Overview

• On August 3, Anderson rated the similarity between Pamela’s Cooking With Love and With Love, Meghan as just 1 out of 10 during a game of “Plead the Fifth” on Watch What Happens Live.
• Anderson said she “didn’t really look” for parallels and stressed that she “didn’t invent cooking shows,” noting that Markle is simply “doing her thing.”
• With Love, Meghan holds a 3.2/10 IMDb score, failed to reach Netflix’s Top 300 titles and faces the end of the Sussexes’ $100 million production deal despite a second season already filmed.
• Pamela’s Cooking With Love maintains a 9.8/10 IMDb rating and robust viewership on Canada’s Flavour Network and Amazon Prime.
• Commentators point out that both series use standard lifestyle-cooking tropes, with royal expert Neil Sean alleging frame-for-frame copying and co-creator Jesse Fawcett calling any resemblance a compliment.