Meghan Markle spoke about her time on Deal Or No Deal and the idea that women can't have brains AND beauty with Paris Hilton.
) and the Duchess of Sussex has gone on to feature guests including by not limited to Constance Wu, Margaret Cho and Jenny Slate.
The pair were ic-on-ique as the ditzy airheads who knew a kitchen only as a ‘cooking room’, but now admits the caricature ‘got out of hand’ and still defines her to this day - you only have to look at Versace's recent Milan Fashion Week show to see that the seeds sown during the fateful noughties continue to bear fruit.
She continued, ‘I almost got stuck and lost in the character and at some point it was like lines got blurred and it was like I forgot who I was.’ Unsurprisingly, Meghan has faced her own stereotyping when it comes to brains versus beauty; in 2006 she worked the ‘glamorous assistant’ role on the American version of Deal or No Deal, a job she said she was ‘thankful’ for, ‘but not for how it made me feel, which was not smart.’