(Daily Mail) Meghan Markle claims she quit her short stint as a briefcase girl on Deal or No Deal in 2006 because she didn’t like being ‘objectified’ as a bimbo.
Primped and preened, she took exception to being told to ‘suck in her stomach,’ while she was reduced to a confection of fake lashes, hair extensions and padded bra, she claims.
But now, the Duchess of Sussex stands accused of hypocrisy, as newly resurfaced footage, seen here on DailyMail.com, shows she had no trouble playing the bimbo once more when she dived into a part in 90210, a full two years after her supposedly seminal moment.
In blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo on the Beverly Hills 90210 reboot’s series premiere, Markle, then 27, is seen playing Wendy.
Meghan said she quite Deal or No Deal because she disliked ‘how it made me feel, which was not smart’ . She said: ‘I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks’
Meghan (circled on the show in the back row ) had very differing opinions about the way in which briefcase girls were treated to her former co-star Claudia (circled in front)
In the scene, hunky Ethan – played by Dustin Milligan – is surprised when his girlfriend Annie (Shenae Grimes) spots him sitting in his car.
His shock is soon explained when he adjusts his clothing and Wendy’s head emerges from his lap.
Speaking on the most recent episode of her podcast, Archetypes, Markle was in conversation with original small-screen airhead, Paris Hilton when she made her claim about leaving the Howie Mandel-helmed Deal.
‘I ended up quitting because I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage,’ she told Hilton, 41.
‘I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks. And little substance.
‘And that’s how it felt for me at the time being reduced to this specific archetype, the word bimbo.’
In the podcast episode – called Breaking Down the Bimbo – Meghan, 41, said she wants her daughter Lilibet to be valued first for her mind, rather than ‘beauty not brains’ as she was on the TV gameshow.
The Duchess, who appeared in Deal or No Deal between 2006 and 2007, calling it ‘a short stint’ to pay the bills, added: ‘I want our daughter to aspire to be slightly higher. Yeah, I want my Lili to want to be educated and want to be smart and to pride herself on those things.’
But despite the duchess’s protestations, beady-eyed fans have pointed out that Markle was quick to embrace the bimbo role just two years later.
One online critic posting as LaNiceGata summed it up, ‘She must have forgotten she was BJ girl in that show AFTER she left her briefcase girls stint due to being objectified.’
Down and out in Beverly Hills: Initially, Meghan’s head is nowhere to be seen as her character Wendy makes the most of pleasuring high school hunk Ethan
Emerging talent: She soon lifts her head up as Ethan appears fearful that they’ve been caught
Saving face: With her raven tresses obscuring her face, Wendy sheepishly peers out
Cut short: Wearing a blue off-shoulder top, Meghan’s character soon realizes the jig is up
