The 2022 Academy Awards had been a pretty lackluster affair for the first hour or two. It’s clear the Academy wants to turn its big night into the MTV Video Music Awards. They cut eight technical awards from the official presentation, insulting untold moviemakers and fans; they added fan-vote categories like Best Action Movie Whatever…
The arrest of RHOSLC star Jen Shah on federal fraud and money laundering charges is easily the biggest thing to happen to any Real Housewives franchise in years. And her trial has been set for this autumn — right when RHOSLC Season 2 will debut. So: Can Jen Shah still film the show while she’s…
The shockwave generated by Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah’s arrest is still reverberating. The 47-year-old has been charged with multiple counts of fraud stemming from a telemarketing scheme she allegedly ran with her assistant. As of this writing, Jen has yet to make a public statement on the matter. And her…
Over the last few series of The Great British Baking Show, Paul Hollywood’s propensity for handshake praise appears to have increased dramatically. A handshake from the longest-tenured judge is meant to be the absolute highest praise for a single bake. But the eagerness with which Paul has started pumping hands inspired a fair bit of…
Whitney Rose has already made quite an impression on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City viewers thanks to the shocking story of how she met her man. (Though the story of how co-star Mary Cosby got married to *her* husband has, understandably, gotten more attention.) And we’ve learned quite a bit about Whitney Rose’s husband,…
RHOSLC star Heather Gay’s back story remains one of the more mysterious on the show. Jen Shah has been up front about her own religious and business lives. Mary Cosby’s extremely unusual marriage still has fans talking. And Lisa Barlow’s merging of alcohol and faith in something she calls “Mormon 2.0” has proven a huge…
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Lisa Barlow and her husband John have owned a successful tequila company for over a decade. But the couple is also Mormon — and Mormonism forbids any consumption of alcohol. So does Lisa Barlow drink? And what does ‘Mormon 2.0′ mean? According to Lisa herself, her faith doesn’t…
When you’ve got a personal life as unusual as that of Mary Cosby, there’s bound to be a ton of misinformation out there. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star has drawn more headlines than any other cast member before the show’s premiere has even dropped. If you thought Mary’s castmate Jen Shah had…
The “Queen Bee and MVP” of SLC is ready for her reality TV closeup! Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah is anything but reserved, and she appears poised to grab the spotlight from the beginning of the newest franchise’s premiere episode. But who is Jen Shah married to? What are her companies?…
Scientists have found and eliminated the first-ever murder hornet nest established in the United States — that we know of. The Washington state Department of Agriculture announced the fortuitous find and total wipeout with a series of grisly videos involving hundreds of murder hornet corpses stacked upon each other in a vacuum chamber. It’s a…
It’s been a long, strange trip for most of the My Strange Addiction cast members — and if you’re looking for a My Strange Addiction Karmello update, we’ve got you covered. Tonight, TLC is re-running several episodes of the series, whose gross-out factor and shocking premises represented a landmark in reality TV history. So we…
The coronavirus pandemic has been a terror to the entire world…but it has forced plenty of entertainers to turn to OnlyFans for a new revenue stream. And that revenue has apparently been very, very good for one Blac Chyna. According to new reports, the Blac Chyna net worth has exploded ever since she joined the…
The R Kelly net worth has taken a complete nosedive since the disgraced singer was arrested on child pornography charges. But it turns out there’s actually a surprise revenue stream for Kelly — and a considerable one at that. In fact, thanks to court documents recently filed by (some of) the federal prosecutors investigating Kelly,…
After years of demanding respect from the editors of Forbes and talking up his alleged ten-figure fortune at every turn, Yeezy has finally made the magazine’s infamous billionaires list. But what is Kanye West’s real net worth — and how much is he inflating it? As it turns out, even Forbes‘ estimate of a more…
We’ve got an intriguing update on My 600 Lb Life Tracey Matthews today, as the Season 5 star has pulled back the curtain on some of the show’s production tricks and contract details. Tracey’s tea comes at a particularly compelling time for My 600 Lb Life viewers, considering that four cast members are now suing…
