Meghan Markle Defended By ‘Deal Or No Deal’ Host Howie Mandel After ‘Bimbo’ Statement

There was a minor uproar erstwhile Meghan Markle said that her clip connected Deal Or No Deal “forced [me] to beryllium each looks and small substance” arsenic she stood by her numbered briefcase and that she yet felt similar she was a “bimbo” connected the show. “I get it. I felt similar thing [too],” Howie Mandel told Us Weekly on Oct. 27. The show’s erstwhile big said that helium “[didn’t] deliberation she’s maligning Deal oregon No Deal. … I’ve ne'er truly heard anybody complain, and I don’t deliberation Meghan is complaining. I deliberation Meghan conscionable said she wanted to bash more. It wasn’t fulfilling for her.”

Howie, 66, empathized with Meghan implicit her comments astir however Deal Or No Deal felt reductive and diminishing. “I get it due to the fact that — I’ve ne'er said this earlier — but they had this pyramid of 26 beautiful, intelligent women lasting determination conscionable staring astatine maine similar I was a portion of meat,” helium said. “I was successful the center, conscionable dressed up successful a suit, and I felt similar I americium much than this. And they would conscionable look astatine me, and I had to bash nothing.” Like Meghan, Howie recovered the acquisition connected Deal lacking. “And that’s wherefore I’ve moved connected and go a justice connected America’s Got Talent. I conscionable needed much than to beryllium a Deal oregon No Deal host.”

Meghan and Howie (Tim Rooke/Shutterstock / CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

With that said, Howie did accidental that the amusement was “a large workplace environment” and that Meghan was apt talking astir “what was going connected her mind” during her clip connected the show. “I don’t deliberation determination weren’t ever [any] complaints from immoderate of the [other] women,” said Mandel. “And dissimilar astir shows up until that point, the ladies had much to do. They weren’t conscionable pointing retired gifts and opening [cases], a batch of times they were mic’d, and they had their input.”

“I don’t cognize wherefore determination is simply a large hoopla,” said Howie, “except I person to accidental that maine lasting determination with 26 women staring astatine maine made maine consciousness similar a bimbo.”

Howie Mandel on Deal Or No Deal  (Nbc-Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Meghan made her comments during an occurrence of her Spotify podcast Archetypes. “I was thankful for the job, but not for however it made maine feel, which was not smart,” said Markle. “I was surrounded by astute women connected that signifier with me, but that wasn’t the absorption of wherefore we were there. …  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.’” Meghan besides alleged that a pistillate connected the accumulation squad would archer her to “suck it in” arsenic a mode to look skinnier.

Donna Feldman, different erstwhile “Briefcase Beauty” connected Deal Or No Deal, told HollywoodLife that she “[has] to disagree with what is being said. 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.”