If The View were a horror movie—and sometimes it’s not that far off—Joy Behar would be the final girl. The comic, who looks better than any 78-year-old has any right to, is the only original panelist left on the daytime talk show, which is currently in its 24th season. When I reach Behar by phone, there’s audible commotion in the background. After telling the background noisemakers, “Keep it down!” she returns to our call. “It’s just one of those days,” she says resignedly. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Behar’s been taping episodes of The View from her New York home. I’m being […]
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The royal biography comes two months after the release of another tell-all book “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family”, which sheds light on the Sussexes’ bombshell decision to step down from senior roles in the Royal Family. Queen Elizabeth II told her grandson Prince Harry that Meghan Markle couldn’t have whatever she wanted on their wedding day, claims a new book on royal life. “Battle of Brothers: William, Harry, and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult”, penned by biographer and historian Robert Lacey, who is known for his work on the popular […]
The life of former Hollywood actress Meghan Markle took several dramatic turns in the past couple of years. First, she married British royal Prince Harry, moved to the United Kingdom and become the Duchess of Sussex. However, the couple soon stepped down from their senior royal duties to live a financially independent life in Meghan’s native LA. Meghan Markle made some jaw-dropping revelations about her struggles with online abuse during a recent episode of Teenager Therapy’s podcast that was devoted to World Mental Health Day. The Duchess of Sussex said that she had faced “almost unsurvivable” attacks and was told that […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Meghan Markle: “It’s almost unsurvivable” Meghan Markle has revealed in a new podcast she was told she was “the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female” last year. Alongside her, Prince Harry praised the power of meditation. Source link
The survey was compiled by the company SaveOnEnergy, which evaluated senior members of the Royal Family by analysing several factors – travel footprint, support for environmental charities, attendance of events dedicated to improving nature, and how eco-friendly is their everyday life (use of electric cars, sustainable wardrobe). Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the least eco-friendly members of the Royal Family, says a new survey, conducted by the firm SaveOnEnergy, which assists people in reducing their energy bills and help the environment. The couple produced three tonnes of CO2 each during their trip around Africa last year and are the least […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. No royal reunion this Christmas The seemingly never-ending beef between Prince Harry and Prince William is reportedly playing a key part in Harry and Meghan’s decision not to return to Britain to celebrate Christmas with the royal family. Source link
Last week it was reported that the Sussexes may have breached royal protocol when they recorded a video in which they spoke about the upcoming presidential poll, with critics deeming their remarks politically non-neutral. Speaking alongside her husband Prince Harry in a video interview with the Evening Standard, Meghan Markle sang praise to the Black Lives Matter protests across the US, calling the demonstrations “a beautiful thing” as long as they aim to bring “unity and recognition of equality”. She went on to acknowledge that the often violent rallies that swept across the country in the wake of African-American man George […]
Get ready for The Real Royals of Montecito. Or maybe not. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have denied a report in the British Sun that they are planning to film a Netflix reality show which would have followed their lives and work for three months. A spokesperson for Harry and Meghan told the Independent: “The Duke and Duchess are not taking part in any reality shows.” The Sun originally reported that a source said the show would “be tasteful. They want to give people a glimpse into their lives.” Meghan, the source said, wanted viewers to see “the real her.” “They […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Harry and Meghan’s advocacy “violates” royal divorce deal Reaction, almost all of it hostile, to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s decision to appear in a video encouraging Americans to vote, dominates royal coverage in the U.K. press. Source link
In a video message released Tuesday, UK Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the latter a US citizen, called on Americans to “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity”, urging them to vote on 3 November in the “most important election of our lifetime”. Many viewed the comments as directed against US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Prince Harry and his American spouse, Meghan Markle, for their involvement and interest in the 3 November presidential election. In a press conference at the White House, Trump was asked by reporters about the Duke and Duchess of […]
Bob Woodward’s Rage might be getting all of the attention in the political book world right now, but estranged Trump fixer Michael Cohen attempted to wrest back some of the spotlight on Monday when he brought his own book tour to The View. The author of Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump tried his best to ingratiate himself to the five co-hosts, explaining, “The whole purpose of the book was really to open up people’s eyes so that they understand the individual that’s asking them to vote for him in November.” […]
