Yep, and he had to apologize through the press because they weren’t talking to him. That was the issue.
And they ghosted him AFTER there were a ton of leaks from the palace about how they didn’t blame him for the pictures and they were so concerned about his health and the were going to go see him in Mexico. I bet he thought everything was okay and he had been forgiven and then he realized they weren’t taking his call anymore. That’s when he decided to apologize through the press.
I doubt it’s a coordinated strategy, however. I feel like it’s more that her family knows her and they’ve been in this situations twice before. They know what she’s going to do.
Tom Sykes is on a roll defending Megha’s decision to ghost her dad now.
You know it’s about to ‘go down’ when you’re actually slowly whispering “oh my goood”. Daddy’s got an in with the UK press now. It’s official. The Sun is his UK TMZ.
No response wringed from RoyalMeg or KP out of his Saturday & Sunday exclusives in The Sun, so now the old fox is shooting warning shots with a sharp loaded shotgun! LOL, good heavens. He’s basically going, ‘oh you thought this was embarrassing? Pick up the damned phone or I’ll show you embarrassment.’ He’s really much better at this media game than his daughter.
I mean…, “If I chose in a month, or couple of months, to go to England — I want to see my daughter. I’m thinking about it. I don’t care whether she is p***** off at me or not.”
And, “I still want to meet the Queen. If she’ll meet Donald Trump, why not me? (!OMG!) I’d like to be treated by the royal family like Meghan’s father. I should be regarded with the respect of any other father of the bride.”
Well you go daddy-o! LOL. Dear oh dear…
Here’s to him actually doing it. Can you imagine the brouhaha he’ll cause with Fleet Street chomping at the bit? The poor (literally and figuratively poor!) father, pictured outside of KP gates, not being let in, pouring his heart out to his darling daughter through the press in an attempt to reach her. Fearing she’s being held hostage in there; smothered into silence under a mountain of £€$£€$£€$ bespoke swag. DANG! Do it Thomas Markle Sr. Doooo iiiiiiit!
Thanks for sending this in. It’s turning into quite the soap opera.
It would actually be a big chance for her. She could have a public reconciliation, introduce him to the Queen, and then leak that she’s now talking to him but being very careful about what she says because she knows he’s talking to the press. That would neutralize him.
But it sounds like she’s going to try ignoring him, which will just make him rant and rave. That’s going to look pretty funny when she decides she wants to do charity again and starts going on Heads Together events telling people that “we must all help” the mentally ill and families in crisis and there should be tons of support and no stigma.
They are going to get blamed anyway, by Tom Markle of all people. It’s hilarious because Richard Kay had insiders saying that the staff was desperately trying to get Meghan to make up with her family and she just refused to do so. Now they are getting blamed for it all.
Well, that’s what I don’t get about this sudden “toxic parenting” talk. Tom was supposedly a saint (amply documented in Meghan’s speeches, essays and social media) until early May 2018.
Yep, it’s interesting how they use the language of abuse, but her dad was apparently fantastic to her until the tabs started circling and he got no media guidance from KP.
So, basically now that Mio has stupidly set up a rationale that Megs needs to separate herself from her father, we can probably expect that Tom Sr. is going to come back with everything that he did for his daughter growing up and beyond. Attempted ghosting isn’t going to work this time. Shall we take bets on whether or not Tom Sr. is going to appear on Good Morning Britain? Whether or not Meg’s previous Instagram posts will appear?
Just sayin’…cause this girl gives Fleet Street a lot to work with…
The best part is the one where they complain about Emily using the phrase “newly-minted.” They clearly don’t know what that means and they thought Emily was calling Meghan nouveau riche or something. It’s hilarious. Em is a total sugar, but still attack her BECAUSE THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND BASIC ENGLISH. I’m dying.
OMG… Thomas Markle Sr’s sold a weekend’s worth of exclusive interview to The Sun [+on Sunday]…
Since Meghan’s not answering him, he’s texting some poor KP staff, and they’re not answering him either. And it’s been months. Yowza. Tom’s more shrewd than I gave him credit for. In one interview, he managed to make out that his Meggy’s terrified and being pressured by the Royal family, and on Sunday, it’s that he’s going to dies soon and doesn’t anybody care?! (That was for you Meg.) Oh and bonus: he ‘opened up his family album’. Oh daddy…
And he complained that the BRF should have seated Doria with them at the wedding, and not sat alone on Meghans freaking side(!!!) because she had nobody but celebrities there and looked like she was alone. In what universe but the Dingle Universe can you turn the tables around like this? Haha, it’s unbelievable.
