When you consider that these are some of the woke-ist characters on the planet, and more importantly Meghan and Harry’s “people”, it tells you all you need to know about what the accepted view is today, almost exactly a year after that interview.
This time last year it was impossible to question a word the Duchess of Sussex said in her prime time whingeathon, let alone call her a drama queen and a fantasist, as Wilson did. And the reaction from the crowd and an industry intent on virtue signalling at every given opportunity makes Sunday night quite a milestone.
Add to this the general reaction I get from people encountered out and about in LA (I have yet to meet one person who will fight her corner there, and that’s in her hometown), and you have to wonder whether the Oprah interview will turn out to be the Duchess of Sussex’s biggest mistake of all.
One LA actress friend summed up the nature of it perfectly. “A-listers in Hollywood actually have a pretty lofty Royal view of how to behave,” she told me at the time. “That means no tell-alls and no airing of dirty laundry in public. Basically, the whole ‘never complain, never explain’ thing. So as soon as Meghan did that interview she excluded herself from the one group she desperately wanted to be a part of.” And inadvertently became one of the Kardashians instead.
Now that they are an accepted part of the ‘comedy narrative’ – that presenters can get an easy laugh sending up – the couple should steel themselves for more jibes to come. But perhaps even this is preferable to the day the jokes stop, and they are not mentioned at all.