A Good Morning Britain guest has hit out at Family Guy for ‘attacking’ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who have been ripped apart by an animated sketch – yet again.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were previously savaged by South Park, which took a swipe at characters based on them trying to settle down in a new town.
In it, South Park’s Kyle hit out at how sick he was of hearing of the ‘dumb prince and his stupid wife’, while in another scene a royal family member farts on the Princess’ face when they attend the funeral of the Queen of Canada, welcomed by a booing family.
They also appear on ‘Good Morning Canada’ holding placards that read: ‘Stop looking at us!’ and ‘We want our privacy!!’
And now, another animated sitcom has taken an absolutely brutal swipe at Harry and Meghan, but not everyone is happy about it.
The Family Guy clip sees Harry and Meghan lounging by the pool when a butler comes to hand them ‘millions from Netflix for… no one knows what’.
‘Put it with the rest of them,’ Harry dismissively declares, before Meghan’s phone buzzes and she tells him: ‘Babe, time to do our daily $250,000 sponsored Instagram post for Del Taco.’
Harry then says ‘I shouldn’t have left the made-up nonsense,’ in an apparent dig at the royal family.
Earlier in the episode, titled A Stache From the Past, Family Guy star Peter Griffin sits in a bar and compares himself to the couple, saying that he’ll ‘go at it alone’ like them, in order to make his own money.
Talking about the episode on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain, host Adil Ray suggested perhaps the royal couple are laughing at the parody themselves.
‘I wrote comedy, and we can’t start censoring comedy can we? For all we know, they might laugh at it themselves,’ he said.
‘I doubt it very much,’ guest Stephanie Takyi replied, adding: ‘But they have spoken about their mental health battles, and we have to ask ourselves, why do we have to keep on saying everything is okay in the name of comedy? Dark comedy?
‘They are real life people here who have to sit and deal with this on a continuous basis.’
Comedian Frankie ‘Trixx’ Agyemang hit back with: ‘We’ve got to stop blaming, acting like mental health issues, comedy attacks it negatively, because I suffer from mental health issues, and comedy is my therapy.
‘But the show wasn’t attacking their mental health, the show was attacking, not even attacking, poking fun at the fact that these two were part of the royal family, and they absolved themselves from it and here they are just collecting millions and a lot of people don’t know why.
‘If you’re a celebrity and you put yourself out there, I’m sorry, it’s fair game. It’s sad, but it’s reality.’
The royal couple have been open about struggles with their mental health, after Meghan broke down in tears as she discussed her suicidal thoughts in the infamous Oprah Winfrey interview.
At one point, she said she ‘just didn’t want to be alive anymore’ while pregnant with her son Archie, after the abuse she was subjected to after joining the Royal family began to take its toll.
In their Netflix documentary a year later, Harry revealed he ‘hates’ himself for not doing more to support his wife during the depths of her depression in 2018.
Recounting her mindset during that period, Meghan says: ‘It was like, “all of this will stop if I’m not here”.
‘And that was the scariest thing about it, is that it was such clear thinking.’
She adds later: ‘I wanted to go somewhere to get help but I wasn’t allowed to. ‘
‘They were concerned about how that would look for the institution.’
Speaking about that period, Harry said: ‘I was devastated, I knew that she was struggling, we were both struggling, but I never thought that it would get to that stage and the fact that it got to that stage, I felt angry and ashamed.
‘I didn’t deal with it particularly well. I dealt with it as institutional-Harry as opposed to husband-Harry.
‘What took over my feeling was my royal role. I had been trained to worry more about “what are people going to think if we don’t go to this event, we’re going to be late”.
‘Looking back on it now I hate myself for it. What she needed from me was so much more than I was able to give.’
The brutal Family Guy swipe comes after South Park took aim at Harry and Meghan in an episode titled The Worldwide Privacy Tour.
‘It seriously is driving me crazy. I’m sick of hearing about them but I can’t get away from them!’ Kyle moans, adding: ‘They’re everywhere in my f**king face.’
Elsewhere in the episode, the characters based on Harry and Meghan move into a house opposite Kyle’s, who complains about their private jet, their loud ‘privacy party’ and even the prince playing polo.
‘They keep on wanting me to buy their book,’ he adds.
In another scene, the Good Morning Canada host accuses them of being ‘journalists’ themselves, after reporting on the lives of the royal family in a book closely resembling Harry’s memoir Spare, but is titled: ‘Waaagh.’
‘We just want to be normal people, this attention is so hard,’ the princess comments.
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