Dolly Parton snubbed 'fake royal' Meghan Markle's Netflix show as she didn't want to risk her reputation
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Dolly Parton reportedly refused to make an appearance on Meghan Markle’s Netflix show — ‘With Love, Meghan’ — because her team did not want to "risk" the A-lister’s fame.
While appearing on ‘The Nerve with Maureen Callahan’, celebrity commentator Kinsey Schofield revealed that Parton’s “team was livid" about the invite, as reported by Page Six.
She further explained, “Because no, they don’t want to risk Dolly’s reputation Q score [and] her popularity by associating with Meghan Markle.”
Celebrity commentator says Dolly Parton's team thinks ‘Meghan was trying to take advantage of her popularity’
“They knew that this ask was just to give Meghan Markle credibility in this lifestyle space, a space that Dolly does have a lot of credibility in,” Schofield added.
The celebrity commentator also mentioned that the 79-year-old musician “is not only incredibly popular and loved by the general public, but she also is somebody who can float around within these different places.”
“Her team really feels like Meghan was trying to take advantage of her popularity,” Schofield claimed.
Callahan then shared her two cents on Schofield’s statements as she noted that someone as “authentic” as Parton appearing alongside “a fake royal” in her “fake kitchen” would’ve been “spontaneous combustion of good versus evil”.
Mindy Kaling and Abigail Spencer joined Meghan on her show
Markle’s series has been streaming on Netflix since March. It was originally to go on air in January but was delayed because of the Los Angeles wildfires.
At the time, the mother-of-two had said, “I’m thankful to my partners at Netflix for supporting me in delaying the launch, as we focus on the needs of those impacted by the wildfires in my home state of California,” as per Page Six.
Since then many celebrities, like Mindy Kaling and Abigail Spencer, have joined her on the show.
Abigail Spencer called Meghan ‘the most glorious human being on the planet’
Though several critics have continued to call out the Duchess of Sussex, Spencer called her “the most glorious human being on the planet, and so we just have to get behind her and support her” earlier this year.
She continued, “What I love about it is, you know, Meghan is one of my best friends, and I feel like the whole world is going to see, like, an authentic, very cool, very lovely insight into who she actually is as a person.”
“You’re also going to learn a lot! I’ve learned a lot from her myself,” Spencer added.
