Taylor Swift reportedly declined a personal invitation from Meghan Markle to join her on her podcast.
The claim came as part of a widely reported feature about her and Prince Harry’s attempts to break into Hollywood after stepping back from royal life.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the report stated that Meghan worked with Spotify’s Gimlet unit to come up with a list of potential guests for her podcast after she and Prince Harry signed a deal with the streaming service worth about $20 million in 2020.
The report says that Meghan wrote a personal letter inviting the “Midnights” singer to come onto her podcast, but Swift declined through a representative.
It is currently not known if the show has been commissioned by Netflix itself.
A documentary on the Invictus Games, a production agreed shortly after the couple signed the £80million deal with Netflix in 2020, is also still in the works.
The programme, Heart of Invictus, will follow competitors around the world training for the Games at The Hague which had been expected to take place in 2020 but were delayed until 2021 due to the pandemic.
It is one of the couple’s only ideas that was not rejected by the streaming giant.
The Wall Street Journal analysis said that Harry and Meghan had suggested shows that were too similar to already popular Netflix programmes such as sitcoms like Emily in Paris but ‘about a man’, and a show about LGBTQ characters similar to those in Heartstopper.
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