Meghan Markle suffers fresh blow as new podcast receives negative reviews following launch

Telegraph TV critic Chris Bennion described the show as “frustrating” with “no confessions or secrets”, giving the show a two out of five stars.

He wrote: “There are no confessions or secrets – at one mystifying point Meghan says to her guest, ‘You don’t have to reveal all the secrets’ – but there are plenty of self-care aphorisms, journeys of self-love and validation, discussions of bottling your essence, and great handfuls of mutual adoration.

Bennion added: “The frustrating thing is that Wolfe Herd, who is just 35, presumably does have wisdom to impart, having been part of the team that created Tinder before she created Bumble.

“Imagine the drive, the talent, the decisions and sheer bloody ruthlessness it must take to achieve what she has. We get none of it. In this perfumed echo chamber, the best we get is a sense that Wolfe Herd didn’t love school and that she wishes she hadn’t worked so hard.”

In the Guardian, pop culture writer Rachel Aroesti said the ‘sycophantic interview podcast is stomach-turning’, also giving the show a two out of five stars.

She wrote: “Confessions of a Female Founder is far from a gladiatorial grilling and it’s hardly a manual of specific, constructive business advice; it’s simply an effusive chinwag between two like-minded pals that may as well have taken place behind a deluxe set of closed doors.”

Giving the duchess a one star out of five, Reviewer Charlie Gowans-Eglinton wrote in The Times that Meghan could have asked Wolfe Herd “how she made a billion, but she had other things on her mind”.

She wrote that she had been ready to “jot down the wisdom that will doubtless awaken the entrepreneur within and make me my first million” but instead had “been listening for eight minutes and 48 seconds before Whitney (I will call her Whitney, since we are doing ‘girl talk’) speaks about business for – I timed it – 17 seconds before Meghan chimes in again.”