Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

What “recently retired” actress must have pulled out her checkbook (ha, more like her new family’s sweeping influence and resources) to put the kibosh on a TV series loosely based on her life?

Someone close to the alliterative celeb was developing a comedic take on her divorce and life with the second hubby (adding kids to the “faux” mix slash story) and getting lots of traction, ’til suddenly POOF the idea and project disappeared entirely.

Meghan Markle

Ex-husband: Trevor Engelson

Meghan Markle’s Ex Reportedly Ditches TV Show Based on Her

At last, some good news for Meghan Markle: Her TV producer ex-husband has abandoned, at least for now, plans to create a show based on a man whose ex marries a British prince.

Trevor Engelson and Meghan Markle wed in a lavish beachside ceremony in Jamaica in 2011, but divorced just two years later. According to some reports, the divorce was so acrimonious that Markle, who was living in Toronto filming Suits, sent him the wedding ring back by mail.

It’s been widely reported that Engelson was left “devastated” by his former wife’s actions; and is said to still harbor significant resentment to his ex. “I have zero to say about her,” he has been quoted as saying.

A source tells the Sun: “He and Meghan are world away from that Hollywood happy divorce declaration of ‘conscious uncoupling’—where people split up, but remain friends like Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow.”

The biographer Andrew Morton wrote in his new book on Meghan, A Hollywood Princess, “It was such a bolt from the blue. Even after five years he can barely contain his anger.”

So there was weary resignation when it emerged that Engelson was, like other family members, apparently trying to cash in on his ex-wife’s growing fame to make a show inspired by his story.

The pilot was pitched to Fox last September, with Engelson reportedly hiring Modern Family Executive Producer Danny Zuker to write.

Now, however, the Sun is reporting that Engelson, 41, is not moving forward with the project after desperate appeals from Meghan and her friends.- Source

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