Below Deck Mediterranean‘s Kizzi Kitchener explained why she wanted to “look sexy” before telling Victoria SanJuan that she kissed her boyfriend Joe Bradley.
During the Monday, December 29, episode of the hit Bravo series, Victoria returned to Bravado days after Joe was unfaithful to her — without Victoria’s knowledge. Joe couldn’t look Victoria in the eye while Kizzi was nervous about how to tell her friend about their secret hookup.
“I am feeling very stressed,” Kizzi said in a confessional. “I think I might cry.”
After gathering to celebrate Victoria’s birthday, the group got ready to honor the stew’s late boyfriend. Kizzi kept changing her outfit before elaborating to the cameras about her plan to come clean to Victoria.
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“Obviously this is a very sensitive time for V, which makes me feel even worse,” she added. “I want to look sexy when I have this conversation just purely because I don’t want her thinking he’s kissing someone ugly.”
Joe and Victoria formed a connection when he joined halfway through season 10 as she was still mourning the death of her ex-boyfriend Bon. Below Deck Med viewers are familiar with Joe’s past love triangle with Bri Muller and Elena Dubaich.
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“My message is I’m single and if you want to have a bit of fun and give me the same energy that it just gets a bit chaotic,” Joe exclusively told Us Weekly in November about returning to the franchise. “But I’m your friend at the end of the day, so I’ve still got contact with Elena and I am still in contact with Bri.”
He continued, “We’re friends and we’re young and we’re in a closed environment. It’s going to happen. But I’ve got contact with everyone and I’ve got no malicious intentions.”
Joe joked he learned “absolutely nothing” from his drama with Bri and Elena, adding, “To answer that question without a smile on my face, [my love life this season] was just chaos.”
Before Joe’s infidelity played out on screen, Victoria also broke her silence on where they stand now.
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“Joe and I will always be cordial and will always be professional. But I don’t really consider him part of my friend group,” she told Us earlier this month. “The men I keep in my friend group, I admire them because they’re more honest, have self control, hold themselves accountable and have respect — those kinds of qualities.”
Victoria hinted at what caused their falling out, adding, “So I wish him all the best. I think he is a lovely human but I think he has got a lot to learn from his mistakes — if he’s willing to learn from them.”
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Kizzi, for her part, spoke to Us about whether she had any regrets since filming season 10, sharing in October, “In the moment, you literally forget there’s a camera crew, especially when you’ve had a drink and these people are your friends. If there weren’t cameras, I can’t even imagine what other people say.”
She continued: “I definitely could tone it down in places but I also want to be myself and be real. These things do happen in real life and it doesn’t make you a bad person. … Watching it back, I regret sharing so much with people that aren’t thinking about the context.”
Below Deck Med airs on Bravo Mondays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
“I knew growing up that I would have to marry a convert because I was literally related to everybody in the church,” Christine, 53, explained to her husband, David Woolley, during the Sunday, December 28, episode of the TLC series.
She then revealed, “I did marry a convert, but I was still related to him too. Yeah, I’m related to Kody.”
“Third cousins once removed is fully legal. Fully,” she said with a laugh. “Polygamy is not legal. I’m third cousins once removed from Kody.”
David, 61, was speechless, only muttering a “wow” after hearing his wife’s familial relation to her ex-husband.
Christine’s former sister wife — and still close friend/family member — Janelle Brown, however, said it was a running joke in their household that Kody and Christine were family before they tied the knot.
“There was always this joke about [how] they were cousins, but they are so distantly related it’s ridiculous,” Janelle, 56, told the cameras. “I think in polygamist families, this kind of stuff happens all the time.”
Janelle clarified, “It wasn’t the kind of relationship where, like, you saw each other at the family reunion — like, it was a very distant relationship. But they would always joke about being cousins. It just is a small community.”
Janelle knows firsthand how small the world of polygamy can be due to her own familial connections.
Prior to marrying Kody in 1993, Janelle was married to Meri Brown’s brother, Adam Barber, for two years. (Meri, 54, was Kody’s first wife, whom he wed in 1990. The couple confirmed their split in January 2023.)
“I think we might have lived together physically, actually lived together for, like, six months,” Janelle said of her and Adam’s marriage during a November 2024 appearance on the “Reality Life With Kate Casey” podcast, teasing it “qualifies” as a “starter marriage.”
Janelle, Christine, Kody, Meri and Robyn Brown.Joe Pugliese/TLC/Everett Collection
Janelle’s family crossovers didn’t stop there, as her late mother, Sheryl Usher, was spiritually married to Kody’s late father, Winn Brown, after meeting through the couple.
“My mom came to save me from the polygamists because no daughter of hers was going to marry some into some crazy cult,” Janelle recalled on a November episode of Sister Wives. “And she ended up marrying Kody’s dad.”
Sheryl and Winn tied the knot in 1992, one year before Janelle became Kody’s second wife. Sheryl and Winn remained in a plural marriage until his death in 2013. Janelle, meanwhile, confirmed her separation from Kody in December 2022.
Christine Brown got real with Janelle Brown about her future with Kody Brown — and the family as a whole — in the latest episode of Sister Wives. Christine, 51, sat down with Janelle, 54, during the Sunday, October 22, episode to reflect on their respective highs and lows with Kody, 54, as the polygamist […]
While Christine’s connection to Kody comes as a surprise to some, it wasn’t the only focus of this week’s episode. Kody finally made his way to Cedar City, Utah, to meet up with Meri and finish his self-described ex-wives apology tour.
The conversation was rocky at best, with Meri and Kody getting into more than one argument during their time together. While Meri took issue with Kody bringing up her friends’ allegedly talking badly about him, he tried to refocus the attention on his apology.
“Listen, [an] apology is so needed here because this is still so toxic. And I apologize for that,” Kody told Meri at one point, referring to their constant bickering.
Meri bluntly asked, “Do you apologize that you are toxic to me, or are you just being general?” to which Kody replied, “Yes, I apologize that I am toxic to you, Meri, or was toxic to you.”
As Kody continued to use the word “apologize,” it ate away at his former first wife.
“You got to stop with the ‘apologize’ word. The more you use it, the more it feels insincere,” Meri shared, noting it “doesn’t trigger” her but it “validates that it doesn’t feel like this is a sincere conversation.”
Meri explained, “Your use of the word ‘apologize’ feels very extreme and very forced to me.”
Courtesy of Christine Brown Woolley/Instagram Two of the stars from TLC’s Sister Wives are revealing the status of their relationship with their other former sister wives. Throughout the latest season of Sister Wives, fans have seen the Brown family continue to fracture as Christine Brown, Janelle Brown and Meri Brown left the home they once […]
Kody confessed, “I’m actually uncomfortable, Meri. I triggered the minute we got together. I apologize for that.”
Despite a lot of back-and-forth between the pair, they ended the conversation with a hug — but very different feelings about what had transpired.
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“From here out, I hope the swords are down. If we can move forward in the future, just making sure that we are very kind, we might be able to remain in good places with each other,” Kody told the cameras.
Meri, meanwhile, revealed, “I’m not sure at this point, you know, what this all means. There’s been a lot throughout this whole divorce process, throughout the property process, things that I’ve discovered since then. But it doesn’t affect me. I’m not listening to what he says.”
That’s a wrap! Taylor Frankie Paul has finished filming her season of The Bachelorette — and she can’t wait for fans to see it.
“And that’s a wrap,” Taylor, 31, revealed via Instagram on Saturday, December 20. “I never experienced anything like this.”
Bachelor Nation fans got some behind-the-scenes photos in Taylor’s post, including a sneak preview of her promo shoot. There was even a hilarious shot of Taylor flipping the double middle finger during an interview session.
“Can’t wait to talk all about [The Bachelorette], share it, show it,” the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives cast member teased. “Such a passion for what goes into something like this. Feeling so grateful to be part of the bachelor nation family and crew. I left the most ‘me’ picture [her flipping the middle finger] for last. This will be worth the wait, stay tuned coming in March.”
New Bachelorette Taylor Frankie Paul is as ready as she’ll ever be for her new journey. On the heels of the Wednesday, September 10, announcement that the 31-year-old Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star will star on season 22 of The Bachelorette, Us Weekly spoke to Taylor for an exclusive interview. “What I’m most looking […]
Taylor was unveiled as a surprise pick as the Bachelorette for season 22 in September despite never having appeared on the franchise before.
“The 31-year-old Utah native is ready to trade headline-making heartbreak for hometown dates as she begins making her mark on Bachelor Nation,” ABC announced in a press release. “[Taylor] is the breakout star of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, captivating millions with her raw, unapologetic storytelling. Off-screen, she’s a TikTok powerhouse whose comedic, heartwarming and bitingly honest content has earned her a massive following. As a single mother of three, [Taylor] shares the highs and lows of her life with unfiltered candor. With humor, resilience and a fearless openness, she inspires others to embrace life’s chaos and own their story.”
Taylor has brought her fans along with sneak previews all throughout filming, including a look at one of her dramatic rose ceremonies. Earlier this month, Taylor told fans that she’d had “one of the BEST nights of my life” while filming The Bachelorette.
“Can’t wait to talk about [it] in like six months LMAFO,” she joked via Instagram.
Taylor Frankie Paul in July 2025.Craig Barritt/Getty Images for TIME
The reality star has received some advice throughout production of The Bachelorette. In October, Taylor’s mom, Liann May, warned that she will be “so pissed” if her daughter has sex with multiple men during the Fantasy Suites phase.
“I will be so mad,” Liann declared on iHeartRadio’s “Almost Famous” podcast. “I mean, she doesn’t really care what I think but she does, but she doesn’t. It’s just weird.”