The tragic death of Dominique Lanoise, better known as the 600 Pound Mom of TLC’s documentary special, continues to resonate almost eight years on. Dominique’s story was the first and most notorious in an unconnected series the network aired before My 600 Lb Life made its debut. And, though Dominique wasn’t a My 600 Lb…
He’s a Los Angeles Lakers legend, a respected former NBA coach, and a businessman. Plus, with his addition to the cast of Basketball Wives via fiancée CeCe Gutierrez, to whom he’s been engaged since last year, he’s also a reality TV star. So what is Byron Scott’s net worth? And how does his salary from…
Though we only ever hear a small sample of the whole track on the show itself, the Black Ink Compton theme song has gotten a ton of attention since the VH1 hit’s debut. Part of that is due to how little of “I Do What I Want” we actually hear; part is also because it’s…
Thanks in part to a stormy end to her time on the show, there are more rumors and gossip about My 600 Lb Life star Marla McCants than possibly any other cast member. Is Marla McCants still alive? Does she really have the show’s biggest weight loss? And what exactly is her beef with the…
Justin Williamson, the “685 Lb Teen” of daytime and reality TV fame, is finally living his best life sharing his musical gifts with the world. His obesity was out of control when viewers first met him — but Justin Williamson today is a completely different person. Justin’s before and after photos have to be seen…
Everything in Mayra Rosales’ life has changed since the then-1,040 pound woman was found not guilty of killing her two-year-old nephew by falling on him. How is Mayra Rosales now? The 39-year-old who was once the heaviest woman in the world is now completely unrecognizable — and has been living like a person with a…
Love and Listings‘ lowkey biggest star is all taken care of in the money department. But the bulk of the Zac Diles net worth doesn’t come from where you probably expect. Though Diles had a solid journeyman career as an NFL linebacker, it’s actually his real estate success that’s keeping his pockets good and lined….
The Ajani Scott Love and Listings storyline has been one of the biggest on the show’s debut season. Though Suge Knight’s son Jacob Knight got the most attention leading up to Love & Listings‘ debut, it’s been Ajani and her married co-worker Andrew Clinkscale’s constant flirtation and did-they-or-didn’t-they love story that’s generated the most buzz….
Thanks to her son’s star turn in VH1’s steamy real estate series Love & Listings, Jacob Knight’s mother Stormey Ramdhan is back in headlines. The show, which focuses on a group of rising young real estate power brokers (and the old pros who mentor them) in the greater Los Angeles area, is headlined by Jacob…
On the third season of TLC’s Unexpected, viewers are introduced to pregnant 16-year-old Rilah Ferrer and her 39-year-old mother Rosa. Rosa reveals on the show that she is a nurse at an OBGYN office, but she also moonlights as a singer named Rochelle who had a Top 40 dance hit in the 1990s! Here is…
We’ve got a surprise My 600 Lb Life Charity update for you, thanks to Charity’s unexpected Q&A session with fans and the bevy of new pics she’s been posting! As we reported earlier this year, Charity Pierce is looking better than we’ve ever seen her thanks to successful skin surgeries. Now, Charity says she’s more…
It’s no secret that reality TV is only loosely based in reality. And the biggest shows in the genre have its biggest moments spoiled on social media months before they air in finished episodes. But is Love & Hip Hop Hollywood scripted completely? The show recently saw several revelations about its salary structure go public;…
VH1’s Lil’ Kim-captained new show Girls Cruise looks to be the epitome of fun on the high seas. And there may be no bigger star in the entire cast than Star Ship, the Girls Cruise yacht itself. The pleasure boat has a luxurious history, and one that you can be a part of — for…
VH1’s new show Girls Cruise is a who’s-who of 90s hip-hop and current reality TV stars. The cast is headlined by Lil’ Kim, Mya, and Chilli, and features plenty of other well-known faces. But who is Char DeFrancesco, the only man on the cruise? Char is best-known for his marriage to Marc Jacobs and exploits…
We already knew that the Love & Hip Hop cast salary was heavily dependent upon star power and longevity — but LHHH star Teairra Mari recently spilled some of the show’s tea when it comes to cutting checks. Teairra gave a deposition in her ongoing revenge p0rn lawsuit against 50 Cent, and was forced to…
