Natalie Barr has labelled Meghan Markle a “tosser” over comments the Duchess of Sussex made comparing herself to Nelson Mandela in her new interview with The Cut magazine.

In the controversial interview, the former actress claimed that a Lion King cast member told her that South Africans had “danced in the street” on her wedding day just like when “Mandela was freed from prison”.

Barr, who usually steers away from making very controversial comments on Sunrise, told her co-host David Koch that she couldn’t make it through all of Meghan’s interview with The Cut.

“I think in Australia we’d say she’s just full of it. She’s a tosser. She’s a total tosser! That’s how we would describe her. I just can’t… the way she speaks,” she added.

News presenter Edwina Bartholomew chimed in with a more conservative responded, but Barr wasn’t deterred.

“I think she has a very different narrative, perhaps, in the U.S. to what is being accepted in the UK,” Bartholomew said.

Barr replied, “‘Or just everywhere in the world!”

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And, Sunrise’s rival breakfast news story, Today, had similar opinions over Markle’s latest interview.

“It’s hard to see how that would sit with [the Royal Family], especially the Mandela references,” Today host Karl Stefanovic said, to which his co-host Allison Langdon replied, ‘That one, I feel, is tone-deaf.”

Stefanovic then sarcastically added, “I think [Meghan is] probably a little misunderstood, don’t you reckon?”

He added with a laugh, “I think it’s time to support her, especially after the Mandela comments. Anyone who compares themselves to Mandela, I think, is fair enough.”

Meanwhile, Twitter users are as outraged as the breakfast news hosts, with many slamming Markle over her Mandela comment and some congratulating Barr for speaking her mind about the comparison.

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