Liann said she disagreed with her daughter’s comparison to test-driving a car before buying it.
“I hate that saying,” Liann complained. “And it’s like, I didn’t have sex with my husband until I got married and I already had her, right? I tried it that way first and then obviously I married and I’ve been married for 29 years so that is so not true. Our relationship is a great relationship.”
“I would just say, enjoy it, because I feel like she’s really going to take off and have so many fun opportunities,” Sluss, 29, told Us. “I cannot wait to watch her on TV. I haven’t watched the show in a few years, but seeing her, I’m such a fan of her.”
Sluss continued, “I love how authentic she is, and I think she’s really going to bring in the views. So I would just say, enjoy it, because I know she’s going to do such a great job, and have so many people support her.”
The Bachelorette premieres on Sunday, March 22, 2026, on ABC and can be streamed on Hulu. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is available to stream anytime on Hulu.
During the Thursday, December 18, episode of The Kardashians, Kylie, 28, shared how Jesus has found a way to pass on a message, saying, “Kim [Kardashian] called me a few days ago and said that Jesus came to her in a dream. He said, ‘Please tell Kylie that I love her.’”
“Kylie recently lost one of her closest friends,” she explained. “He passed away suddenly and he does show up to her in certain ways. I think that is so special. And I think it’s so beautiful when people who’ve passed on — they want to reassure you and tell you that they’re OK.”
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News broke in February that Jesus had died, with confirmation coming via a GoFundMe page set up by his sister Gris. His cause of death was not shared via the page but it was later confirmed to be natural causes. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner revealed in June that the hairstylist died of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) and disseminated cryptococcus neoformans, which are fungal infections that can severely impact those with weakened immune systems.
“Kylie is completely heartbroken,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “Jesus was her No. 1 hairstylist, and they were best friends.”
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“Jesus was more than my friend — he was a light in my life, a source of laughter, comfort, love, and unwavering support,” she wrote via Instagram that same month. “I don’t know how I would have made it through the last almost decade without him by my side. He had a way of making even the heaviest days feel lighter.”
Kylie continued: “Thank you, Jesus, for always being there for me, for lifting me up, for being my friend. The pain of losing you is just unbearable and i don’t know how to move forward without you but I know great grief is born only of great love. and I loved you so much. You were the best person, with a talent that was unmatched. a true artist. You inspired so many, and you always will.”
Alongside her post, Kylie shared a photo of the pair smiling. “Your words, your laughter, your kindness, your beautiful spirit will live in my heart forever. I’ll cherish all our moments together. every laugh and hug. I wish I could hug you again,” she concluded. “I laid in your bed the way you used to lay in mine, talking for hours. I would give anything for one more deep talk. I’m going to miss you so much. more than any words can say. 222 my angel.”
“Our glam fam means the world to us. We work together, vacation and celebrate our lives together!” she wrote via her Instagram Story. “Our great respect for the art of hair and [makeup] has led us to meeting some of the kindest souls and make some of our bestest friends. So when one of our glam family members passes away all of our souls are crushed.”
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The post continued: “My heart breaks for Kylie and everyone who loved Jesus the way we all did. I’m praying for his family, his loved ones and the whole beauty community who feels this deep loss of one of the most talented and kindest to ever do it!”
Khloé, 41, meanwhile, reposted the tribute and added, “I couldn’t find the words this weekend, but this is exactly how we all feel. We become a family with our glam teams, and we share so much of our lives with them.”
New episodes of The Kardashians air Thursdays on Hulu.
Season 28 of The Voice has come to an end with a brand-new winner.
During the Tuesday, December 16, episode of NBC’s competition series, host Carson Daly announced Texas A&M University student Aiden Ross from Team Niall Horan received the most votes from America.
Fellow coaches Reba McEntire, Michael Bublé andSnoop Dogg delivered a standing ovation for the winner, who is walking away with a record deal and a substantial cash prize. As for Niall, he is walking away with bragging rights for having a perfect record of having the winning contestant in every season he has coached.
One day earlier, the remaining finalists, including Aubrey Nicole (Team Reba), Jazz McKenzie (Team Michael), Ralph Edwards (Team Snoop), Max Chambers (Team Michael) and country group Dek of Hearts (Team Niall) performed for America’s vote.
The Voice has been stunning viewers for years with amazing talent from across the United States, crowning 27 winners since it premiered in 2011. During season 19 of the NBC singing competition series, New York native Carter Rubin blew audiences away with his singing abilities and saw coach Gwen Stefani secure her first win. At just […]
Before each artist performed two songs, many of the coaches expressed how impressed they were with the talent from season 28.
“I think this one is the highest level across the board of talent,” Niall exclusively shared with Us Weekly while attending The Voice season 28 live show red carpet on Monday, December 15. “I think going into finals in previous seasons that I’ve been here, I have a good idea of who’s gonna either win or get very close, but backstage, even between us, we can’t call it.”
While Niall acknowledged that he had two incredible artists in the finale, he also realized it’s up to America to decide who wins.
Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan, Reba McEntire, Michael BubléTrae Patton/NBC
“I’m sure everyone else thinks that they’ve got an unbelievable artist, but the talent level is through the roof,” he shared. “People like Ralph and then you’ve got my two and it’s a whole thing this season, more than I can remember.”
Speaking of Ralph, Snoop couldn’t hide his excitement at seeing his finalist soar throughout the season.
“He had 11 opportunities to be on The Voice and he didn’t make it, and on the 12th opportunity, it’s like the 12th day of Christmas,” Snoop shared. “Ralph was able to persevere and push through. I feel like this is a moment for him more than anything.”
As for Reba, she was grateful to have the opportunity to coach Aubrey throughout the season. The country music legend’s biggest reminder for her contestant was to have fun.
“That is the best advice I’ve ever gotten,” she told Us. “But before you get to have fun, you’ve got to be prepared. Know your lines or your song — whatever it is — so you can go up there on that stage, when the lights come on and the microphone is in your hand, you can have fun, because you know what you’re supposed to do.”
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While one season of The Voice may be an ending, NBC has big plans for season 29. The Voice: Battle of Champions is a special revamped season that will feature only three coaches.
Previous winnersAdam Levine, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend will join the new season when it premieres on NBC Monday, February 23.
Catch up on season 28 of The Voice by streaming old episodes now on Peacock.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Demi Engemann and husband Bret are feeling a little fruity! The reality television stars poked fun at the recent social media furor created by costar Jessi Ngatikaura earlier this week when the hairstylist revealed the meaning behind the couple’s “fruity pebbles” sex story from season 1. In a new […]
While Jessi did not clarify what tea had been spilled during the MomTok meetup, many fans have presumed she was referring to her now-viral drama with Demi Engemann.
Jessi and Demi, 30, had been at odds for the entire course of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 3 following their respective encounters with Vanderpump Villa’s Marciano Brunette. (Jessi admitted that she had an emotional affair with Marciano, 32, whom Demi claimed assaulted her during Villa. He has denied the assault allegations.)
Jessi and Demi’s drama soon escalated to a back-and-forth war of words, culminating in the JZ Styles founder revealing the NSFW sex act that Demi and her husband, Bret Engemann, enjoy in the bedroom.
“Since she wants to be petty and be an asshole, I think I am just going to go ahead and say that grandpa Bret likes to drink her piss like it is dirty soda,” Jessi claimed in an Instagram Story video last month. “He gulps it down like water. And that is what fruity pebbles means.”
Demi’s sex life with Bret, 48, raised eyebrows during season 1 of Mormon Wives when the other women claimed that Demi told them she and Bret have done something that smells like “fruity pebbles.”
While Demi initially declined to share more, she issued a response to Jessi’s comments last month.
“What my husband and I did one time behind closed doors was a consensual and private experience in our marriage,” Demi wrote in a November statement. “I won’t let a private act between my husband and I be a distraction from a serious act that I did not consent to.”
She continued, “It’s very telling that she’s choosing to break [a] story line and bring it up now, only after her own affair has come to light. This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to shift attention away from her own behavior.”
For some The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives couples, going on a reality TV show made their marriage stronger — while others crumbled under the pressure. When Hulu debuted The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives in September 2024, viewers were introduced to Jen Affleck and husband Zac Affleck, Demi Engemann and husband Bret Engemann, Whitney […]
As Demi and Jessi’s feud escalated, Taylor was away filming season 22 of The Bachelorette.
“Teaser: Last night was one of the BEST nights of my life,” Taylor wrote via her Instagram Stories on Thursday, December 11, hinting that production recently wrapped. “Can’t wait to talk about [it] in like six months LMAFO [sic].”
While Taylor did not elaborate further, she did previously tell Us Weekly that it was her “goal” to get engaged on the Bachelor Nation show.
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“As my mom likes to say, I do fall in love quickly,” she exclusively told Us in September. “I always call myself a lover girl because I, like, fall for people and I have done that in the past. … I’m going to take my time, I’m going to kind of, like, get to know people. Maybe I learned things I didn’t like or do like that I didn’t even know. I think this is gonna be really good for the long-term effect.”
Taylor was previously married to Tate Paul, with whom she shares two children. Taylor also welcomed son Ever with ex Dakota Mortensen last year.
The Bachelorette premieres on ABC Sunday, March 22, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET.
Braxton Berrios is defending himself after fans called him out for skipping his ex Alix Earle’sDancing With the Stars performances before they split.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, December 11, Berrios, 30, appeared to poke fun at the drama surrounding his break-up by uploading a series of photos of himself and captioning it, “What did I miss?”
