Meghan DESPERATE TO SUCCEED

After her lifestyle brand’s first releases are mocked, Meghan Markle pivots

She got herself into a, well, jam. One month after launching lifestyle label American Riviera Orchard, Meghan Markle sent out jars of branded strawberry preserves to 50 friends — but fans weren’t impressed as her pals posted about it online. “Tastes of desperation,” wrote one online commenter, while another deemed the venture “tacky” and several others declared: “Hard pass.”

When confidant Nacho Figueras revealed in June that there was a second, raspberry jam and also dog biscuits from the line, they were met with a similar cold reception. So, now, Meghan’s reportedly trading glass food jars for wine bottles, hoping to find more success by releasing a rosé as American Riviera Orchard’s first publicly available item.