ALISON BOSHOFF: Market it like Meghan Markle! Duchess hopes to flog her brand...in the mall

Is the Duchess of Sussex’s adjacent location going to be... a buying mall?

Meghan, who is preparing to motorboat her manner marque American Riviera Orchard, whitethorn soon beryllium seen successful 2 mega-malls successful Dallas, Texas and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nether the ‘Netflix House’ umbrella.

The duchess has made a cookery TV bid for the streamer Netflix, which was filmed successful April and May successful California.

The unnamed amusement is owed retired aboriginal adjacent year, and its debut volition people lift-off for her American Riviera Orchard brand, which is to merchantability homewares similar china and glasses and consumables similar jams and rosé.

The anticipation is that she volition beryllium selling a cookbook connected the backmost of the show, excessively — and whispers suggest it is much of a manner usher to entertaining, hosting and elegant surviving than a classical ‘Delia Smith’ benignant postulation of recipes.

Netflix is successful complaint of the American Riviera Orchard merchandising operation, which is going to thin into the duchess’s presumption arsenic a ‘beacon’ of aspiration and inspiration.

She is to beryllium sold arsenic an arbiter of affordable elegance — and the stake is that Meghan fans volition drawback up everything from corkscrews to pillow cases.

By blessed chance, Netflix volition beryllium opening the cleanable homes to showcase this marque aboriginal adjacent year, successful the signifier of 2 more-than-shops successful those mega-malls (the King Of Prussia... oregon KOP... successful Pennsylvania and Galleria Dallas).

Called Netflix House, each volition person interactive experiences based upon shows — specified arsenic a accidental to enactment successful a real-life Squid Game (minus the, er, killing), taking beverage successful a Bridgerton café, having a Knives Out execution enigma meal and enjoying crystal pick astatine Scoops Ahoy, the parlour successful Stranger Things.

There volition besides beryllium a carnal constituent of merchantability for each merchandise based connected Netflix deed shows — which Meghan volition beryllium hoping includes her high-profile foodie offerings. Maybe they volition adjacent bash a pop-up American Riviera Orchard bakery oregon café?

The streamer is ascendant successful the marketplace and describes itself arsenic Generation Alpha’s favourite brand, which is simply a large claim. 

Chief selling serviceman Marian Lee said that the big-scale Netflix House experiences would beryllium the ‘next generation’ of their strategy, which aims to lure consumers disconnected their sofas, and whitethorn yet extremity up being the aboriginal of taxable parks.

Netflix has already launched much than 50 ‘experiences’ successful venues astir the world.

The institution applied to trademark Netflix House wrong a week of Meghan registering for the American Riviera Orchard marque astatine the US Trademarks and Patents Office, via her Delaware-based institution Mama Knows Best.

Documents amusement that Netflix House is astir astatine the decorativeness enactment for its trademark – portion Meghan’s exertion has deed a bid of snags and objections.

I'm done with Downton says Lord Grantham

The satellite of Downton Abbey has galore fans, but pb histrion Hugh Bonneville thinks it should adjacent its doors for bully successful 2025, erstwhile a 3rd movie acceptable successful the aristocratic satellite of The Crawley household reaches cinemas.

‘I deliberation we person squeezed this peculiar J Cloth rather dry,’ said Hugh, who plays Robert Crawley, Earl Of Grantham. ‘We had a blast filming this latest movie, but it is close that we extremity it now.’

Hugh volition soon prima alongside Richard Gere and Michael Fassbender successful The Agency, a mentation of the French spy thriller Le Bureau des Légendes, connected Paramount +.

He is besides reprising his relation arsenic Mr Brown successful Paddington In Peru, which opens successful cinemas today.

Nobody wants this? Now Kristen gets $250,000 a show

The planetary occurrence of Netflix romcom Nobody Wants This has been 1 successful the oculus for the TV critics who said it was ‘shallow’ and ‘stupid’ — and for each the executives astatine different TV studios who passed connected it (and that’s ‘everyone’, according to Netflix brag Ted Sarandos).

With a 2nd bid commissioned and present being written, connection has it that the show’s star, Kristen Bell, has landed a whopper wage emergence to reprise her relation arsenic podcaster Joanne who falls for rabbi Noah, played by Adam Brody.

Bell, 44, has reputedly gone from being paid a handsome $50,000 an occurrence to ‘over $250,000’ an occurrence – pushing her into the precocious extremity of the tv stratosphere.

That’s rather a triumph, considering the show’s creator Erin Foster didn’t privation to formed Bell and had intended to play the relation herself... but hadn’t been capable to plaything it.

She admitted successful an interrogation successful Harper’s Bazaar past period that Netflix was ‘obsessed’ with casting the actress, who they had worked with before.

‘We had a meeting, and she was truthful respectful, nice, and complimentary, and she precise clearly, precise rapidly said: “Erin, I cognize you wrote this for yourself to beryllium in. I’m not comfy taking this relation distant from you.” And I said: “Well, archetypal of all, it doesn’t dependable similar I truly person a choice. So let’s bash this.”’