Fans were quick to flock to the comments section to respond. One follower replied, “Every single performance of Alix’s.”
Alix Earle is addressing speculation that New York Giants rookie Jaxson Dart slid into her DMs following her split from Braxton Berrios. “What is this fake photoshopped DM u guys are posting,” Earle, 24, wrote via TikTok on Sunday, December 7. “1. That never happened. 2. That wouldn’t be on my story.” Hours after news […]
In response, the Houston Texans wide receiver claimed that he wanted to be there but was unable to do so due to his NFL commitments.
“I would’ve been at every one if I could’ve, sadly I can’t travel like that in season,” Berrios wrote.
Earle and her Dancing With the Stars partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, ultimately finished in second place on the reality show. They were beaten to the top spot by Robert Irwin and his DWTS partner, Witney Carson, during the November 25 finale.
Berrios did not attend the finale but shared his support for Earle at the time via a video message.
Braxton Berrios and Alix Earle.(Photo by TheStewartofNY/WireImage)
“I’ve watched you pour everything into this since the moment it has started, and I think it shows,” Berrios said in a prerecorded video. “Good luck. Have fun, babe.”
Berrios and Earle split after two years of dating, multiple sources confirmed exclusively to Us Weekly on December 6.
“Majority of their relationship was long-distance and it was hard for them to navigate,” one insider told Us. “They mutually agreed on the split.”
After being linked to Berrios in May 2023, Earle initially denied they were dating. She ultimately confirmed her relationship with the athlete several months later in November 2023.
A year later, Earle shared a gushing tribute to Berrios to mark 12 months together.
“To the person who taught me to love wholeheartedly .. happy 1 year ❣️ You have become so much more than my best friend and partner,” she wrote via Instagram for their November 2024 anniversary. “I didn’t know I was capable of this type of love and I feel like I have truly found my other half! I love you.”
Earlier this year, Earle spoke about her relationship with Berrios, divulging they were planning a future together.
“We always talk about our future,” she told Us in February. “Right now, we’re so focused on our careers that we live in the moment and don’t rush into anything. I think that’s the cool thing about being with Braxton, [he] is not scared of any type of future.”
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During an appearance on the “Hot Mess” podcast in September 2023, Earle opened up about the night they first met during a Great Gatsby-themed party in February the same year.
“As we’re standing around the bar, this guy comes up to me and he’s like, ‘Oh, you should really go talk to my friend over there,’ and he points to this guy. I’m like, ‘Yeah, OK, whatever,’” she said.
Earle explained, “I go right up to him, I shove my hand in his face and I say ‘You.’ He looks at me like I have six heads. And he’s like ‘What?’ And I go, ‘You wanted to meet me.’”
“I have to live my life,” Kylie said during the Thursday, December 11, episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians while reflecting on growing up in the public eye. The reality star was asked about the fallacious rumor that she was pregnant at 16, before a producer asked Kylie if she felt more “protective” of her personal life now.
“I can’t live for whatever everyone else wants me to do,” she added. “I just have to try to do what’s best for me every day.”
She continued: “I know that fame has absolutely shaped me from experiencing these things since I was nine. But I guess I also wouldn’t know who I would be today without growing up like this. I’m just navigating through life.”
Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet have been causing a stir since they were first linked in April 2023. News broke in spring 2023 that the Kardashians star and the Oscar nominee were spending time together following Jenner’s split from on-off boyfriend Travis Scott. (Jenner shares daughter Stormi and son Aire with Scott, whom she broke […]
Kylie became a household name after starring in E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021. After becoming a mom when she welcomed daughter Stormi with on-again, off-again boyfriend Travis Scott in February 2018, Kylie stepped away from the spotlight. The then-couple, who started dating in 2017, welcomed their second child, son Aire, in February 2022 before parting ways for good nearly a year later.
Three months after her split from the rapper, Kylie sparked romance rumors with Timothée, 29. A source previously told Us Weekly that Kylie’s loved ones have seen “a whole other side of her” since she started dating the actor.
“They’ve never seen her so happy and they love the qualities Timothée brings out in her,” the insider shared in September 2023. “She can totally be herself, and she’s much more laid back with him than she’s been in past relationships.”
Despite choosing not to speak out about her romance with Timothée, Kylie has discussed how her children remain her biggest priority.
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“Finding myself in the hospital alone with a new and unknown creature in my arms [has been my favorite part],” she told Vanity Fair Italy in February 2023. “It’s such a unique and special situation and it’s all about building with these little beings that you’re learning about. There is another magical moment, though: when you bring your children home. It is perhaps the most beautiful moment.”
Kylie later detailed her positive outlook on life, telling HommeGirls in April 2023, “It’s really such a blessing that I’ve been able to live and experience so much life at such a young age. I have two kids, I’m 25. Honestly, I’ve never been happier. As I get older, I get more appreciative of my life, my family, my friends and having all these opportunities.”
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More recently, Timothée hinted that he was thinking about settling down and starting a family of his own.
“That could be on the radar,” he told Vogue last month. Timothée recalled how he once saw an interview where a person was “bragging about not having kids and how much time it afforded them to do other stuff,” which he found to be “bleak.”
New episodes of The Kardashians are released Thursdays on Hulu.
The way Craig brings up a baseless rumor in the middle of a fight with Austen is a perfect example of his erratic behavior since the big breakup. Photo: Bravo
It must be tough being Craig Conover, being that handsome and yet that consistently wrong. Just look at this non-fight with Austen that Craig turns into a big deal by handling the situation as deftly as a blindfolded juggler with vertigo. Craig initially got mad that Austen was making cracks about him hanging out in the hot tub, drinking with girls. He starts with telling Austen that it’s silly to be against fun. He is entirely correct. Then he says that Austen is just jealous that Craig is single and he’s not because he might be unhappy in his relationship, which is also correct. Then he says, “Austen, keep running your mouth and Shep is going to say something that’s going to ruin your life.” Okay, now you’re wrong, now you’re entirely wrong!
His first incorrect assumption is that if Austen keeps talking, Shep is going to step in and defend Craig, but Craig doesn’t need defending, and he is the one who turned Austen being a bit of a dick into this whole fight that is going to ruin Whitner’s birthday party. His second incorrect assumption is that Shep knows something that will ruin Austen’s life, which I don’t think he really does. This is why the cast keeps talking about how they’re afraid of Craig and how unpredictable he is. It’s the escalation from nothing to scorched earth. Madison points out that over the past several years, when he was with Paige and drinking less, he was focused on his business, being successful, and getting along with his friends. Since the breakup, he’s back to drinking and, well, cue the old footage of Craig being an asshole for no reason!
Craig and Austen go inside to continue their fight, and Shep tells the table what Craig is talking about. Apparently, when Shep was in New York a few weeks ago, some women in a bar approached him and told him that their friend was talking to Austen. Shep brought this up to Craig to ask if he should even concern Austen about it, and Craig said “no,” to preserve Austen’s peace. I think that is the right play. Can these random strangers in a bar, whose friend very well could be lying to them, be trusted? No. Craig knows this. However, as soon as he was a little peeved at Austen, he brought it up. Sure, he doesn’t exactly spill or reveal what was said, but he does mention it at a group event in front of cameras and then forces Shep to bring it up when they both decided that it wasn’t worth it.
Dude, that’s wrong! Not only is it then giving credence to something that is no more than a rumor, something that Craig already dismissed as a made-up attack on his reputation, but it’s also putting Shep and Austen’s relationship in jeopardy because now Austen is mad at Shep for talking to Craig about his relationship. Now, I know there would be no show without these guys talking shit behind one another’s backs all the time, but fair is fair, and when they both decided not to bring it up, they should have left it there.
Inside, Craig and Austen’s fight gets deeper with Craig saying he’s upset with Austen for saying he’s afraid of him. Then he calls it a lie, saying that Austen isn’t afraid of him. Then he asks him, “Are you afraid of me?” while yelling and displaying the exact behavior that, yes, Austen is afraid of. This is what drives me crazy about Craig. He says that Austen is lying and not scared of him, but then later he tells Salley, “I’m not going to be gaslit into thinking I did something wrong.” Craig is the epitome of believing feelings over facts. If he feels Austen isn’t afraid of him, then that is a fact. If he feels he did nothing wrong, then he did nothing wrong, and any attempt to convince him otherwise is “gaslighting,” the incurable gonorrhea of words.
The problem is that Craig is wrong. He brought up something he and Shep decided wasn’t worth mentioning in front of both a group of people and the cameras. That makes sure it’s going to be discussed even though he’s still hiding behind not being the one who said it, like an idiot standing in a hurricane with a bodega umbrella. He even says, “I tried my best not to get involved.” Dude! You brought it up! There would be nothing if not for you! If people tell him that raising the issue is wrong and he should apologize to Austen, as multiple people suggest, that is not “gaslighting,” that is having a different opinion (and the correct one). That is being a good friend and telling Craig he was out of bounds. That is defending truth, decency, humanity, democracy, net neutrality, and the $5 foot-long.
When Craig talks about gaslighting to Salley, she and her extra e tell him how great he is and how he’s really just misunderstood. But is he? Is he great? This is so Salley, to drop everything and agree with a man just so that she’ll pick her, choose her. There is one person who has Salley’s number and that is our beloved Molly. As the fight was raging inside, Salley said she was telling Craig to apologize; she wasn’t just over there flirting. Molly says it looks like she was flirting, and Salley then tells Molly to hush up because she knows Molly has been talking about her. Salley said she was talking facts about Molly behaving inappropriately at Madison’s shower, but Molly was making things up about Salley calling dibs on every man in Charleston.
