Meghan Markle’s popularity in the UK is on the decline, according to a recent survey, but she is likely to take the news with “a pinch of salt”, says one expert.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been named the fourth most hated celebrities of 2024 in a new Ranker poll published earlier in the week. Ranker compiles polls based on public opinion, reports the Mirror.
The Sussexes, who are facing fresh reports that they were met in Nigeria last week by a fugitive who allegedly orchestrated a $20 million bank fraud and money laundering scheme, join James Corden and Amber Heard on the list of the “most hated celebrities”.
However, according to Press Box PR spokesperson Lynn Carratt, Meghan, 42, is likely not worried about the low ranking as she would prefer to focus on success in her home country of the United States.
She told the publication: “I think Meghan will take the survey data with a grain of salt.” I’m not sure if she’s already interested in getting the British public back on her side.
According to a recent survey, Meghan Markle’s popularity in the UK is on the decline, but the news is likely to be taken with a “pinch of salt”, says one expert (Meghan pictured at the Lights Academy in Abuja, Nigeria , earlier this month).
“She’s American and that’s where her family life is now, so she’ll be more concerned with increasing her popularity in her own country and focusing on building her American Rivera Orchard brand and making it a huge success.”
According to the publication, out of 31,400 Britons, a whopping 65 percent disliked the duchess, while 45 percent expressed negative opinions about her.
By contrast, Meghan attracted just 4 percent of the positive votes. It seems the expert is suggesting that Meghan would prefer to dedicate her efforts to growing her American Riviera Orchard lifestyle cooking brand, which will likely keep her in good favor across the pond.
The mother-of-two launched the luxury lifestyle brand, which has so far produced a special strawberry jam, with a stunning Instagram video in March.
The Duchess’ project is said to have been in the works for over a year and will feature “all the things that are close to her heart.”
The flash company will coincide with the launch of a new cooking show starring Meghan on Netflix, where she will make and sell her own products. It will lead to a book and blog that will accompany her cooking exhibitions.
It is understood that a trademark application has been filed covering cutlery – knives, forks, spoons – cookbooks and electronic cookbooks, coffee, jams, jellies and butters.
It is also expanded with a physical store from which tableware, cups, jams, table linens and recipe books could be sold.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been named the fourth most hated celebrities of 2024 in a new Ranker poll (pictured: the couple visit the Armed Forces Complex in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 11).
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are likely to ignore the news after being rated the most annoying celebrities in 2022 (couple appear in Netflix documentary Meghan & Harry, episode 4)
In the video, Meghan is seen whisking in a stunning rustic kitchen, while a woman’s hands are seen arranging pink and white flowers.
The duchess launched the first product of the new business a month later, sending influencers and friends a jar of strawberry jam.
Fashion designer Tracy Robbins and Argentine socialite Delfina Balquier are among those who posted an image of the product on their Instagram Stories.
Mrs Robbins and her husband, Paramount boss Brian Robbins, are friends of the Sussexes and invited them to the premiere of the Bob Marley film in Jamaica in January.
The couple are also friends with Balquier, who is married to Prince Harry’s friend Nacho Figueras, and the four were together at a charity polo match in Florida in April.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are likely to ignore the news that they are disliked, as they did in 2022, when they topped the list of most annoying celebrities.
Two years ago, the couple were branded celebrities people were likely to get tired of, just weeks after the release of their eye-catching multimillion-dollar Netflix special criticizing the royal family.
Heather Dorak received a jar of jam from the Duchess’ lifestyle brand, American Rivera Orchard, in April this year)
The couple, whose high-profile split from the royal family dominated headlines in 2020, each landed a spot on Ranker’s ‘Celebrities You’re Sick of in 2022’, with the Duchess of Sussex topping the list of figures who, according to readers had reportedly grown tired. .
The dubious distinctions for the duo are noticeably steeper than where they ranked at the beginning of the year, when Meghan was ranked 20th, while her husband, who was faring slightly better, was ranked no. 23.
Names completing the top ten included Oprah Winfrey, in whose 2021 interview of the couple Meghan claimed the royal was ‘concerned’ about her children’s skin color, as well as Amber Heard, James Corden, Kim Kardashian and several other polarizing personalities. .
That said, on a list that, unlike the Sussexes, also included stars whose reputations were called into question this year, such as Kanye West and Ellen DeGeneres, the Sussex team was still the standout.
The Ranker article indicated that Meghan, an actress who starred in the American series Suits, received a total of 24,201 votes out of more than 416,000 votes cast. Voting is tabulated in real time.
Harry, on the other hand, received almost 21,492 votes, representing more than five percent of the nearly half a million votes received.