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Prince Harry continued his publicity blitz on Tuesday, January tenth, with a good-natured pre-taped look on The Late Show 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 lot of things” within the guide, which he added should be “nerve wracking.” “Would you like a cocktail before we begin?” Harry giggled earlier than saying, “yes please!” “I hear you like tequila,” Stephen stated, 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 “everybody wants a drink.” “They’re already on your side man, you don’t have to get them drunk,” Stephen joked earlier than providing him additional limes.
Prince Harry wants a drink — and we are able to relate.🥃🥃 #Colbert #Spare pic.twitter.com/ALrvYzGl1O
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 11, 2023
During the trade, the comic factors clean requested Harry if he “fact checks” Netflix’s The Crown, which he admitted he does watch. Harry pretended to noticeably take notes earlier than laughing and admitting, “yes, I do actually. Which, by the way, another reason why it’s so important that history has it right.” Harry appeared sharp in a grey jacket over a midnight blue button up shirt as he bantered with Stephen.
The look initially kicked off with a hilarious BTS skit of Stephen making ready for a royal visitor with trumpeting horns. When Harry making an attempt to blow off the fanfare, Stephen quipped “what are you talking 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.
Fans of @thecrownnetflix shall be happy to know Prince Harry fact-checks the present. 😂👑 #Colbert #Spare pic.twitter.com/LZjItrfLMx
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 11, 2023
On a extra severe word, the prince additionally slammed “lies” that he had beforehand boasted concerning the variety of folks he killed as a soldier. “Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie that they have told, is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan,” he stated. “My words are not dangerous, but the spin of my words are very dangerous,” he added.
Harry additional addressed his transfer to California with Meghan Markle, 41, and the chaos main as much as it. “I’ve never seen the level of abuse and harassment,” he stated, including that he was “naive going into it.” Still, he clearly indicating he was completely happy in California.
The former 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 “also available on audiobook and a commemorative plate.” In all seriousness, although, he additionally praised the guide. “I’ve read the book — it’s very enjoyable, quite emotional, quite revealing. I’m going to have so much to talk about with his Harryness,” he stated within the clip, posted to Twitter on January 9. Fans 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.
Many of Prince Harry’s most gorgeous revelations have been turned out by the general public in current days. In an account of a bodily struggle with older brother Prince William, 40, Harry claimed that William knocked him to the ground. “It all happened so fast. So very fast,” he wrote. “He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told 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 nervousness and panic assaults.
He’s additionally taken goal at his stepmother, Queen Consort Camila, calling her “dangerous,” and revealed an allegedly notably tense textual content trade 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 current 60 Minutes interview that he watched movies of his late mom Princess Diana with a view to cry and course of her loss of life.
Harry and Meghan, who now stay in California and are dad and mom to two younger kids, have additionally been opening up their lives by way of their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, which debuted on the streaming large in December. The couple precipitated controversy by stepping again from royal life again in 2020 amid intense media and public scrutiny over their private lives.