This is where the fight gets exciting. Salley asks who she has been calling dibs on. Then Venita, who is her best friend, mind you, grabs the muggle sitting next to her and starts pawing at him, doing a Salley impersonation and saying, “Craig! Craig! Craig! Craig!” Molly then calls Salley out on telling Charley not to talk to Craig, which she says she didn’t say. Then both Venita and Rodrigo, my favorite cat dad, tell her that, yes, she did say that and the footage proves it. I love that Salley is trying to change the story, trying to convince us she didn’t do something, and even her friends are like, “No, you are that bitch. Own it.” Salley, like any Englishman on any beach anywhere in the world, is burnt.
The day after the fight, we find out that Salley and Charley kept Craig company in his hot tub until 4 a.m., but that nothing happened. Salley thinks it’s weird that Craig didn’t make a move. He says in a confessional that when he’s after a girl, he likes to play a long game. Then he has Charley come over with a bunch of art that looks like it was lifted from the conference rooms of airport Best Westerns. Oh, Charley is totally winning. It seems like Craig is way more into her than into Salley. However, if I were to predict what is going to happen, I would say that Salley is going to make a move on Craig, they’re going to bone, and that is how Salley is going to “win.” Then Craig will end up pursuing Charley, and Salley will get all bent out of shape. I’m telling you, I have read the tea leaves (i.e., the remnants of Jell-O shots at the bottom of Craig’s hot tub).
Also, after the party, we get a nice scene with Madison and her son Hudson, where she talks about waiting for the new baby and her changing relationship with her son. Then we get a glimpse into Whitner’s life and, well, it’s giving viral morning routine with Saratoga Springs water vibes. He gets up at precisely 4:35 a.m., takes the dog out, runs and exercises for a few hours (and, damn, son, it’s working!), and then he is at work at 8 a.m., working as a lawyer and calling his adorable mother. If I wasn’t fully in lust with our man before, well, I am now, Patrick Bateman cosplay or no.
The episode ends with the boys talking to their confidantes about what they should do about the fight. Charley tells Craig that he should apologize, and he agrees, but he doesn’t. Shep tells Molly that he told Craig about the rumor he heard without ill intent, but that Craig brought it up at the party with ill intent. Austen is still more likely to forgive Craig first because that’s the weird relationship they have.
Finally, Austen has Rodrigo come over with his two new kittens, who were part of a litter from Rodrigo’s cat. One is named Martini and the other is named Piper, just so that in a full-circle Southern Charm moment, Austen can shout, “Piper, noooooo!” at the cat like Parker Posey in The White Lotus. As he’s talking about Shep and Craig both talking about him behind his back, he realizes that maybe they’re not his friends after all. As he says this, Martini and Piper are tottering their way along the couch cushions, still not entirely confident in their bodies, still not afraid of the world and all their horrors. ’Tini walks right into Austen’s lap, mewing up at him like she has a message, something deep to tell him. When he reaches out to touch her, she rolls herself up and folds herself over, tucking her whole body so that it fits in Austen’s meaty hand. That’s all she had to tell him, that was the entire message, and it’s one that Austen hasn’t received in a long time.
This is quickly turning into a season not about alliances but about voting blocs, and each of those blocs is always targeting each other, with at least one skilled player in the middle, taking turns eliminating each bloc’s power bit by bit. Strangely enough, that player is Sophie the Silent, who we didn’t even peep until about episode seven. But they’re all in danger of being subsumed by the man, the myth, the legend, R-I-Z-G-O-D, whose lame grandstanding and credit-taking is likely to derail all of their games just because he’s the flashiest and thirstiest among the group. He didn’t do much this episode, yet at tribal council, he’s the one looking like the hero in front of the jury.
The episode starts with Sage telling Jawan about Kristina’s idol and then, later, telling Sophie about it as well. Steven made the cardinal sin of telling Sage to gain trust with her. This reminds me of something Sandra Diaz-Twine, the great goddess of strategy, once said: an idol people know about is completely worthless. (I believe she said this on Australian Survivor, which Jeff Probst doesn’t want Americans to see.) The more the information gets out, the more people play around it. Even if a player “wastes” it, then it can save them for a vote while a large coalition mitigates for it, but then it’s effectiveness is done. It can’t really be used to advance a player or a group in the game, like when Parvati Shallow turned the numbers on their head by playing two of them.
After her ally, Alex, was voted out last episode, Kristina is having a tough time trusting anyone on the island and truly being comfortable in the game. This comes to a head at the reward challenge, where Jeff asks her how she’s doing, and she goes through the five stages of grief in about 60 seconds. “I want my mom. I want my mom so bad right now,” she yells, adding that her mother died a few years ago. “And I don’t have her anymore. And it’s not fair. It’s not fair!” Jeff asks Kristina to tell him about her mother, and she shares some stories, and, honestly, it was a touching moment. Kristina then crawled through a balance beam, almost her whole body in the water, as she slithered onto the platform to try to help her team win a reward. Though she got the swell of inspirational moments and kind words from Jeff (rare for a woman who is not doing well in a challenge), it was all for naught.
The winning team is Soph, Sophie, Sage, and Steven, who get to go to The Sanctuary (say it all together, “Where schmood schmings schmappen!!”) and eat hamburgers and hot dogs, and Sage gets to launch her plan with Sophie about getting Savannah out of the game. Going into the immunity challenge there are two factions. The trio of Rizo, Soph, and Savannah wants to team up with Jawan and Sage to get out Steven, who they think is a challenge threat and far too likable because he is an endless source of space facts. Sage has other plans. She wants to draw in her ally Jawan, along with Steven, Kristina, and Sophie, to get rid of Savannah, whom she can’t stand, and who everyone is afraid of winning immunity once again.
Before the immunity challenge, there is a brief intermission when we are entertained by the “musical” stylings of a boy band called 3 Boyz on a Bench. It’s just the remaining three men pretending to rap but mostly just saying “3 Boyz on a Bench,” to a beat repeatedly. I do like the name of their songs — “Don’t Blindside Me Baby,” “You Drive Me Coconuts,” and “I Got Sand in All the Wrong Places” — though I’m not entirely sure if I would like the tunes of any of them.
The immunity challenge is a classic obstacle course where players have to run through the “teeter tunnel,” which was Jeff’s nickname in college, get a bunch of discs off a pole, free the handle underneath, and then use the handle to run puzzle pieces across a balance beam, and then make the classic Survivor logo puzzle. Steven does the best at the puzzle piece balancing, but he is quickly outpaced by Sophie, who wins the challenge. This might be to her detriment because now she’s back in the spotlight as a challenge beast who they might have to send home.
I’ve realized that Survivor is a little bit like an episode of Law & Order. Just as the first main suspect is never the person who did it, the first plan you hear about after the immunity challenge is not the person getting sent home. In this case, we’re hearing a lot about Steven and Savannah, but then Steven and Kristina talk about using her idol on Steven to prevent him from going home. They want to split their votes between Savannah and Rizo so that if Rizo gets spooked and plays his idol for Savannah or himself, one or the other is going home. Sage has this great master plan that after this tribe, Savannah will go home, Rizo will use his idol, and Kristina will use hers. She is only going to get one of those three things accomplished.
That is because Sophie can’t be trusted, at least by Sage and her group. She tells Savannah that Jawan and Sage are going to flip and that Kristina has an idol. The problem is that if Sophie votes with Rizo, Soph, and Savannah, that is only four, which forces a tie. As word of that idol spreads, Soph considers using her Knowledge Is Power to get it for herself. Savannah also reveals that she has an extra vote, so with Sophie, they can turn themselves into the majority rather than just having a tie.
Then Savannah gets an idea. What if, instead of going for Steven or Kristina, who could block their votes with a deft play of an idol, why not go after the flip-floppers and target Sage and Jawan? Savannah is keen to get out Sage because she knows Sage is coming for her and is smart enough to realize Sage is the real mastermind behind all these plans. They pose the question to Sophie, who, as the swing vote, they want to give the power to make the decision. She says she thinks Jawan has a better shot because he’s more likable but still wants to target Steven because she’s afraid that he might have a better shot of beating her at challenges.
Going into tribal, the viewers are in a great position because we’re unclear of just who will use their advantages and how, what effect that might have on the vote, who might catch a stray, and who, exactly, will go home. But, again, we know all of the allegiances, who is voting with whom, who betrayed whom, and why. We also know that Jeff Probst is going to get the kind of Advantage-apalooza that he loves, with everyone emptying their pockets of their trinkets to stay in the game. What I most fear is another of Jeff’s favorite things, a live tribal. God, how I hate getting out of their seats and whispering.
Luckily, we’re spared that, and the trouble is mostly a bunch of people making vague statements about how they can’t trust anyone. It’s after the votes are tallied that we start to get the fireworks. First, Kristina pulls an idol out of her hair and gives it to Jeff to block Steven. Rizo has been fingering a set of beads the whole time and gets up, heading towards Jeff to ask if he can say a few words. “I feel like a lot has happened and I feel like this vote is truly going to show who is with me and who is not,” he says. “I have to do my best to protect myself in this game and for that very reason, I’m playing it for Savannah.”
Then Jeff shocks us by saying that it isn’t a real immunity idol. Seriously, dude, WT-effing-F. He did all of that to psyche everyone out, to rub their noses in it, to make some kind of grandstanding about how he wants to play an idol; he knows their plan is for Savannah, but actually, he doesn’t need it because he feels safe. He’s rubbing their noses in the fact that he knows something they don’t. In the immortal words of Jawan, who is about to walk out the door, “Playa, play the real thing.”
