It’s that inevitable instant when Meghan Markle’s carefully curated persona crumbles under the weight of her own insincerity. This time, it happened on her shiny new Netflix cooking show, where a simple conversation with celebrity chef Roy Choi spiraled into yet another masterclass in awkwardness. For someone who preaches about authenticity and connection, Meghan sure has a tough time faking either.
The clip, meant to showcase her as a warm and relatable host, instead serves as a brutal exposé of just how bad she is at pretending to care about other people. It all starts innocently enough. Meghan, in full "I’m just a humble foodie" mode, stands beside Roy Choi, trying—and failing—to look like someone who actually enjoys cooking. With a plastered-on smile, she announces, *“This is about connecting with friends and just learning.”*
As the conversation drifts into casual banter, Meghan seizes the opportunity to reminisce about her oh-so-humble Los Angeles days. *“The best thing about Koreatown,”* she gushes, *“you could go to all-ages clubs and karaoke bars.”* Roy Choi, ever the good sport, plays along, adding, *“Oh yeah, I was part of Dance Crew and all that stuff.”*
And then, as if reading from a script titled *How to Make Everything About Meghan*, she jumps in with, *“No, no one talks about all the dances! That was such a big deal. It was just so much fun.”* Notice a pattern? Choi tries to tell a story; Meghan immediately hijacks it. He humors her with a polite, *“You and I are so similar. We should have met a long time ago.”*
And that’s when the mask truly starts to slip. You can almost hear the internal sirens going off in Meghan’s brain: *Wait, did he just suggest we’re equals? Did he just try to be the interesting one?*
But the real meltdown comes next. In what should have been a throwaway comment, Choi casually mentions that he listens to speed metal while cooking. And Meghan? She completely malfunctions. The mask drops, and her real reaction bursts through in full force. She recoils, her face twisting in sheer horror. She blurts out, *“That doesn’t sound like *The Joy of Cooking*,”* with the kind of disgust one might reserve for hearing someone say they season their food with cement dust.
Choi, unfazed, hits back with a simple truth: *“Yeah, but you know, we all have different sides to who we are.”* Realizing she’s just exposed her real thoughts on camera, she panics and does what all great actors do when they forget their lines: she throws in a random buzzword. *“That’s right—multifaceted, folks!”* she blurts, her voice rising into an unconvincing laugh.
Meghan’s expressions throughout the teaser are nothing short of a cinematic experience. The scorn when Choi speaks. The confusion when he refuses to grovel. The instant shift from *“What did you just say to me?”* to *“Haha, we’re all so diverse and unique, right?”* At one point, in an unhinged attempt at relatability, she even bursts into a weird barefoot dance. Was it supposed to look carefree? Probably. Did it instead look like a desperate attempt to regain control of the moment? Absolutely.
Roy Choi, for his part, holds his composure like a true professional. He’s spent years handling high-pressure kitchens, but nothing could have prepared him for the forced, awkward energy that is Meghan Markle trying to be “fun.”
Meghan’s entire brand is about being warm, relatable, and effortlessly charismatic. But as this clip proves, when she isn’t reading from a carefully rehearsed script, her true personality is impossible to hide. The problem isn’t just the mask slip—it’s that the mask was never on properly to begin with. She doesn’t know how to be genuine because she’s too busy trying to perform authenticity rather than actually live it.
So, Netflix might have set out to make a cooking show, but what they really created was an accidental documentary on the Duchess of Inauthenticity. And honestly? That might be the most entertaining thing she’s ever done.