The View landed a spicy guest for the first episode of its 24th season on Tuesday when former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders joined the five co-hosts to talk about her new book, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House. And it couldn’t have come at a more fraught moment for her former boss. The first question for Huckabee Sanders went to Meghan McCain, who found herself once again in the middle of the latest Trump scandal after new reporting around the president’s disparaging remarks about the military, including her […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/35/1079183598_0:0:2919:1642_1200x675_80_0_0_09f7d31fda9f2802530946ab285593d8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202009061080382446-tory-mp-wants-prince-harry-meghan-markle-to-pay-back-for-their-uk-home-renovation-with-netflix-cash/ Earlier this week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they had clinched a deal with Netflix to create content for making documentaries, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, deputy chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, has urged Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to use a hefty sum from their deal with Netflix to pay back the money they received to renovate Frogmore Cottage, the couple’s former home on the Windsor Castle estate in the UK. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now in the process of […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Earning their keep One of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s first projects as part of their Netflix deal could be a film about Harry’s mom, Princess Diana. The Sunday Mirror reports that the couple are in talks to make a documentary about Diana’s life and the legacy of her work, as one of their first projects for their reported $100 million deal. Source link
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle commemorated the anniversary of his mother’s death Monday by visiting a preschool learning center for disadvantaged kids aged 3 to 5, near where Meghan grew up. Harry and Meghan spent several hours at the school and, in a thoughtful tribute to his mother, sources said they spent the morning with the kids replanting the school garden. The couple and the children planted some forget-me-not seeds, the source said, which were famously his mother’s favorite flower. Keen royal watchers will of course not need reminding that Forget-Me-Nots were a feature of Meghan’s wedding bouquet, and that Harry’s […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Meghan Markle: “We can make the difference in this election” The Daily Beast reported last month that Meghan Markle was planning to be heavily involved in Get Out The Vote messaging, and this week Meghan made her strongest remarks yet about the need to vote in November’s presidential election. Her comments have provoked (yet another) debate about how politically outspoken she can be, even if she is no longer […]
The Duchess of Sussex is drawing backlash and calls to strip her of title for ‘meddling’ in the US elections by implying her support for Democrat candidate Joe Biden, which is strictly prohibited by the British Royal Family. “We all know what’s at stake this year,” Meghan Markle said Thursday at an online event hosted by gender-equity group United State of Women. “I know it. I think all of you certainly know it, and if you’re here on this fun event with us, then you are just as mobilized and energized to see the change we all need and deserve.” Markle […]
As the first non-white woman to marry a senior member of Britain’s royal family, Meghan Markle has been subjected to appalling levels of racist abuse and trolling on social media. Indeed, in the recent biography of the couple by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, it was revealed that Meghan was racially abused on her social media accounts using vile epithets. Sources close to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have hinted to The Daily Beast in recent weeks that one of the main areas the couple wished to impact was digital responsibility, and harnessing the positive energies of social media and online […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially merged spirits with every couple in L.A.—by which I mean, they’re shopping a project together. Variety reports that in June the couple began pitching a top-secret pitch, which they would jointly produce, to multiple networks. A source close to Markle told the trade that she has no plans to star in the potential project; a representative for the two declined to comment. A representative for the couple did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. Back in June, Variety notes, the couple also signed with the same speaking agency that represents […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Meghan: “Make all of our voices heard” Before Meghan Markle spoke to the 19th*’s Emily Ramshaw on Friday about online “toxicity,” racism, and fighting for change she told Marie Claire that voting was a “fundamental human right” that men and women had “put their lives on the line for.” Source link
