Meghan Markle has been criticized by her former pal, Lizzie Cundy, amid unfavorable feedback concerning the sequel to her cooking present.

Critics have branded the collection “confounding” and “ghastly” alongside different harsh remarks. This has reportedly left the previous actress “fuming” that the general public hasn’t embraced her in the identical means as her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton.

Meghan Markle’s alleged response has been described as “bitter” by Cundy, who additionally urged the Duchess of Sussex to think about beginning anew with a recent strategy.

Amid ongoing backlash over Meghan’s cooking present sequel and her As Ever model, a one-time pal of the previous actress has weighed in on the matter

Lizzie Cundy, a radio presenter who claimed to be buddies with Meghan till she grew to become concerned with Prince Harry, urged the mom of two to “cease pretending” if she ever desires to win the general public help.

“It would not matter what number of pots of jam she makes; she has to cease pretending. She’s not [lifestyle guru] Martha Stewart,” mentioned the tv presenter, per the Each day Mail.

Cundy recalled that Meghan was “actually enjoyable and candy” once they first met at a London charity occasion in 2013, however mentioned she has since grow to be “bitter” over fixed unfavorable comparisons to the Princess of Wales.

“She’s fuming how the general public love Kate. She must cease being bitter, cease being offended, and cease being ‘poor me,'” Cundy additional remarked, including that the Duchess of Sussex ought to “take a leaf out of Kate’s guide.”

Because the launch of her cooking present sequel, it has been closely panned by a number of shops regardless of that includes a lineup of celeb friends.

British Vogue’s Radhika Seth referred to as the present “confounding,” and that she was left with a number of questions on a number of the issues she noticed throughout the first episode..

The Spectator had harsher remarks for the present, writing that it was “simply as ghastly as season one.” The outlet additionally famous that Meghan dangers “dwindling into obscurity” in actual time until she takes the audacious transfer of penning “yet one more tell-all memoir,” like her husband, Prince Harry.

Amid the unfavorable reactions, The Guardian‘s Lucy Mangan took a extra crucial strategy, calling the present “boring” and “so contrived.”

She additionally questioned the extreme use of flowers within the kitchen, each within the meals and ornament.

“She’s nonetheless sprinkling flowers over every part, by the way in which,” Mangan wrote. “I do not know if it is a alternative or a compulsion, however for those who stand nonetheless lengthy sufficient in (not) Meghan’s kitchen, the probabilities are you’ll be coated in violets and served alongside a mug of gray foam to a nano-celebrity who’s starting to grasp he has not been paid sufficient.”

Following the present’s debut, Meghan joined Bloomberg’s Emily Chang for a promotional interview, the place she shared insights concerning the overwhelming success of her As Ever model earlier this yr.

In accordance with the actress, most merchandise from the model offered out inside an hour of their launch, which pressured her to scale up the variety of jam jars and lids for the following drop.

“We prepped for the second seasonal drop and time occasions our stock and thought for certain, for certain, that will no less than final for a pair weeks. That offered out in a pair hours,” she advised her host, per the Each day Mail.

The duchess added, “And instantly the dialog goes from, in the beginning of this yr, speaking about just a few thousand jars and lids, to we have to do a purchase order order of one million. And that is an enormous soar in only a few months of beginning a enterprise.”