Published Mar 17, 2026, 7:01 AM EDT

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Meghan Markle is reportedly unsettled after an email leak revealed details of her upcoming trip to Australia before an official announcement was made.

The Duchess of Sussex is scheduled to headline the “Her Best Life Retreat” in Sydney next month, but the early disclosure has sparked concerns about privacy and control over her projects.

According to insiders, the leak has left Meghan Markle worried about what other private information could surface, particularly regarding past business dealings, as she prepares for the high-profile visit.

Meghan Markle Is Reportedly ‘Losing Sleep At What Else Could Come Out’ As Email Leak Reveals Retreat Plans

Meghan Markle is reportedly “losing sleep” after an email leak prematurely revealed details about her upcoming trip to Australia.

The 44-year-old Duchess of Sussex is set to headline the Her Best Life Retreat in Sydney next month, organized by Jackie’ O’ Henderson’s Besties company.

According to sources, Meghan was alarmed that news of her appearance leaked days before the official announcement.

“She was horrified when word got out, ahead of the official announcement, that she would be appearing at a women’s retreat in Sydney,” a source told New Idea, per Sky News. “She likes to be in control, and the chaotic announcement about her arrival was anything but polished. While a leak about the trip isn’t the end of the world, Meghan’s losing sleep at what else could come out.”

The duchess is reportedly worried about what other private information could surface, particularly concerning her confidential communications with Netflix before the streamer ended its collaboration with her lifestyle brand, As Ever.

The Duchess Tightens Security After Shocking Leak

Meghan is said to be actively investigating the leak and strengthening her staff’s non-disclosure agreements to prevent future breaches.

“She is on a mission to find out who leaked the information. It’s made the working environment around her office very tense,” the source added.

The retreat, running from April 17 to 19 at Coogee’s InterContinental Hotel, promises attendees a gala dinner featuring a live conversation with Meghan.

Meghan Markle’s Pricey $3K Australia Retreat Details Emerge

VIP ticket holders will receive a group photo with the duchess, a goodie bag, and access to an ocean-view hotel room.

Tickets are priced at $3,000, with the event capped at 300 guests. Meanwhile, Prince Harry will appear at the InterEdge Summit in Melbourne as a keynote speaker on workplace mental health, with tickets costing up to $2,378.

This will be the Sussexes’ first trip to Australia since their 2018 royal tour, which also included New Zealand, Fiji, and Tonga. On this visit, they will travel as private citizens, leaving their children Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, at home in California.

Supporters Say The Duchess’s Australia Retreat Offers Rare Chance To See Her Personal Side

Meanwhile, while organizers emphasize the retreat’s focus on meaningful experiences, critics have questioned the price tag.

Hosts Jackie O Henderson and Gemma O’Neill explained that the weekend will focus on “powerful conversations, relaxation, laughter, and unforgettable experiences.”

O’Neill revealed she would be interviewing Meghan during the retreat, adding that the duchess agreed to participate as a favor for a mutual friend and because she “really loves what our community is about.”

Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner described the event as a rare opportunity to see the personal side of Meghan.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for the guests to meet a Royal with a genuine heart and for Meghan to relax and be with people who wish to listen to her thoughts on life,” he said.

Highlighting her long-standing commitment to service, from early activism to supporting Grenfell survivors through a community cookout, Pelham noted that Meghan has “proven time and again” that she is empathetic and makes those she meets feel valued.

Meghan Markle’s $3K Australia Retreat Faces Criticism As Experts Question ‘Founder’ Image

Unfortunately for the Duchess of Sussex, not everyone is convinced by the branding behind her latest venture.

“Markle has consistently leaned into the moniker of ‘entrepreneur’ or ‘founder,’” Doug Eldridge, founder of Achilles PR, told Fox News Digital, noting that such titles don’t necessarily require a proven track record.

However, Eldridge argued that credibility depends on sustained results. Citing mixed reports about As Ever, stalled acting projects, and a Netflix series that was not renewed, he stated, “For someone who often talks about building, her record seems more in line with demolition.”

Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s “Kinsey Schofield’s Unfiltered,” added that the upcoming Australia trip feels more commercial than royal.

