{"id":289762,"date":"2020-03-20T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1132983"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:29:23","slug":"meghan-markles-former-co-star-says-he-was-bribed-with-70000-to-lie-about-their-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/meghan-markles-former-co-star-says-he-was-bribed-with-70000-to-lie-about-their-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s Former Co-Star Says He Was Bribed With $70,000 to Lie About Their Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.337704918033\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.47868852459\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s former<em> Cuts&nbsp;<\/em>co-star is revealing the lengths the British media went to to create a story about her life before&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\">Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Rex<\/strong>, who previously dated&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/paris_hilton\">Paris Hilton<\/a><\/strong>, claims a British tabloid offered him $70,000 to lie and say he &#8220;actually hooked up&#8221; with the future Duchess of Sussex. &#8220;I said no to a lot of money because I didn&#8217;t feel right lying and f&#8211;king up the royal f&#8211;king family,&#8221; he&nbsp;shares&nbsp;on the <em>Hollywood Raw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-hollywood-pipeline-podcast-31083006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;It was a lot of money, man. I think they offered me like $70,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&nbsp;says&nbsp;the one lunch and their interactions on the set of <em>Cuts <\/em>was the &#8220;extent&#8221; of their relationship. The&nbsp;<em>Scary Movie 3<\/em> star states, &#8220;Nothing happened. We never even kissed. We hung out once in a very non-datey way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This runs counter to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/6267917\/simon-rex-date-meghan-markle-paris-hilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 interview<\/a>, in which he joked they never went on a second date, because when he &#8220;started kissing her it was obvious that I had garlic breath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>&#8220;She pulled back. It was so embarrassing&#8230; She said something like, \u2018Oh boy, garlic&#8221;,&#8221; the <em>Scary Movie 3<\/em> actor said at the time. &#8220;I just felt so dumb. We laughed about it. She wasn&#8217;t rude about it or anything. She was honest. She was turned off. It was an awkward moment.&#8221; Not long after, she friend-zoned him, which he said &#8220;sucked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020220\/rs_1024x759-200320132821-1024_-_2_Split_Rex_Simon_and_Meghan_Markle_MP_3.20.20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Rex Simon and Meghan, Split\" alt=\"Rex Simon and Meghan, Split\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Pool\/Samir Hussein\/WireImage \/ Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for NEON<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.745308310992\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.42091152815\">\n<p>Now, two years later, Rex is changing his tune. He clarifies, &#8220;She was just someone I had met on a TV show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meghan&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Prince Harry<\/strong> are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1078711\/prince-harry-defends-meghan-markle-against-ruthless-tabloid-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">locked in a legal battle<\/a> with&nbsp;<em>The Mail on Sunday<\/em> over the publication&#8217;s alleged &#8220;ruthless campaign&#8221; against the Duchess. In a statement, Prince Harry explained they&#8217;re taking legal action as a way to &#8220;stand up to this behaviour&#8221; and prevent the newspaper from publishing material that &#8220;destroys people and destroys lives.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <em>The Mail on Sunday<\/em> told E! News in a statement, &#8220;The Mail on Sunday stands by the story it published and will be defending this case vigorously. Specifically, we categorically deny that the Duchess&#8217; letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1132983\/meghan-markle-s-former-co-star-says-he-was-bribed-with-70-000-to-lie-about-their-relationship?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle&#8216;s former Cuts&nbsp;co-star is revealing the lengths the British media went to to create a story about her life before&nbsp;Prince Harry. Simon Rex, who previously dated&nbsp;Paris Hilton, claims a British tabloid offered him $70,000 to lie and say he &#8220;actually hooked up&#8221; with the future Duchess of Sussex. &#8220;I said no to a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 10:08:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}