Meghan Markle has finished filming her new Netflix show ‘celebrating the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship’, Hollywood insider claims

Meghan Markle has wrapped up filming for her new cooking and home show, a Hollywood source has claimed.

Royal fans are one step closer to Meghan’s lifestyle secrets because the Duchess of Sussex, 42, has wrapped up filming for the untitled project in Montecito, which is being produced by Sony Pictures Television’s The Intellectual Property Corporation

The show, which is yet to receive a title or air date, will ‘celebrate the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship’ and is part of Meghan and Harry’s $100million Netflix deal.

In conversation about the new project, a Hollywood source told The Daily Beast: ‘It all went well, and it is in the can.’

The show was filmed at a property two miles from Meghan’s Montecito mansion, which she and Prince Harry, 39, share with children Archie, two, and Lilibet, two.

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The Duchess of Sussex (seen in March, 2024) has wrapped up filming for her new netflix cooking show, a Hollywood insider has claimed

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Meghan was last week spotted in a Los Angeles park taking part in a photoshoot, spurring rumours of new material for the upcoming project.

The mother-of-two was caught on TikTok taking part in what fans speculated was a shoot for a new project.

The clip appeared to show the royal having the sleeve of her tracksuit adjusted by a stylist in Beverly Hills, near a popular celebrity-loved coffee spot called Alfred’s.

However, the Hollywood insider said it was unlikely related to the new project because the team had already ‘got everything’ they needed.

The project commenced filming days after Meghan sent out exclusive pots of homemade jam from her brand, American Riviera Orchard, to her nearest and dearest.

A film permit application exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com showed filming took place in two separate locations.

In April, Meghan, spent the day surrounded by the blooms of Florabundance, a florist 10-minutes drive from Montecito in the coastal California town of Carpinteria.

The day after, production trucks lined the driveway of a $5million property set in eight acres of avocado trees and lemon groves in a gated community in Montecito for filming.

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Meghan (seen in September, 2023) said the show will ‘celebrate the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship’

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The news comes after Meghan sent jars of raspberry jam to her nearest and dearest, including Nacho Figueras (pictured)

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Fashion designer Tracy Robbins posted a picture of Meghan’s jam, which had the logo for American Riviera Orchard and ‘Montecito’ underneath

Security vehicles guarded both of the 4,500 square feet home’s entrances.

The property is the home of Tom and Sherrie Cipolla – both fixtures on the Montecito society scene and generous donors to several good causes locally, including the Storyteller Center – a therapeutic preschool for children facing adversities.

They have hosted fundraisers for the centre at the same home where Meghan played house.

Tom, 75, and wife Sherrie, 69, parents to two adult children, have a property portfolio worth more than $20million, encompassing two dozen buildings in Los Angeles County and Santa Barbara.

The couple also runs a physical therapy practice that last year boasted sales in excess of $1.3million.

When approached by DailyMail.com Sherrie Cipolla declined to comment on the purpose of the film crew currently camped out in her home.

Meghan’s show will be directed by Michael Steed who worked on Anthony Bourdain’s Emmy-wnning Parts Unknown, and among the behind-the-camera staff is Leah Hariton, the showrunner for Selena Gomez’s HBO cooking show, ‘Selena + Chef.’

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DailyMail.com revealed Meghan did not use her Montecito mansion to film the show, but instead, the kitchen of philanthropists Tom and Sherrie Cipolla (pictured)

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Production trucks and tents lined the driveway of the $5million property set in eight acres of avocado and lemon groves in a gated community in Montecito

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The couple’s first launch on Netflix was their six-part documentary ‘Harry and Meghan’ which was released in 2022 where the pair made swipes at the royal family

In March, Meghan’s brand, American Riviera Orchard, was launched on Instagram and has bene likened to her now defunct blog The Tig

The film permit obtained by DailyMail.com revealed that Alex Dandino, the production manager of that same show is also involved in Meghan’s entry into the culinary world, raising the possibility that she too will be joined by professional chefs for a cook-a-long.

The show is part of the couple’s bid to fulfill the $100million Netflix deal that they signed back in 2020.

At the time they released a statement saying, ‘Our lives, both independent of each other and as a couple, have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience, and the need for connection.

‘Through our work with diverse communities and their environments, to shining a light on people and causes around the world, our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.’

