Kerry Katona brands Meghan Markle’s Netflix show ‘awful’ and takes a savage swipe at the Duchess

Kerry Katona has branded Meghan Markle‘s new Netflix series ‘awful’ and said she switched off after only five minutes.

The reality star, 44, tuned in to With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show which sees her cooking with celebrity friends like Mindy Kaling.

But the series left a bad taste in Kerry’s mouth with the former Atomic Kitten star questioning why Meghan wanted to do it at all.

Kerry wrote in her latest New magazine column: ‘I attempted to watch Meghan’s new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, this week and I couldn’t keep it on for more than five minutes. I thougt it was awful, if I’m honest.

‘I think it’s a bad idea for a show and I won’t be tuning back in. I thought she wanted to leave the royal family because she wanted privacy? But now she’s trying to be a celebrity again.’

Meghan’s show debuted on March 4 and, despite receiving considerable criticism, it has proven popular with viewers and has already been renewed for a second season.  

Kerry Katona has branded Meghan Markle ‘s new Netflix series ‘awful’ and said she switched off after only five minutes

The reality star, 44, tuned in to With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show which sees her cooking with celebrity friends like Mindy Kaling

Kerry isn’t the first star to criticise Meghan’s new show as Natalie Cassidy also admitted she was unimpressed with it.      

The soap star was ‘bamboozled’ to see Meghan wearing a white linen dress while cooking pasta and blasted her ‘beginner’ cooking skills.

Speaking on her Off the Telly podcast with Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page, Natalie said: ‘You don’t cook pasta with a cream linen suit on, number one.

Joanna chimed: ‘Tomatoes as well.’

Natalie added: ‘No, that’s the first thing. Do you know what, I like Meghan, I mean it, they get a lot of bad press, all of that rubbish, I’m not here to have a go at Meghan, or at Harry, that’s really boring and people do it all the time. 

‘They’re living their life, good luck to them.

‘But as a lifestyle show, I am sorry, she was chopping up some vegetables, her crudité plate, and I thought, you don’t chop a lot, don’t pretend. Her chopping was quite beginner-ish.

‘The pasta she made was very healthy and I genuinely was bamboozled. She was showing us how to put some vegetables on a plate and added a few flowers to it, who can’t do that?

Kerry wrote: ‘I attempted to watch Meghan’s new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, this week and I couldn’t keep it on for more than five minutes. I thougt it was awful, if I’m honest’

Kerry isn’t the first star to criticise Meghan’s new show as Natalie Cassidy also admitted she was unimpressed with it

The soap star was ‘bamboozled’ to see Meghan wearing a white linen dress while cooking pasta and blasted her ‘beginner’ cooking skills

‘It’s really glossy, it’s really easy, I could put another one on. It is what it is, it’s just easy.’

Meghan has suffered a barrage of criticism in both the UK and US over her new show.

Last week, Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith said she was ‘not a Meghan Markle fan’, adding: ‘There’s more to life than how you look and how your friends think of you.’

That comes after comedian Katherine Ryan – a previous backer of the Duchess – said it feels like Meghan puts on an act of ‘oh, I’m just so humble’.

Vogue Williams – whose husband Spencer Matthews is the brother-in-law of Kate’s sister Pippa Middleton – also criticised Meghan, saying ‘who does that’ in relation to her rainbow fruit platter and joking that one of her outfits was ‘disgusting’.

Speaking on her Off the Telly podcast, Natalie said: ‘You don’t cook pasta with a cream linen suit on, number one… Her chopping was quite beginner-ish’

The series has also been panned by TV critics, with The Guardian describing it as a ‘gormless lifestyle filler’ and ‘so pointless it might be the Sussexes’ last TV show’, while The Telegraph branded it ‘insane’ and an ‘exercise in narcissism’.

In the eight-part show, the former Suits actress gives hosting tips and cooks with celebrity friends including The Office star Mindy Kaling.

Harry makes just one appearance at the end of the first season’s final episode when he joins Meghan, her mother Doria Ragland and friends for an outdoor celebratory brunch.

Meghan said it ‘feels like a new chapter that I’m so excited that I get to share and I’ve been able to learn from all of you’, in what was viewed as a nod to the restrictions she felt within the royal family.

The Sussexes, who signed a $100million (£80million) deal with Netflix in 2020, have previously put out the controversial Harry & Meghan documentary, which features accusations against the royal family, and the sport show Polo.

The second season of With Love, Meghan is coming in the autumn, and has already finished filming, according to Netflix.

Gwyneth Paltrow was also asked about Meghan in a Vanity Fair interview published this week, and said of her Montecito neighbour: ‘I don’t know Meghan and Harry… I mean, I’ve met Meghan, who seems really lovely, but I don’t know her at all.

‘I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes… I think there’s always more than enough to go around. Everybody deserves an attempt at everything that they want to try.’