She has officially ghosted her own father: “The phone number I had been calling Meghan on is no longer picking up.” LOL omg. Not since the day after their wedding. After which she seems to have burned her old SIM and phone and ditched daddy dearest. So, “I sent a text to my palace contact saying I would like to reach my daughter and got no reply.” Cheesus. This is so classy.
I don’t know if you guys know of the long-running soap “Emmerdale”. But the Markles are JUST like the Dingles on that show (including Meg herself, which I ID as Charity Dingle- prozzie, con artist and cold gold digger extraordinaire).
The BRF can bend over backwards, forwards and tie themselves into a pretzle – in the end, these American Dingles will find a way to blame eeeeverything on them when Meg bails in less than 2 years. They just can’t win this one. All they can do is to make sure there aren’t any ‘incriminating’ images out there to illustrate Meg’s coming narrative – so BIG SMILES EVERYBODY!
Thanks for sending this in! She has completely ghosted him. This is supposed to make his interviews worthless to the press because he has no contact with the royals and hence no news to share regarding any Meghan “trouble.” However, he has completely twisted it around so that the ghosting itself is evidence of Meghan’s troubles.
I think they underestimated the Markles. These guys have been in Hollywood for a while. They know the tricks.
I don’t watch Emmerdale, but I’m going to look up the Dingles. It really is interesting how the BRF will always get blamed, no matter how much money or events they throw at this girl or many protocols they allow her to “break.” The old guard is clenching its jaw as she prances around in shoulder-baring outfits, turning her back on the Queen, Charles is wincing as he signs checks for French couture and worthless foreign tours, the entire family is grimacing as they pose for happy pics…and yet they are all going to get blamed when this turns to shit.
I think your last paragraph really nails it, and, yes, they are probably going to go on a huge “happy families” drive this summer, likely at Balmoral. However, it will be for naught. I think the real onslaught will come in the Fall when Meghan unveils some crap “female empowerment” umbrella program instead of the blockbuster innovative whatever that everyone is expecting.
Most probably other anons have already sent you this, but I find it remarkable, as “shameless extravagance” is quite a strong wording, spot on but very strong for British usual politeness.
“One final piece of advice. Perhaps Meghan should book an appointment with Rigby & Peller, providers of lingerie to the royals — and get herself a proper-fitting bra.” nipple-gate has indeed reached the news.
It’s a ton of money! That’s why they are using strong language. What they don’t say is that they’ve been bitching about the cost of Kate’s clothing for years.
But they did mention Megs spent more than Kate’s first year married to William.
Can you imagine the shitstorm if her father actually did die this summer while this is already going on? You know, it’s already a new celebrity death every day…
Petty Piers is out in force…. Ah it isn’t just Piers. Markle was allegedly warned by Mischa Nonoo that the tabs would destroy her. Markle ignored that warning. Typical narc – incapable of thinking they can be defeated and always thinking they are the smartest one in the room. The Sun, The Telegraph and the DM especially but all of the tabs knew what the real nature of MM and PH’s relationship was – that it was 90% fake that when he became engaged he barely knew her and had spent little time with her. After all they were accepting the releases from her several pr firms and publishing them and they were collaborating with her in the merching and making money off it too. They knew how the pics were being taken that she called the paps. They knew when the pics were old pics being released as current. They knew exactly what was going on.
Markle has simultaneously also underestimated and overestimated the power of the RF. She thinks Harry can protect her from the media. No he can’t. The RF could to some extent but not Harry on his own and not for long. The tabs know her dirt but the 11/16 statement kept them from unloading right away. Now they have had an additional year and a half to collect more info. They will use it. Probably when she stops making clicks and money for them. Piers is just toying with her now. Interviews are being done. Lies will be exposed. The DM warned her and the RF that there would be unexpected and unwelcome revelations after a marriage. Piers is the least of her worries. There is the US media too. It is all a matter of timing.
Thanks for sending this in! There may very well be further tab revelations coming down the pike, but I think her own behavior will sink her. Right now, the coverage is all about her “new” posh accents. Soon, we will go back to the ridiculous spending and then her family will come up again. We will probably have something political come up during the tours. It just keeps piling up.
I think the lies will be exposed, but I think it will be because of her own behavior. She’s not a charity-oriented International Relations person who reluctantly gave up her dream of becoming the next Madeleine Albright so she could do sexy poses in Deal or No Deal. She’s a fame-hungry actress who was willing to do anything to secure those People covers and who early on realized that Harry was her ticket to a life of endless publicity and luxury. This becomes clearer every single day.
I don’t know that I would expect the US media to do much on the Markle debacle. Yeah, sure, they’ll cover it. But she PALES in comparison to the everyday disaster of Trump.
