Author: John

The Duggar family has one new member, along with a reminder of its most infamous member’s ongoing legal battles. Anna Duggar’s sixth baby, daughter Maryella Hope, was born yesterday morning, or exactly five months before the start of Josh Duggar’s jury trial for fraud. For some reason, the Duggars didn’t mention the latter connection in their announcement of Maryella’s birth.

The tragic death of Dominique Lanoise, better known as the 600 Lb Mom of TLC’s documentary special, continues to resonate almost eight years on. But what about Dominique Lanoise’s daughters — the six young women who cared for their mother and struggled to get Dominique to change her ways?

It’s now been over a week since federal agents raided Josh Duggar’s used car lot as part of an unspecified ongoing investigation. With more questions than answers available to the public, the dominant question has become: Are the Duggars still on TV? Or could this potential new scandal be the reason Counting On gets canceled and the Duggars get removed from the airwaves for good?

It sure sounds like this pair is spending plenty of time together on the DL — but are Kylie Jenner and Drake together? Or are they just meeting in hotel rooms occasionally and also better at keeping secrets than, say, Justin Timberlake on a movie set? It sure *sounds* like Kylie and Drake have something going on; keep reading for the latest.

DLISTED – If you find yourself reading a lot of Wendy Williams lesbian takes over the next few days, it’s because the woman herself doth protest too much. Wendy took a few minutes on her show to respond to a piece of gossip — and respond quite ardently! — about how she’s now BFFs with Whitney Houston’s former lover to respond that she is not lovers with Whitney Houston’s former lover, something no one was insinuating in the first place

REALITY TEA – Lala Kent is claiming she has “no idea” why her fiancé Randall Emmett is all of a sudden fine with appearing on camera as part of the Vanderpump Rules cast for the upcoming eighth season. Randall himself has said that the reason is perfectly obvious and understandable

CELEBITCHY – Kim Kardashian may indeed have a “billion-dollar idea” with her Spanx knockoff, but she’s hustling so hard and her people are tossing around the phrase “billion-dollar idea” so fervently that she just looks more and more like the younger sister. Maybe there was some truth to the rumors that Kim is insanely jealous of Kylie’s $600 million makeup line sale earlier this month

JEZEBEL – Since the Mr. Rogers biopic is coming out there are now a ton of stories coming out about how Mr. Rogers himself was not a saint and should not be canonized. And I agree that no one should be thought of as perfect, but my favorite part of this counter-narrative is his widow Joanne Rogers presenting evidence in the form of “He used to get me to laugh by farting”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – If you have a spare $795,000 sitting around, you can own the Brown family compound from Alaskan Bush People. And if you’re really imaginative, you’ll find a way to turn it into a West Coast version of Curse of Oak Island and start your own reality TV franchise

THE BLAST – Headline of the week contender: “Botched Doctors Refuse To Amputate This Twerker’s Messed Up Butt”

LAINEY GOSSIP – Justim Timberlake maybe cheated on Jessica Biel with Alisha Wainwright over the weekend, and now he and Jessica Biel’s PR people are working overtime to assure the public that those photos of Alisha’s hand on Justin’s leg were the worst part of a momentary lapse in judgment

VOX – Evidently The Top Entrepreneurs podcast host Nathan Latka is maybe a secret-in-the-open con man? This would be an even more interesting story if it didn’t involve swindling tech bros, one of the most swindle-worthy of all groups of people

GO FUG YOURSELF – “Taylor Swift Leads The Rest of the AMAs Red Carpet: My favorite part about watching the AMAs was the surprising number of crowd shots in which the people were pretending to know the song they were listening to, and visibly bungling the words”

THE BLEMISH – Now TI would like us all to believe he was just kidding when he said he accompanies his daughter to the gynecologist and demands to receive status updates on her hymen

For at least the second time in as many years and to the delight of his family, the Mendeecees release date has been pushed up unexpectedly. The Love & Hip Hop New York star is now scheduled to return home before the end of the year. But one result of Mendeecees Harris’ many release date changes is rumors that at some point he snitched to get either a lighter sentence before going to prison or a reduced sentence once he was there.

There’s just one item on Sofia Richie’s Christmas list, and she’s not shy about sharing it. Gossip about Scott Disick and Sofia Richie engaged has resurfaced something fierce with the approach of the holidays, thanks to what looks like Sofia’s PR team arranging for yet another story about how she’s ready for a ring.

CELEBITCHY – With Prince Andrew now just Andrew thanks to the fallout from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the absolute catastrophe that was his BBC interview, the royal family would like to believe that the worst of this particular scandal has passed. Buckingham Palace is about to be inundated with PR people sending unsolicited résumés

LAINEY GOSSIP – It’s also completely unsurprising that there are now at least two major features on the people responsible for making Andrew’s interview happen and the process behind its production. And even in these pieces Andrew stands out as being almost childishly naïve about how badly the thing went

DLISTED – The 2019 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show has officially been canceled, and it looks like the show is not likely to come back anytime soon. I had completely forgotten that it usually films right around this time of year, which definitely says something about my shortcomings as a gossip blogger but also speaks to how irrelevant the lingerie parade was becoming

VOX – “She was fatally strangled. The media is making it about her sex life: Grace Millane’s story is part of a larger pattern of victim-blaming”

JEZEBEL – Yet another reason to hate leaf blowers and never ever use them: they make yards “too tidy” and contribute to the very literal “insect armageddon” happening across our dying planet right now. (Terrible as that is, the best reason to hate leaf blowers is still that they make the worst sound in the world)

THE BLAST – Meet the people where they are, Yeezy: “Kanye West will have plenty of sinners to fill with the power of the lord if he accepts the invitation to bring his Sunday Service to a popular strip club in New York City”

REALITY TEA – “Former Real Housewives Of Orange County Star Jeana Keough Wants A Reboot Starring The Original Kids Of Orange County”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Jersey Shore star Angelina Pivarnick is apparently not speaking to three of her co-stars-slash-bridesmaids because they roasted her with some good-natured jokes during their speeches at her wedding this week. Isn’t roasting and / or telling embarrassing stories from childhood pretty standard for a wedding toast? I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding that didn’t have at least one speech intended to tease the newlyweds

GO FUG YOURSELF – With every red carpet premiere, Clint Eastwood looks more like Jack Skellington’s great-grandfather