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Meghan Markle has been encouraged to pause posting on Instagram as, if she were to post, she would be “undermining the delay she asked for as a result of the LA fires”, according to a PR expert.
The 43-year-old has been urged to taking a break from posting on Instagram, just three weeks after surprising fans with her return to the social media platform on New Year’s Day.
Meghan has posted three times so far, including the trailer of her upcoming cooking and lifestyle series, With Love, Meghan.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Fiona Minett, an award-winning PR Expert and Coach and founder of Boss Your PR, has said: “I think Meghan is in somewhat of a tricky situation. She’s not regularly posted on social media in support of any of her post-royal ventures and given that each post or announcement she does make attracts such huge attention, and quite often a backlash, I think she’s probably between a rock and a hard place.
“Any promotion she does now risks a backlash that she is undermining the delay she asked for as a result of the LA fires; why is she promoting her new show when she said she wanted to dedicate her time to supporting the recovery of the LA community?”
Fiona’s comment comes just one week after Meghan made the decision to delay the release of her eight-part series due to devastation caused by the LA fires. With Love, Meghan is now due to air on Netflix on March 4.
As well as the LA wildfires, the PR expert has also expressed that posting on Instagram could be “less than favourable” amid her latest PR storm.
She said: “[Meghan] is also finding herself in the midst of a PR storm of sorts following an extensive cover article by Vanity Fair that is less than favourable.
“In the wake of this, any kind of public posts, interviews, correspondence that make their way into the media will now likely include reference to this recent negative publicity that Meghan would perhaps rather went away. She won’t want to risk opening the doors to further drawing attention to it.”