The votes are read, and for a minute, I’m thinking that my girl Sage is definitely about to take the long walk to Ponderosa. Then the votes pour in for Savannah and Jawan, sending Jawan packing and showing Kristina that she “wasted” her idol. Jawan asks who did this and Sophie, Soph, Rizo, and Savannah all raise their hands. But it’s what happens next that they should all be afraid of. Rizo jumps to his feet and tells Jawan to bring it in and give him a hug. “You flipped on me once. I wasn’t going to let it happen again,” he says. This is a major problem that all of his allies should be wary of. He had nothing to do with this move. Sophie brought them the information, and Savannah and Sophie decided to flip it on Sage and Jawan. Rizo played a fake idol, made a big scene, and then said, “Iwasn’t going to let it happen again.” Not “we,” “I” singular. He’s hogging the spotlight and taking credit and I hope that, as Sophie manipulates the blocs for them to decimate each other, they come for him next.
In June 2005, ABC launched the U.S. version of the U.K. series Strictly Come Dancing. Each season, a celebrity is partnered with a professional dancer as they tackle a new style of ballroom dance.
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Carrie Ann Inaba,Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman have served as judges since the series’ debut, with pro dancer Julianne Hough briefly joining the table for seasons 19-21, then again for seasons 23 and 24. During season 29, Goodman was also replaced, since he was unable to travel to L.A. due to the coronavirus pandemic. Former pro Derek Hough became the third judge and has become a staple of the panel since.
At the end of each season, one star claims the iconic mirrorball trophy. After Goodman’s death in 2023, the competition series renamed its coveted prize after the late judge.
Scroll through the gallery below to see every star who has won the reality show — including season 34 champ Robert Irwin — and where they are today:
After all the relitigation and denial about what happened on the plane, the wives’ ability to resolve this conflict is unprecedented. Photo: Natalie Cass/Bravo
Did Mary’s church service help to heal (or “hill” if you’re Whitney) our fractured group? Of course not, but one can dream! Maybe they’ll have better luck at the post-service Sunday Social that Mary is hosting for them all at our favorite Salt Lake jaunt: Valter’s. “Oh, your guests are here,” Angie tells Mary when Meredith and Lisa walk in, so then again, maybe not. But at least Mary is gifting them all beta fish as party favors!
The only person missing from the lunch is Britani, whom Mary called ahead of time to explain that she was snubbing her because she called her ungodly. Britani ultimately apologized, and while it didn’t earn her an invite, it did inspire Mary to think that there might be hope for this group yet.
So let’s get into it. We’ve heard what all the other women say happened, but Meredith maintains that they’re blowing it out of proportion — so where do we go from here? When Meredith says she couldn’t have tormented Britani the whole flight because she watched two movies, the women begin investigating. What movies? “Crazy Rich Asians, and one other movie I don’t recall the name of,” she says. Rough start. And what happened at the end of Crazy Rich Asians? Genius question. “I don’t remember,” she says. Meredith, you shouldn’t be answering any more of these questions without a lawyer present! “Crazy Rich Asians has a big ending. It’s a big moment, you’ll remember,” Heather says. This is one of the funniest gotcha moments I’ve ever seen on Housewives. Since Lisa watched it too, they ask her if she remembers how it ends, and without hesitation (but with a spoiler alert warning from Bravo), Lisa rattles off the movie’s ending. “I obviously fell asleep before the end because I didn’t see that part,” Meredith chimes in, trying to cover her ass.
Since Lisa continues to downplay the situation, they tell her that she clearly realized how big a scene it was, and that’s why she didn’t go through customs with them. But Lisa says that was just because she didn’t realize she had Global Entry. Alright, if we’re investigating whether Lisa Barlow has Global Entry to get to the bottom of this mystery, I fear we’re too far gone.
Meredith then directs her ire to Whitney (as she is wont to do), after hearing that she was gossiping about this incident behind her back (as Whitney is wont to do). Specifically, Whitney told Bronwyn that she was drinking before the flight and wondered whether she blacked out. She proposed three explanations for the incident: “she has hatred in her heart, an anger problem, or a problem mixing substances.” She’s like if Hercule Poirot were a Real Housewife.
The lunch leaves them with little resolution, and leaves Meredith ally-less, apart from Lisa, whom she meets up with for manicures in spa chairs that I’m convinced get bigger each time we cut back to them. They debrief the lunch, with Meredith expressing her frustration with Heather and Whitney, especially, before Lisa tells her that she met up with Britani to hear her side of things. We flashback to that sit-down, where we hear Britani say, “It was literally, like, the sixth worst thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life.” It’s a sentence that stopped me dead in my tracks. The level of specificity instantly grips me. What were the other five things? And does she have a notes app ranking them? All in all, Meredith basically says she pities Britani and thus is fine to move forward from all of this.
Then, in a jump cut for the ages, we find ourselves in a U-Haul that Whitney is driving to Heather’s house, where she finds her buzzin’ cousin dressed for a funeral. Specifically, the funeral for her marital mattress, which Whitney is helping her haul away. While she assures us that the stains aren’t from sex, I’m more disturbed by her confession that she’s had the mattress for 20 years. That seems like much too long. She talks about Meredith being mad at her, and Whitney talks about being angry at Bronwyn for ratting, but all I can think about is that geriatric mattress.
While Britani is still recovering from the plane ride (and I suspect will be for seasons to come), she says it helped her focus on what’s truly important: healing her relationship with her daughter, Olivia. And now, thankfully, they’re getting professional help and are deciding to give a family therapist a real run for her money. It’s mostly a rehash of what we already know, but Olivia says she feels better hearing her mother take accountability, and Britani is happy to finally get the chance to make things right, so this situation seems to be looking up.
Speaking of mothers and daughters, Bronwyn, Gwen, and Muzzy (and their bobs) spend the afternoon trimming Bonsai trees. Both Gwen and Muzzy say that they’re getting ready to spread their wings and move out, which sends Bronwyn — who has never really lived alone in her entire life — spiraling. You might be thinking, well, doesn’t she still have Todd? But perhaps that’s the problem. Without her whole family under that roof with her, she’s left taking a cold, hard look at her marriage, and she might not like what she sees. After all, if she’s mourning her emotionally abusive mother of all people moving out, then you know things must be rough.
The episode concludes with a meeting so shocking that I wondered if perhaps I was the one who blacked out after combining substances. Meredith and Britani reunite — on the ground this time — at a park, as if producers were afraid they’d destroy a home or place of business. Meredith kicks things off by apologizing to Britani for being overheard talking to Lisa on the plane, saying it was the wrong place and time and that she didn’t intend to hurt her feelings. This feels almost too good to be true, as if a Bravo HR representative is standing just off camera, holding up cue cards.
While Britani says she still feels traumatized, she’s choosing forgiveness. And for her part, she apologizes for bringing up the TikTok in the first place, admitting that it was a shady move meant to hurt her. I almost can’t believe what I’m watching. After all this hubbub sent shockwaves throughout the group, the two of them can sit down and communicate in the name of civility. This kind of resiliency and ability to move forward is what makes this show so successful. As I watch them sit across from one another, I’m reminded of a song made famous by Britani Bateman singing it on TikTok…
And just to clear the air, I ask forgiveness for the things I’ve done you blame me for… But then, I guess we know there’s blame to share And none of it seems to matter anymore.
It’s time to say goodbye to season 34 of Dancing With the Stars — but some of the eliminated celebs couldn’t help but take one last bow on finale night.
Before a new mirrorball champion was crowned on Tuesday, November 25, fans were treated to three separate performances from the remaining couples: Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy, Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten, Robert Irwin and Witney Carson and Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach.
The finalists weren’t the only ones to hit the ballroom floor, however, as their former competitors returned on Tuesday night to celebrate a record-breaking season.
Fans caught glimpses on social media of how some eliminated duos — including Jan Ravnik and Jen Affleck — prepared for finale night. Corey Feldman, one of the first celebs sent home this season with pro Jenna Johnson, was also seen reuniting with his season 34 family shortly after he opened up about his experience on the show.
In a clip from an upcoming episode of Guvery’s Law radio show, Feldman called out what he described as a “toxic” environment backstage, alleging earlier this month, “There was a lot of stupidity in the mudslinging that went on behind the scenes.”
He later clarified his stance in a statement to People, insisting in part, “Everyone associated with the show — from my fellow cast members to the pros, crew and production team — has treated me with nothing but kindness, support and respect.”
Scroll down to see which eliminated DWTS contestants returned for the season 34 finale:
Britt Stewart and Baron Davis
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Stewart and Davis, who were among the first couples to be eliminated this season, reunited before the show.
Andy Richter and Scott Hoying
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The pair were spotted backstage before the competition began. (Richter and Hoying danced with Emma Slater and Rylee Arnold, respectively, this season.)
Whitney Leavitt
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One week after her elimination, Leavitt lit up the dance floor with pro Mark Ballas in the opening number.
Danielle Fishel and Pasha Pashkov
The dynamic duo, who were sent home on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night, brought smiles to social media before kicking off the finale on stage.
Jen Affleck
Pro Jan Ravnik returned to the ballroom with the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star.
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Hilaria Baldwin and Gleb Savchenko
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The pair gave a glimpse of their time in the rehearsal studio via Instagram before finale night.
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The Fifth Harmony singer joined Brandon Armstrong in the opening number following her elimination in week 3.
During the Monday, November 24, episode of the “Simplistic” podcast, Marciano, 32, and his brother, Sonny, sat down to address the misconceptions about his individual relationships with Jessi, 33, and Demi, 30, where he attempted to clear his name.
