Prince Harry continued his publicity blitz on Tuesday, January tenth, with a good-natured pre-taped look on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert! The Duke of Sussex, 38, shared tequila photographs with the favored comic on the Ed Sullivan Theatre in Manhattan an evening earlier to debate his controversial new memoir Spare. Stephen baited the royal with a playful pre-interview tequila, with the drinks hilariously enhancing his responses. When introducing his illustrious visitor, Colbert famous that he’s “revealing a number of issues” within the guide, which he added have to be “nerve wracking.” “Would you want a cocktail earlier than we start?” Harry giggled earlier than saying, “sure please!” “I hear you want tequila,” Stephen mentioned, as he whipped out a bottle to start pouring.
“Does he ever make you guys a drink, or not?” Harry quipped whereas pointing to the viewers, including that “everyone desires a drink.” “They’re already in your aspect man, you don’t must get them drunk,” Stephen joked earlier than providing him further limes.
Prince Harry wants a drink — and we will relate.🥃🥃 #Colbert #Spare pic.twitter.com/ALrvYzGl1O
— The Late Present (@colbertlateshow) January 11, 2023
In the course of the change, the comic factors clean requested Harry if he “reality checks” Netflix’s The Crown, which he admitted he does watch. Harry pretended to significantly take notes earlier than laughing and admitting, “sure, I do truly. Which, by the way in which, one more reason why it’s so necessary that historical past has it proper.” Harry seemed sharp in a grey jacket over a midnight blue button up shirt as he bantered with Stephen.
The looks initially kicked off with a hilarious BTS skit of Stephen getting ready for a royal visitor with trumpeting horns. When Harry making an attempt to blow off the fanfare, Stephen quipped “what are you speaking about, this isn’t for you!” Tom Hanks then arrived in an surprising cameo, as Prince Harry hilariously tossed rose petals on the Castaway actor.
Followers of @thecrownnetflix can be happy to know Prince Harry fact-checks the present. 😂👑 #Colbert #Spare pic.twitter.com/LZjItrfLMx
— The Late Present (@colbertlateshow) January 11, 2023
On a extra severe word, the prince additionally slammed “lies” that he had beforehand boasted in regards to the variety of folks he killed as a soldier. “Indubitably, essentially the most harmful lie that they’ve informed, is that I by some means boasted in regards to the variety of folks I killed in Afghanistan,” he mentioned. “My phrases usually are not harmful, however the spin of my phrases are very harmful,” he added.
Harry additional addressed his transfer to California with Meghan Markle, 41, and the chaos main as much as it. “I’ve by no means seen the extent of abuse and harassment,” he mentioned, including that he was “naive going into it.” Nonetheless, he clearly indicating he was comfortable in California.
The previous Colbert Report host beforehand ribbed the prince with a teaser for the interview, joking that the explosive new guide, which hit cabinets on Tuesday, is “additionally obtainable on audiobook and a commemorative plate.” In all seriousness, although, he additionally praised the guide. “I’ve learn the guide — it’s very pleasurable, fairly emotional, fairly revealing. I’m going to have a lot to speak about along with his Harryness,” he mentioned within the clip, posted to Twitter on January 9. Followers who had been seated within the viewers on the night time of the taping had leaked information that the prince had certainly loved tequila photographs with Stephen.
Lots of Prince Harry’s most gorgeous revelations have been turned out by the general public in latest days. In an account of a bodily battle with older brother Prince William, 40, Harry claimed that William knocked him to the ground. “All of it occurred so quick. So very quick,” he wrote. “He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the ground. I landed on the canine’s bowl, which cracked underneath my again, the items reducing into me. I lay there for a second, dazed, then bought to my ft and informed him to get out.” He admitted that Prince William, who’s now second in line to the British throne after the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth, later apologized and was “regretful” — although he additionally claimed he was teased insensitively over his anxiousness and panic assaults.
He’s additionally taken purpose at his stepmother, Queen Consort Camila, calling her “harmful,” and revealed an allegedly notably tense textual content change between his spouse and Princess Kate Middleton over a bridesmaid costume for Princess Charlotte. The fallout over the “French couture” costume, he claimed, left the bride-to-be “sobbing” on the ground simply days earlier than her royal marriage ceremony to Prince Harry. He additionally admitted throughout a latest 60 Minutes interview that he watched movies of his late mom Princess Diana as a way to cry and course of her loss of life.
Harry and Meghan, who now dwell in California and are dad and mom to 2 younger youngsters, have additionally been opening up their lives by their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, which debuted on the streaming large in December. The couple induced controversy by stepping again from royal life again in 2020 amid intense media and public scrutiny over their private lives.
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