{"id":2326104,"date":"2026-03-13T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2326104"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:02:08","slug":"meghan-markle-interview-turned-down-by-podcast-host-for-1-surprising-reason-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markle-interview-turned-down-by-podcast-host-for-1-surprising-reason-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle interview turned down by podcast host for 1 surprising reason | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The reason for this has now been explained by Gemma, who is reportedly a big fan of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Meghan Markle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gemma told <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow\">News.com.au<\/a>: \u201c\u201cI keep having to pinch myself that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is coming to sit down with me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just a mum from Sydney with a podcast that started as a passion for those trying to live their best lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gemma said she tried to persuade her former co-host, who stepped down from the podcast earlier this year, to return for the special event and interview Meghan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, the answer was a no for reportedly one reason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gemma said: \u201cShe (Jackie) was adamant, \u2018you need to do this yourself, and this is meant to be you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Meghan is expected to attend the women-only weekend event in Sydney on April 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The event costs around \u00a31,440-a-head to attend and runs for three days, although it is believed Meghan will not be present for the whole retreat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It is believed Meghan will talk about her life in the public eye as a woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason for this has now been explained by Gemma, who is reportedly a big fan of Meghan Markle. Gemma told News.com.au: \u201c\u201cI keep having to pinch myself that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is coming to sit down with me. \u201cI\u2019m just a mum from Sydney with a podcast that started as a passion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[23067,450340,435439,56152,413460,182387],"class_list":["post-2326104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-australia","tag-meghan-markle-podcast","tag-meghan-markle-prince-harry","tag-meghan-markle-royal","tag-meghan-markle-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meghan-Markle-interview-turned-down-by-podcast-host-for-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326106,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326104\/revisions\/2326106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}