Meghan Markle may have thought she was launching a charming little lifestyle show centered around food, friendship, and fresh ingredients.
Enter Justine Bateman, the ’80s icon, truth-teller, and certified roster, here to set the record straight with one gloriously savage social media post. It all started when Bateman, best known for her role as the lovable but slightly dim Mallory Keaton on Family Ties, shared a post by Richard III’s ghost featuring a picture of fish and chips decorated with flowers. With a single quip—“Is this from Meghan Markle’s new show?”—Bateman delivered a cutting remark in just one sentence. And honestly, she wasn’t wrong.
Meghan’s show, With Love, Meghan, is less about cooking and more of an aesthetic fever dream where food serves as a mere prop. Take, for example, the now-infamous dried flower incident. In what she must have believed to be an inspired culinary touch, Meghan decided to sprinkle brittle, dusty flower fragments over everything—from baked goods to beverages—effectively transforming meal times into a choking hazard. Imagine taking a sip of water, only for a rogue petal to lodge itself in your throat. Suddenly, a trip to the emergency room has never been so whimsical.
Fans wasted no time rallying behind Bateman’s comedic genius. One supporter declared, “She isn’t wrong,” while another simply called it the “perfect response.” Because, really—what is this show supposed to be? Cooking? Entertaining? A masterclass in branding gone completely off the rails? No one knows for sure. But Bateman calling out the sheer ridiculousness of it all was the reality check the world needed.
This isn’t even the first time Bateman has put Meghan and Harry on blast. She’s been openly critical of their performative wokeness for a while now. In fact, she’s the one who coined the term disaster tourists to describe the couple’s endless victimhood tour, a phrase that perfectly encapsulates their entire public persona. Someone get this woman a medal.
As for the show itself, episode one features Meghan inviting her old friend Daniel over and deciding to “spoil” him by preparing the guest room. For most people, this would involve a quick dusting and maybe setting out a clean towel. But for Meghan, it requires deep existential contemplation, like, What should be by the bed for them? The answer? Either a bottle of pretentious bath salts or a hand-labeled snack bag—because heaven forbid anyone consume peanut butter pretzels straight from the package like a commoner.
And then there’s the cooking. Meghan and Dan whip up something she dares to call “single-skillet spaghetti,” which, by name alone, sounds like the culinary equivalent of minimal effort. But it’s not just the food that’s confusing—it’s the guests. Are these people actually her friends? Does she even know them? Because when you tell someone, You’re so tall! like you’re noticing for the first time, it raises some questions, Meghan.
So let’s all raise a glass—preferably one without floating flower debris—to Justine Bateman. With a single well-placed comment, she managed to say what so many were already thinking. While Meghan attempts to redefine food and hospitality, Bateman is the one serving up the real tea. And it’s absolutely delicious.