Thanks to his craftsmanship and rugged ways, 76-year-old Tom Oar is the most beloved cast member of History hit Mountain Men. The buildup to Season 8 has seen plenty of speculation about whether Tom may finally pack it in and head down to Florida. But did Tom Oar leave Mountain Men? We’ve traced the gossip…
Did you know that there are five banned wagers on Jeopardy? I sure didn’t, and I’ve been shouting at contestants from the comfort of my couch for as long as I can remember. But it turns out that there are, and that if I were smart enough to be on Jeopardy in the first place…
James Holzhauer has been rewriting the Jeopardy! record books like a mad fiend of late. The Chicago-area native has already nearly doubled the single-day earnings record, and earned several other impressive top spots during his eleven-day romp. As of this writing, Holzhauer is still the current Jeopardy! champion (and it’s becoming difficult to imagine anyone…
Shekinah Anderson is the newest member of the Love & Hip Hop Atlanta cast, and she’s already familiar to reality TV fans from her time on TI & Tiny. But the Atlanta-born stylist isn’t afraid to say what’s on her mind because her fashion empire has her net worth blowing up to the point where…
So far in our Naked and Afraid coverage, we’ve found out how much money the cast members get paid for being on the show, the participants with the highest PSRs, the number of people who’ve died on the show, and plenty of other behind-the-scenes secrets from the show’s producers. Next up in this ongoing Q&A:…
There’s no other way to put it: there is a true shitload of stuff in an Oscars gift basket. I thought it was maybe ten or twelve different things, nestled delicately upon a bed of shredded organic woodpulp inside a Ten Thousand Villages wicker basket. (The other deflating discovery I made is that the infamous…
How many members of the My 600 Lb Life cast have died since the show began? For years, the number was just one — and that passing appears to have been unrelated to weight gain. But a string of recent tragedies has unfortunately increased the number of people on the My 600 Lb Life death…
We’ve crunched every number available, and we can now reveal the ten most successful cast members in My 600 Lb Life history! As of this writing, the My 600 Lb Life biggest weight loss involved considering each of the 92 cast members who’ve appeared on the show. Almost all of them have lost some weight….
We’ve answered just about every other question you have regarding Erin and Ben Napier’s cozy-tastic hit show Home Town. We know how the homebuying and renovation process actually works, why the Napiers don’t renovate every single room, and whether the families on the show keep all the furnishings. And we left no stone unturned to…
It’s one of the most successful shows on TLC, and has only gotten more popular with each new season. But does My 600 Lb Life pay its cast members? And does the show pay for surgery, or relocation to the Houston area so the cast can be treated by Dr. Nowzaradan? We’ve learned about some…
Veronica Vega from Love & Hip Hop Miami is again under fire for her ethnicity. She’s claimed both African and Latina ancestry in the past, but a new clip featuring some of Veronica’s family members has LHHMiami fans wondering once more: Is Veronica Vega black? What is her ethnic heritage? The long-simmering controversy over Veronica’s…
The stars of HGTV’s Home Town rep their own home town of Laurel, Mississippi as hard as possible on the show, employing local craft and tradesmen for nearly every job and featuring local businesses in every episode. But do Ben and Erin Napier have a store of their own? As it turns out, they have…
9Mag has a new guest artist, and he makes quite an impression on his first day in the shop. But who is Shine from Black Ink Chicago? More importantly, did he get with Lily after the two of them made it clear it’s what they both wanted? We’re not sure exactly how long Shine will…
Though her exploits on the pole and in the studio made Miami Tip well-known before her recent turn into reality TV, there’s still plenty of misinformation out there. Is Miami Tip a midget? How did she get her nickname? And what’s her ethnicity? We’ve got the answers to all the most frequently asked questions about…
Love & Hip Hop New York stars Yandy Smith and Mendeecees have two biological children together: son Omere, born in 2012; and daughter Skylar, born in 2015. But they’re getting ready to add one more to their family with the forthcoming adoption of Infinity, one of Yandy Smith’s foster kids. Infinity and Yandy met thanks…
With season 2 of Love & Hip Hop Miami just getting underway, the show’s star Bobby Lyte is trying to set the record straight on his real name. Lyte took to social media ahead of last night’s episode to share his true name to his hundreds of thousands of followers, many of whom were shocked…
