Meghan Markle turned down Strictly Come Dancing because of packed Suits schedule, reveals new book

MEGHAN landed an audition for Strictly Come Dancing – and only declined because of her Suits schedule, Tom Bower reveals.

He writes of a trip Meghan took to London in November 2013, in the hope of securing herself publicity, work and an English boyfriend.

During the trip, she met TV agent Jonathan Shalit and told him she wanted to be “a TV celebrity chef like Gordon Ramsay.”

Bower writes: “Shalit was excited. She was charming, good-looking and admired by the small audience for Suits.

“He was unaware that while Meghan liked eating good food, her cooking skills were limited.

“Other than blender-made vegetable soup, her specialities were plain pasta, roast chicken, barbecued hamburgers and steak. The rest of her food was bought ready-made.

“Rather than cook, she imagined fronting a TV programme to tour the world tasting food. A short video of her tasting pickles in Brooklyn for Ora TV exposed her limitations.

"There was neither magic nor magnetism.

“The programme idea evaporated. Undeterred, Shalit arranged an audition for Strictly Come Dancing. Reluctantly she declined.

"Tied to a Suits contract for nine months in the year, the timing clashed with filming in Britain.

"Disappointed, Shalit bid her farewell.

"She returned to Toronto without either new work or a new man.”

© Tom Bower, 2022. REVENGE: MEGHAN, HARRY AND THE WAR BETWEEN THE WINDSORS by Tom Bower, to be published by Blink Publishing, on 21st July at £22