Meghan Markle’s ‘Suits’ co-star recalls ‘foul’ smell at Prince Harry royal wedding
Louis Litt can never keep a secret.
Former “Suits” star Rick Hoffman is coming clean about his viral wedding face at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s May 2018 wedding that caused such a stink.
Hoffman, 53 — who played quirky cat-loving attorney Louis Litt on “Suits” — was on a new episode of the “Chicks in the Office” podcast this week where he explained his face, which went viral on the Internet shortly after the ceremony.
Hoffman, wearing a tuxedo and tails, was snapped by shutterbugs just as he made what he described as an “awful face” — and for good reason, it turns out.
“As time goes on, I’m starting to smell something really terrible and foul, and I’m very sensitive when it comes to that so I start to try to do this,” Hoffman said while covering his face.
“Because I have a coconut vanilla moisturizer, and I like to try to cut it. How can I help getting away from this goofy face?”
Prior to smelling whatever it was that caused him to make that face, Hoffman was sitting near his “Suits” co-star Sarah Rafferty (Donna), who he said he likes to “mess around” with.
He said he was “doing something ridiculous” to get a rise out of her — before she told him to “cut it out.”
After getting a whiff of the foul odor, Hoffman said he returned to his “Suits” cast mates, “Because I don’t want them to think it’s me because I’m so particular when it comes to hygiene.”
“So I’m like, ‘Do you guys smell that?’ And they’re like, ‘No.’ So now I’m, like, literally by myself and I’m just going, ‘Mother …'” Hoffman said.
“And that’s what they got [on camera].”
He then said that Markle, who played Rachel Zane on the USA Network series, always knew that Hoffman had an issue with other people’s cleanliness.
“Guess who knew that the most in the cast that I had an issue with other people’s hygiene? Meghan! Always knew and would always laugh about how I was so sensitive.”
Despite attending the historic wedding, Markle is not on the “Suits” cast’s group text chain.
“We don’t have her number. We just don’t,” fellow star Gina Torres said during the Golden Globes last month.
Even more, the “Suits” cast made the guest list for the actual Windsor Castle ceremony, but were cut from the afterparty festivities.
Hoffman’s podcast interview comes amidst renewed interest in “Suits,” which hasn’t aired since 2019 but found renewed life on Netflix, where it set streaming records last summer.
That, in turn, has sparked talk of a possible “Suits” reunion, though, as of now, there’s nothing in the works.
NBC is working on a pilot for a series called “Suits LA” — from series creator Aaron Korsh — though there’s no direct link to the “Suits” mothership besides the show’s title.
(“Suits” was set in New York City and filmed in Toronto.)
Stephen Amell will star in the “Suits LA” pilot as LA attorney Ted Black, a “former federal prosecutor from New York who must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career,” according to a logline for the pilot, which begins production in Vancouver next month.
The “Suits” cast reunited at the Golden Globes in January and appeared, separately, in two Super Bowl commercials, one for e.l.f. Cosmetics (with Hoffman and Torres) and another for T-Mobile (with “Suits” co-stars Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht).