I have a toddler, which means I spend a lot of time doing and watching the same things over and over. This year, despite being introduced to infinitely better fare, my child’s preferred holiday viewing is Frosty the Snowman. So I have seen our DVD transfer of the Frosty the Snowman that my mom recorded…
The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt is Randall Sullivan’s 400-page ode to the everlasting mysteries after which the Lagina Brothers have lusted for years. Sullivan, a journalist and true crime writer, explains the island’s history (and a great many of the theories surrounding it) in such meticulous detail…
Love & Hip Hop New York newbie Maggie Carrie is no stranger to the spotlight’s glare. A model best known for her work on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out, Maggie rose to national prominence when she was shot backstage before a TI gig in 2016. But who is Maggie Carrie now? She’s prepping her jump to…
It’s been a year of controversy for Blac Chyna. Months ago, she and her crew got into a brawl at Six Flags when another mother came too close to baby Dream for Blac’s liking; the resulting fight, in which Blac hurled a stroller at the woman, lost her a high-profile stroller endorsement. (Yes, the stroller…
One of the most harrowing traumas in true crime documentary A Murder In Mansfield reveals is extent of the damage Noreen Boyle’s murder did to her extended family. Her son Collier was put into foster care, and Collier Landry’s sister Elizabeth was ultimately adopted by a different family — one that didn’t want the two…
A Murder in Mansfield, from Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple and filmmaker Collier Landry, is the story of the murder that shook Collier’s life apart when he was just twelve years old. In the early morning of December 31st, 1989, Collier’s father Jack Boyle murdered his wife Noreen, then buried her body beneath the foundation…
(UPDATE – Since we published this story, it’s emerged that Prince Carter may have fabricated the entire relationship in order to get a spot on the show! Click here to see all the tea Zachary Jones appears to have spilled on Prince, including claims that Prince may have committed fraud.) The Love & Hip Hop…
It might have been just a publicity stunt, but she hasn’t changed her look back yet — so does Spice from LHHATL bleach her skin, or not? The “Black Hypocrisy” singer stirred up a hornet’s nest of attention by appearing to go light ahead of her new single’s release. Since then, Spice has gotten the…
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers‘ latest investigation takes them to Wartrace, a small town with a ton of haunted history. The Haunted Live Walking Horse Hotel episode — airing tonight at 10 on Travel Channel — explores a building that’s the setting of more ghost stories than possibly any other location we’ve seen so far. Basically,…
Masika Kalysha made her name as Love & Hip Hop Hollywood‘s undisputed clapback queen. So why did Masika leave LHHH earlier this year, after four successful seasons, only to join the cast of Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta? Ahead of her GUHHATL debut, Masika explained her decision as only she could, revealing in a Twitter…
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers again took to Facebook Live to reveal the location of their next investigation a day early — and it’s a doozy. Last week, TWC broadcast from Tennessee’s notorious Cragfont House for the first time in the mansion’s history; this week, the Haunted Live Lotz House episode will delve deep into the…
TLC reality stars Eric and Courtney Waldrop have had their lives turned upside down ever since Sweet Home Sextuplets began filming in the middle of Courtney’s pregnancy last year. The couple, already parents of three children, became nationally known after Courtney announced she was pregnant — and quite unexpectedly! — with sextuplets. Though the odds…
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers just wrapped up a semi-impromptu Facebook Live event by unexpectedly pulling back the curtain on their next top-secret location! Though Haunted Live‘s sites are kept under wraps until the moment each episode airs, the group decided to spill their own tea ahead of time this week, as the location is a…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Tommie recently turned herself in on charges stemming from her 2016 DUI. The imprisonment is just the latest in Tommie’s unfortunate and complicated criminal history, which includes arrests and outstanding warrants in at least three different states. And while our compilation of all of Tommie’s mugshots went viral with…
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