Today host Allison Langdon’s surprise cameo on Meghan Markle’s podcast

Meghan Markle’s latest podcast episode has just dropped, featuring a very unexpected Aussie guest - and she’s not happy about it.

The latest episode of Meghan Markle’s podcast Archetypes has featured a very surprising cameo by a well-known Australian TV presenter.

A clip of Today host Allison Langdon’s news bulletin from around the time of the royal wedding in 2018 was played during Meghan’s interview with actress Mindy Kaling, to demonstrate her point about sexism in reporting of their relationship.

“When I started dating my husband, and we became engaged, everyone was just like, ‘Oh my god, you’re so lucky, he chose you,” the Duchess of Sussex said, before audio of Langdon was played.

“The happy couple has enchanted the world with their real-life fairytale,” the Nine journalist was heard saying, before Meghan cut back in.

“And at a certain point, after you hear it a million times over, you’re like, ‘Well I chose him too!’”

Langdon has made an unexpected - and apparently unwanted - appearance on Archetypes. Picture: Channel Nine/Archewell Audio

However, she added, Harry was always on hand to offer support.

She added: “But, thankfully, I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going, ‘They’ve got it all wrong. I’m the lucky one because you chose me.’

“But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and stereotyped that you’re so lucky, and it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough, as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own.”

Addressing her unexpected cameo on the Today show on Wednesday, Langdon admitted she’d had no idea her voice had been used – and that she’d listened to it with “steam out of my ears”.

“What part of that was saying,‘Harry (chose you)... oh, my gosh,’” she scoffed to co-host Karl Stefanovic, who also admitted the episode “makes my head explode”.

“Whatever side of the fence Ally is on in this story, she gets smashed by Meghan,” he pointed out, before rolling his eyes.

“All I know is that I had a lot of mates who liked Meghan for a long time and none of them do anymore,” Langdon said.

Elsewhere in the 50-minute Archetypes episode, titled, “The Stigma of the Singleton”, Meghan explained how she was asked to plan her future wedding as a religious studies assignment in Catholic school.

She said: “When I was 14, I planned my wedding. Not my actual wedding – that would have been a bit harder to imagine.

“This wedding was an assignment from my religion two class in Catholic school.

“I wanted it to be at the Bel Air hotel, and there was a swan lake. I wanted the cake to be from Hanson’s bakery.

“And the dress … Oh my goodness the dress was strapless and poufy and I had seen it in the bridal magazine.

“I bought it. Not the dress, but the bridal magazine.

“I took this project seriously. I wanted to get an A. And I did. Maybe I got an A-minus.”

She questioned why the assignment had even existed, saying: “At no point can you say, ‘Nope. My dream for the future is to be single.’

“The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage.”

Harry and Meghan’s ‘fairytale’ wedding. Picture: Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images

Later in the podcast, Meghan told Kaling how she was a “shy loner” who became “the smart one” by throwing herself into extra-curricular activities at school.

“Were you not the pretty one growing up?” her guest responded.

“No, god no. Ugly duckling. Not conventional beauty – maybe now that would be seen as beautiful,” Meghan replied.

“I had massive frizzy curly hair. I had a huge gap in my teeth. I was the smart one, forever and ever and ever. And then just sort of grew up.”

She explained: “I never had anyone to sit with at lunch.

“I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy. I didn’t know where I fit in.

“So I was like, oh I’ll become president of the multicultural club, the president of sophomore class, of French club.

“And by doing that I had meetings at lunch time so I didn’t have to worry about who I would sit with or what I would do.”

Kaling said Meghan’s admission made her “emotional”, adding: “You do seem so intimidating.

“Your life is together. You’re so beautiful.

“It’s nice to know that you were a lonely kid who didn’t necessarily begin that way.”

– withThe Sun