The duchess stars in With Love, Meghan
Domestic divas agree – duchess is in hot water!
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DOMESTIC goddess wannabe Duchess Meghan has been accused of shamelessly ripping off ideas from TV kitchen queens Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, Joanna Gaines and others, and sources say they’ re all ready to roast her!“ They’ re appalled and saying that Meghan’ s got a lot of nerve,” tattles a tipster. In the first episode of her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, she cooks up a onepan pasta dish with cherry tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, arugula and Parmesan cheese. Meghan, 43, fails to mention Martha even though she published a near-identical recipe years ago. The 83-year-
Martha Stewart created and popularized one-pan pasta old was quick to update the recipe on her website with the pointed headline:“ The original and the best!” According to our mole, Martha is steaming mad over Meghan rehashing her dish.“ If Meghan had at least mentioned Martha and her recipe being the original, that would have gone a long way to making things right,” says our snitch.“ At this point Martha’ s nose is really out of joint.” Meghan’ s lifestyle brand, initially launched as American Riviera Orchard and later renamed As Ever, is being called a rip-off of Joanna’ s brand, Magnolia. The 46-year-old Texasbased lifestyle guru hasn’ t groused about it in public,
Joanna Gaines runs Magnolia, a home and lifestyle brand but behind the scenes she’ s said to be broiling over the obvious similarities.“ The aesthetic is way too close for comfort,” explains the insider.“ Everyone is whispering that Meghan’ s trying to steal Joanna’ s idea. Joanna is too polite to say anything publicly, but she’ s taken aback that so much of her playbook is being recreated, to put it kindly.” Meghan apparently isn’ t scoring points with TV chef Rachael either. The 56-yearold is telling pals that Meghan“ can’ t even cook pasta right,” snickers our snitch. Critics also said Meghan’ s
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Rachael Ray is known for her Italianinspired dishes show copied segments of Pam Anderson’ s show, Pamela’ s Cooking With Love,“ shot-forshot!”
“ A lot of people are whispering about how similar they are,” reveals the insider. But Meghan has gotten encouragement from one unlikely supporter, Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow!“ I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes,” the actress says, admitting she hasn’ t seen the show.“ I think there’ s always more than enough to go around.” Gwyneth added that she has“ a strong instinct to stand up for” Meghan.
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