With Love, Meghan Episode Ten: It's Way Past Our Bread-Time

WITH LOVE, MEGHAN: IT'S WAY PAST OUR BREAD-TIME

Original Airdate: August 26, 2025

Special Guest: Chrissy Tiegen (and a touch of John Legend)

Mentions of "Joy": 1

Mentions of Edible Flower Sprinkles: 0.5

Passive-Aggressive Moments: 2

Gushing Praise for Markle: "This is the most ideal day that I can imagine".

It is said that great minds think alike. Can the same also be said for insipid minds? Chrissy Tiegen and Meghan Markle share more than a few similarities. Both were "Briefcase Girls" on the television game show Deal or No Deal. Both are married to men who were better-known than they were at the time of their engagements. Both have achieved notoriety for their domestic and culinary presentations. Both have been accused of bullying. At last, these two mavens of cookery reunite in the tenth With Love, Meghan episode It's Way Past Our Bread-Time. 

Talk about moldy bread.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex starts out by going through each day of the six days it took to make sourdough bread. "Sourdough is a labor of love, or stress, depending on how you do it," Mrs. Sussex comments. After those days pass, enters someone whom Markle describes as "the ultimate multi-hyphen". Chrissy Tiegen pops in, seemingly unannounced and by total surprise. Also popping in is Tiegen's husband. Singer-songwriter John Legend clearly does not want to be there and does not bother to hide his total disinterest.

The appearance of Mr. Stephens comes as a complete surprise to Mrs. Mountbatten-Windsor. "I would have told Aitch to come", she tells Legend before he scurries off to let the girls have their fun-filled day. They chat about their love of animals. According to Tiegen, people are aware of how she cares for dogs. In fact, she is such a Mother Teresa of the animal set that people send her dogs to care for. Tiegen is eager to do what needs to be done. "PUT ME TO WORK!" Tiegen squeals with delight.

What to do, what to do. The perfect thing to do is for them to make pressed jewelry for their various children. At least the ones that they can remember. In one of With Love, Meghan's most embarrassing moments, Chrissy Tiegen cannot remember much about the children that she has. Not even the tattoos that she has marking their birthdays can help. Tiegen cannot remember the exact birthday of one of her children. She has to holler to the Legend of the hidden guesthouse to give her the exact date. As if that were not cringe-inducing enough, Tiegen also cannot remember whether that birthday is for her son Wren or her other son Miles.

Off they go to pick various flowers from the garden. The flowers for the pressed jewelry will correspond to each of the children's birth months. "I hear joyful sounds", Meghan shouts as Tiegen struggles to sometimes get up. It should be pointed out that Tiegen at 39 is actually five years younger than Markle. They have finished collecting the flowers and head off to the craft barn. "Welcome to the craft barn", Meghan says in a sing-song manner. As our pair sort things out, they reminisce about their time on Deal or No Deal. They recall reusable eyelashes. They marvel about how the other is now world-famous.

As they go on, they begin preparing delightful snacks. Meghan is absolutely astounded to learn that there is such a thing as a Cheeze-It Museum. She also is already prepared for a special gift for Tiegen. We learn How to Make Rosewater. Only the very best for Chrissy Tiegen and from Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will do. This rosewater will require Pope John Paul II rose pedals, a flower that is a particular favorite of Mrs. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.  

It is back to the pressed jewelry for Archie & Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor and for Esti, Wren, Luna and Miles Stephens. One child who will not be getting pressed jewelry is the mysterious Hawthorn. In a section both bizarre and perhaps a little shady, Chrissy Tiegen seems to think that "Hawthorn" is not one of the flower names. She thinks it is the name of Meghan's previously unknown child. 

The jewelry is done, but it requires a twenty-four hour wait time before they are finished. "I'm going to it to you with so much love", Meghan tells Chrissy. With that, John Legend pops out again, not hiding his disinterest bordering on contempt for being anywhere near this Montecito madhouse.

It's Way Past Our Bread-Time shows that men and women really are different. Markle and Tiegen were all so enthusiastic about chatting and pressed flower jewelry. Legend could not give an Aitch about any of this. Perhaps he was not literally dragged to the Montecito rented home/studio to make this cursory appearance. If not, he appeared to be there under duress. One of the more curious elements is when Tiegen has to shout to Legend to give her Wren or Miles' actual birthdate. 

It's Way Past Our Bread-Time, we are led to believe, has Legend just sitting in the next room, waiting for the Missus to finish. I struggle with the idea that John Legend has nothing better to do than sit around to pop in twice. I also struggle with the idea that executive producer Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was caught totally off-guard about Legend being there at all. 

Perhaps there is a strange and curious parallel being made here, subconsciously. Tiegen and Markle need to remind people that their husbands are internationally known and more famous than they are. Would anyone genuinely care about Chrissy Tiegen and/or Meghan Markle if they weren't Mrs. John Legend and Mrs. Harry Mountbatten-Windsor? 

If memory serves right, Markle comments that she had not seen Tiegen in close to twenty years but had recently reconnected. I think that there was a very curious effort for one to one-up the other. Tiegen comments that despite having all those dogs sent to her, the kids want a cat too. "You're becoming a cat lady", Markle comments. I think she aimed it to be a humorous quip. However, I thought that she was throwing shade at Tiegen. Meghan Markle may have never heard of the word "slurry" before. I am dubious that she has never heard of the expression "cat lady" before, let alone not know its meaning.

More shade is thrown Tiegen's way when Markle marvels that Tiegen is now famous. At most, I would qualify that sentiment as a left-handed compliment. This Briefcase Girl reunion seems more a subtle catfight than joyful get-together.

That is not to say that Tiegen, at least once, seem to give the Duchess as good as she got. As they worked on the pressed jewelry for their children, Tiegen wondered about Hawthorn. In between chuckles, she seemed to think that Hawthorn was a third Markle child. Markle seems to be genuinely taken aback at the thought of there being a pre-Harry child running around. I cannot remember her exact phrase. I think she commented that if she had been able to keep that a secret, it would have been amazing. 

Poor Hawthorn Markle. Forgotten by his royal mummy. 

As a side note, "Hawthorn Mountbatten-Windsor" sound like a better name than "Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor". 

I genuinely do not know if even the QR Code will give the viewer anything of value. I would be willing to wager the deed to my house that all six of the Sussex or Legend children (seven if you count Hawthorn) will ever wear the jewelry their mothers made. I can't figure out why any mother would go through all the trouble of such a gift. Are there enough Deal or No Deal fans who want to hear about Chrissy and Meghan's eyelash issues? 

Every conversation is so stilted and embarrassing for them. They do not look like they are people joyful to be reunited, and it does not feel good. I cannot imagine that Tiegen and Markle could actually be this stiff in real life.

It's Way Past Our Bread-Time is cringe, total cringe. It has, however, two things that elevate it. The first is seeing John Legend show near total disinterest so openly. The second is to speculate on the fate of Hawthorn Markle.

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