The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Meghan Markle Sidelined, Brooklyn Beckham's FAILED Sympathy Ploy, and Timothée Chalamet's Alter Ego
27 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to your Tuesday edition of The Nerve. I am your host, Maureen Callahan. The celebrity offenders who were active over the past few days, they are many, they are legion, and we're getting to it with one Rob Shooter. First, we're going to start with Meghan Markle, who allegedly reportedly tried to invite herself to Valentino's memorial service, to the funeral.
Okay, are you kidding me? We're gonna talk about that. And then Harry and Meghan toddled their way over to Sundance like the movers and shakers they pretend to be that they delusionally think they are. We've got the Beckham family blow up. We've got more bombshells from the Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni lawsuit.
and tons more tons more as always we will be reading your feedback showing some of your photos and then um there's a lot going on over at cbs and um timothy shamalama ding dong is a part of this and um we will never miss an opportunity to take a whack at that pinata so are you ready are you ready let's go
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Chapter 2: What happened with Meghan Markle at Valentino's funeral?
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Okay, first, Meghan Markle. What do you know about these reported attempts of hers? You know, if you're not invited to a funeral, I think it's safe to say just, you know you're not invited to a funeral. Yeah, yeah. This one tried to like worm her way in, knock that door down.
Chapter 3: How did Meghan and Harry fare at Sundance with 'Cookie Queens'?
Hey, I'd love to show up at this. It's a funeral, but to Meghan, allegedly, it's just another star-studded event.
Yeah, I broke this story on my sub stack, Maureen, that Megan was angling for an invite to this funeral. She saw it as an opportunity. She's not wrong there. These big celebrity funerals, they're not like ours. They really are networking moments. I went to Joan Rivers' funeral and it was shocking how many people were there trying to get jobs, trying to get comedy gigs.
And so it's really awful that this happens. But when Meghan is really smart and outrageous and she doesn't miss an opportunity when she thinks she can make one, is she wanted to be with the high fashion players of the world. Everybody from Anna Wintour on down was at this funeral. And it's a world that we know Meghan would love to be part of.
The one thing about Meghan is she doesn't ever believe there is any world, any place that she cannot insert herself into. Her ambition is unrivaled. And so we know from last summer... when she turned up at a fashion show in Paris. And it is still a little unclear whether or not she was actually technically invited to that.
Oh, she told New York Magazine that she reached out to the designer herself and said, hey, I'd love to come and support you if you'd like me to. So she invited herself to that. The only place that she has a standing open invite to where she will not appear, a tragedy, is her father's bedside with half his leg gone, amputated in the Philippines.
But, you know, if you're a famous iconic fashion designer, she would love to attend your funeral.
Love. You hit it absolutely right. I'm sure she would have thrown out. I'm sure she would have felt as if she was one of the biggest stars there. Gwyneth Paltrow was there. We also saw Anne Hathaway there. Now, it's a lot of people, Elizabeth Hurley, who have had a longtime relationship with this really.
legendary designer Megan is not part of that world I did a little research she's wore Valentino a few times but it's not her staple it wasn't like he designed her wedding dress or major moments in her life so this wasn't about paying respect to a man that she admired a man that she had had worked with this was just sheer opportunity which we shouldn't be surprised about let's not forget
At the opening of The Lion King in Britain, Harry was pitching Meghan to the heads of Disney about her being an animated character. So they use these opportunities, they use these occasions to push themselves forward. With Meghan and Harry, it always backfires and it ultimately ends up egg on their face.
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Chapter 4: What is the latest drama surrounding Brooklyn Beckham and his family?
His real name is Henry. It's not Harry on his birth certificate. It's Henry. So maybe that's why.
Perhaps. So they tunnel over to Sundance where allegedly they have produced, their names are on the stock as a producer, a documentary about Girl Scouts trying to sell their cookies. It's called Cookie Queen.
edge of your seat viewing okay now there are reports the daily mail has that the sundance screening had rows and rows and rows of empty seats while the sussex squad those nebulous 10 fans out there claim that it was a standing room only sold out screening because who doesn't want to watch a bunch of eight-year-olds trying to sling some cookies over at the local stop and shop rob i have
I had some friends, people I know, colleagues who were at Sundance Real, film folks who were there working, and they went to this screening, and they said when it started, and it's a small theatre, this is not Radio City, this is a small theatre. When it started, there was about 150 empty seats.
Chapter 5: What shocking texts were revealed between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively?
As the movie progressed, I think ushers or people were pushed in to try and make it look better. A little less embarrassing, but there still was about 60, 70 seats. What's really unusual is that anyone that's been to Sundance knows that these theatres are packed for the two weeks, for the time that the festival is on. It's really hard to get a ticket.