She pointed out that while Harry will keynote the InterEdge Psychosocial Safety Summit on workplace mental health, Meghan is being positioned as the star of a luxury women’s retreat at the InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach.

Guests will pay for an intimate dinner and conversation with her, with promotional materials highlighting everything from her acting work on “Suits” to her podcast “Archetypes,” her philanthropic efforts through Archewell, and her lifestyle brand As Ever.

“In other words, it’s essentially a very expensive girls’ weekend built around access to the former actress,” Schofield concluded, framing the event as more commercial than ceremonial.

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One of the funnier scenes ever to make it into a movie happens in the classic Chevy Chase/Dan Aykroyd comedy Spies Like Us. The duo, playing inept spies, arrives at a Doctors Without Borders camp, and all it takes for them to convince the people there that they belong is to call everyone “Doctor” over and over and over again. It’s a fun, silly way of poking fun at pretentious PhDs and also the limited intelligence of our heroes.

Now imagine that sixty-second scene stretched over sixty minutes, played seriously instead of as a joke, and with Chevy Chase’s character replaced by a badly rendered miniature reindeer in a top hat. That’s what happens in season 2 episode 7 of Netflix’s pirate adventure show One Piece. Aptly titled “Reindeer Shames,” it may be the single worst hour of programming ever released on streaming, and somehow it’s the penultimate episode of the streamer’s new flagship show.

Having not seen episode 7 yet, and having previously enjoyed season one and all six previous episodes of season 2, I’d been recklessly recommending One Piece to everyone I know. Now, not only am I rescinding that recommendation, I’m not sure I have the strength to continue on and watch the second season’s final episode.

One Piece Fans Waited More Than Two Years For Time Wasting Filler

A quick positioning statement: I love anime and watch a lot of it. Like 99% of the people watching the Netflix show, though, I’ve never watched the anime version of One Piece. I’ve avoided it largely because there are thousands of episodes, and that seems daunting, but also because even its most ardent defenders often admit that many of those episodes are actually time-wasting filler.

The One Piece anime’s predilection towards time-wasting filler episodes may explain the presence of “Reindeer Shames” on the Netflix version, the plot of which involves none of the show’s actual cast. The story also has basically nothing to do with any of the narratives being developed in the rest of the season.

That might be an acceptable side trip in a series with thousands of episodes, but in the modern era of lazy streaming production, we only get eight episodes every two or three years instead of an annual two-dozen. Wasting one of those precious episodes on anything not directly relevant to what’s happening on the show would be a bad idea, even if it were somehow good. When it’s this bad, it feels almost criminal.

A Blatant Cost-Cutting Measure From Netflix

“Reindeer Shames” tells the story of a Doctor on the run in a country where Doctors are being rounded up for weird anime doctor-hoarding reasons. The Doctor encounters a tiny, talking reindeer who looks like he just fell off a Toys R Us plushy shelf during the Christmas holiday rush of 1997. Or he would look like that if the CGI used to animate him didn’t also look like it came from 1997.

It seems clear that at least part of Netflix’s motivation in making this episode was as a cost-cutting measure. The show’s other episodes look fantastic, with high-level special effects and large-scale action sequences. However, “Reindeer Shames” largely takes place in either an unremarkable bush or a single hut and offers only a few, half-hearted seconds of action at the end. And again, it doesn’t involve any of the show’s actual cast, which probably means Netflix only paid them for seven episodes while still producing eight. 

Netflix Has Opened Its Own Learing Center

This has all the earmarks of a scam. Making your subscription-paying audience wait two and a half years for eight episodes and then cheaping out on one of them is the streaming version of a Minnesota Learning Center. 

The talking reindeer is named Chopper, and I’m told by Jonathan Klotz, who I consider an expert in all One Piece matters, that this character is a beloved figure in the animated version of this tale. Maybe he’ll grow into that over the course of Netflix’s live-action series, assuming the awfulness of this outing doesn’t cause the show to be canceled. Still, he’s garbage in this episode, and plays out like a clumsy, half-baked attempt to create the next Baby Yoda in a world where everyone’s sick to death of Baby Yodas. 

