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Suits creator confirmed Meghan Markle was forbidden from saying one word on show

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Updated 15:10 14 Feb 2025 GMTPublished 14:52 14 Feb 2025 GMT

Suits creator confirmed Meghan Markle was forbidden from saying one word on show

Meghan Markle started on the show way before even meeting her royal husband

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: USA Network

Topics: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Royal Family, TV, Celebrity

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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Meghan Markle was forbidden from saying one specific word while she starred in Suits, according to the show's creator.

The American actor took on the role of Rachel Zane in the hit legal drama back in 2011 - way before she’d even met Prince Harry.

But by the time she filmed her final episode in 2017, and her last appearance aired on TV the year after, she was engaged to the royal.

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The pair first met in the July of 2016, with their engagement made public not long after the seventh series of Suits had finished. And the creator has since revealed an insight into the impact Markle’s royal relationship had on the show.

Aaron Korsch felt just ‘as excited in some ways as everybody else’ when he found out the actor was dating a royal.

But while there apparently weren't ‘many things’ the British royal family got involved with, the pair’s relationship did unfortunately mean there were ‘a few things that [showrunners] wanted to do and couldn’t do’.

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“It was a little irritating,” the creator admitted to The Hollywood Reporter.

Korsch went on to explain: "I mean, your initial reaction is, like, ‘We’re dating a prince!’

"But the security and all that stuff, we shot in Toronto and the writers room was in L.A., so other people were dealing with that.

Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane (USA Network)
Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane (USA Network)

"I will say, and I think Harry put this in the book [Spare], because I heard people talking about it - [the Royal Family] weighed in on some stuff."

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According to the creator, the list of things the Suits team ‘couldn’t do’ included one specific word in the script for Rachel Zane.

"Look, I’ll just say what the line was. My wife’s family, when they have a topic to discuss that might be sensitive, they use the word ‘poppycock’,” Korsh said.

"Let’s say you wanted to do something that you knew your husband didn’t want to do, but you wanted to at least discuss it, and in just discussing it, you wouldn’t hold him to anything he said, you’d be like, ‘It’s poppycock’.

The pair have now been married since 2018 (Samir Hussein/WireImage)
The pair have now been married since 2018 (Samir Hussein/WireImage)

"So, in the episode, Mike and Rachel were going to have a thing, and as a nod to my in-laws, we were going to have her say, ‘My family would say poppycock’. And the Royal Family did not want her saying the word."

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The creator believes the instruction came because the royals were worried about the clip being cut down to just ‘c*ck’.

Oh, but you might be surprised with what they were happy enough with it being changed to: ‘Bulls**t’.

LADbible has contacted representatives for Meghan Markle and Buckingham Palace for comment.

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