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India Hicks Deletes Podcast Episode Featuring Brooke Shields Criticizing Meghan Markle

The removal came after fans decried Shields’s remark that Markle was 'too precious' in recounting her childhood advocacy.

Meghan Markle walks onstage during the SXSW Conference and Festival, at Austin Convention Center, Texas, on March 8, 2024.
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Overview

  • Links to the June podcast episode now return a 'page not found' error after its removal from Hicks’s Substack page.
  • Brooke Shields described Meghan Markle’s story of advocating for gender equality at age 11 as 'too precious' and recounted interrupting her at a 2024 SXSW panel discussion.
  • Shields then used humor to contrast their experiences, joking that at 11 she was playing a prostitute in the film 'Pretty Baby.'
  • Viewers responded with hostility, accusing both Shields and host India Hicks of racism, which led Hicks to replace the segment with a video showcasing London patisseries.
  • Hicks, who is King Charles’s goddaughter and Lady Pamela Mountbatten’s daughter, has made no public comment on the episode’s deletion or the ensuing debate.