It’s amazing to me that she’s wiling to take Byrony Gordon to lunch in order to get absolutely zero good press because Byrony is already in Harry’s pocket, but she’s not willing to go to Mexico to visit her dad to avoid bucketloads of bad press.
So, does the fact that she’s taking a journalist out to lunch mean that money for her pr agency budget is falling low?
AH well The Sun can’t let DM have all the fun. And Harry is now stomping through the halls of KP screaming at his staff “make this go away”. He deserves every bit if this. Stupid twit.
And they are already bringing up the Fergie comparisons.
My favorite statements from this column:
“I don’t think either of them [Harry and Megs] comes out of this well.”
“Meghan seemed cold with a statement declaring she has always ‘cared’ for her father following the news his heart condition meant he wouldn’t walk her down the aisle.“
“The ball is very much in Meghan’s court.”
“…but these will be tricky times for the newly minted Duchess of Sussex.”
“She needs to cement her popularity in these crucial early days.”
Looks to me like this column is practically prepping the waters for what will likely come later this month and August.
This relationship just revealed who he truly was, imo. That’s why the royal reporters all jumped on the romance bandwagon while the fandom was still thinking that she was just another press-hungry starlet using his name for publicity. They knew about the celeb-chasing, the Soho House dates and the Botswana booty calls. They’d known for years.
the grievance theory is about women who feel aggrieved by mistreatment of some sort from men – who symbolize the “establishment”. Diana was in this telling the victim of a man Charles and the establishment which rallied around him. So women who also felt “aggrieved” by men (legitimately or not) identified with Diana hence her winning the War of the Wales. She successfully manipulated the pr to paint herself as this victim and found herself supported by a horde of well placed females in US society – Tina Brown as an example or the “fashionistas” like Anna Wintour. Diana the triumphant victim was touted heavily in the pages of Vogue by these women. MM do note has no such support although she courted it.
Charles could not possibly win. Those who sought to support him were largely men. Although he found support in a number of male anti establishment figures such as Christopher Hitchens who happily and I’d suggest accurately railed on about the “cult” of Diana. PC was never a fashionista LOL and he did not court the media figures in NYC. He couldn’t.
This is what MM aspires to. And do note her “sugars” are primarily young women who use social media to aggressively attack anyone even another woman who dare suggest that MM is lacking in any way. Providing a whole new twist to the Diana pr war. Rebecca English gets threatened with an acid attack because she mildly suggest a 56K dress is not appropriate. Emilia Wickstead gets attacked because she makes the obvious observation that the dress did not fit (although a male designer who made the same observation was not attacked). Melanie Bromley who by and large is a sugar and even Emily Andrews the super sugar also get attacked for statements of fact.
This is what the RF faces with Markle – a nightmare I am sure for those in the family who went through the Diana days. Only with now the additional weapon of social media. The grievance now is elitism and race potent weapons in the aggrieved victim sweepstakes.
Harry is irrelevant in many ways to this struggle. My sources say he was trapped by his own foolishness into the marriage and has deep regrets. He is certainly no rebel and will ultimately adhere to what the family requires. The real issue is how does the BRF deal with this nightmarish repeat of grievance politics? It would seem they have decided to allow her to do whatever she wants – to merch and leak and secure pr to her hearts content. To give her royal and family events to demonstrate how accepted she is. So under no circumstances can they be accused of failing to support her. She will of course at divorce carry on about her “grievances” against the establishment stifling her etc. They can only hope the obvious support she has received will result in her complaints looking like ingratitude and nonsense. Most of all they are probably hoping she will lose media support. Without the media she can’t get much traction of whatever grievances she may air.
I always though if Diana had not dyed her mousy ash colored hair into that vibrant glamorous blonde she’d never have become what she became. Poor Markle even with hair dye could never equal Di’s ability to project to the camera that beauty and glamour.
IMHO – I think the media is starting to turn. This is why her failure as a fashion icon is so important. If she is not making money for the media she is of no use to them. And she has failed as a fashion icon. Her move to “youthful” lower cost fashion is a sign of that failure. No money making equals no media support which equals no way to air her grievances. Her social media minions are irrelevant then. This time the RF wins. Maybe.
I’m glad someone said it. Everyone else is busy blaming the courtiers and even HM’s pr person for not handling Thomas correctly, but the responsibility was all Meghan’s. He’s her dad.
I’ve noticed. I’ve seen it mentioned over at AHPF quite a bit. I know I’ve reblogged some of it but certainly not all.
