Whoopi Goldberg shuts down Meghan Markle segment on live TV

The TV host had a very blunt response when a controversial Meghan topic was raised on her talk show.

Whoopi Goldberg refused to engage in a contentious discussion about the Duchess of Sussex on a US chatshow.

The conversation focused on Meghan sparking controversy for using her HRH title in a printed note to her friend Jamie Kern Lima, despite quitting her job as a working royal alongside Prince Harry in 2020, reportsthe New York Post.

“Damn them!” Goldberg, 69, sarcastically yelled at the table during Wednesday’s episode of panel show The View.

“Is it a bad look for Meghan to still refer to herself as a royal?” the EGOT winner asked her co-hosts, to which Sunny Hostin replied, “No, no, it’s not”.

Goldberg then cut Hostin, 56, off and declared, “Wake me up when you’re done!”

After the other co-hosts discussed the topic, the Ghost actor asked, “Can I ask a really dumb question that I just woke up for?”

“Are we that boring?” Joy Behar jokingly asked Goldberg.

“It’s the subject matter,” Goldberg responded.

Goldberg refused to engage on the subject.

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The Sister Act star said she thinks “it’s cringier” that Lima, 47, exposed Meghan’s note publicly.

“To me, I think if someone gives you a gift … I don’t feel like she needed to show that.”

“Whoopi, that was very insightful,” Hostin told Goldberg, who replied, “Well yeah, I’m old enough to be insightful”.

Meghan caused controversy this week for the note in the gift basket she sent to Lima that read, “With Compliments of HRH the Duchess of Sussex”.

The IT Cosmetics co-founder claimed on her podcast on Monday — which featured Meghan as a guest — that the duchess sent the gift “about a year ago”.

Sources close to Meghan told The Post that her use of the HRH title was not intended for a public purpose.

Insiders further insisted that Meghan didn’t break her and Harry’s agreement with the late Queen Elizabeth II to no longer publicly use their HRH titles following their exit from the royal family.

Meghan recently gave a long-form interview on her friend’s podcast.

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On The View, Hostin defended Meghan and insisted she can use her royal title in private situations.

“The agreement that was made did not remove the title. It restricted the way it was to be used. It was not to be used publicly,” said Hostin.

“And she was giving a friend some strawberry jam that she made herself and she wrote, ‘HRH The Duchess of Sussex.’ That was a private gift,” she added.

But Alyssa Farah Griffin called Meghan’s actions “a little cringe,” though she also called out “petty” Prince William for his rumoured plan to strip Meghan and Harry, 40, of their HRH titles when he becomes king.

“Like, you only live once. Make up with your brother and his wife,” Griffin, 35, said about William’s ongoing feud with the Sussexes.

Meanwhile, Sara Haines criticised Meghan for using her royal title with her friends.

“It’s kind of like a doctor when you keep referring to them as Doc and they’re like, ‘Call me Susan.’ I would never refer to myself as Her Royal Highness,” Haines, 47, said.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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