00:07:45.280It's a cozy night. What were we doing? Just roasting chicken and having...
00:07:49.080Trying to roast the chicken. Trying to roast the chicken. And it was just an amazing surprise. It was so sweet and natural and very romantic. He got on one knee.
00:08:00.720Of course. Was it an instant yes from you? Yes. As a matter of fact, I could barely let you finish proposing. I was like, can I say yes now?
00:08:06.780Can I say yes now? She didn't even let me finish. She said, can I say yes or can I say yes now? And then there was hugs and I had the ring in my finger and I was like, can I give you the ring?
00:08:13.840And she goes, oh yes, the ring. So no, it was a really nice moment. It was just the two of us and I think I managed to catch it by surprise as well.
00:09:33.740And then it was, I think, about three, maybe four weeks later that I managed to persuade her to come and join me in Botswana.
00:09:44.020And we, and we, we, we camped out with each other under the stars and we spent coming to join me for five days out there, which was absolutely fantastic.
00:09:50.980So then we were really by ourselves, which I, which was crucial to me to make sure that we had a chance to, to get to know each other.
00:10:05.220And it's so interesting because we talk about it now and even then, I, you know, because I'm from the States, you don't grow up with the same understanding of, of the royal family.
00:10:15.740And so while I now understand very clearly there's a, a global interest there, I didn't know much about him.
00:11:45.020The other brother and his, his wife, um, he met her in school and then he like dumped her and then dated all these other women and then came back.
00:11:55.060And like, he cheated and like all this stuff.
00:13:22.600Beautifully surprised when I, when I walked into that room and saw her and there she was sitting there.
00:13:26.860I was like, okay, well, I'm going to have to up my game.
00:13:29.540I'm going to sit down and have a, and make sure I've got a good chat.
00:13:34.220I think for both of us, though, it was, it was really refreshing because given that I didn't know a lot about him, everything that I've learned about him, I learned through him.
00:13:43.300As opposed to having grown up around different news stories or tabloids or whatever else, anything I learned about him and his family was what he.
00:14:10.320No, it was hugely refreshing to be able to get to know someone who isn't necessarily within your circle, doesn't know much about me, I don't know much about her.
00:14:18.820So to be able to start almost afresh right from the beginning and getting to know each other step by step and then taking that huge leap of only two dates and then going effectively on holiday together in the middle of nowhere and, you know, sharing a tent together and all that kind of stuff.
00:21:55.600And so to have, I didn't realize that there was the Black History Month in Britain.
00:21:59.520And so to have that brought to our attention was really exciting, I think, from a standpoint of everything that's going on in the world, but mostly just because it's about celebrating community.
00:22:09.940So she knows that the royal family, I mean, for her to say she doesn't know about the history of colonization and the royal family, that's BS.
00:22:23.260I feel like if I was to join the royal family, I would Google everything I possibly could before I would get married.
00:22:27.480Yeah, and if you didn't, that's on you.
00:22:29.900So now she's bringing up Black History Month, all this woke stuff.
00:22:35.660And really, if you're celebrating all of the individuals who are making an incredible impact within our community, then what a great thing to be a part of.
00:22:43.520Not only highlight those people that we either know personally and really find their work to be notable, but also to ask them to highlight who that next generation is, who those other people are.
00:22:54.180Or what it does is just really broaden the list of role models for young British people and people abroad, Black or white, or any other color for that matter.
00:23:04.140I've had an awakening as such of my own because I wasn't aware of so many of the issues and so many of the problems within the UK, but also globally as well.
00:23:44.420And this isn't about pointing the finger, this isn't about blaming anybody, this is just about using this opportunity this month, as I said, to introduce Brits to other Brits that they might not know about or they might not have heard about.
00:23:58.060And I think the power of community that comes from that is absolutely vast.
00:25:00.520You know more about this British than I lived there.
00:25:02.720I don't actually know, but I just mean that like the chances of her husband becoming king and her managing to stay married to him that long was too low.
00:25:12.160So she decided to get the fame by causing him to renounce his title rather than getting the title.
00:25:29.080She said that she was squeezing Harry's hand so tight because she was, I don't know, going to kill herself right there or something like that when she was pregnant with her kid.
00:25:36.300I mean, there's kids that are like, there's people that are.
00:25:48.560I don't know how they could expect that after all of this time, we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us.
00:26:12.840And when Meghan was pregnant, she said there were questions about her son's color.
00:26:17.340Meghan's mother is black and her father white.
00:26:20.480So we have in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security.
00:26:44.260Harry's relationship with his father, Prince Charles.
00:26:47.040And what I was seeing was history repeating itself, but more perhaps or definitely far more dangerous because then you add race in and you add social media in.
00:26:55.600There were echoes of the 1995 TV tell-all with Prince Harry's mother, Princess Diana, when she revealed details about her and Prince Charles's marital affairs and her mental health crisis.
00:27:32.280What was hard to get over was being blamed for something that not only I didn't do, but that happened to me.
00:27:41.340Meghan Markle is setting the record straight, telling Oprah the real story behind the infamous tabloid tale that she made her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, cry in 2018.
00:27:53.680Meghan says during the preparation of her wedding to Prince Harry, there was a confrontation between she and Kate over flower girl dresses.
00:28:13.260And I thought in the context of everything else that was going on in those days leading to the wedding, that it didn't make sense to not be just doing whatever, what everyone else was doing, which was trying to be supportive, knowing what was going on with my dad and whatnot.
00:28:30.800Meghan went on to clarify that she didn't tell the story to disparage Kate.
00:28:49.160But to make a point that she didn't feel protected by the royal institution.
00:28:53.420It was a really hard week of the wedding and she was upset about something, but she owned it and she apologized and she brought me flowers and a note apologizing.
00:29:03.420What was hard to get over was being blamed for something that not only I didn't do, but that happened to me and the people who were part of our wedding going to our comms team and saying, I know this didn't happen.
00:29:24.460She's like, I have interviewed the worst people in America with real problems and I just can't imagine Oprah has that rich of a background.
00:29:36.700I don't know what her background is, but no, I have no idea about anything about Oprah, but I don't think it was royalty.
00:29:44.340Also revealed that she was always told to stay silent.
00:29:48.200A similar sentiment, royal expert Katie Nichol shared with E.T.
00:30:13.020She was certainly being courted by many high profile members of the media, reports that Gayle King wanted to do a sit down and Megan was told she wasn't allowed to do that.
00:30:21.720I think we're going to hear much more from Megan in the opening.
00:31:02.280So, and now there's a latest report saying Megan Markle releases a statement after solo Thanksgiving appearance amid professional separation from Prince Harry.
00:31:13.600Megan Markle has released a statement following her appearance at a Thanksgiving event last week since Sam's husband, Prince Harry.
00:31:25.520The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reportedly amidst a professional separation, which reports suggesting that their work is in, their work relationship is in a very bad state.
00:31:38.000Indeed, over the first few months, both the Suits alum, 43, oh, she's older than Harry.
00:31:45.180They're older than I thought they were.
00:32:09.400The former actress has shared a statement on the Archwell website following the Thanksgiving event in which she opened about the heartfelt dinner she threw for Afghan women with their partner organization Mina's list.
00:32:22.000I think this just adds to my theory that she just married him to get the publicity because, like, he didn't say anything.
00:32:38.260The initiative has spent the past year building community through storytelling and creating a safe space for women who have resettled in the U.S. from Afghanistan.
00:32:47.640And this is a common thing that people view Muslim women as oppressed, and I don't see them that way.
00:33:35.240Yeah, it's like basically they're born into a certain, I'm butchering it, guys, so don't.
00:33:39.640But, but they're born into a certain caste and they, they have to, like, marry within or it's very frowned upon to not.
00:33:48.380Yeah, and they like dowries and stuff there, too, like, which we don't do here.
00:33:51.700Yeah, and that's weird, but like to us, but it's a different culture.
00:33:54.760So, but, you know, they, liberal white women, and she's mixed, but they just have a, they just have a tendency to, like, impose, like, think that our culture is the best and that it needs to be imposed on everyone.
00:34:11.320Like, like, when I went to this abortion event, they were talking about, no, I went to this event.
00:34:18.400It was unfortunate because our camera didn't work, but I did undercover where I just went to this, like, feminist event.
00:34:24.440I think you told me you were going to go.
00:34:28.320And one of the, they were talking about one of their initiatives was to send abortion pills by mail, so people in places where it's banned.
00:42:58.080No, because I think what happens to men is they go through life and they realize that if they're too rational, they lose their job or like get reprimanded in some way.
00:43:09.340So they just start going along with it.
00:45:00.460Once I got to high school, because our middle school was really small, and there I didn't really, we had, like, two people in our whole grade that got, for me, that got divorced.
00:45:10.280I don't think we had, I think that my middle school, I don't think anybody was.
00:45:16.620Once I got to high school, that was when I personally started meeting more people that were divorced or got divorced.
00:45:24.540I think I just knew a lot of people who had unhappy marriages in their family rather than divorced.
00:45:30.280Like, I'm trying to think if anybody was actually, like, I don't think that anybody was actually divorced.
00:47:22.560Most Americans today are delaying or foregoing marriage altogether, with just 20% of women and 23% of men aged 25 being married, the lowest number on record.
00:47:34.760Projections indicate that by 2050, one-third of Americans aged 45 may remain unmarried.
00:47:40.860Meanwhile, households consuming of single parents or individuals living alone have doubled over the period, coinciding with the U.S. fertility rate, falling to a historic low of 1.6 children per woman in 2023, well below the 2.1 replacement level needed for population stability.
00:47:59.600Personal preference plays a significant role in changing attitudes towards parenthood.
00:48:04.160Amongst Americans under 50 without children, almost 60% said they didn't want kids, while 44% preferred to focus on other priorities.
00:48:14.280Financial concerns also weighed heavily, with 36% citing the cost of raising children, three times the rate amongst childless people over 50.
00:48:23.380Last year, just 16% of homes in America were considered affordable, as mortgage rates more than doubled since 2021.
00:48:32.440This represents a sharp decline from 2013, where 50% of homes were affordable, a shift that is likely shaping household dynamics as rising.
00:48:41.780So what's interesting is we, I don't know, you're, because again, you're a decade younger than me almost, so it's a little different.
00:48:50.480But when I was growing up, because we, when I was growing up, we were one of six.
00:48:55.940And I know there's the later, but that's, you know, but we're just going to start with the sixth.
00:49:01.540But I wasn't abnormal for me to meet families that had three or four.
00:49:05.780I'd say over four would be pretty, like four was a lot, but like two to three was normal, maybe.
00:49:14.540Like I could think of a decent amount of families that had four.
00:49:18.540But it's interesting because if right now only 20%, or it's even less, 17% are married parents, we can assume that half of those will fail, right?
00:49:30.540Because half have failed in the past, that's the future.
00:49:33.820So if, like, once we have kids, what's interesting is all of our kids' friends will be single children, basically.
00:49:46.220I think that especially right now, I've noticed a lot more, you don't see many families with more than, like, like even at daycares, like they have two kids.
00:49:56.400The only family that I know that has more than two kids is because they had twins.
00:50:14.980And so you'd say that's true, it's mostly.
00:50:17.840I'd say for the most part, if they have more than three kids, it's either they had twins accidentally trying for their second kid, or it's because they wanted the other gender.
00:50:26.720So out of every 10 kids that come in, how many are only children?
00:50:31.380It depends on where you're looking at.
00:50:32.940In Illinois, I would say probably five or six out of 10 would be only children.
00:50:40.520But in Colorado, I'd say it's a higher number.
00:50:53.300Because the one thing is, when you look at data, they're, because they want, they want men to keep getting married, even though the system is really bad for them.
00:51:04.240So they, they will always hide statistics that make marriage look bad.
00:54:29.280And I was like, she's living in a multi-acre property with a multi-millionaire, with her multiple kids, with her own business and a loving husband.
01:07:41.200We were dating and I checked your location and you said you were home and I wasn't quite sure if that was true.
01:07:46.060So I decided to go follow your location and I stayed at your house until I saw you in your room to confirm that you were at home and had no plans.
01:08:17.720Sometimes in an argument, I'll get even more upset when I come to realize that some of your points are actually like logical and make sense.
01:08:24.720How do you get more mad that what I'm saying is correct, though?
01:08:35.920She just admitted she's going to get mad either way.
01:08:38.540Because why are you being valentineous here?
01:08:41.100Why would you want to argue with a dumb nigga?
01:09:15.160That one green dress that you bought off Fashion Nova like last month, I threw it in the trash last Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Tuesday.
01:09:21.880Because I didn't, it just wasn't, I didn't like, I didn't, yeah, you tried it on, I had a bunch of stuff coming off of it and everything like that and I didn't like that.
01:09:34.240Like, yeah, so this is an interesting trend where they're just humiliating men in public.
01:10:40.800To admit that his backyard rink, Martin Ross is the first to admit that his backyard rink is a cut above the standard shinny shanty.
01:10:48.320It's a beautiful outdoor rink that's kind of done properly.
01:10:50.740It's not your typical, you know, two by four boards with a tarp thrown down.
01:10:54.600A hockey haven in the back half of his massive backyard that has become the subject of a years-long dispute with both neighbours and the city.
01:11:13.740It wasn't long before the city stepped in.
01:11:15.960They are indeed the 600-pound gorilla to fight against.
01:11:18.780Some neighbours incensed about Ross's overhaul of the heritage property, along with the noise and all the errant pucks that they say has come with the rink.
01:11:26.420This gentleman has completely destroyed what was a gorgeous backyard full of greenery that supported privacy and quiet for the surrounding neighbours.
01:11:36.920And without permits, he went ahead and tore down massive 100-year-old trees and has turned it into a parking lot.
01:11:45.380Ross admits he was wrong to cut down the trees, but has been fighting for his right to the rink.
01:11:50.360Two years ago, a superior court ruled that the city of Markham can legally step in to remove it.
01:11:55.060But Ross's recent attempt at an injunction was dismissed.
01:11:58.640Mr. Ross feels, has felt all the way along that he's above the law, that bylaws don't apply to him.
01:12:03.720It's stressful on me, it's been stressful on my kids.
01:12:06.460The city of Markham telling CTV News...