Bela Bajaria Responds to Meghan Markle Netflix Report
Netflix chief content material officer Bela Bajaria on Wednesday batted down reporting that the streamer has been distancing itself from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
“I might say don’t imagine no matter you learn,” she stated about a recent story in Variety reporting on Netflix’s “falling out” with the Montecito-based couple. “Possibly we must always all perform a little fact-checking. However right here’s the factor: We nonetheless have a relationship with them, we’ve motion pictures in growth with them, we’ve a tremendous doc with them, they’ve issues in growth on the TV and movie facet.”
Bajaria added, “Offers come and go on a regular basis and… we don’t renew so many offers and people don’t get as a lot press for apparent causes, I suppose. So there’s no juicy story there.”
Bajaria made the remarks on the Subsequent on Netflix presentation of the streamer’s upcoming slate, which spotlighted initiatives like Ben Affleck’s upcoming movie Animals and the second season of Beef (however nothing from the previous royals).
The feedback weren’t shocking, on condition that Netflix vociferously responded to the Selection piece, with a spokesperson telling the publication that it’s “completely inaccurate” that the streamer had run out of enthusiasm for the couple and their Archewell Productions. Selection and The Hollywood Reporter are owned by the identical mother or father firm, Penske Media Company.
However it’s clear that the streamer has been disentangling themselves from enterprise offers with the couple during the last yr or so. On March 6, Netflix introduced that it was exiting Markle’s lifestyle brand As Ever as a enterprise companion. The moved adopted Netflix downgrading the couple’s wealthy general deal to a first-look deal in August 2025 after the corporate had produced the documentary Harry & Meghan and unscripted collection Polo and With Love, Meghan.
Not lengthy after the information of Netflix’s exit from As Ever broke, the Selection function story reported the corporate was getting fed up with the cumulatively poor monitor report of the couple’s exhibits, their communication type and “bedside method.” One Netflix insider informed Selection, “The temper within the constructing is ‘We’re completed.’”
The publication even reported that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, a neighbor of the couple’s in Montecito, had grown bored with the pair. Two sources informed the journal that Sarandos stated he wouldn’t get on a latest name with Markle until a lawyer was current, and it was unclear whether or not he was joking or not. A Netflix spokesperson known as that “completely inaccurate.”