Hulu viewers were introduced to Marciano on the inaugural season of Vanderpump Villa, but it wasn’t until season 2 that his path crossed with Jessi and Demi when the Mormon Wives visited Italy. After filming wrapped, Marciano claimed he had been in contact with both of the reality stars — but only Jessi admitted to an emotional affair.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives didn’t just tackle Marciano Brunette and Demi Engemann’s alleged romantic connection — it also sparked a new revelation about an alleged affair with Jessi Ngatikaura. The drama actually started on another Hulu show — Vanderpump Villa — when Demi, Jessi, Jen Affleck, Layla Taylor and Mikayla Matthews were guests […]
“I did come out with a pretty bold and true statement against Marciano [recently] because at that point it was like, ‘You’re lying about me. Actually, you were the predator.’ So I’m not going to stay quiet — and I stand by that statement,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in May. “There’s more happening behind the scenes with that that will come to light. I’m sure at this point it’s become a legal matter. There’s not much more I can say on it as of now because I want to preserve the fact that it’s a serious situation. But I stand behind those statements.”
On Monday’s podcast, Marciano denied Demi’s version of events. He claimed Demi was in contact with him for weeks after they met on screen and her husband, Bret Engemann, was aware of their communication. (Demi discussed Brett knowing about her talks with Marciano on season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which premiered in November, but maintained that they did not have an affair.)
Marciano also clarified that despite Demi’s accusations, no official charges against him were filed. He went on to address how Demi’s claims affected his future on reality TV. Keep scrolling for the biggest revelations from his podcast appearance:
His Relationship With Demi From His Point of View
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According to Marciano, he was in contact with Demi as soon as the Mormon Wives cast stopped filming season 2 of Vanderpump Villa. When asked how many calls he shared with Demi, he replied, “There would be times where it [would] be 10 in a day.”
Marciano also recalled Demi and Bret offering him a place to stay — in their home — when he visited Utah. (Demi didn’t dispute Marciano’s claims on season 3 of Mormon Wives but denied allegations that they had a secret relationship.)
How Filming for ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Factored In
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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives cast filmed their scenes for season 2 of Vanderpump Villa before their show even aired on Hulu. By the time season 2 of Vanderpump Villa premiered, so had the first season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Marciano was then asked to film content for season 2 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives where he spoke out about his past with Demi — and his affair with Jessi. He claimed on the podcast that this was all meant to be for season 2 but the scenes were split up between the second and third installment of Mormon Wives.
“He was contracted for season 2, not season 3. We didn’t know there was going to be a whole six months in between the next season,” Marciano’s brother, Sonny, claimed. “The contract looked the same because we thought we were doing season 2. We filmed everything thinking it was going into season 2.”
While Marciano didn’t “want to throw everyone in the mud,” Sonny expressed frustration that the scenes were filmed for season 2 before the show blew up. But ultimately some of the content was allegedly saved for season 3 once Secret Lives of Mormon Wives became a big hit.
His Disappearance From the Narrative
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Before Demi accused Marciano of sexual misconduct, which he has continued to deny, the Vanderpump Villa alum was expected to play a larger role in season 3. Marciano and Sonny recalled him allegedly being “pulled out” of an event after Demi went public with her claims and they haven’t heard from production since about his future on the show.
Marciano previously alluded to the controversy when he shared a TikTok in May about being disinvited to an event. Bret, for his part, showed support for Demi amid the drama.
“I’m so proud of this beautiful human. She’s the most incredible woman I will ever know,” he wrote via Instagram at the time “The amount of nonsense she’s had to endure at the hands of disingenuous and deceitful fools is astounding. She’s conducted herself like a graceful lioness amongst a bunch of yipping hyenas.”
Marciano also claimed that he offered to film a sit down with Demi’s husband but was told Bret wasn’t interested. While Vanderpump Villa has been renewed for a third season, Marciano remained unsure about his reality TV future due to the allegations.
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Jessi vs. Demi
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Despite exploring a connection with both Demi and Jessi, Marciano only had true feelings for one of them.
“Jessi all day. That’s the easiest decision of all time,” he revealed. “Because Jessi was a real person where I didn’t have to question her motives — especially after everything came out. She was such a good person. It was way deeper.”
Marciano said he thinks he was in love with her, adding, “I will always have feelings for her. But she’s married so I shouldn’t be saying that. … I wish I went for Jessi first.”
I can’t believe it’s been over six years since the infamous barn fight between Candiace and Monique. It honestly feels like a lifetime ago that we saw Monique latch onto Candiace’s wig and summarily fight her way out of a job, but in retrospect, not all that much has changed. Sure, everyone is divorced now, and Candiace has taken her talents for histrionics out of the music studio and into the podcast mic for the time being — but we have the same President, Ashley remains as messy as ever, and Gizelle still won’t bring a man on camera. Some truths remain immutable in the Potomac universe.
I can be honest and admit that at the time, I was a bit clouded in my distaste for Candiace’s antics in a way that probably let me give Monique a bit too much grace about the situation. For one, the franchises are no strangers to violence: RHONJ occasionally serves as a WWE undercard, depending on the season; Salt Lake City has thrown more drinks in people’s faces than Susan Lucci; and Atlanta couldn’t even keep a slumber party peaceful. During this period, the ladies of Potomac still held onto a delusional pretense that they represented a specific style of Black upper-class genteel that had long been abandoned – the cast may be products of Jack and Jill, but the show is no The Gilded Age. And so once the fight actually aired, over a year after the fiasco had already leaked to the press, we spent an entire season being beaten over the head with the insistence that the cast was above this.
While I can now recognize that what Monique did was an unacceptable escalation of interpersonal issues in a workplace (which is what the show is, after all), her reunion performance will remain an all-time moment in not just Potomac, but Housewives history simply because she broke the show. Fully knowing she was on her way out, she summarily dismissed Gizelle with the binder moment that aired all over the world (Karen asking “is Jamal coming” with sardonic satisfaction remains etched in my cerebellum), but more importantly forced everyone to acknowledge that despite her being the deserved target of the reunion, all of the women have skeletons in their closet that they were unwilling to confront. Gizelle was reunited with a man who had embarrassed her numerous times with his penchant for skirt-chasing; Robyn was in an endless engagement with a now-husband who, then and now, seemed to barely humor her; Karen is a sugar-baby turned breadwinner who could be found at any watering hole in Potomac; Ashley was married to the personification of the grim reaper.
All of the women were trapped in their own cages of misery, trying to make Monique look like the primary cause for their own distress. Monique very much needed to leave, but the chaos she left behind, while occasionally resulting in uneven, stilted television, forced the women to acknowledge their own shortcomings in her absence. Ashley could no longer hide her disaster of a marriage; Robyn’s permanent state of melancholy became unavoidable; Chris Bassett was unable to hold a job longer than a season. I don’t think it’s that much of a stretch to say that women seem to be in 10 seasons is at least partially influenced by Monique wiping the slate clean on her first ousting.
Monique’s penchant for forthrightness, almost to the point of abruptness, is what makes her reintegration to the cast fascinating already. Thankfully, she makes no bones about addressing the elephant in the room, namely, the state of her divorce. It is no secret that Housewives can be taxing on any marriage, but often we hear it from the perspective of women who come on the show to build a career and a platform to split safely. Monique, however, freely admits that being on the show kept her marriage alive for years longer than it should have. Judging from her original run on the franchise, I fully believe that she held onto her marriage out of spite; at that time, there was no way she was going to let Gizelle have one up on her, and the image of her successful Black family with numerous houses, investments, and businesses was her ultimate trump card.
It was refreshing to hear the women reflect on that time without the show turning into a forlorn “very special episode.” Gizelle being able to acknowledge the strain she recognized in Monique’s marriage coming from the side of a divorcee is a conversation Monique simply would not have been able to receive five years ago, and I think it’s healthy that both women recognize that. I don’t know if we’ll get Gizelle to admit on camera that Monique gave her a run for her money at that reunion, but we’ll take the small victories where we can.
Unfortunately, Gizelle and Monique finally finding common ground is not the animating vehicle they are using to structure Monique’s return to the group. Nor are Monique and Wendy finally attempting to establish a relationship outside of Candiace’s sphere of influence after Monique was effectively removed from filming on Wendy’s rookie season. For whatever reason that I am still desperately attempting to make sense of, we are continuing to draw out this tired string of “Stacy being desperate for Chris.”
Listen, I get it. Stacey is definitely nimble with her understanding of the truth. I have dated enough men who told me they had no girlfriend, only to find out they actually had a wife (this has happened only three times, but it’s crazy that it happened more than once), so I recognize a person whose statements of fact come with terms and conditions. But here’s the thing: I don’t care that she fucked Chris, or didn’t. I don’t care that her husband, Temu, barely wants to be on camera and filming with the rest of the cast, or that they are too lazy to come up with coherent excuses to avoid participating in events. Temu says five words a minute, and to my ADHD brain, it feels like nails on a chalkboard; I won’t miss him if he doesn’t get mic’ed up ever again.
What Stacey understands well is that if you are not going to give authenticity, you have to sell the fantasy. Stacey has chosen to be the peppy, out-of-touch model who has the spirit of Mary Poppins in the package of Kenya Moore. Whether or not it’s legitimate is irrelevant to me until it fundamentally becomes irreconcilable with her on-camera persona, à la Grande Dame. Perhaps it’s the QVC training, the same stomping grounds that birthed us the scourge known as Lisa Rinna, but you simply cannot move her off her square.
