Ulrika Jonsson has slammed Meghan Markle after the Duchess spoke out about her time being a ‘briefcase girl’ on Deal or No Deal.
Meghan, whorecently opened up on working from homewith Prince Harry, revealed in the latest episode of her podcast, Archetypes, that she quit the hit game show after feeling "objectified".
Meghan held briefcase number 24 during her time on the US version of Deal or No Deal, years before she met Prince Harry or appeared on the popular TV show Suits.
In her latest Spotify episode – titled “Breaking Down 'The Bimbo' with Paris Hilton” – The Duchess of Sussex said she was told to "suck it in" by a woman who helped run the US version of the hit game show back in 2006.
She later left the show, saying she felt uncomfortable that her role on the show was “solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains”.
Former weather girl Ulrika has shared her thoughts on Meghan’s comments, criticising the 41 year old for "ditching her feminist principles" for what she saw at the time as an “opportunity” to advance her career.
“She may not want to admit it, but Meghan clearly saw it as [an opportunity] and was willing to sacrifice her overwhelming cerebral capabilities to be seen on screen and take her chances,” Ulrika wrote in a column forThe Sun .
“If she’s so smart, clever, wise and savvy, why did she not object at the time to her own perception of what she would be representing and what she would be viewed as?
“She didn’t because she had ambition burning a hole in her principles and she was quite willing to use that role as a stepping stone to bigger and better things.”
Urika then referred to how she got her career break in TV as an assistant and later as a weather presenter, saying: “I was no meteorologist. I was merely a messenger. Did I have a deep and profound interest in the weather?
"No, not really. But I understood that this fantastic opportunity might eventually lead to greater things — if I put the work in.”
She added: “Now she is being patronising about her experience in a way that basically boils down to her biting the hand that once fed her.
“Plenty of successful women started either as an unrecognised grafter or as a bit of decoration to the side of the screen.”
It comes after Meghan opened up on her early career as an actress on her podcast, claiming the women on the series were given spray tan vouchers each week to top up their tan before filming the show.
She said there was a “very cookie cutter idea” of what the briefcase girls should look like and that it was “solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains”.
Meghan explained that while the job did have some benefits and she was able to pay her bills and had health insurance, it wasn't quite what she wanted from her life.
Revealing that she had studied international relations in college, Meghan added: "There were times when I was on set thinking back to my time working as an intern at the US Embassy in Argentina and being in the motorcade with the Secretary of Treasury and being valued specifically for my brain.
"Here I was being valued for something quite the opposite."
Continuing to discuss her experience on the game show, Meghan says: "When I look back at that time I will never never forget this one detail because moments before we'd get on stage, there was a woman who ran the show and she would be there backstage and I can still hear her.
"She couldn't properly pronounce my last name at the time – and I knew who she was talking to because she would go 'Markel suck'. 'Markell suck it in.' I ended up quitting the show."
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