Meghan intends to sell a vast array of household products with her American Riviera Orchard company.

The endless list of products includes skin care, make-up, gardening equipment, scented candles and even dog food.

Meghan Markle BLASTED by Megyn Kelly

Megyn Kelly doesn’t like that Meghan Markle calls Harry ‘her husband’ (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage and Chris Carlson/ AP)

Megyn Kelly has another bone to pick with Meghan Markle and this time it’s because she has an issue with the fact she refers to Prince Harry as ‘her husband’.

On the latest episode of her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, the American media commentator slammed Markle and said she’d had enough.

‘We get it, you bagged the gorilla,’ she said on Tuesday’s episode.

‘Congratulations, you got the big bear, [and] you want us all to know.’

The comments were in response to the latest episode of Markle’s own podcast, Archetypes, when she said that her husband was ‘great’ with contributing equally to parenting.

‘Oh, my husband? Oh, he’s great,’ she said.

‘[He] gets [Archie] downstairs’, while she added she would make breakfast for the family.

‘It’s very important to me. I love doing it.’

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With Christopher Anderson, author of The King: The Life of Charles III, Kelly’s guest on the program, the pair also discussed claims made in the Oprah interview, including a part where Markle said she never looked up the Royal family prior to her relationship.

Anderson claimed that, like ‘every other young woman’, she knew exactly who they were.

‘Let’s get real, there’s always that eligible bachelor,’ Kelly agreed.

‘For my age, it was JFK Jr., for her age it was Prince Harry.’

Kelly says the couple ‘owe’ the Royals (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Kelly also criticised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for ‘ripping on the Royals to whom they owe, literally, all of their fame and most of their fortune.’

The comments come as the world waits to see the contents of Harry’s memoir, Spare, which will now be released on January 10 after being delayed due to the Queen’s passing.

The 416-page book has been billed by publisher Penguin Random House as a work of ‘raw, unflinching honesty’.

Relatives were not given a heads-up on the title – a reference to the phrase the ‘the heir and the spare’ – in advance of last week’s announcement, with a source telling the Daily Mail it will be seen as both ‘controversial’ and ‘provocative’.

Harry has previously called the book a ‘truthful and wholly accurate’ portrait of his life – the prospect of which has sent shockwaves through the royal establishment.

Princess Diana’s heart was seemingly crushed when Prince Charles expressed disappointment over the gender of his second child.

When Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially divorced in 1996, there was much speculation about the real reason for the royal marriage’s breakdown.

The public always thought that the “third person” Camilla was the biggest “sinner”, but recently, a source close to the royal family revealed that the beginning of the rift in Diana and Charles’ married life was after a sentence from the prince in 1984.

Diana and Charles with their sons William and Harry at Highgrove House, Tetbury, 1989. Photo: UK Press .

In a 1991 interview, Princess Diana revealed that her relationship with Prince Charles “went downhill” after Harry was born, although during her second pregnancy, the couple became “very close”.

According to biographer Andrew Morton, Diana said the first thing her husband said when Harry was born was: “Oh my God, it’s a boy.” This statement devastated Diana, although Charles later insisted he was joking.

Before that, Diana knew the gender of her second child through an ultrasound but deliberately kept it a secret from her husband because she knew Charles would be disappointed because he always “wanted a daughter”.

Prince Charles and Princess Diana with their son in public for the first time after Prince Harry was born in September 1984. Photo: UK Press .

The late princess also revealed that Prince Charles had complained to the Queen at Harry’s christening and told Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, that he was “very disappointed – I thought it was going to be a girl”.

Firmly standing by her daughter, Diana’s mother later had a frank talk with Charles and said the prince should “realize how lucky he is to have a healthy, normal child”.

Princess Diana and her husband held Harry’s christening at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, December 1984. Photo: PA .

British press reported in 2014 that Prince Charles hoped Prince William and Kate Middleton’s second child “would be a girl” after the couple had their first son George.

The harsh comment about his son’s sexuality was not the only hurtful comment Prince Charles made during his first marriage. He once said he did not like the fact that his youngest son had red hair – a colour that ran in Diana’s family.

For Diana, Harry was a miracle and a “complete joy”, helping her overcome the darkness, but the birth of her younger prince was also the moment that marked the collapse of her marriage.