‘Deal or No Deal’s Donna Feldman Says She Wasn’t ‘Treated Like A Bimbo’ Unlike Meghan Markle (Exclusive)

Despite Meghan Markle’s caller claims that she was treated similar a “bimbo” during her clip connected Deal oregon No Deal, Donna Feldman says that wasn’t her acquisition astatine all. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with the erstwhile “Briefcase Beauty,” who shared her position aft she held lawsuit No. 22 during the archetypal play of the deed NBC show.

Donna Feldman was a ‘Briefcase Beauty’ connected ‘Deal oregon No Deal’ (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

“I person work Meghan’s comments astir being treated similar a ‘bimbo’ portion moving connected Deal oregon No Deal, but I person to disagree with what is being said,” The Oval actress stated. “During my clip connected the show, neither myself nor anybody other I worked with was ever treated arsenic such, successful my opinion. However, it’s important to enactment that everyone has their ain experience, and I tin lone talk from mine.”

“Everybody knows what you’re signing up for erstwhile you’re hired arsenic a ‘Briefcase Beauty.’ Being hired based disconnected your looks comes with the territory and since Deal oregon No Deal was 1 of the biggest shows connected NBC, if you’re pro-active with your career, past you marque the astir of it and turn your resume from there,” the exemplary continued. “Although I’ve received galore opportunities based disconnected my looks, it’s my intellect, my personality, and beardown enactment ethic that lend to maine getting hired connected a regular basis.”

Meghan Markle was a briefcase exemplary during the 2nd play of Deal oregon No Deal successful 2006 and 2007 (Chris Jackson WPA Pool/Shutterstock)

“Of course, determination were immoderate things astir moving connected the amusement that weren’t ever fantastic,” Donna admitted. “Not being allowed to beryllium down successful stilettos due to the fact that I mightiness wrinkle my formal oregon having to enactment up successful a enactment making definite everyone looked the mode they should, but I besides was ne'er a fan of quality pageants for that aforesaid reason. It wasn’t the champion feeling for immoderate of the women’s self-esteem, but you person to punctual yourself that you were hired for your beingness and your positivity, and it paid disconnected due to the fact that we would get truthful overmuch instrumentality message from radical that were ever blessed seeing our smiling faces connected screen.”

“Coincidentally, I ran into Howie Mandel earlier this week and I person to accidental that helium is 1 of the kindest, classiest radical I person ever had the pleasance to enactment with,” Donna added. “I’m truthful thankful for my clip connected Deal oregon No Deal. The producers had maine connected a TV commercialized during the Olympics, Maxim enactment maine connected their astir beauteous women successful the satellite lists, and it was each acknowledgment to the vulnerability from the show. I booked a TV amusement arsenic a bid regular aft my archetypal play connected Deal oregon No Deal, person been connected countless mag covers, and proceed to person a 20-year vocation astatine this constituent with modeling campaigns, movies, acting connected TV shows, and present having my ain accumulation company, arsenic well. It’s acknowledgment to experiences similar that. I consciousness grateful to NBC and to each the producers of the amusement for my clip there. I person done truthful galore ads for upscale clients and present americium the caller look of Cadillac’s astir costly luxury car, Celestiq, aft it was conscionable unveiled.”

“It’s up to a pistillate to determine what acquisition volition empower her, oregon whether she decides to usage arsenic an excuse to question attention. I would accidental I’ve done good for idiosyncratic who was allegedly hired to beryllium a ‘bimbo’,” Donna declared.

It appears that Donna isn’t the lone erstwhile quality who has spoken retired astir Meghan’s caller claims. RHOA alum Claudia Jordan besides starred connected the fashionable crippled amusement and explained successful an interrogation with TMZ wherefore she felt differently. “I americium not bashing Meghan, I americium not invalidating her experience. It’s really bittersweet that she felt that,” the world prima said. “I didn’t cognize that she felt this mode astir being a bimbo due to the fact that it surely wasn’t the volition of the show.”

Before she was the Duchess of Sussex aft marrying Prince Harry, the Suits prima was a briefcase exemplary during the 2nd play of Deal oregon No Deal successful 2006 and 2007. She held container No. 24. Meghan, 41, opened up astir her acquisition erstwhile she chatted with Paris Hilton on the caller occurrence of her Spotify podcast Archetypes. “I was thankful for the job, but not for however it made maine feel, which was not smart,” Meghan explained. “And by the way, I was surrounded by astute women connected that signifier with me, but that wasn’t the absorption of wherefore we were there.”

Meghan explained that she would wrapper each occurrence of the amusement “with this pit successful my tummy cognize that I was truthful overmuch much than what was being objectified connected the stage.” She continued, “I didn’t similar being forced to beryllium each looks and small substance, and that’s however it felt for maine astatine the time. Being reduced to this circumstantial archetype: the connection ‘bimbo.’”