Are the wokest couple in all the West losing their star power? The first-half of the Sussexes’ new ‘explosive’ documentary attracted less than a million viewers in the 332-million strong USA, with one critic remarking ‘If I were Netflix, I’d want my money back.’ Meghan’s planned animated series Pearl has already been binned. And now even the right-on Jacinda Ardern has distanced herself from the runaway royals and their latest paean to progressivism.
The New Zealand premier issued a statement last night, couched in diplomatic niceties, insisting that her involvement in an upcoming Netflix documentary series was not connected to the couple. Ardern is among seven ‘extraordinary leaders’ being interviewed on Live to Lead, a series (supposedly) inspired by Nelson Mandela and – bizarrely – fronted by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The role call of names in Harry and Meghan’s forthcoming series is unsurprising and uninspired: Greta Thunberg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem.
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