Pamela Anderson Shuts Down Talk Meghan Markle Copied Her Cooking Show
The 'Naked Gun' star seemed surprised by the inquiry
Cindy Ord/Getty/SiriusXM; Craig Barritt/Getty (Left) Pamela Anderson at Sirius XM Studios in New York City on July 30, 2025; (Right) Meghan Markle at the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2025 in New York City
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- Pamela Anderson was asked whether she thinks Meghan Markle's lifestyle show was similar to her own cooking series
- Pamela's Cooking With Love and With Love, Meghan premiered a week apart this year
- The former Baywatch star, 58, tackled the topic on Watch What Happens Live
During an Aug. 3 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the Baywatch alum, 58, was asked if she felt Meghan’s Netflix series With Love, Meghan was a “rip-off” of her own show, Pamela’s Cooking With Love, which premiered just a week earlier.
"On a scale from one to ten, how much of a rip off did you feel like With Love, Meghan was of your show, 'Pamela’s Cooking With Love?' There were articles saying these two shows were very similar," Cohen asked Anderson during a round of the segment, "Plead the Fifth."
"One. I didn't," she replied.
"One? On a scale from one to 10, you did not see any similarities?" Cohen asked again.
Shaking her head, Anderson said, "No, I didn't really look, but I didn't invent cooking shows," and added with a laugh, "She's just doing her thing."
Pamela’s Cooking With Love premiered on Feb. 24 and saw renowned chefs join her on a rural property on Vancouver Island in her native Canada, where they prepared plant-based meals together for dinner parties styled by Anderson, a logline from Canada's Flavour Network said.
Meanwhile, Meghan's series With Love, Meghan premiered on Netflix on March 4 (postponed from January amid the wildfires in Los Angeles at the time) and followed the Duchess of Sussex cook, garden, create and entertain friends and guests including celebrity chefs Roy Choi and Alice Waters.
PEOPLE previously revealed that With Love, Meghan will premiere a second season on Netflix in the fall, in an installment that has already been filmed.
The next edition is still expected following The Sun's report in late July that Meghan and Prince Harry's five-year, $100 million Netflix deal will not be renewed when it expires in September.
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