IF Charles really has spent $2.5M on her since the engagement using fraudulent receipts submitted by Meg, isn’t that embezzlement of some type? Wouldn’t that be financial fraud. Wonder where she learned to do that?
I think it’s quite possible that it gets released this summer. Obviously we won’t know for sure until it happens.
I imagine its worth diminishes as she gets older. No one would want to see her sex tape when she’s in her 40s and 50s when she looks old. The people who would make money off something like that have more to gain by publishing it when she closely matches (physically) how she looks on the tape than by when she doesn’t.
Thanks! This explains why she was having hormonal melasma but drinking alcohol at the same time–failed IVF. I think the one who knows all about surrogates is Elton John.
I think they’ve had a pretty good record with Meghan, in the sense that when they say something will drop, it usually drops. The caveat is that sometimes it drops a year later, and sometimes it’s totally underwhelming. For example, the Snapchat nude got covered up as photoshop, the topless honeymoon pics were covered up as a doppelgänger, the topless Greece pics were covered up as fake, etc…
Likewise, Blind Gossip got the Stella dress sort of right, but it wasn’t the actual wedding gown, and the damaging information that the friends were selling to the tabloids right after the relationship got out didn’t drop until after the engagement.
I’d say they are a good 7-8 on general accuracy and a 3-4 on timing and impact.
They’ve been saying for a while that there are two big things yet to drop: (i) more nudes, including a video, and (ii) a Heather Mills-type expose about her yatching. My bet is that they do have something, but nowhere near as inflammatory as they claim. Definitely not something worth 8 figures. Maybe it’s the rest of that Snapchat video and a couple of Deal or No Deal girls telling stories. Something like that. Her sugars will probably go “but everyone masturbates on SnapChat and has sugar daddies in their twenties” because that’s how they roll.
From what they’ve been saying, the people holding the information are trying to get as much money as they can. They aren’t just out to hurt Meghan, they want cash. That’s likely why nothing has come out. They think they are sitting on a gold mine and they are probably sitting on $20k worth of blackmail money or something like that.
Will it ever come out? Your guess is as good as mine. The Heather Mills stuff took YEARS.
The media and social media landscape has changed a lot in the last 10+ years since Heather Mills though…
No one is going to pay 10 million dollars. NO ONE.
I want this to be real, but seriously? They are asking for $10 mil and plan to put it on PAY PER VIEW????
I suspect the 8 figures is more of a negotiating tactic to get as much $$$ as possible. I doubt the royal family would even pay if they were asking for 5 figures.
The royal family as a whole can plan the dumb card though. Except for Megs. Depending on what’s released, maybe Harry.
Hi Plant! I imagined you saw CB’s post about Markle’s expensive clothing, and OF COURSE, Kaiser blamed all the criticizing about her crazy expending on racism! (And, of course, she threw Kate under the bus, as always!) I’m so tired of this delusional, faux feminist bitch and her fake outrage about everything, she’s gotten so delusional that even the majority of the people in the comments were disagreeing with her. They were saying that they didn’t criticized her because of her race but because that money was coming out of the British people’s pockets and that England wasn’t stable enough right now to be expending money on some z-lister’s I’ll fitting clothes, which it shocked me, since Kaiser only accepts comments that agree with her point of view. Honestly, the first time I saw Markle I thought she was white, it never crossed my mind that she was biracial, much less black (which she isn’t) I’m honestly so over people blaming everything on racism, sexism or whining about something as stupid as ‘micro aggressions’ (which by the way, WTF is that??) sometimes you just criticize someone because you can see right through their bullshit, thirstiness and fakeness. Just like most people do with Markle.
Thanks for sending this in. I lol’d at the racism charge. Seriously? Kate faced this exact same criticism for a much smaller bill. Mary and Letizia get criticized every year. Sofia was lambasted last year and she spent like forty thousand euros or something like that–that covers maybe two of Meghan’s outfits. How is it racist to maybe start thinking that Meghan is spending too much when she’s hit the seven figures in six months? At the rate she’s going Meghan will have spent more in one year than Kate spend in her entire Duchess life. Heck, she may spend more than ALL the royal ladies together spent in 2017.
LOL, it’s “racist” to think that it’s too much money. And they bring up Kate’s clothes too. Dude, THE WHOLE POINT is that Meghan is spending ten times Kate’s yearly budged in six months, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
Kate was famously wearing Reiss during her first year–heck, she recycled her engagement dress during the Canada tour–and she was STILL criticized for spending too much money. Kate was absolutely dragged for that 50k bill and it was a small fraction of what Meghan has spent.
And let’s not even mention that Meghan looks like absolute crap in her expensive couture. Her best looks so far have been the Halo dress, the blue off-the-rack Roland Mouret, and the black capris at polo this weekend. According to Katie Nicholls, Megs is now in the market for a stylist. That means she knows she’s royally fucking up. LOL, this is now the fifth person they’ve brought in to help.
We reported a few weeks ago that some of the more old school members of the Royal household didn’t know what to make of the new Duchess of Sussex, so invented the nickname “Meghan The Menace”.
Their eyebrows have been raised further with Ms Markle’s choice of personal aide. Not a tried and trusted Royal adviser or an experienced aristo to help her navigate the choppy waters of royal etiquette, but someone from the celebrity world, whose biggest previous job was working for Madonna.
Buckingham Palace staff are already dining out on a tale of how Meghan’s new girl was calling up big brands and asking for freebies, as if her boss was in the cast of Love Island rather than married to the Queen’s grandson.
From this week’s Popitch
Whoa! Thank you so much for sending this in.
Here’s the “few weeks ago” item, in case anyone is interested: