Meghan ‘to spend weeks in Australia’ filming Junior MasterChef shortly after UK return

Meghan Markle is reportedly set to co-host Junior MasterChef in Australia.

Filming for the series is expected to run across several weeks in early to mid-2027, with the Duchess of Sussex relocating to Australia for the duration, according to reporting by news site News.com.au.

A source told the news outlet that her husband, the Duke of Sussex, alongside their children Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, may travel to visit her, although nothing has been confirmed.

The culinary competition, which features child cooks, is slated to be produced in Melbourne, News.com.au reported.

This potential role follows an appearance by the duchess on MasterChef Australia earlier this year.

Meghan, 45, featured as a guest judge during the show's 18th series, where participants were asked to reinvent a basic culinary element into a creation "fit for a duchess".

A spokesman for the Sussexes was approached for comment.

The report on Meghan’s future career move comes days after her half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, told The Sun he found a stash of child sex abuse images belonging to their father at his former home in the Philippines and reported it to local police and the FBI.

Thomas Markle Sr has admitted to paying for sex in the south-east Asian country but denies ever possessing a hoard of such material.

Meghan sent a final letter to her father while he was recovering there from a leg amputation last year, according to reports in the Sun on Sunday.

She wrote to say she knows he is an abuser and that he will never see his grandchildren, the newspaper said.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed that in 2019 it had passed a letter “containing a number of claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom” to Meghan and Harry, but did not share details with other law enforcement agencies.

The BBC and other media including The Telegraph, which said it had seen a copy, reported the note was written by Mr Markle Sr’s ex-wife, Roslyn Loveless, who has since died.

She is the mother of Mr Markle Jr and Meghan’s other half-sibling, Samantha Markle, who has defended their father, telling the Mail on Sunday: “I believe this is a set-up.”

Meghan is “upset and really frustrated” by the Met’s handling of the investigation, The Telegraph reported.

She said that she was shown a letter sent to Scotland Yard making “troubling” allegations against Mr Markle Sr and was assured that these were being investigated.

The Met is now “reviewing the handling of this matter”, including whether it needs to be referred to the police watchdog.

Harry and Meghan set up home back in England in August, six years after sparking the Megxit crisis and quitting the working monarchy for a new life in the US.

Earlier this month, a source told The Telegraph that Meghan is “reading a lot of scripts”, and will focus on her family, lifestyle brand and rebooting her acting career rather than pseudo-royal visits.

They added that if Meghan had time left, she would do “some charity work”, adding “she’s not a working royal” but a full-time mother and entrepreneur.

There had been speculation over Meghan’s next move, including reports the former Suits star was in talks for a role in Netflix’s The Gentlemen.