Stacey’s consistent persona ultimately makes the women look even more deranged for calling it out. Monique already said she couldn’t possibly care less who Chris is dating, but Ashley, Keiarna, Tia, and Gizelle simply couldn’t leave well enough alone. Now I have to pretend that I care that Stacey told Chris that Monique was miserable by the end of her marriage? I’m sure that’s nothing Chris doesn’t already know, whether this Cookie lady is reporting back to him or not. Considering how the last fiasco with a third party bringing gossip went down, I just am not intrigued or inclined to explore this line of inquiry any further unless Stacey ups and leaves Temu for Chris.
All these shenanigans ultimately end up doing is cementing Stacey as indispensable to the group. I can somewhat understand Tia’s frustration — despite overselling the Nigerian royalty bit, she has, for the most part, been sharing her personal life on camera, warts and all, and is frustrated that Stacey won’t do the same. But Keiarna is getting irate on Monique’s behalf when there is absolutely no indication that Monique would even care or be bothered by this at all, and as a result, Stacey dealt with her accordingly. Keiarna may be a breathtaking beauty, but she was not prepared to step into the ring for a war of words with the Detroit Barbie. Stacey cheekily telling K that “the only time you get heated is about me” was a nice little jab, but when K tried to counter by saying “I would never leave my husband around you,” Stacey had no choice but to hit her with the uppercut: “You don’t have one.” I’m excited to see Keiarna finally show up this season, as I prefer a beautiful bitch on wheels to a sedate one, but unfortunately, she still came up short this time around. See you all next week!
• The more Angel carries on about her imagined issue with Wendy, the less rational she sounds. Her husband can’t even pretend to be bothered about this nothingburger of an issue on his wife’s behalf. Every time she insists that Wendy somehow betrayed her more than Gizelle by defining what a catfish is, a clown nose starts to sprout on her face spontaneously. Wendy and Gizelle were indeed being messy and mean, but nothing about that warranted the weeks-long spiral our WAG has been going through.
• Wendy was really rocking the finger waves! It’s such a shame that her best season to date is coming on the heels of what we know to be a precipitous downfall. (Yes, yes, I know she gave a gracious showing at BravoCon and had a generally good reception, but when your local paper is reporting claims of alleged aliases and over 40 credit cards, there is clearly still a long road ahead.)
• When it comes to crossover moments, I allow/overlook them if they make sense for the show and the groups’ connections. The Vanderpump Boys on Summer House, sure, whatever, they basically helped launch that franchise. Cynthia making a guest appearance on any franchise she wants is fine because I appreciate any excuse to swoon over her cheekbones. Bringing in competitors from the Love Hotel, however, is where I have to draw the line. I’m sure Wale is a lovely man, but this isn’t Marvel, and I’m not about to start watching three other franchises just to understand what is on my TV screens. I already have to monitor the subreddits like a hawk!
• At this point, “What is GNA” could be a Jeopardy category. We have gone from clothing line to wellness brand to events promotion to philanthropy, and now we’re making floats. Many companies do PRIDE floats, but they are usually selling something. What, pray tell, is GNA selling? I still have no clue.
• Ten million downloads on Reasonably Shady? Y’all are really listening to that podcast? Color me shocked.
“I had a minor meltdown about a week and a half ago because [of] Tom Bergeron, who I love [and] still love,” Bones, 45, said on the Saturday, November 22, episode of his “Bobbycast” podcast. “I was surprised by his reaction to the question who’s one of the most surprising eliminations. They didn’t even ask him about me.”
Bergeron, 70, recently told Parade that he was shocked to see Bones win season 27 despite never topping the DWTS leaderboard.
“I have total awareness of my entire situation,” Bones said on Saturday. “It hurt my feelings so much. I have a job where I give opinions all the time. Whenever I create controversy, which I do at times, … I’m good because I signed up for this.”
Bobby Bones still isn’t sure how he won Dancing With the Stars season 27 — but he might have “cheated.” Bones — who took home the mirrorball trophy in 2018 with pro partner Sharna Burgess — looked back on his “weird” experience in the ballroom during the Monday, September 15, episode of Jason Tartick‘s “Trading […]
According to Bones, he was hurt by Bergeron’s comments because of their past interactions on DWTS.
“That was somebody [who] was so helpful to me during the show ‘cause he knew I was struggling,” the radio host said. “I still love Tom, but that hurt my feelings.”
“I was made to feel I was really bad at dancing, which I was, [but] then I got to be OK,” Bones said, noting he does regret returning the trophy. “Someone has reached out to me from the network, and they said they would give it back. It’s whatever I want.”
Bones, meanwhile, has yet to decide whether to accept the returned mirrorball.
Ever since the 2005 debut of Dancing With the Stars, fans have been very vocal about what they do and don’t like — and who deserves to be on the show. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a valid email. Subscribe By signing up, I agree to the Terms and […]
“It’s not just about Tom, [but] it’s the association sometimes. I look at that and that’s the only thing I’ver ever done where I purposefully just tried hard, worked hard, tried to make people better around me,” he recalled. “I would help other contestants [during] their camera time. … I did everything I could to help, and then for people to go, ‘We think you’re less than,’ that was my association with the trophy.”
Bones continued, “There are things where [I understand] people don’t like me because I say this or feel this way, I signed up for that. This is the only thing where I was the underdog who won, and then that’s held against me. That association kind of soared it a bit.”
Bones further revealed that he never had any “intention of going on” DWTS in the first place, but was approached with the opportunity as a way to promote his role on ABC’s American Idol.
Tom Bergeron may not miss his role as cohost of Dancing With the Stars, but there is one thing from the ABC series he wishes he still had in his life. “The paycheck,” Bergeron hilariously revealed in a recent interview with E! News. “There are some people I miss, but I’m really happy not hosting.” […]
“I remember saying, ‘I’ve never danced, that sounds fun, but I don’t plan to last four weeks,’” he said. “I don’t do anything without going as hard as I can. There was a time … [when] I was so behind that I would go and rent a studio by myself and put the phone up and watch practice and try to do it better.”
Bones stressed that he had “never been more committed to anything” as he was to DWTS — until he married his wife, Caitlin Parker, in 2021.
“I was so committed,” he said. “I was proud of myself, [and] I wasn’t as bad as I was made to believe I was. I’m not good, by the way.”
With feuds and drama at an all time high on Selling Sunset, could there be a cast overhaul for season 10?
Jason Oppenheim weighed in on the possibility during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly at the T-Mobile exclusive unveiling at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, saying, “This is a larger decision between Netflix and production, to be honest.”
Oppenheim, 48, noted that “every option is still under consideration” before filming begins. He also broke his silence on Chrishell Stause exiting the hit Netflix show after being involved since it premiered in 2019.
“She’s a grown woman. She can make her own decisions and what’s best for her. I think everyone on the cast should be making their own [decisions],” he noted. “Right now [she is still working for the Oppenheim Group]. That’s another decision that she’ll make.”
Selling Sunset is all about the drama — and the real estate — but which agents still have active licenses to sell homes? The reality series, which debuted in 2019, became an overnight success for Netflix as viewers were introduced to employees at high-end Los Angeles real estate brokerage The Oppenheim Group. Since its premiere, […]
Oppenheim continued: “It certainly wouldn’t come from me [if she left]. I leave it to everyone to figure out. And of course, there’s also Netflix and production, who have a say too. So I try my best to not make decisions, if that makes sense.”
The reality series became an overnight success for Netflix as viewers were introduced to employees at high-end Los Angeles real estate brokerage. Over the years, viewers have watched falling outs, fights and ongoing feuds.
“I don’t like it. I want to get it back to real estate,” Oppenheim told Us. “We can create a really, really amazing show without anything below the belt. Some of our best seasons were without [that].”
“I think there should be a fun show — like an escape show — for people to watch. Not a show that turns people off or divides people,” he said. “That’s ridiculous. That’s honestly one of the most attractive things about Selling Sunset is that it can be such a fun show to just cuddle up with your partner and just enjoy. We don’t want to have people arguing after they watch an episode.”
Netflix Selling Sunset getting renewed for season 9 feels inevitable, but will the whole group be back? The reality series, which debuted in 2019, became an overnight success for Netflix as viewers were introduced to employees at high-end Los Angeles real estate brokerage the Oppenheim Group. Selling Sunset always has fans talking — whether it […]
While Netflix has not yet renewed Selling Sunset, Oppenheim is holding out hope for a more peaceful season 10. He also addressed concerns about more possible exits since Amanza Smith and Chelsea Lazkani don’t currently have active real estate licenses, according to the California Department of Real Estate.
“As a practical matter, what happens is that agents every year have to renew their licenses. Sometimes they forget and so you just get a notification,” he clarified. “Tthen all you do have to pay a fine. I don’t think that that’s necessarily indicative of much. It’s happened to a lot of people.”
Before documenting their relationship ups and downs — complete with an affair scandal or two — most of the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives were previously married to other people.
When Hulu debuted The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives in September 2024, viewers were introduced toJen Affleck and husband Zac Affleck, Demi Engemann and husband Bret Engemann, Whitney Leavitt and husband Conner Leavitt, Mikayla Matthews and husband Jace Terry, Mayci Neeley and husband Jacob Neely, Jessi Ngatikaura and husband Jordan Ngatikaura, Taylor Frankie Paul and then-partner Dakota Mortensen and Layla Taylor.
It didn’t take long for the series to pull back the curtain not only on MomTok — but on the cast’s personal lives. In addition to marriage issues, Season 2 blew things up even more when Demi’s interactions with Marciano Brunette turned to allegations that Jessi had an affair with the Vanderpump Villa star. (Jessi ultimately confirmed she had an emotional affair while Demi has denied any romantic entanglement with Marciano.)
