Prince Harry’s lone trips are his idea as he’s ‘desperate for one thing’, sources claim
Daily Record
Despite this, Harry has not been seen with his wife, Meghan Markle, a fact that PR strategist Mark Borkowski previously told the Daily Telegraph indicated there was “something going on”.
Mark Borkowski had previously commented on the Sussexes, stating that the “star power” they believed they would possess together “didn’t work” and they needed to “change the narrative”.
He stated: “They need a venture that deflects from the failures. The charity aspect impresses upon everybody that he [Harry] does have value beyond the controversial stuff.”
Mark went on to say: “It has the effect of separating them from the bad press and the failed content ideas. The punters still have time for Harry.”
Where’s Meghan? Prince Harry’s Solo Appearances Fuel Speculation Amid New Ventures
Business Times
PR expert Mark Borkowski offered an explanation, suggesting that this separation of work between Harry and Meghan is strategic. He noted that their initial belief in their combined “star power” did not pan out as expected following their departure from royal duties. “They had to change the narrative,” Borkowski told The Telegraph. “They need a venture that deflects from the failures. The charity aspect impresses upon everybody that he [Harry] does have value beyond the controversial stuff.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘major problem’ with British public revealed
Daily Express
Since they got married and had their firstborn, Prince Archie, Meghan and Harry said they struggled with being accepted by the Royal Family and made the decision to leave together.
A PR expert has now claimed that Meghan was the “big problem” which has cost the prince his popularity. Speaking on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show, Mark Borkowski claimed: “People still love Harry, they still like him.”
He added: “Their problem is they don’t like the woman he loves.”
Mark said that public perception of Meghan changed only after the couple’s decision to leave the monarchy, and was generally positive prior to it.
“There was a huge outpouring of love for her initially as people felt he [Harry] had found someone fairly late in life, at least in terms of royal standards where they sort of get married off early”, he said.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1954200/prince-harry-meghan-markle-problem
Phillip Schofield says he will be ‘forever sorry’ on primetime TV return
The Guardian
His return to primetime TV has met a mixed response. Mark Borkowski, a crisis PR consultant and author, rebutted Schofield’s claim that he is a victim of cancel culture. Writing in the Guardian, he said: “This was a spectacular career collapse sparked by a serious HR violation, an abuse of power and a betrayal of his inner circle, not to mention millions of viewers who saw one man and realised he was another.”
Borkowski said the show was “clearly designed to propel Schofield into a redemption arc” and that he must “put in the performance of a lifetime” to pull it off.
Phillip Schofield is following the modern celebrity redemption playbook. Here it is
Guardian
The presenter was disgraced after an abuse of power in the workplace. His appearance on Cast Away is strategic – but you, the public, will decide if it’s successful
In what feels like the blink of an eye, Phillip Schofield is heading back to our primetime screens.
He never was a casualty of cancel culture – this was a spectacular career collapse sparked by a serious HR violation, an abuse of power and a betrayal of his inner circle, not to mention millions of viewers who saw one man and realised he was another. “I have brought myself down. I am done. I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart,” he said then. But that was then.
Now, 16 months later, here he is, a contemporary Lazarus, gearing up for a comeback as if nothing had ever happened. In the fame business, it seems that even the most spectacular falls from grace have a reset button.
Terrified Phillip Schofield battles raging storm in new teaser video for his show Cast Away as he admits ‘disaster has struck’
Daily Mail
As well as the breakdown of his marriage, Schofield’s relationship with co-host Holly Willoughby faltered in the midst of the scandal, with the pair understood to be at loggerheads.
Schofield’s daughter Molly is now his publicist after she quit the talent agency that once represented her father.
PR guru Mark Borkowski says his tepid return to the public eye has come after a year away to disappear and get himself together.
Calling him a rare talent, Borkowski said: ‘He’s testing the waters. But audiences are very forgiving.’
Prince Andrew’s future bleak as redemption seems impossible, says PR expert.
Daily Record
PR guru Mark Borkowski has shared his thoughts on Prince Andrew following the release of A Very Royal Scandal, based on the lead-up to and aftermath of Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview
Prince Andrew, who has been “Ejected”, will continue to be a story regardless of his next steps, but he won’t be able to redeem himself, according to a PR expert.
