It’s all fingers to the pumps at Meghan Markle’s Montecito mansion in terms of selling her new jam.
The latest recruit to the American Riviera Orchard publicity practice? Her rescue canine, Mamma Mia.
Mamma Mia—a Beagle who was rescued from an animal testing facility with eight pups—was adopted by Meghan and her husband Prince Harry in 2022, becoming a member of their different rescue canine, Guy.
Playing second fiddle to Mamma Mia within the latest instalment of the world’s most profitable free social media marketing campaign, which has generated Meghan untold acres of protection, is Meghan Markle’s shut pal and former Suits co-star Abigail Spencer, who has been revealed as one other recipient of Meghan’s first batch of strawberry jam.
(In a scarcity-manufacturing PR stunt worthy of Willy Wonka himself, Meghan has despatched out 50 golden tickets, within the type of numbered, restricted version jars of her new American Riviera Orchard strawberry jam, to buddies who’ve been posting gushing tributes to her jammy prowess on Instagram.)
Abigail Spencer, who performed Dana “Scottie” Scott on Suits, turned the latest of Meghan’s superstar buddies to submit in regards to the jam, showcasing it in what now seems to be the usual presentation pack, an earthy trying bowl stuffed with citrus fruits (on this case, oranges, though another of us received lemons).
However Spencer has been comprehensively upstaged by images of Meghan’s canine, Mamma Mia, nuzzling Spencer within the latest footage. The presence of the canine taking part in with Spencer in what appears to be like like a verdant backyard means that the image might have been taken at Meghan’s $14 million Montecito home.
According to an old itemizing on Zillow, the property has “sweeping lawns, tiered rose gardens, tall Italian cypress trees, blooming lavender [and] century old olive trees.”
Spencer wrote: “This jam is my jam. A delicious taste of what’s to come indeed.”
Spencer’s single digit jam (her pot is numbered 6 out of fifty) additionally suggests her old performing buddy has an elevated place within the Meghan social hierarchy.
The British PR guru Mark Borkowski beforehand informed The Daily Beast that Meghan was operating “a very clever curiosity-building campaign” that was “doing exactly what a stunt like this should be doing—getting global coverage from millions of people who don’t quite see the join, and would quite like to taste her jam.”