PLATELL’S PEOPLE: With their popularity plummeting in America, the Sussexes weren’t just lampooned by South Park’s satire… they were harpooned
Can it be only a couple of months since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were the toast of America accepting the Ripple Of Hope award at a New York gala from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation?
Honoured for their humanitarian work highlighting racism and mental health issues, they were on top of the world and in illustrious company —Ukraine’s President Zelensky was a fellow recipient.
And yet today, despite Meghan’s bleeding-heart, six-part Netflix docu-series, their popularity has collapsed and 45 per cent of Americans believe they should be stripped of their titles.
But it gets worse. They are now the subject of utter ridicule on one of the most popular comedy shows in the U.S. — one watched by the youthful demographic their own Netflix series was aimed at.
This week the satirical animation series South Park brutally lampooned them with an episode in which a couple — one with a ginger beard, the other unmistakably Meghan — undertake ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’. He’s carrying a placard saying: ‘We Want Our Privacy!!’ She’s holding one that says: ‘Stop Looking At Us!’
This week the satirical animation series South Park brutally lampooned them with an episode in which a couple — one with a ginger beard, the other unmistakably Meghan — undertake ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’. He’s carrying a placard saying: ‘We Want Our Privacy!!’ She’s holding one that says: ‘Stop Looking At Us!’
South Park: Worldwide Privacy Tour lambasted Harry and Meghan
It is excoriating. Though no fan of Meghan, even I thought the cruelty went too far in places. But satirical comedy doesn’t work unless it has some element of truth
In this merciless take-down Harry is plugging his autobiography, called not Spare but Waaagh. They are named the Prince and Princess of Canada, and depicted as self-pitying hypocrites who flaunt their eco-credentials while touring the world in private jets.
In one scene they walk on to the court at a basketball game with Meghan shouting through a megaphone: ‘We are here because privacy is a basic human right.’ Appearing with Harry on a TV chat show, Meghan says: ‘We just want to be normal people — this attention is so hard.’
When the host asks Harry if perhaps his social media-savvy wife actually doesn’t want her privacy, the couple storm off to continue their Worldwide Privacy Tour.
It is excoriating. Though no fan of Meghan, even I thought the cruelty went too far in places. But satirical comedy doesn’t work unless it has some element of truth.
Whatever their plans were to conquer the States, the Megs and Harry show is spectacularly backfiring. South Park didn’t just lampoon the Sussexes, it harpooned them.
Harry and Meghan during their visit on the occasion of the upcoming Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 in front of the City Hall Düsseldorf
Superintendent? Oh, just call me Super!
Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith (right) leaving the press conference on the search for Nicola Bulley
A newcomer to Twitter, I tweeted on Thursday following criticism of the police over the search for Nicola Bulley: ‘Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith at the press conference yesterday — skin-tight navy dress, heels, poker-straight hair — whatever happened to a cop uniform! Or is she auditioning for Love Island for midlifers? Show some respect for a missing mother!’
By last night, almost 4.5 million people had looked at it. I hope the next time we see DS Smith, she is dressed appropriately.
Joanna Lumley says her chain-smoking, Champagne-swilling, cocaine-snorting alter-ego Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous would never be commissioned today.
The woke brigade would cancel her in a heartbeat, especially for her emotional abuse of Eddie’s snowflake daughter Saffy.
Even one of Patsy’s most famous quotes — ‘The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic’ — would have to carry a health warning about abuse of insects.
One hell of a Raquel
Raquel Welch died on Wednesday aged 82
Hearing of the death of Raquel Welch, 82, I recalled a friend’s experience sitting next to her in first class on a flight 20 years ago.
Even walking to the loo she exuded sexuality like she was on the red carpet.
Then, finishing her meal, she wrapped those famous lips around a long stick of cheese and ate it so slowly he wished he’d packed his smelling salts.
Rihanna is ridiculed for having two stylists prepare her son for a Vogue cover-shoot when he’s wearing only a nappy.
Refreshing that a star allows their child’s face to be pictured at all — but how silly that she refuses to reveal his name.
Praise the good guys
Graffiti artist Banksy’s latest installation ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’ of a 1950s woman in an apron with a black eye and missing teeth chucking a man into a freezer is to be preserved in a gallery.
It’s a powerful message to shame violent men, but on Valentine’s Day?
Can’t we just occasionally celebrate the fact most blokes are good guys with big hearts who simply want to make us women happy?
Well done Cate Blanchett for taking on the woke mob who target artists such as Pablo Picasso because they acted ‘in a way that might now be considered unacceptable’.
She said it means we will ‘never grapple with the minds of the time and are destined to repeat that stuff’.
Picasso’s treatment of women was criticised by his granddaughter Marina. But she wasn’t upset enough to reject her share of his fortune.
Helena Bonham Carter, wearing one of Vivienne Westwood’s creations
Helena’s tartan tribute
Most heart-warming moment at Vivienne Westwood’s memorial service came courtesy of her friend Helena Bonham Carter, who was wearing one of her creations and said: ‘This dress does all the work for you.
All the other actresses on the red carpet haven’t eaten for weeks. I’ve had a full-fat English breakfast.
Boobs up, longer legs, instant engineering but with no lipo.’
A close second at the non-religious service was when Vivienne’s friend Nick Cave sat at a grand piano and sang his hit Into My Arms, a song as beautiful as any hymn.
News Bruce Willis has dementia reminded of me of when we were told of Mum’s Alzheimer’s. The doctor said it was ‘a family disease’ as it would affect us all. It did. The best advice? It doesn’t matter if Mum can’t remember who you are, you know who she is.
Good news for men, their penises has grown in the past 30 years from an average of 4.8 in to 6 in today. Even better for them is that scientists say it’s down to sedentary lifestyles and junk food. So we women should stop grumbling next time he orders extra cheese with his pizza delivery while watching footie on TV.
After a university in Virginia renamed the T.C. Williams School of Law because T.C. was a slave-owning 19th century tobacco manufacturer, his great-great grandson Robert C. Smith says: ‘Since the Williams family money is tainted, demonstrate your ‘virtue’ and give it all back.’
All $3.6 billion of it.
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