Following the release of A Very Royal Scandal, which focuses on the events leading up to and following Prince Andrew’s notorious Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, Royal commentators have speculated about the implications for the Royal Family.
Mark Borkowski, a PR guru, believes the royals aren’t worried about the three-part series as they’ve taken a strong stance to distance themselves from him.
He commented: “I really don’t think that causes any headaches for the royal family any longer. There’s nothing to redeem there, particularly when he’s been ejected.”
Phillip Schofield ‘steadfastly turned down a sea of big money TV offers before signing up for Cast Away’ – as he gets set to share his ‘unedited and honest’ story
Daily Mail
As well as the breakdown of his marriage, Schofield’s relationship with co-host Holly Willoughby faltered in the midst of the scandal, with the pair understood to be at loggerheads.
Schofield’s daughter Molly is now his publicist after she quit the talent agency that once represented her father.
PR guru Mark Borkowski says his tepid return to the public eye has come after a year away to disappear and get himself together.
Calling him a rare talent, Borkowski said: ‘He’s testing the waters. But audiences are very forgiving.’
Schofield told the BBC in an emotional interview last June the affair had finished his career and revealed that the fallout had left him feeling suicidal.
He told how his two daughters – Molly and Ruby – had saved his life and had ‘guarded me and won’t let me out of their sight’.
Phillip Schofield’s TV return is ‘genius’ move that will ‘send him to paradise’
The Mirror
Media expert Mark Borkowski says the This Morning host’s upcoming show Cast Away is a great opportunity to relaunch his career.
Phillip Schofield’s surprise TV comeback could take him to “paradise rather than hell”, claims a top PR expert.
Mark Borkowski calls the casting of the former This Morning host “genius”, after it was today announced he’d signed up for Channel 5’s Cast Away. It’s the first time Schofield will be back on telly since it was revealed he’d had an affair with a young male colleague last May.
Media expert Mark says the opportunity gives the presenter a lifeline back to telly – whilst also being a likely ratings hit for Channel 5. He says Schofe has been held in “purgatory” since news of his affair broke – and that starring in upcoming Cast Away will give the presenter hope of career redemption.
“For one, it’s giving him a chance again,” tells Mark. “Secondly, what a superb piece of casting. Everyone is talking about it. It’s genius. He might have fallen out of favour, but he’s done the right thing. He disappeared. There’s been no publicity about him going off to this God forsaken place. He’s got a camera, he can self edit. And in a sense, you know, it, it feels like he’s gone to purgatory. He is hoping to coming out of purgatory and go to paradise rather than hell.”
Mark insists Cast Away – which was filmed off the coast of Madagascar and will see Schofield live alone with no food or water for 10 days – will be the perfect opportunity to remind people how good the host is on telly. He says that Schofe’s talent, honed over 30 plus years on shows like This Morning and Dancing On Ice, can’t be denied or replicated and that’s why he’s still hot property.
“There’s still life in the Phillip Schofield brand and he’s got the chance of a comeback,” tells Mark. “It will remind people how good he is on television. He was born and bred in the medium. He didn’t get to the top because he was mediocre. He’s one of the rare people who still can do live TV and make no mistake, that’s not an easy thing to do.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/phillip-schofield-back-purgatory-new-33750372
‘GET A SENSE CHECK’ Harry & Meghan need to be authentic & not make the same mistakes again & again – it’s lunacy, claims expert
The Sun
Mark Borkowski appeared on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show and hailed their pattern of ‘errors’ as “lunacy”.
The PR commentator claimed the Sussexes don’t have a staff member to guide them objectively in their new role in California – and they should employ one immediately.
Mark advised: “If you haven’t got a team, haven’t got a central person who’s sense-checking you, you’re just gonna make the same mistakes all over again.
“It’s a definition of, sort of, lunacy, really.
“So, I think the first thing is a robust team and actually turning to that team and recognising, ’We’ve made mistakes.’
“They’ve got to find themselves a critical friend who is actually going to make some tough decisions on their behalf.”
The PR expert advised: “They’ve got to step out of that deep ghetto they’re in and recognize that everything they’ve done to date is going to be torn up, and they can start again.”