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. At several moments in the blockbuster new royal biography Finding Freedom, we are told what Harry and Meghan were thinking at precise moments in time; that Harry felt William’s use of the words “this girl” to describe Meghan was snobbish, or that Meghan “wondered if there wasn’t a message being sent” when Princess Michael wore a racially insensitive broach to the first big party that Meghan was invited to. These are […]
For The Daily Beast’s membership drive, we’re asking our reporters and editors to tell the stories behind some of their biggest stories. While the working life of my hard-bitten colleagues at The Daily Beast involves a punishing regimen of worn shoe leather, lightning-fast shorthand and an easy facility with navigating the murkier corners of the dark web, my working life is rather different. My best scoops all seem to come from country house dinner parties, shooting weekends and my network of family, friends, and old school and university friends. I’m sorry, but it’s true. When I look back at the last […]
Dani Trin, the lady who earned Harry & Meghan’s praise, has reportedly denied personally writing abusive messages aimed at members of the British Royal Family. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, ended up lavishing praise on a person linked to a Twitter account that posted “vile abuse” about members of the British Royal Family, The Sun reports. According to the newspaper, Harry and Meghan phoned a woman named Dani Trin and told her how “moved and happy” they were after she managed to raise about £45,000 for charities they support. However, Trin also reportedly had access […]
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who moved to the US this year after announcing in January that they would step back from their senior roles in the royal family, earlier spoke out on the protests sweeping the US and the Black Lives Matter movement, saying the Commonwealth must acknowledge its colonialist past, even if it is “uncomfortable”. Meghan Markle has opened up on her return to America and the inspiration she has drawn from peaceful anti-racism protests, spearheaded by the Black Lives Matter movement, that have taken place across the US in recent months.In an interview for The 19th Represents […]
The American-born actress has been in the spotlight since the moment it became known that she was dating Prince Harry and the media scrutiny became even more intense after she married the Duke of Sussex and became a member of the Royal Family. Queen Elizabeth II, Kate Middleton, and Prince William wished Meghan Markle a happy birthday as the Duchess of Sussex turned 39 today. Although her tenure as a royal was short-lived, it was full of events and even media scandals. Here is a list of the most well-known controversies. Did She or Die She Not Curtsey to the Queen? […]
Meghan McCain once again got into a heated on-air spat with one of her co-hosts on Tuesday, this time over the details of a year-old interview with organizers of the Women’s March. In this instance, however, co-host Whoopi Goldberg dramatically got the last word by informing viewers at the end of the show that McCain was wrong, directing them to the program’s website for further proof against her colleague’s claims. During one of the talk show’s “Hot Topic” segments, the panel discussed the “Challenge Accepted” trend on social media, which features women posting black-and-white photos of themselves as a form of […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Now William and Kate hit back Greater love hath no woman than this; that she may cook vegan food for her brother-in-law’s Californian fiancée. Source link
When Meghan Markle arrived in Prince Harry’s life, one senior royal reportedly referred to her as “Harry’s showgirl.” Another royal family member said, “She comes with a lot of baggage.” In the second extract from the unofficial Harry and Meghan biography Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, the authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand reveal the alleged prejudice Meghan faced on entering the royal family, as well as her strained relationship with sister-in-law Kate Middleton. Meghan, the book claims, “would agree with the assessment” that she and Kate Middleton are “not the best of […]
A new biography about the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is due to be released next month. The book written by experienced royal correspondents aims to debunk some of the misconceptions about the couple and their reasons for stepping down as senior members of the Royal Family. A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has said that the couple “were not interviewed” and “did not contribute” to the forthcoming book about their life in the Royal family. “Finding Freedom” by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand which promises to “dispel the misconceptions” about the Sussexes is due […]
When she and Prince Harry officially quit the royal family in March, Meghan Markle reportedly tearfully told a friend: “I gave up my entire life for this family. I was willing to do whatever it takes. But here we are. It’s very sad.” “The powers [of the institution] are unfortunately greater than me,” she is also reported to have said. She likened tabloid criticism to “death by a thousand cuts.” Meanwhile, Prince Harry “felt at once used for their popularity, hounded by the press because of the public’s fascination with this new breed of royal couple, and disparaged back within the […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a lawsuit against unnamed paparazzi who have allegedly used drones to photograph their 14-month-old son Archie at home in Los Angeles. The invasion of privacy complaint, which was filed in L.A. County Superior Court, claims Archie was photographed in the backyard of the family’s Beverly Hills home, which is in a gated community. Source link
