11:05 British showbiz reporter Lizzie Cundy has spent decades on the red carpet interviewing the stars, a former wag with a host of celeb friends. The social life has even made a few headlines of her own. Now, the TV and radio personality is taking us behind the scenes of her glamorous life, sharing salacious stories and secrets in a new book. And one in particular caught our attention with a tale of her unlikely friendship with the now Duchess of Sussex, tremendous. I've had the best time in London, fans are amazing. I'm enjoying London life. I mean, it must be mad because you know, it's very different here, and it's cold. It is very cold, um, but the people are so warm.
11:47 As cheesy as that sounds, I've was joking today, I've never been called love or darling more in my life, so it makes me want to stick around for a while. No, you're hosting. Okay, darling. Now, from London, Lizzie Cundy joins us live. Thanks for staying up so late over there. Now, any mention of the Duchess is a little bit more. I'm always up late. I'm always up late. But good morning to you all. Thanks for joining us. Any mention of the Duchess, and we are on board. So let's talk through this relationship. When did you first meet her? Well, I first met Meghan. In fact, I didn't have a clue who she was. I was told to look after her for a charity dinner. And I was saying, Who is this, Megan? And they were saying, Oh, she's an actress. You know, she's coming from Vancouver.
12:26 I had to Google her. I still couldn't find her. So I said, Look, I'll look after her. But we actually got on like a house on fire. And so happened, we had another night together the following night at a Big K's charity event with Eva Longoria. But we got on so well. And she was a real girl's girl. Loved London, loved Englishmen, and she wanted to find a boyfriend. Ah, hold on. Okay, so first of all, now I understand Lizzie. She was married to Jason Cundy, a soccer star. That's how she got in the circles. Those soccer stars, they hang out with everybody. So that's how she got in the circle. And I'm sure it was some. This has got to be clooney-level stuff that someone asked her to take care of her.
13:10 That's the question. That's the question that we're going to try to figure out an answer to. Who tells her to look after this American star that pops up out of nowhere? You heard her say, I googled her. I couldn't still find her. And she says she's coming out of Vancouver. Hmm, Vancouver. She's from California. Where did this Vancouver come from? And the reason why I bring that point up is when they left, I mean, just to jump ahead a little bit, when they left England, they went right back to Vancouver, Canada. Well, isn't she Canadian, though? By birth? Megan? I thought she may be, but I mean, all I've always heard, it's narrative versus fact, right?
13:52 All of her heard out of California. She went to school in California. I think she went to that little red school or whatever. It's called, I mean, that thing has a whole other, but we're not going to get there. But what I'm saying is, she pops up on the scene. Somebody tells Lizzie to say, hey, look after her, take her under your wing. Who is that? Why did that happen? By the way, according to Wikipedia, she was born in Los Angeles. That's weird. Well, wasn't there dad? There's some Canadian connection, I thought. That could be crazy. I looked. I think you might be thinking about Kamala. Oh, that's right. Kamala, Kamala Harris, Lizzie Cundy, Meghan Markle.
14:35 It's all the same. Yeah. No, what I was just saying is that that's a very to say she came out of Vancouver and not LA when she's in Hollywood. That's a weird, just so look, just a little, just a little nugget we want to tuck away. Yeah. So I have a follow follow-up up. to this clip in Backstabbers 2. So, I thought, well, I'm good at matchmaking. I'll help her. Really? So, what were her words to you? Help me find a boyfriend? Or how did that pan out? Well, I was recently divorced. I was married to a Chelsea footballer, and I just recently split. And she was asking me lots of questions. I was asking her about her love life. And we found we were both single girls.
15:16 She had a bit of time in London. So I said, Look, I'll try and help you find a guy. And she said, you know, maybe a celebrity. I thought, well, why not? So we started looking through my phone. There were a few footballers in there. And she liked one of them, Ashley Cole, who used to play for Chelsea. And we kind of just chatted, had a good time. But never did I think in a million years she would have the catch of the century. How did your matchmaking go? Did you, did you? Well, it was quite good. We were looking through, we're having a giggle, as girls do, having a few drinks. We stayed in touch after. We got on really well. So she really was having a good time in London and she seemed to find her real match in London.
15:59 Sure. I didn't believe it. So that was just a couple of years ago. And did you stay in touch after? But then what happened? Yeah, well, she met Harry, and obviously I said, wow, that's a good catch. And she said, yeah, thank you. You know, let's hook up soon. But there's a very well-known presenter, TV presenter called Piers Morgan. And he said, She's blanked me. Meghan's blanked me. And then I tried because there was a big article. Her family, her father and her sister, had written and sold stories on her. So I wrote and said, Look, I hope you're okay. And then I realized there was no response and her Twitter account was down. So I just suppose that what happens when you become a royal, you know, you
16:43 okay, that's a little different than Megan said. She was trolling. Wow. By the way, okay, yeah. Canada, Canada. She might have the show suits filmed in Canada a lot. Oh, okay. So she was probably filming and living there. That's probably what was going on. At least as far as we can tell. But this made the fact that when they left England, when they gave up their titles, the first stop was Canada. Yeah, right to Canada. Which is supposed to be safe because it's part of the British Commonwealth. It's, you know, the Queen still owns Canada. Right. We don't want to get stuck on Vancouver. Okay. We can see here this is not what was said here.
17:27 Was she bumped into the prince and somebody set up on a blind date and they fell in love? No, she was in, she met Lizzie. Lizzie got her into the social orbit, but she needed to get closer. So she was handed off to another handler. Oh, my goodness. Mo, do you have a day job, man? Where do you do this? This is crazy. This is some sleuthing. Man, I told you when I find a rabbit hole, I don't, I got to come out the other end. I can't. So let's see. But one thing we need to establish is why the red carpet.