Ryan Reynolds has lampooned Meghan Markle in a joke with Conan O’Brien about her being a ‘middleman for jars of jam’, MailOnline can reveal today.
The Hollywood A-Lister took aim at the Duchess of Sussex and her new brand As Ever in the latest brutal joke at her expense.
The actor, aged 48, has found himself involved in the legal dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. During an appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast, Ryan shared an amusing anecdote about his father.
Reynolds discussed his early career and his regrets – but did not mention his wife or the ongoing legal drama over It Ends With Us.
In an interview laden with gags, Ryan joked at Meghan’s expense as he spoke with Conan about his father Jimmy.
He mentioned that his dad transitioned from being a police officer to working as a ‘food broker’. Ryan humorously recalled how he initially believed this meant his father was involved with the CIA until he learned the truth – that his dad was actually a ‘middleman for jars of jam’.
Conan couldn’t contain his laughter and joked about Ryan’s father working for Meghan Markle, playfully suggesting that he dealt with tiny, harvestable jams made from the oils of Montecito in a sinister tone.
Mr Reynolds then chipped in: ‘If Jimbo Reynolds wasn’t dead I’d say he is Meghan Markle’.
Before hastily adding: ‘Well adjacent’.
Ryan had a famously complicated relationship with his father, as does Meghan.
Mr Reynolds admitted recently that even in the years since his father’s death from Parkinson’s Disease in 2015, the quest to please him ‘doesn’t really go away,’ saying he still views the former cop as a ‘hard-a*s.’ He left home to get away from him.
The jokes about the Sussexes have ramped up since Megxit with the brutal 30-minute South Park spoof about a ‘worldwide privacy tour’
Last weekend SNL host Colin Jost made a brutal joke about the Sussexes as he delivered a breakdown of the week’s major news stories.
The presenter addressed the current UK-US trade deal between Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump, joking: ‘President Trump also announced a new trade deal with the UK that will reopen British markets for American companies.
‘All that Britain demands in return is that we keep these two,’ as a photo of Harry and Meghan appeared on the screen behind him.
It is yet another sign that America is turning its back on the Sussexes, who stepped down as working royals and left Britain for a new life in US in 2020.
Vanity Fair recently ran an explosive 8,000-word expose headlined ‘American Hustle’ in which contributing editor Anna Peele spoke to ‘dozens’ of sources connected to the couple who labelled the Sussexes as the ‘most entitled, disingenuous people on the planet’.
The magazine stated that the Duchess of Sussex could be ‘really, really awful’ when things did not go her way.
Citing multiple sources who have worked for the Sussexes since they quit Britain five years ago, Meghan would be ‘warm and effusive’ towards employees before turning ‘cold and withholding toward the person she perceived to be responsible’ when something went wrong.
Things ‘went poorly, often due to Meghan and Harry’s own demands’, one insider claimed.
But their marriage is rock solid, a source has said, declaring ‘their love is real’ and they are still ‘hot for each other’.
Harry has once again thrown the breakdown of his relationship with his family back into the limelight with an explosive interview with the BBC after he lost his court battle over the levels of security he and his family are entitled to while they are in the UK.
On May 2, he lost his attempt to overturn the Home Office’s decision at the Court of Appeal – a ruling he has since furiously described as a ‘good old-fashioned Establishment stitch-up’.
Harry’s bombshell interview with the BBC has been met with a wave of criticism after he complained that his cancer-stricken father, King Charles, ‘won’t speak to me’ and claimed he ‘doesn’t know how much longer he has left’.
Just days later, a YouGov poll revealed that Harry is the second most popular living member of the Royal Family among Americans – behind his brother Prince William.
However, William, Harry, Princess Catherine and King Charles were all more popular than Meghan, the only US citizen on the list, whose ratings were 41 per cent positive and 25 per cent negative.