February didn’t seem like halcyon days at the time, but you often don’t realize this sort of thing until later. As soon as he was finished talking for the day, Jarvis Cocker had plans to check out a cool, kinda underground venue in Brooklyn he’d been hearing about. The former Pulp frontman, Britpop legend and hero to literate overthinkers everywhere was planning on releasing his first album in over a decade in May, and he wanted to find just the right place for his first U.S. show in nearly as many years. Since this was an early February afternoon, it was […]
Whoopi Goldberg assumed that Meghan McCain might want to take a pass on talking about the resignation of Tucker Carlson’s top writer because she used to work for Fox News. She was wrong. “I’m happy to speak on this,” McCain said, setting herself up for a rant against “cancel culture.” “I think about cancel culture a lot,” she said. “I think every person who’s in mainstream media that has a platform, probably at one time or another thinks about it. Every woman on this show, at one point or another, cancel culture has tried to remove one of us from this […]
Returning from a one-week summer break, The View quickly devolved into yet another shoutfest between frequent sparring partners Meghan McCain and Joy Behar, prompting lead host Whoopi Goldberg to scold the pair and threaten them with a quick commercial break. The ABC talk show kicked off Monday’s broadcast by discussing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ disastrous Sunday talk-show appearances, something the panel appeared to be in agreement over. “So Meghan, we’re not seeming to get any real guidance from the education secretary. So what do you think a good idea for a plan could be?” Goldberg noted after highlighting DeVos’ inability to […]
Meghan Markle has ghosted her sometime best friend Jessica Mulroney after the latter was caught up in a dispute over white privilege. Mulroney now believes that being ditched by Markle may see her lose her career, according to a report in British newspaper the Sun. However, Mulroney, who was accused of trying to “silence” a Black Canadian influencer and lost her job as a TV host as a result, could exact a vicious revenge on Markle, the apparently well-sourced report suggests. In a not-very-veiled threat a source tells the Sun Mulroney “knows all her secrets and everything she’s been through. This […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle issued their first official photograph together as a couple to mark their engagement, the fact that Meghan chose to appear in a dress by designers Ralph and Russo that was priced at $75,000 was a source of bemused horror to seasoned courtiers. The fact that this was an engagement photograph, and there was a ton of goodwill toward the couple (at that stage) in the […]
Meghan Markle has said that she was “unprotected by the institution” of the British monarchy and was “prohibited from defending herself” in the face of savage media attacks on her when she was part of the royal family, in bombshell new court documents filed as part of her legal battle with the Mail on Sunday. Meghan has also doubled down on her claim that she did not authorize or collaborate with five of her friends who gave a lengthy interview to America’s People magazine, in which one of them mentioned that Meghan had sent a letter to her estranged father, Thomas. […]
The View devolved into yet another shouting match on Wednesday morning after co-host Meghan McCain appeared to say that she trusts Tucker Carlson more than Dr. Anthony Fauci when it comes to COVID-19. It started when Joy Behar went after congressional Republicans for “protecting Trump” and “prioritizing the economy over science.” They have only started to wear masks, she suggested, now that the president’s poll numbers are in precipitous decline. “They have aided and abetted this president down the road to destruction, and we are all in this sinking boat with them until this country gets it together and says, we […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Whatever the state of the relationship between Prince Harry and Prince William, two things are most certainly not helping: royal “sources,” and an expanse of miscommunication-facilitating ocean between them. The apparent fraternal conflict is being exacerbated by a wealth of new claims about the circumstances by which Harry and wife Meghan Markle ended up quitting their roles as “senior royals.” Source link
The United States, as well as many major cities around the world, are witnessing an ongoing wave of demonstrations against racism and police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and many other African-Americans who have died at the hands of white police. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex and spouse of the UK’s Prince Harry, feels that her “gnawing urgency to uproot from England” and move to the United States now makes sense, as the former royal believes she is “’destined” to assist in ending systemic racism in the US, the Daily Mail reported on Friday, citing […]