Considering how frequently she has articles getting published over nothing, that money is going to run out pretty quick. Celebitchy only does articles if something has previously been published somewhere else. Megs had TWO articles today on that site:
Considering the last one is STAR magazine, she must be running getting low on funds. She couldn’t get People magazine or US Weekly to run it. Not to mention that she doesn’t seem to want to wait until she has another engagement before having articles appear. It’s just constant bombardment. (Not a smart move.)
It may be that the UK tabs will kick in with the narrative they want to run when she can no longer pay for a pr agency to send things to US media. Like, she won’t disappear completely when her money runs out because then Fleet Street will seize their opportunity. She won’t have the funds to combat them and will be at the mercy of what the palace pr decides.
Thanks! Always good to have an on-the-ground perspective. I do think the “celeb vs. royal” debate has been going on for a while in the UK, though. I’ve seen several articles about it. The Spectator has had a couple and Hilary Mantel did some essays and someone else prominent who I can’t remember right now. I even found an Australian one. This is just another slide down a slippery slope, imo.
THIS!! Meghan trying to look cute with queen but Catherine behaved like a woman with whom queen can be friends!
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Interesting. I suspected as much with her crappy sample looks.
I expect Fleet Street–and I’m including Piers as part of that–to dump a LOT on her this summer. There is no reason for them to wait. She’s done all the possible big stuff, and the press will need something to publish this summer.
If she could have learned to keep her mouth shut and stop baiting the press for good coverage every two seconds, she might have had more of a chance. But since she doesn’t know how to live without constant press coverage, well, constant press coverage will be what she gets.
Maybe. Cory & Trevor can always find ways of “talking-but-not-talking.” I don’t know all the people Megs has pissed off in her life, so there’s still the possibility of some shit coming out of the middle of nowhere. Piers Morgan is a known known in Megs life. I don’t know what else she has out there, but it’s definitely more than Piers though.
I think the most significant thing about Piers at this point is that since he’s a member of the press, it means that other members of the press will try to scoop him if they find out he’s going to break something big.
Ghosting a LOT of people is going to cost Megs in the near future. Everyone she’s dusted seems to have good reason to hate her. She could have saved herself by inviting so many people to the wedding. But NOPE!
Even Kate’s Uncle Gary went to the wedding, and obviously Uncle Gary never got a 30-minute interview on British national morning television.
Doesn’t really matter at this point. It wouldn’t surprise me if Tom Sr. gave another interview in the future, even if it was to clarify things he said in this interview.
Pandora’s Box has been opened, and it’s not going to shut anytime soon.
Thomas Markle’s interview is clearly the work of Piers Morgan. I literally do not understand why anyone would think Megs set this up.
That said, Piers probably knows all the dirt from working in the media, just like the rest of Fleet Street. Piers wasn’t going to wait for anything to happen to start instigating this shit, so he got the party started. The rest of Fleet Street is waiting for an invitation, which Harry & Megs will no doubt give sooner rather than later. Because they are that dumb.
Oh, this summer of fire is just getting started!!!
Thanks! They kept KP in the dark, uh? I think nixing the Markles’ wedding commentating as a “breach of decorum” is coming back to bite them. They better get used to being blindsided from now on.
I would bet real money that Doria will do (or has already done) that interview.
Can we remember that Megs wouldn’t allow KP to take Thomas “under their wing” before the wedding? That when Megs had KP release a statement it mentioned that Megs “cared for” her father not “cares for.” Past tense vs. present tense.
We should start considering whether these two press idiots–aka Harry & Megs–are already dumb enough to run to Oprah to whine publicly about her family in addition to any interview Doria has already done with Oprah.
He’s not being coached. That’s satellite delay! C’mon people. The royal family would never send someone out–who was coached–on national British tv on satellite delay!
Thomas is hitting back at his daughter, who has so clearly ditched him. Why would Megs put him on Great Morning Britain if he wasn’t going to do an interview in person??
‘It was an act calculated to create embarrassment. She needed money.’
‘By this time, she and Augustus had been married for seven years, even though the royal couple had spent less than a year together as man and wife, and both had been serially unfaithful.
According to documents lodged in the Royal Archives at Windsor, the Duchess chased her husband to Lisbon trying to get money out of him and managed to secure a £4,000-a-year maintenance deal.’
‘For the first Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it was a case of marry in haste and repent at leisure. For people like them there was no such thing as divorce, and they were shackled to each other for life. Money, ambition and betrayal tarnished their marriage, and it’s reassuring to think that nothing of such magnitude could ever occur to the lives of Harry and Meghan today.’
‘Her husband had to bring a legal action to stop her using the royal coat of arms, and another to stop her children, encouraged by their mother, from calling themselves ‘Prince’ and ‘Princess’.’
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