He stressed that “you can rebuild yourself with authenticity”, particularly as the general public tend to have “short-term memory loss and long-term amnesia.”
Mark added the couple should “focus on the things that really matter”, and used the Harry’s Invictus Games for injured servicemen as an example.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/30656986/harry-meghan-same-mistakes-expert/
Expert shares Prince Andrew’s ‘biggest problem’ as he continues ‘to knock on bolted door’
Express
A PR expert believes the Royal Family have already distanced themselves from Prince Andrew and will therefore not be concerned about the new three-part series A Very Royal Scandal.
Following the release of A Very Royal Scandal, based on the lead-up to and aftermath of Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, royal experts have discussed what this could mean for the Royal Family.
According to Mark Borkowski, the royals will not be concerned about the three-part series as they have already “taken a very aggressive attitude to distance him”.
He shared: “I really don’t think that causes any headaches for the Royal Family any longer. There’s nothing to redeem there, particularly when he’s been ejected.”
On what he believes could be best for the disgraced royal, he added: “I think he just needs to carry on playing golf and driving his cars around the estate and whatever.”
Mark went on to say that while there’s “no way” anyone would go near Andrew for work, he believes he could perhaps do “something very subtle”, such as charity work.
“But, he needs to be, that’s the problem for himself, he needs to back in the fold,” the PR guru added.
“And, all he’s doing is trying to knock on a bolted door that will never reopen for him.”
Speaking on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive podcast, Mark also shared the “problem” he believes Andrew faces after the allegations against him.
He said: “The problem all of these people have is, whatever they do to try and rehabilitate themselves, it’s a story.
“And, as soon as it’s a story, everybody is looking at whether to see if that’s going to fail or succeed.”
The PR guru believes that people are also “bored” of the Prince Andrew saga, particularly as the interview was previously dramatised in Netflix’s Scoop.
Prince Andrew has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Prince Andrew ‘knocking on bolted door that will never reopen’ as biggest problem exposed
Scottish Daily Express
A PR guru has shared what Prince Andrew could potentially do next as a new and dramatised version of his infamous Newsnight interview comes back into the spotlight, titled A Very Royal Scandal
“Ejected” Prince Andrew will continue “to be a story” with whatever he does next, but will not be able to redeem himself, a PR guru has claimed.
Following the release of A Very Royal Scandal, based on the lead-up to and aftermath of Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, royal experts have discussed what this could mean for the Royal Family.
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-andrew-knocking-bolted-door-33733944
Harry & Meghan’s Oprah interview was a disaster for key reason – they didn’t learn from Diana & Andrew, says expert
The Sun
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview was a disaster for one reason, claims an expert.
Mark Borkowski appeared on this week’s episode of The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show where he told Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson the Sussexes should have learned from Diana and Andrew.
The “disruptive souls” believed they were bigger than the Firm and thought they had complete control over their shocking 2021 TV chat, he said.
When in reality, it completely backfired when Oprah took the lead on the “explosive mistake”.
Mark said: “They were trying to outdo an organisation of the royal household and at the time, the Queen was still alive, giving that advice and she was a wise, wise woman.
“So these disruptive souls who were going to somehow be bigger than the Royal Family themselves, that was a mistake.
“You’re doing a deal and of course you’re talking to one of the most famous interviewers in modern television history.
“There’s no control over it, you’ve done a deal. And you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
“And that was a big mistake. It was so explosive.”
He also told how Harry and Meg should have known a high-profile interview would not go in their favour.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/30628134/harry-meghans-oprah-interview-disaster-diana-andrew/
Princess of Wales ‘giving hope to many others’ with video describing her cancer journey
The Standard
Public relations and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said the “polished” footage, featuring precious family moments and Kate sharing a health update in a voiceover, sets a new precedent, showing vulnerability while staying in command.
“This is film for the YouTube Insta generation – deeply personal yet controlled to convey a family dealing with cancer. A happy family portrait,” he said.
Mr Borkowski added: “It’s groundbreaking, an absolute first – a tectonic shift in how the royal family controls its image.
“Kate’s journey is profound and deeply personal, but they’ve learned that emotion can be controlled – and weaponised – in small, potent doses.
“By doing this through a polished film, they maintain dignity and control while still appearing relatable.”
