Taylor Swift turned down Meghan Markle’s personal invite to appear on her canceled Spotify podcast, report says

Taylor Swift turned down the chance to appear on Meghan Markle’s Spotify podcast, despite the Duchess of SusSєx personally extending the invite, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The claim came as part of a widely reported feature about her and Prince Harry’s attempts to break into Hollywood after stepping back from royal life.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the report stated that Meghan worked with Spotify’s Gimlet unit to come up with a list of potential guests for her podcast after she and Prince Harry signed a deal with the streaming service worth about $20 million in 2020.

The report says that Meghan wrote a personal letter inviting the “Midnights” singer to come onto her podcast, but Swift declined through a representative.

Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of SusSєx and Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside of normal working hours.

“Archetypes” debuted in August 2022 and featured a number of high-profile guests such Serena Williams, Mariah Carey, and Paris Hilton. Over the course of 12 episodes, Meghan and her guests discussed some of the stereotypes facing women.

After its debut, “Archetypes” quickly sH๏τ to the top of Spotify’s charts in the US, Canada, UK, Australia.

But Spotify and Archewell, the SusSєxes’ production company, later announced they’d “mutually agreed to part ways” in a joint statement.