Baking for Barrymore.
Meghan Markle, 43, showed a rare glimpse of her kids, Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3, in a new video baking cookies for Drew Barrymore.
“When making thumbprint cookies at home becomes a family affair! Thanks @_heartmom_ & @clarewaightkeller for the love and extra set of hands!” the former actress shared via Instagram, referring to her friends Kelly McKee Zajfen, and Meghan’s wedding dress designer, Clare Waight Keller.
In the clip, the little ones can be seen helping, and the video ends with a shot of the back of Archie’s head as his mom kisses his cheek — showing off how he has red hair like his father, Prince Harry, 40.
Markle talked about the treats when she appeared on Thursday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
“When I realized we were going to do this, I said, you know, ‘How many people are we making cookies for?’ And they said the count of the audience, [and] I want the crew to be able to have some,” she explained to the host.
“A friend of mine, she and her daughter had just finished a camping trip. I said, ‘Can you come by?’ And my friend Clare Waight Keller, who designed my wedding dress, she would come in from the U.K. to have lunch. I said, ‘Clare, can I put you to work too?’” she continued. “So, we all sat around, we made these cookies for you guys to enjoy and I thought it’d be fun.”
Markle also revealed that although she and Prince Harry are raising their kids in Montecito, Calif., some of the words they say are in a British accent.
“They have these little moments where it comes out and because they have very American accents, but they say words that are just like him,” she said.
“And I think it’s adorable.”
Markle was on “The Drew Barrymore Show” to promote her Netflix lifestyle show “With Love, Meghan,” which came out March 4 to scathing reviews.
Post critic Kirsten Fleming panned the show, writing, “Markle clearly loves hosting and cooking but has no shtick, no charisma and no unique talent for this genre…The show is essentially a vehicle to sell crepe mix and flower sprinkles from her new lifestyle brand, As Ever, and drop little trivial bits about herself into the ether.”
The eight-episode show, produced by Markle and Prince Harry’s Archewell Productions, features Markle cooking and gardening, with appearances by her celebrity friends like Mindy Kaling.
The Telegraph editor Anita Singh said the show is “an exercise in narcissism, filled with extravagant brunches, celebrity pals and business plugs.”
On Tuesday’s episode of the British talk show “Loose Women,” panelist Jane Moore called Markle’s show “boring” and said she “found my attention drifting” when she tuned in.
“Even if you’re not interested in homemaking stuff, you’d watch it to learn more about their house. You don’t see their house, it’s a rented house down the road,” Moore pointed out, noting that Markle didn’t film the show inside her and Harry’s $14 million Montecito mansion.
“The new Meghan show is boring! The desperation is palpable. I am not a Meghan fan but it’s sad,” one viewer said on X, formerly Twitter.
Another tweet read, “‘With Love, Meghan’ is a masterclass in how to waste Netflix money. What do we get? Her pretending to be relatable, and trades banalities with B-list guests like Mindy Kaling. This isn’t a lifestyle show, it’s a 40 minute infomercial for her ego!”
Markle and Prince Harry signed a $100 million deal with Netflix in 2020. Before this show, they came out with their five-part “Harry & Meghan” docuseries in 2022, while Harry’s “Polo” doc — which also got a ruthless reception from critics — dropped in December 2024.
The biggest piece of information to come out of “With Love, Meghan” is the fact that she apparently no longer goes by “Meghan Markle.” Instead, she goes by “Meghan Sussex.”
“It’s so funny that you keep saying ‘Meghan Markle.’ You know I’m Sussex now,” Markle told Kaling, 45, when the former “Office” actress appeared on episode 2.
She added, “You have kids and you go, ‘No, I share my name with my children.’ I didn’t know how meaningful that would be to me, but it just means so much to go, this is our family name, our little family name.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