Kate’s Middleton’s emotional cancer update video is celebrated as ‘epic’, ‘groundbreaking’ and a ‘tectonic shift in how the Firm controls its image’ – as Brits are left overjoyed at candid clips
Daily Mail Online
Kate Middleton‘s emotional cancer update video has been celebrated as ‘epic’, ‘groundbreaking’ and a ‘tectonic shift in how the Firm controls its image’.
Media image guru Mark Borkowski also heaped praise on the ‘polished film’, complimenting its ability to show the family’s ‘vulnerability while staying in command’.
Mr Borkowski said: ‘The Kate film is a groundbreaking moment. The household on the front foot. Let’s not forget that they lost control of the cancer narrative by staying silent [earlier this year].
‘They have really learnt from the initial mistakes. The ghost of the Queen still ruled the PR machine. But this is epic. It’s groundbreaking, an absolute first. A tectonic shift in how the Royal Family controls its image.
‘Kate’s journey is profound and deeply personal, but they’ve learned that emotion can be controlled—and weaponised—in small, potent doses. By doing this through a polished film, they maintain dignity and control while still appearing relatable.’
Kate’s personal video shows ‘vulnerability while staying in control’
The Independent
PR guru Mark Borkowski said the YouTube Insta generation film is a tectonic shift in how the royal family deals with its image.
The Princess of Wales’s deeply personal video is a “groundbreaking moment” and “tectonic shift” in how the royal family controls its image, a PR guru has said.
Public relations and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said the “polished” footage, featuring precious family moments and Kate sharing a health update in a voiceover, sets a new precedent, showing vulnerability while staying in command.
“This is film for the YouTube Insta generation – deeply personal yet controlled to convey a family dealing with cancer. A happy family portrait,” he said.
Kate’s personal video shows ‘vulnerability while staying in control’ | The Independent
Kate’s personal video sharing cancer treatment update shows ‘vulnerability while staying in control’
The Standard
PR guru Mark Borkowski said the YouTube Insta generation film is a tectonic shift in how the royal family deals with its image.
The Princess of Wales’s deeply personal video is a “groundbreaking moment” and “tectonic shift” in how the royal family controls its image, a PR guru has said.
Public relations and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said the “polished” footage, featuring precious family moments and Kate sharing a health update in a voiceover, sets a new precedent, showing vulnerability while staying in command.
Kanye West fans are reminded of his wife Bianca Censori’s wildest look yet as her completely nude under clear raincoat look is revisited
Daily Mail
Her decision to go topless in LA raises yet more questions about whether on the orders of husband Kanye because of a PR war with his ex-wife Kim.
Mark Borkowski, arguably Britain’s leading PR guru, told MailOnline: ‘Where does it end? She clearly is very comfortable with her public image and demonstrates it with this extreme fashion statement.
‘I can only think this is a considered act. It feels to be a desperate attempt for publicity. It feels like a living embodiment of the Empress has no clothes’.
Strictly facing ‘make or break moment’ as bosses need to support pros and celebs
Daily Express
The Italian dancer admitted that he “kicked” his celebrity partner Zara during training rehearsals last year.
Speaking to the BBC, Graziano’s spokesman Mark Borkowski said: “There is never a time when kicking, or any sense of that is right. And he knows that. He knows he’s made a mistake. He apologised at the time.”
Graziano issued a statement on his shock departure, saying he “deeply regrets the events that led” to his exit. He claimed his “intense passion and determination to win might have affected my training regime”.
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1941994/strictly-come-dancing-new-series-celebrities-bosses
Strictly Come Dancing confirms first blind contestant
The Guardian
In July, Italian dancer Graziano Di Prima confirmed he was the second professional to leave Strictly amid a BBC investigation into his conduct on the show. He failed to deny kicking the TV personality Zara McDermott, with his spokesperson Mark Borkowski telling BBC News: “There is never a time when kicking or any sense of that is right. And he knows that. He knows he’s made a mistake. He apologised at the time.”
Strictly staff have also spoken out about their treatment on the series as well. Their complaints detail a “toxic” work culture featuring cruelty, sexism and the BBC failing to take their complaints seriously. The BBC responded: “We do not recognise the claims relating to a negative workplace culture.”