Meghan Markle appears to have taken a swipe at Piers Morgan after sending a jar of her new As Ever jam to an unexpected recipient.
The controversial broadcaster has been known to repeatedly criticize the Duke and Duchess of Sussex over the years.
In March, Morgan was quick to dub her new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, ‘unwatchable’.
‘I tried watching it, and after, honestly, about three, four minutes, I was done. It was just unwatchable,’ he said.
‘It’s just the ultimate kind of vanity project, where it’s all about people telling Meghan how great she is, her telling everyone how great she is.’
This is far from the first time the journalist has hit out at Meghan – he famously quit Good Morning Britain following a rant about the Suits actress in 2021.
Morgan and Alex Beresford had an explosive on-air clash after weather presenter Beresford accused the broadcaster of ‘trashing’ Meghan before he stormed off set. Later that day, Morgan quit the ITV breakfast show.
Now, it appears the Duchess of Sussex has silently retaliated to Morgan by sending a jar of her new As Ever Jam to the GMB weather presenter.
Earlier today, Beresford took to his Instagram to thank the Duchess for a jar of her raspberry spread, adding: ‘Can’t wait to try this! Thank you so much @meghan…’
The American actress also kindly gifted the TV presenter’s newborn daughter a large Jelly Cat Octopus toy, which Beresford also shared to Instagram, while thanking the Duchess.
has approached Meghan’s representatives for comment.
It comes after exclusively revealed Meghan had attempted to land A-listers such as Beyonce and Taylor Swift for her female empowerment podcast, which is said to already be in crisis after only three episodes.
Confessions of a Female Founder is Meghan’s follow-up to Archetypes, which failed to land and led to Spotify not renewing the Sussexes’ $25million contract in 2023.
‘No one’s picking up the phone’, one source close to the current podcast production has claimed, adding: ‘The show is not landing’.
‘There’s no Taylor Swift. No Beyoncé. Not even a Hailey Bieber. And when you’re pitching female empowerment, that’s a problem. It speaks volumes for her pulling power. She’s not happy about her lack of appeal’, they added.
Meghan interviewed Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd on the debut episode of the Duchess of Sussex’s new Lemonada podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder.
Her second instalment was with Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, and today’s episode was with her friend, hair colourist Kadi Lee, whose company the former Suits star has also invested in.
A source close to the making of the show has claimed that Ms Markle and her team ‘dialled all the big names’ to join her for ‘honest conversations with women who’ve built from the ground up, faced challenges and kept going.’
But these calls have been quietly ignored, Radar has said.
It comes after the Duchess of Sussex used her new podcast to admit the original name for lifestyle brand As Ever became a ‘word salad’.
Meghan Markle originally introduced her latest business venture selling products such as raspberry spread as American Riviera Orchard in March last year.
But she faced trademarking setbacks and switched the name to As Ever in February, just weeks before the launch – with Netflix now a new partner in the business.
The Duchess spoke about the name in the third episode of her podcast Confessions Of A Female Founder, in which she interviewed her friend, hair colourist Kadi Lee.
She said: ‘I had secured As Ever as a name in 2022, and then as everything started to evolve last year, and bringing in a partner the size that it was, and it was just so interesting.
‘Because you remember, I said, ‘I like American Riviera as an umbrella,’ and then be able to have verticals beneath it. And maybe have the ‘Orchard’ really small. But when that’s not feasible… suddenly it became this word salad. I didn’t love that so much.’
‘I was like, ‘OK, well let’s go back to the thing that I’ve always loved. Let’s use the name that I protected for a reason that had been sort of under wraps’.
‘And then we were able to focus in the quiet and put our heads down and build on something that no one was sniffing around to even see about.
‘It was just really, really helpful to have that quiet period which you would know after spending so many years working on something, building it and the pivots that you had to take with it.’