Whoopi Goldberg
She explains showbiz to ex-“suitcase girl” Meghan
Whoopi Goldberg is tutoring Duchess Meghan in showbiz
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Meghan felt reduced to her looks on the “Deal or No Deal” show. Some colleagues can only shake their heads at this.
Duchess Meghan (41) felt reduced to appearances at the beginning of her TV career, as she recently revealed in her podcast. That prompted Whoopi Goldberg (66) to give the now-wife of Prince Harry (38) a lesson in show business. Meghan had spoken about her assistant job on the TV show “Deal or No Deal”. Before she rose to prominence as an actress, most notably for her role on Suits, her credits included working as “suitcase girl” on the US version of the show.
Whoopi Goldberg explained that taking jobs that aren’t ideal is part of being new to the entertainment industry. “If you’re an actor, you take the performance,” said the 66-year-old in the current episode the TV show “The View”. “You take the gig. Sometimes you wear a bozo suit, sometimes you have a big nose, and that’s just the way it is.” Goldberg continued, “We’re not journalists. We’re actors. We’re trying to get to a different place.”
“Looks mattered”
Duchess Meghan said in the latest episode of her podcast “Archetypes” that she was reduced to her appearance on the show and she knew “that I was so much more […]It was “just about looks and little substance”. Brains were not asked. She is still grateful for the job because it enabled her to pay her bills at the beginning of her career, according to Meghan, who was 25 at the time But in the end she quit.
Whoopi Goldberg isn’t the only former colleague of Duchess Meghan to comment on the 41-year-old’s “Deal or No Deal” comments. One of the models who took part in the show alongside Meghan, Claudia Jordan (49), also spoke up.
“To be clear, yes, getting a modeling gig on a game show doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with your intellect, but on each show the executive producers selected five models with the most outgoing and funniest personalities and mics they knew of that they would be in touch with the candidates,” explained the 49-year-old “Real Housewives of Atlanta” actress according to “Page Six” in their Instagram stories. “We got so many opportunities because of this show,” she added.
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