Meghan Markle accused of copying Pamela Anderson’s new lifestyle show
Meghan Markle has been accused of copying Hollywood icon Pamela Anderson in the latest setback for her new lifestyle venture.
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Drama and accusations continue to plague Meghan Markle’s attempts to launch anything new.
Fans of Pamela Anderson have accused the Duchess of Sussex of copying the Baywatch star’s new lifestyle show after calling out similarities between the Hollywood star’s trailer for Pamela’s Cooking with Love and Markle’s With Love, Meghan.
Anderson’s show launches this week on Binge while Netflix releases Meghan’s lifestyle series on March 4, after postponing its January debut during the LA wildfires.
The With Love, Meghan trailer shows Markle, 43, inviting friends and celebrities to a California estate where she shares cooking, gardening, styling and hosting tips.
Using produce from the garden, Meghan also invites talented chefs into her kitchen where she asks questions about their food philosophy as they prepare a meal.
In Pamela’s Cooking with Love, the devout vegan learns new skills in the kitchen cooking wholesome plant-based meals alongside celebrated chefs using produce from her own garden.
Family and friends then join Anderson and her guest chef at a table, styled by the host, to enjoy the offerings.
The show is filmed at Anderson’s impressive home on Vancouver Island where she grew up and now lives.
But viewers and critics have taken to social media claiming the mother-of-two’s trailer is a ‘straight copy’ of Anderson’s promotional video for her lifestyle program, which was released in October 2024, months before Meghan’s.
Some have come to Meghan’s defence citing the closeness of the shows’ release dates as being merely coincidental while others have pointed out that many cooking and lifestyle shows involve the host’s family, friends, fresh produce and celebrity chefs and guests.
But that hasn’t stopped comparisons on X by many who may or may not be fans of Anderson but certainly have a dislike for the Duchess.
Honing in on both shows, detractors highlight similarities between the production aesthetic, wardrobes, dialogue and scenes but accuse Meghan of being the copycat.
Both trailers open with Anderson and Meghan walking through a garden growing produce and then inviting chefs into the kitchens with family and friends the lucky tasters of the delicious meals.
MEGHAN COPIES DIANA’S LOOK
Meghan Markle has recreated Princess Diana’s iconic look in a new video.
The Duchess of Sussex appeared in a purple Northwestern sweatshirt identical to one worn by her late mother-in-law nearly 30 years ago.
Meghan filmed herself walking around her garden in Montecito in a video posted on her Instagram.
The mother-of-two smiles in a pair of sunglasses, with the clip also featuring the couple’s children Archie and Lilibet.
It’s captioned: “A small break from work to soak in the weekend sunshine.”
One of the children is heard saying “Mummy, I can do it if you want me to” before they are seen watering the plants with a hose.
She then makes a sparkling cocktail using an orange picked from their grounds as Harry can be heard laughing.
The sweatshirt is one that Princess Diana was often seen wearing to and from her London gym in 1996, the year before her death.
She was presented with the sweatshirt when she visited the prestigious Illinois university’s campus in 1995 to raise funds for the university’s Robert H. Lurie Cancer Centre.
Meghan herself was a student at Northwestern double majoring in theatre and international studies and graduating in 2003.
Her new Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan is set to launch early next month, coinciding with her lifestyle brand As Ever (formerly known as American Riviera Orchard).
Both ventures have seen the duchess go on a social media blitz, posting nine times on her personal Instagram since the start of 2025 – following years of silence.
It comes after it was revealed Meghan is banned from selling clothing as part of her brand.
A cut-price Chinese clothing company and a family-run New York-based retailer are among the fashion outlets with the same name.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, documents filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office in October 2022 by Meghan’s legal team applied for permission to sell aprons, as well as other clothing items.
But USPTO issued a 145-page “partial rejection” of her trademark application the following July saying she couldn’t sell clothes due to her company’s name being similar to Chinese “fast fashion” outlet ASEVER.
It supplies to stores including major retailer H&M.
USPTO – which cited “clothing category Class 25” – said: “The marks are identical in sound and virtually identical in appearance and are thus confusingly similar for the purposes of determining likelihood of confusion.”
It added: “Registration of the applied-for mark is refused because of a likelihood of confusion.”
In January last year, Meghan’s lawyers submitted a revised application and As Ever was approved for trademark.
A trademark lawyer told the Daily Mail: “If she sells clothing under the As Ever brand she risks being sued.”
Forced rebrand
The Duchess was forced this month to rebrand American Riviera Orchard – originally announced a year ago – due to trademark issues.
And the mayor of Porreres in Majorca said she is considering legal action over Meghan’s new logo apparently copying the town’s centuries’ old coat of arms.
Meanwhile, former Palace aide Jason Knauf has finally broken his silence over a bullying scandal involving the former actor.
Jason Knauf – who previously worked for Prince William and Princess Catherine for seven years – says he “wouldn’t change anything”.
Speaking to 60 Minutes, he reflected on the intense scrutiny he faced after an internal email he wrote about Meghan was leaked to the media.
He had sent the message in 2018 raising concerns about the Duchess of Sussex’s alleged treatment of staff.
It was made public three years later ahead of Meghan and Prince Harry’s controversial interview with Oprah Winfrey during which it was claimed racist remarks were made about the then-unborn Prince Archie.
Meghan strongly denied the claims, labelling them as part of a smear campaign.
Referring to the attention he received at the time, Mr Knauf said: “I think it, it’s tough, but it’s probably quite good.
“You know someone who has been helping other people through how to deal with the public eye. You probably had to take your own medicine sometimes.”
He continued: “You can’t choose just to take the fun stuff in any job. And that applies to the Prince and Princess as well as everyone else working for them. So I wouldn’t change anything.”
Mr Knauf doubled down on whether he had any regrets, saying “no” and adding in such a role you have to “take everything that comes with it”.
And despite the scandal, he went on to speak warmly of Meghan and Harry, saying he had “lots of great times” with the pair while working closely with them, including on their wedding.
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