A discussion on Tuesday morning’s episode of The View about the lies surrounding President Trump’s upcoming campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma quickly devolved into a brutal back-and-forth about who deserves more blame for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. While three of the show’s co-hosts denounced the Trump campaign’s decision to hold a massive rally at an indoor arena with no social-distancing guidelines, Meghan McCain said the Black Lives Matter protesters were just as big of a problem. “You’re inviting 60,000 people to a rally where masks are optional, where they very well may be infected with a life-ending virus,” Sunny Hostin said […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. “How can Meg stand by her?” The Mail on Sunday reveals that the fallout from Jessica Mulroney’s allegedly “threatening” behavior to black influencer Sasha Exeter could end Mulroney’s friendship with Meghan Markle. Meghan and Mulroney are incredibly close, or were until now. Source link
Jessica Mulroney, the Canadian stylist, Good Morning America correspondent, and close friend of Meghan Markle, has been fired from her Canadian TV gig after black influencer Sasha Exeter dubbed her an “Amy Cooper.” Equating Mulroney to the white woman who called the cops on a birdwatcher in Central Park last month, Exeter took to Instagram to tell a story of alleged online bullying at the hands of Mulroney. “Today, I’m opening up about something that has been haunting me for the last week,” Exeter wrote to her 74,000 followers. “I have felt like a complete fraud fighting for racial equality and […]
Meghan McCain asked Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) what she may have thought was going to be a “gotcha” question Monday morning on The View. Harris wasn’t having it. “Many activists right now are calling for a defunding of the police,” McCain said when it was her turn to question the senator, citing the Minneapolis City Council vote that would go even further in dismantling that city’s police department. “I want to know from you, do you support defunding and removing the police from American communities, and if not, why do you think there is such a hard time being differentiated right […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Kate and William launch magazine legal action Kate Middleton and Prince William are taking legal action against Tatler magazine, which is a fixture in the homes of British landowners, after it published an article which claimed that Kate blamed Meghan for ruining her family’s life by deserting the royal firm, the Mail on Sunday reports. Source link
Kellyanne Conway thinks if people will wait in line for cupcakes, they should wait in line to vote. Meghan McCain thinks that if Twitter is going to start fact-checking the president of the United States then they’ll have to do the same for “every teenager who says that they can run a hundred miles in two minutes.” The View kicked off its Thursday morning show with a discussion of President Trump’s apparent threats to retaliate against Twitter and other social media companies for what he falsely considers censorship. While Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Joy Behar all agreed that it was […]
The View’s conservative co-host Meghan McCain railed against the wild party scenes from this past Memorial Day weekend, saying on Tuesday she was confused why she’d been pushing for a slow reopening of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic if Americans were going to immediately treat it like Girls Gone Wild. With videos of packed bars, pools and beaches going viral over the weekend, host Whoopi Goldberg kicked off Tuesday’s broadcast of the ABC talk show by wondering aloud if the big crowds of partygoers will put the country in a “bad place” by July 4th, especially as the nation passes […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. My choice to go, Harry tells friends Prince Harry, not his wife Meghan Markle, was the driving force behind the decision to leave the U.K. and step back from front line roles in the royal family, a considerable part of a new biography about the couple will be devoted to claiming. Source link
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. “The drama has left” The royals are keen to move on from the “soap opera” surrounding Harry and Meghan, The Sunday Times reports. Source link
UK 07:41 GMT 17.05.2020Get short URL Meghan Markle’s CV which she reportedly used when a budding 24-year-old actress well before she got her big break in life, appears to offer a whole slew of insights into her personal powers. Not only can former Suits star Meghan Markle speak multiple languages, but she is trained in martial arts and kickboxing, as it follows from the Duchess of Sussex’s resume from her acting years, seen by The Mirror. I trained Meghan when she was in Toronto during the shooting of the series ‘Suits'”, Jorge Blanco told Spanish Vanity Fair about their joint work […]
UK 06:41 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL The plane that took the ex-royals to a Beverly Hills estate “in a well-planned operation” was reportedly dispatched by prominent producer and director Tyler Perry. Oprah Winfrey arranged for the Duke and Duchess to secretly move into a Beverly Hills mansion owned by actor and director Tyler Perry at the end of March, by taking a private jet from Victoria, Canada, the Daily Mail reported, suggesting the said plane costs around $150 million and is among Perry’s personal assets. Perry sent his Embraer-E190, a “stretch” version of a plane mainly flown by JetBlue Airlines in the […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. So, let’s say you’re an all-powerful celebrity who, for complicated reasons (the global reach of the word “royal” and the fact that your grandmother-in-law is the queen) has been unavoidably separated from their Instagram account. It is your baby boy’s first birthday and you want to share a cute video of him with your friends, fans, and indeed the world, but the time for setting up a shiny new Instagram account […]