Some viewers may be surprised to know though that the Hulu stars were married to other people before joining the show. Keep scrolling for a dating history for every cast member of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives:
Taylor Frankie Paul
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Taylor married Tate Paul in 2016 and they welcomed two kids before their divorce in 2022. She found love with Dakota Mortensen, with whom she shares a son, but they have since called it quits.
Jen Affleck
Disney/Pamela Littky
Before starring on the show, Jen and Zac started dating in 2018 and got married one year later. After welcoming their first two kids, Jen and Zac joined The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and had a brief offscreen separation. They got back together amid Jen’s third pregnancy and the pair welcomed daughter Penelope in July 2025.
Demi Engemann
Disney/Pamela Littky
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows Demi’s marriage to Bret, whom she married after her divorce from Blake Corbin. Demi and Blake were married from 2015 to 2020 and expanded their family with daughter Maude before calling it quits.
Demi has since been married to Bret since 2021.
Whitney Leavitt
Disney/Pamela Littky
During the season 1 premiere, Conner and Whitney relocated back to Utah from Hawaii after they previously left once Conner admitted to having a secret Tinder account to solicit NSFW images. Conner and Whitney, who have been married since 2016, already had two kids and worked on their marriage before expanding their family for a third time.
Mikayla Matthews
Disney/Pamela Littky
Mikayla and her husband, Jace, married in 2018 less than a year after welcoming their first child together. They have since expanded their family three more times.
Mayci Neeley
Disney/Pamela Littky
Ahead of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Mayci welcomed son Hudson with ex-boyfriend Arik Mack, who died in a 2015 car crash before his child’s birth. Mayci later met now-husband Jacob, with whom she shares two daughters.
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Jessi Ngatikaura
Disney/Pamela Littky
Jessi was previously married to Zac Gish from 2014 to 2019. Following their divorce, Jessi moved on with current husband, Jordan, and they welcomed two kids together.
Layla Taylor
Disney/Pamela Littky
Layla was married to Clayton Wessel, with whom she shares two sons, for three years before their divorce in 2023. She is now dating Chase McWhorter.
Miranda Hope
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Miranda and Chase were married from 2017 to 2023 — and welcomed two kids — before their high profile split.
UPDATE — 11/12/25, 7:12 p.m. ET: Porsha Williams’ attorney says she has been cleared by the FBI following an incident with another passenger on a flight home from BravoCon2025.
“We just received word from the United States Attorney’s Office that they have determined that ‘no crime has been committed,’ and that the FBI ‘will not pursue any further investigative actions regarding this matter,’” Williams’ lawyer Joe Habachy said in a statement to Us Weekly on Friday, November 21. “While Ms Williams is certainly pleased to have received this news today, we cannot say that we are surprised given that there was never a physical encounter and given that the allegations made against Ms. Williams by this unhinged passenger were blatantly false from the beginning.”
Habachy added that despite Williams being cleared by the FBI “nothing can undo” the damage caused by the “false allegations” and the Real Housewives of Atlanta star is “owed apologies.”
“Ms. Williams offers her sincere thanks to the many witnesses who took time from their schedules to come forward and provide statements to law enforcement and to the Agents who worked so hard to uncover the truth,” the statement concluded.
Us has reached out to the FBI for comment.
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Porsha Williams‘ post-BravoCon 2025 flight back to Atlanta was anything but normal — and may have landed her in hot water with the FBI.
“FBI Atlanta is aware of the incident on the flight,” a spokesperson for FBI Atlanta told Us Weekly in a statement on Monday, November 17. “It is unknown at this time if federal charges will apply. That is all we have at the moment.”
Williams, 44, was reportedly involved in an altercation while on board her Delta Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Sunday, November 16, after attending the three-day Bravo event, according to TMZ.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star was one of two passengers on the flight that Delta crew spoke with as a result of the alleged incident, TMZ reported. Us confirmed that the flight landed without incident, but was met by law enforcement.
The aftermath of Porsha Williams and Simon Guobadia’s split hasn’t been breezy. News broke on February 23 that the Real Housewives of Atlanta star filed for divorce from Guobadia after 15 months of marriage. Williams’ social media showed no signs of trouble in paradise and she still had her married name in her bio at […]
According to a video obtained by TMZ, Williams spoke with an officer shortly after deplaning.
Details about what transpired on the flight have not been disclosed. Us Weekly has reached out to Williams’s rep and Delta for comment.
Williams’ flight debacle came after the reality star attended BravoCon in Sin City over the weekend.
Porsha Williams broke her silence after filing for divorce from husband Simon Guobadia following 15 months of marriage. “Thank you for your prayers & support. – PW,” the Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 42, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, February 25. Porsha added a broken heart and prayer hands emoji to her social media message. […]
The Bravo star was featured during the Saturday, November 15, “Getting Lucky at the Love Hotel” panel alongside The Real Housewives of New York City alum Sonja Morgan and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Heather Gay, who all teased they would consider starring on the spinoff if it’s greenlit for a second season.
“People know I’m a lover girl, like, I’m a hopeless romantic,” Williams said as to why she is interested in starring on the show. “I think everybody in the world knows I just got divorced [from Simon Guobadia]. Amen to that, so I think that’s why [I was a favorite].”
Season 1 of Love Hotel premiered in March, following single Housewives Shannon Beador, Gizelle Bryant, Ashley Darby and Luann de Lesseps’ as they tried their hand at dating at a luxurious Mexican resort.
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Williams’ love life has been making headlines since February 2024 when she filed for divorce from Guobadia, 61, after 15 months of marriage.
One year later, Us confirmed that Guobadia was detained by ICE at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. According to U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s records, the Nigeria native was being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement due to overstaying his visa.
Guobadia was declared deportable in 1985 after coming to the United States in 1982. After a brief return to Nigeria, he came back to America in 1986 and once again overstayed his work visa.
Guobadia was arrested in 1987 and pleaded guilty to bank and credit card fraud before being deported back to Nigeria in 1992 following two subsequent arrests. He applied for naturalization in 2016 after reentering the U.S. in 1992, but was denied. He was deported in June but his and Williams’ divorce battle has continued in the U.S.
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams scored a win in her divorce battle with ex Simon Guobadia after a judge ruled in her favor to enforce their prenup, Us Weekly can report. On Tuesday, June 11, a hearing took place in Williams and Guobadia’s bitter divorce. The exes were fighting over the enforcement of […]
Following their split, a judge ruled to uphold Williams’ prenuptial agreement with Guobadia, allowing her to live and film RHOA in their $7 million mansion.
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Guobadia was also ordered to pay Williams $40,000 per month in spousal support for 14 months. Additionally, Williams was awarded 50 percent of the equity in the property, a 2021 Rolls Royce and various other cars.
Guobadia tried to get the judge to overturn the judgement, but Us confirmed in September that he was unsuccessful.
Williams has since begun dating again, revealing during an October appearance at New York City’s CultureCon, “The people who I’m talking to now … it’s just two, I narrowed it down to two, and he is nice and she is nice.”
“Honestly, the pair that I would love to do it are my dad [Joe Giudice] and [my sister] Milania. I think that would be just perfect,” Gia, 24, exclusively shared with Us Weekly after celebrating her season 4 win with Shawn Johnson East. “Milania needs such an ass-whooping. And honestly, my dad too. They both do.”
While the Next Gen NYC star thinks her two family members would bring some thrills, they also could bring the laughs.
“Both of them together doing Special Forces,” Gia said, “would be a comedy show watching both of them do [it].”
During season 4 of the Fox reality show, Gia was joined by her mom, Teresa Giudice, as they both tried to complete demanding training exercises led by an elite team of former Special Forces operatives.
Although Teresa, 53, was eliminated early on in the season, Gia persevered and made it all the way to the very end.
When she returned home to New Jersey, the Bravo reality star received a warm welcome from her “happy” mother.
Gia GiudicePete Dadds/Fox
“When I came home, it was so cute. We got our phones pretty shortly after, and I called her, and I was like, ‘I won,’” Gia recalled. “She was crying and screaming and so excited. And then when I got home, there was a big banner with balloons that said, ‘Special Forces winner.’ It was adorable.”
Gia’s dad was also so proud of his eldest daughter for making it through to the very end. (Teresa and Joe, 53, also share Gabrielle, 21, Milania, 19, and Audriana, 16.)
“[My dad] was so happy. He’s so cute. He keeps watching, obviously, every episode each week, and he just texts me, like, ‘G, I love you. G, you’re so tough. This is so great,’” Gia recalled. “But then he’s like, ‘I cannot believe you did this. Like, that was crazy.’ And he also thinks it’s funny whenever I cry during the challenges.”
Perhaps the greatest reaction to the show came from Gia’s boyfriend, Christian Carmichael. When watching his girlfriend complete various tasks, Carmichael often expressed his hopes to do them next.
Gia GiudicePete Dadds/Fox
“He’s like, ‘This is so cool. Oh, I would do this for free.’ And I’m like, ‘You have no clue,’” Gia joked. “You think that we just did that for five minutes? No, we actually have that for five hours.”
During Thursday’s season finale, Kody Brown, Brianna LaPaglia, Andrew East, Shawn, 33, and Gia were the last recruits left standing. They first endured an intense interrogation after a simulated capture exercise.
“It’s so weird watching the finale back. We won and got that rewarding factor afterward — that acknowledgement from the Directing Staff,” Gia explained. “So, it was different. That was almost my processing of it, because I was like, ‘Oh, I did it. I made it past the finish line.’”
Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test is streaming now on Hulu.
