{"id":2365196,"date":"2026-04-09T07:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2365196"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:39:29","slug":"tv-host-issues-statement-after-meghan-markle-prank-goes-wrong-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tv-host-issues-statement-after-meghan-markle-prank-goes-wrong-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"TV host issues statement after Meghan Markle prank goes wrong | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Australian TV presenter was forced to issue a statement after his April Fool\u2019s joke<\/a> involving Meghan Markle<\/a> sparked backlash.
Channel Seven’s Larry Emdur said that he has received \u201cangry messages from around the world\u201d after what he described as a \u201chugely successful April Fools gag\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last Wednesday, April 1, the 61-year-old shared a new post on his Instagram<\/a> account, \u201cannouncing\u201d that the Duchess of Sussex agreed to an interview with him during her visit to Australia later this month. He wrote in the post: \u201cThis is beyond massive! Ahead of her Australian tour The Duchess of Sussex has agreed to one single interview and IT IS WITH US !!! Enormous thanks to Iska.B.Fluchador\u00e8 and Petra Shmaykle from C.A.A America, who got us over the line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNot gonna lie, the list of \u2018don\u2019t ask\u2019 questions is long but we still can\u2019t wait .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve deliberately turned off the comments section as I\u2019m not interested in those nasty threads that can sometimes follow Meghan . See you after 9 on our biggest @morningshowon7 ever @kyliegillies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, it appears that his innocent joke sparked a negative reaction from some people, with the TV presenter revealing that he remains unfazed by the \u201cangry messages\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a new post this Wednesday, Mr Emdur reuploaded the original picture with the \u201cannouncement\u201d and a smiley face drawn over it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said: \u201cHey dddderrrrrrr !!! This was an April Fools joke, I\u2019m still getting trolled and angry messages from around the world, which of course I couldn\u2019t give a fat flying stuff about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI posted it on April 1st then it was sent around the world and landed in various feeds days later, so it somehow lost its April Fools sting, which I think is bloody hysterical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat constitutes a hugely successful April Fools gag in my book. Anyway, if you\u2019re angry then just unfollow me \u2018coz I don\u2019t do angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GB News also reported that the Duchess of Sussex\u2019s representatives dismissed any such appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Australian TV presenter was forced to issue a statement after his April Fool\u2019s joke involving Meghan Markle sparked backlash.Channel Seven’s Larry Emdur said that he has received \u201cangry messages from around the world\u201d after what he described as a \u201chugely successful April Fools gag\u201d. Last Wednesday, April 1, the 61-year-old shared a new post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2365197,"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":[306508,34927,347532,347533,34928,23067,459580,228266,34915,34911,459579],"class_list":["post-2365196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest-news","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-april-fools","tag-meghan-markle-latest","tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-meghan-markle-prank"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TV-host-issues-statement-after-Meghan-Markle-prank-goes-wrong.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365196","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=2365196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365198,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365196\/revisions\/2365198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}