There are often lines outside of screening rooms, you know, well before Sundance. And they do it on purpose. They really want to put them in small theatres so they can say they've got a lot of buzz and they had to turn people away. And the movie companies go and watch these and they see people and the lines around the block and they buy them. So this is interesting.
The fact it's at Sundance tells me they've not sold it to Netflix or else they wouldn't have taken it to Sundance.
Chapter 6: How is Mark Ruffalo's political activism affecting his career?
Great point. So they're looking for a distributor from this. But get this, you'll love this. It's an exclusive that I have today just for you. People who have seen the movie... tell me that once again, Harry and Meghan have stepped in it because now they've really upset the Girl Guide Foundation organization because this movie is pretty negative.
What I did not know, but the movie points out, is that moms and dads have to buy all these cookies up front. Scandal! So they have to pay this money up front. And in the movie, it's quite controversial that a lot of these Girl Scouts, now their parents are buying lots and lots of cookies and then selling them on the internet. They're not going door to door. That whole cookie business has changed.
And so if you have a kid and you have a lot of money, you can get them a special brownie badge by buying these cookies. The Girl Scouts don't care if you sell them or not. They're how many your parents buy. Meghan and Harry didn't seem to understand this until they watched the movie, which my friends are telling me might have been for the very first time.
These two fuckwits, they're such dopes. They're such dummies. You come to me, good luck selling that movie, because what real drama requires is some conflict and some tension. And if the only real narrative question in... Cookie Queens is, will these girls sell all their cookies so they can have another year with the Girl Scouts?
But the answer is, yeah, of course, because their parents have to buy them in bulk. Story's over. It's over.
I've told you the whole movie. I'm sorry. Did I give away the plot? Maybe not. That's the whole movie. That's the whole movie.
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Chapter 7: What did Margot Robbie reveal about her co-star Jacob Elordi?
They stretch it into an hour and a half. It's telling that Harry and Meghan did not get up and introduce the movie. Normally the stars, the producers, get up. If Oprah Winfrey had a movie there, if Steven Spielberg did, they'd certainly get up before that movie started. I went to the Wicked premiere in New York. The whole cast didn't shut up.
The movie was delayed an hour because we had to see Cynthia... And Ariana touching each other, holding each other, loving each other. So this was interesting. So I hit the phone.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of CBS re-airing Anderson Cooper's profile?
So I was like, what's going on here? And they said that they were happy to have Meghan and Harry as producers, but they don't really want them out front selling it because the brand of the Sussex now is something that is so toxic, that is so damaged, that I think the other producers realise when Harry and Meghan signed on to this movie two years ago, their stock was falling dramatically.
But nobody knew it was going to go as low as it is today. Now it's at the bottom of the barrel. And it's almost as if the other producers, the real movie makers, the people actually made this movie. Now I think they regret ever getting Harry and Meghan involved in this.
As does everyone who does any kind of business. business with them you don't have to be one of the financial wonderkins of industry that great HBO show to know to read the room this brand was falling I could have predicted that two years ago so could you Rob don't get involved everything they touch
really, really falls apart. I think at the moment, anybody that's thinking about any future deals with them should run for the hills. This wasn't sold out. He'd rushed back from London to do this. She did, though, give a very revealing interview on the red carpet that I watched. Mint, thin mint, are her favourite cookies.
Riveting. The woman contains multitudes... By the way, as we put a pin on this and move to another family that's a hot mess that has ties to these two dopes, she was announced last week after you and I spoke, Netflix has officially canceled With Love, Meghan. But I think the headline here is that Netflix felt the need to announce that rather than just let it fritter away and let people forget.
To me, it says that they are done with Meghan Markle.
Yeah, they don't. They don't need to tell that. There's no law that they have to announce this. The Real Housewives on Bravo are great at that. They never cancel shows. They just don't bring them back. We're still waiting for the New York Housewives. It might never come back. I think Miami's been gone for 10 years. So you don't have to announce this stuff. They announced it.
And that was their way. of washing their hands. It's over. She claimed she had two seasons. We now know that is not true. She had one, and she taped both seasons together. So they'd already got a second season in the can, and so that was ready to go. So really, the show had one season, disastrous ratings, and I think they want to move on now. Netflix is such a major... A major, major company.
They're trying to buy Warner Brothers. The last thing they want us to talk about is Harry and Meghan. That's not a good look. To have Harry and Meghan as your stars, as people in your roster, is something that I just don't think anybody really wants anymore. In fact, they've become nothing but a distraction. So what did Netflix do? They announced it. They told the world what we knew, Maureen.
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