Stop Watching One Piece Unless Supervised By A Doctor

Instead of delivering the kind of pirate adventure One Piece viewers are tuned in for, the episode meanders around, fixating on endless speeches about how amazing and important Doctors are. Doctor this and Doctor that, and oh, aren’t Doctors incredible angels who totally aren’t doing this job just because they like buying Corvettes and hanging out at country clubs. 

Sitting through “Reindeer Shames” made me wish One Piece was on YouTube instead of Netflix, so it could be interrupted by an Incogni ad. In that worse-than-streaming-sponsorships environment, I guess Chopper, since he isn’t a Doctor and only wants to be one, is the least worst thing about it. That’s a hopeful point for his continued Doctor presence on the show, which seems like something I’ll have to endure if I ever again work up the doctor-like courage to watch another One Piece episode. I probably won’t, at least not without the supervision of a Doctor.

“REINDEER SHAMES” REVIEW SCORE

Taylor Frankie Paul’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars are hesitant to continue filming amid her dispute with ex Dakota Mortensen.

“The Mormon Wives cast [is] honestly terrified to film with Taylor right now,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly, noting that production is “shut down” at the moment and “the women have made it clear they don’t want to be around her because they see her as a major liability.”

TMZ and People reported on Monday, March 16, that The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives producers paused filming on season 5 earlier this month following an alleged domestic dispute between Taylor, 31, and Dakota, 33. A Draper City Police Department spokesperson subsequently confirmed to Us that a “domestic assault investigation” involving the former couple is ongoing. (Per police, “allegations have been made in both directions” and “contact was made with involved parties on [February] 24th and 25th.”)

The insider told Us that, prior to the incident, the Mormon Wives cast “believed Taylor was in a better place” after she filmed her season of The Bachelorette and that their Hulu reality show “was heading in a different direction.”

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“Now, many of them feel they’ve moved past the point of dealing with this kind of behavior and simply don’t want to be put in that position again,” according to the source.

Us has reached out to representatives for Paul, Mortensen and Hulu.

Taylor previously had legal issues when she was arrested in February 2023 on domestic violence charges. She was initially charged with aggravated assault, two counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, child abuse with injury and criminal mischief after the incident.

Dakota publicly defended Taylor at the time, and she ultimately agreed to plead guilty to aggravated assault, with the four charges being dismissed with prejudice. (Taylor told the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in September 2025 that the four other charges “were all dropped.”)

When The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 1 premiered in September 2024, Taylor opened up about the trauma of her arrest. (Body-camera footage taken from the night of her arrest was published shortly before the reality series debuted.)

“Getting arrested, it was the worst night of my life. I ended up being charged with aggravated assault with three years of probation,” she reflected in 2024. “After the arrest, I was under so much stress. I was filmed leaving the jail and then that was immediately on the internet. It was a blessing in disguise. It helped me wake up.”

Taylor got together with Dakota following the end of her marriage to ex-husband Tate Paul in May 2022. Taylor and Dakota subsequently split in 2025 following his sexting scandal. (Taylor and Tate welcomed daughter Indy May, 8, and son Ocean, 5, before separating during the MomTok soft swinging scandal. Shen later welcomed son Ever True with Dakota in March 2024.)

Speaking to Us for a cover story earlier this month, Taylor acknowledged that navigating her split from Dakota has been challenging at times.

“It was hard because I’m, obviously, a part of that — it’s not like I am pointing the finger like, ‘He is [the toxic one.]’ It takes two to tango. We were just not progressing,” Taylor admitted to Us. “We like each other sometimes, and then we fight. It’s really hard to explain to people and unless you’ve been in that situation, it is hard to understand. If I could just snap out of it, trust me, I would. It’s just a lot harder said than done.”

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Since her split from Dakota, Taylor has filmed The Bachelorette season 22, which premieres on ABC March 22. The reality had a candid response when asked by Us about where she stood with Dakota amid her Bachelorette casting.

“That’s a good question,” she admitted. “I don’t even know. I have to ask myself that question all the time. Where do we stand? I don’t know. Ask me tomorrow.”