‘D-grade celebrities’: Meghan and Harry are NOT welcome in UK anymore, says ‘Today’ host Karl Stefanovic

NORTH SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: After Australian TV broadcaster Ita Clare Buttrose’s boss criticized Meghan Markle for being “deliberately provocative”, Today host Karl Stefanovich came out and published a scathing disparagement of the Duchess of Sussex.

It’s no secret that Karl has been outspoken in his criticism of the former actress in the past. And now, during a recent live broadcast to Nine reporter Tracy Waugh in Manchester, where Prince Harry and his wife are due to attend a youth summit this week, he slightly misquoted ABC Chairman Buttrose.

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Ita Buttrose said they became Class D celebrities. That’s about right, isn’t it?” he asked Tracey Waugh.

“Well, we’ve also heard locally, folks, that some people are saying they’re not welcome here,” she replied. “There is a real divide in that support for Prince Harry and Meghan so we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.”

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Before the royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan travel to Germany to mark the one-year countdown to the next Invictus Games, which took place shortly after Meghan caused a media storm in an interview with The Cut magazine, the couple flew to the UK, where they get together will participate in two charity events.

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend the 2021 Salute To Freedom Gala at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on November 10, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Buttrose’s outspoken assessment of Meghan during an appearance on her former show Studio 10, where the subject of her controversial interview was raised last week, sparked Stefanovic’s criticism.

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Buttrose hadn’t called Meghan a “D-grade celebrity.”

“Good luck to her,” Buttrose told her former co-host Sarah Harris. “I don’t mean to be rude, but she’s just a celebrity. There’s nothing wrong with being a celebrity, but she’s one of many – while she was once a princess of the realm. [Now] She’s going on with her business of being a celebrity.”

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Buttrose went on to point out that due to their declining royal status, the couple was constantly trying to “stand out in the crowd” from other celebrities.

“They don’t have the royal family to fall back on [anymore]’ Butrose said. “So they have to make sure every interview counts. So, because of the other plans she has — you know, the books, the movies, whatever — she wants to make sure she stands out from the crowd. So she makes provocative statements,” she added.

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