Meanwhile, Foster says that she’s bringing an extremity to the will-they won’t-they relationship betwixt Joanne’s sister Morgan and Noah’s member Sasha. She told a vigor show: ‘I deliberation we’re going to wrapper up their weird “Is it romantic?” thing. Because we privation to spot them unneurotic successful play 2, hanging out.’

There is nary remark from Bell’s reps connected the caller deal. Incidentally, if you deliberation she sounds familiar, you whitethorn person heard her arsenic Princess Anna successful Frozen, oregon arsenic Janet successful PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie.

Liam Payne's woman sees her societal media illustration explode

Liam Payne’s influencer woman Kate Cassidy has seen her societal media illustration detonate since his decease past period successful Buenos Aires. Her Instagram followers person gone from 79,000 to 828,000. The erstwhile One Direction vocalist was lone 31 erstwhile helium fell to his decease from a edifice balcony. Ms Cassidy, 25, said aft helium died that helium had been her champion person and the emotion of her life.

Showbiz runs successful the family

Showbiz is successful the humor it seems — with Sir Tim Rice’s girl Charlotte, who is lone eight, making her surface debut.

Charlotte Rice-Foley, his girl with world Laura-Jane Foley, plays the kid of Keira Knightley’s quality successful the upcoming Netflix spy thriller Black Doves.

Sir Tim, who is 79, is best-known arsenic the lyricist connected smash-hit musicals including Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar.

He is presently moving with his lad Don, a movie and theatre director, connected a play called Sherlock Holmes And The 12 Days Of Christmas. As revealed successful this file successful March, Sir Tim has teamed up with his aged collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber to constitute songs for that one.

Black Doves, meanwhile, streams from December 5. 

Kanye thinks his wife's a genius - and they're the caller John and Yoko 

Stand by for the merchandise of a caller medium by Kanye West — I’m told helium is going to driblet his 11th album, Bully, ‘any time now’.

Kanye, who present prefers to beryllium called ‘Ye’, has been signaling the medium with an technologist successful a edifice country successful Tokyo — and was truthful progressive with it that I perceive helium adjacent worked connected it successful his edifice country successful Haikou, erstwhile helium spent a fewer days successful China successful precocious September.

‘It is astir complete,’ says a source. ‘He has passageway vision, arsenic he’s reaching the end.’

So far, the creator has spent a immense amount, thought to beryllium good implicit £2 million, connected camping retired connected an full level of the Edition edifice successful cardinal Tokyo. He’s been determination for astir of the past twelvemonth and is apt to enactment until helium heads disconnected connected circuit with Bully. He travels with an entourage of information and musicians which is astir 10 strong.

His woman Bianca lives with him astir of the time, though she has been retired to sojourn her household successful Melbourne, Australia, a fewer times. She’s a trained designer but is chiefly celebrated for stepping retired wearing tights, shoes, a wig... and not overmuch more.

Friends bespeak that some Ye and Bianca are firmly convinced of her creator genius and respect her arsenic the Yoko Ono to his John Lennon; with her (lack of) apparel being a benignant of show art.

A person says: ‘He truly loves being successful Japan. It’s been months and shows fewer signs of ending. He enjoys the deficiency of nationalist attraction and paparazzi. He is besides profoundly engrossed successful the civilization and loves the people.’

He’s been spotted astatine assorted restaurants, markets and bars — and adjacent signed a pillar astatine the Good Wood Terrace restaurant, wherever he’s a repetition lawsuit (and large instrumentality of their jerk chicken).

His 4 children with Kim Kardashian are based successful Los Angeles, with their manner entrepreneur mother, but travel retired to spot him successful the schoolhouse holidays.

Rumours of a divorcement from Bianca, his 2nd wife, swirled earlier this twelvemonth but look unfounded.

 Andie MacDowell eyes up caller role

Andie MacDowell has her sights acceptable connected a relation successful the Channel 4 deed The Change. 

The American actress, champion known for her relation successful Four Weddings And A Funeral, said: ‘I saw this drama recently. It’s astir menopause. The sanction of it is The Change and determination was a country successful determination that was truthful funny. I’d emotion to beryllium connected The Change!’ 

The show, written by Bridget Christie and aired successful 2023, has been commissioned for a 2nd series, truthful possibly Andie’s imagination tin travel true. 

It's each astir a lad (again) for Nick and Toni

Juror#2 is Clint Eastwood’s 42nd movie and immoderate consciousness that, arsenic helium is 94, it volition beryllium his last.

But the courtroom play isn’t lone notable for Eastwood’s experienced manus connected the tiller — it besides sees a reunion betwixt actors Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult.

The brace played parent and lad successful the 2002 movie About A Boy, and successful Juror #2, Hoult is the juror, and Collette is the prosecutor.

Collette said: ‘Nicholas Hoult, my boy! It was conscionable astonishing to enactment with Nick connected this film. I hadn’t seen him since we did About A Boy, and helium was truthful young, not adjacent a teen then.

‘When I saw him again, I retrieve I was successful the constitution seat erstwhile helium came in, and he’s truthful gangly and handsome and helium is truthful charismatic.

‘He has conscionable grown into this truly hilarious, smart, beauteous and decent person, and seeing him again was precise emotional.

‘I asked him however aged helium is and helium said he’s 34, and I astir fell disconnected my chair! I couldn’t judge however clip flies.’