Howie Mandel, the previous host of “Deal or No Deal,” has weighed in on Meghan Markle’s dissatisfaction together with her NBC days. In an interview with Us Weekly, the tv character stated he understands the place Markle is coming from.
“I get it because — and I’ve never said this before — they had this pyramid of 26 beautiful, intelligent women standing there just staring at me like I was a piece of meat,” Mandel stated in an interview final week. “I was in the center, just dressed up in a suit and I felt like, ‘I am more than this.’”
Mandel, who hosted the NBC present from 2005 to 2019, stated he “felt like nothing” on the sequence, prompting his transfer to “America’s Got Talent.” In a current episode of her “Archetypes” podcast, Meghan revealed that modeling with a suitcase on “Deal or No Deal” made her really feel like a “bimbo” with “all looks and little substance.”
Shortly after her feedback, the Duchess of Sussex acquired criticism from “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg.
“I don’t think that the people who are sitting there are thinking about you like that. They’re thinking, ‘I want the money,’” Goldberg stated final week.
Goldberg added that Meghan’s unfavourable expertise with “Deal or No Deal” would possibly simply include the territory.
“When you’re a performer, you take the gig. Sometimes, you’re in a ‘Bozo’ suit, sometimes you got a big nose, and this is just the way it is,” Goldberg stated. “We’re not journalists. We’re actors. We’re trying to get to another place. And you [Meghan] left and that was your prerogative. I feel bad because I don’t think people were looking at the girls like this.”
Similarly, “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Claudia Jordan, who was additionally a briefcase mannequin on the present, criticized Meghan. On her Instagram tales final week, Jordan stated “Deal or No Deal NEVER treated us like bimbos. We got so many opportunities because of that show, Fremantle and @nbc.”
Mandel instructed Us Weekly that “Deal or No Deal” was a “great workplace environment” and that Meghan, a former “Suits” star, was merely speaking about “what was going on in her mind.”
“Some people show up at an office and don’t feel good about it and decide to change careers,” he stated. “I don’t think she’s maligning ‘Deal or No Deal.’”
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