Ari Emanuel Says He's 'Great' Not Thinking About Meghan Markle's Career Anymore

Ari Emanuel, the executive chairman of talent agency WME, said he’s relieved he no longer has to manage Meghan Markle’s career, confirming the two stopped working together directly in 2025. The comment came in an interview tied to his new memoir and quickly drew attention because WME itself says the agency still represents Markle, just through other agents. Here’s what was actually said, and what it does and doesn’t tell us about her Hollywood career.

What did Ari Emanuel say about Meghan Markle’s career?

Asked about the direction of Meghan Markle’s career, Emanuel told The Sunday Times: “Here’s the great thing: I don’t have to think about that anymore.” The interview was published on September 27, 2026, and was tied to the release of Emanuel’s new memoir. His answer was widely read as blunt, and it doubled as confirmation, in his own words, that he personally stopped overseeing Markle’s account at WME in 2025.

Did Ari Emanuel and Meghan Markle really split professionally?

Emanuel’s own account is that he personally parted ways with Markle’s business in 2025, but that isn’t the same as WME dropping her as a client. Markle signed with WME in April 2023. Reporting in the time since has been inconsistent about exactly when and how their working relationship changed — one report from February 2025 said insiders believed WME had dropped her, which the agency denied at the time, and later reporting said Emanuel simply stopped handling her account personally while WME continued to represent her. Emanuel’s new comment is the most direct, recent version of that story, straight from him.

Does WME still represent Meghan Markle?

Yes — according to WME itself, the agency still represents both Meghan Markle and her production company, Archewell, even after Emanuel’s comment. The agency told entertainment press that Markle now works with other WME representatives rather than with Emanuel directly, since he is the firm’s executive chairman rather than her day-to-day agent. That distinction is what turned a blunt one-liner into a small public back-and-forth: Emanuel’s words suggested a clean break, while his own agency’s statement described something narrower — a change in who at WME handles the account, not an end to the relationship itself.

Why was Ari Emanuel talking about this at all?

Emanuel made the comment while promoting “Roll the Calls,” his new memoir published by Knopf, with an audiobook narrated by Bob Odenkirk. The Sunday Times interview was part of the book’s press tour, and Markle’s career came up as one of several industry topics Emanuel was asked about, not as a planned announcement. That context matters: the remark reads more like an off-the-cuff aside from someone doing rounds of interviews than a prepared statement about Markle.

Is Meghan Markle returning to acting?

There’s no confirmed news of a new acting role; the one specific possibility that’s been reported — a part in Netflix’s “The Gentlemen” season 3 — reportedly didn’t progress. Markle hasn’t acted in a scripted role since leaving “Suits” in 2018, and nothing in Emanuel’s comment or WME’s response addresses her future plans directly. Separately, Markle and Prince Harry have recently spent time in the UK with their children, a detail that’s been reported independently of this story and isn’t connected to the WME situation.

The bottom line

What’s confirmed is narrower than the headlines suggest: Ari Emanuel said he’s glad he no longer has to think about Meghan Markle’s career, and he personally stopped working her account in 2025. What’s also confirmed, straight from WME, is that the agency hasn’t dropped her — she’s simply working with different people there now. Neither Markle nor Archewell had publicly responded as of this writing, and it’s worth watching whether either side says more as Emanuel continues promoting his book.