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This seems weird to me. Usually, those kinds of upgrades occur when you are preparing to sell your home or when something big breaks or needs replacement. I would think that yes, you'd want to help pay for a wedding that is enjoyed by your entire family and community which celebrates the couple, their union and culture before you'd switch to marble countertops or that Viking stove. Food prepared on formica tastes exactly the same...

Maybe I missed something, but I thought when the series started that Anisha had recently moved back home from NYC. She was also single at that point. So if she met her boyfriend while she was living on the other end of the country and she wasn't living in FL or around these folks, the only way they would have met would be if either, they came to NYC and hung out with her or if she brought this mystery man home. In either event, it could be happenstance, especially since her parents and grandparents seem to have met this prior suitor. As for now, I feel like this is where reality tv and reality collide. She made it clear on WWHL and in the Holi discussion with Amrit and VIshal that she was protective of her partner's privacy and the impact appearing on the show might have on him. It also seemed like he wasn't excited about appearing either. I feel like viewers take reality tv stars to task for accepting and respecting their family members requests for privacy rather than understanding that not everyone wants to appear on tv. I know one of the doctors on Married to Medicine used to get crap for not including her middle son in the show, when in actuality he said that he did not want to film. We viewers should respect that and let it go. If this guy wants people to know who he is, he can out himself on social media.

Maybe not 59 year old men, but there are a bunch of old men looking for anyone younger. She could easily snag a 65 year old and have a man that's still young and vibrant.

Did anyone watch the new show about the guy who runs Asher House? It came on Saturday on Animal Planet following Dr. Jeff. He's moved from just rescuing dogs to adding farm animals now that he's got the big property. He came off as a bit awkward in trying to keep an hour-long show going. His personality which works well on the 2 to 3-minute Instagram reels, wasn't as compelling and other than the woman who works with him, they didn't really have other people that were part of the show. It's just him and the animals. I'm interested to see how this works out in the long run once he (and the animals) gets used to being followed by a full crew every day.

My reading of it is that the government has already identified assets worth approximately $6.5m. Based on my rudimentary knowledge of forfeiture, they have to identify those assets when they move against them. So that would include any real estate Jen paid (or partially paid) for, real property such as cars, jewelry, stocks, retirement accounts, etc. As for coach and the other family members that may have paid, anything he paid into would still need to be sold and they would then be paid out for their share. I'm not sure if they are given the opportunity to purchase/payback the item first (for example if she provided the downpayment on a home that was 25% of the value, would the 75% owner be permitted to pay the government for the value of the 25% before it gets put on the auction block). I do know that the government does not give the spouse/kids a break on the custodial home. They tell you to get out by x date and if you are not, the Marshall shows up to evict you. I'm also not sure how it works if they sell something for more than it was valued. I think that if it is partially owned the excess money is split with the other owner, but if it is owned only by the criminal, all additional money goes towards paying your debt off. In Jen's case, once they have taken/sold all the items seized she will still have a separate $6.5 million bill she has to pay. That bill follows her until it is paid in full. Da' Brat talks about her arrest for assault and the resulting $1M in restitution the court imposed upon her as part of a civil judgment. She's said she could be paying it off for the rest of her life, which is why she's trying to maximize the amount of work she is doing now. She realized while serving time in jail, that she might be in a position of having to work into her 80's or 90's to continue paying against that debt. Jen's number is unfathomable in her current circumstance. As for Coach, I don't think those conversations mean that he had knowledge in advance. The reality is very few spouses leave when their partners are accused of heinous things. Hell, even when there are scandals directed at the spouse (infidelity being the big one), people stay and try to "work through it". I think it's unrealistic to expect that her husband would pick up, move out, take the kids and leave her alone, especially if they had no real marital issues up to that point. Coach strikes me as being principled, and that translates into sticking with his wife, especially if he believes that she is worthy and capable of redemption. It is that "love the sinner, hate the sin" attitude that so many religious folks have.

I wonder if Nicholas choice also has something to do with being in FL. While there are pockets where being gay is acceptable, the vast majority of the state isn't gay friendly, and that is doubly true in school settings. As he's on a show where he is openly and unapologetically gay, finding a school that is comfortable with his "lifestyle" may be difficult.

See I think this is a huge part of Charrisse's issue. She was smaller when she was last on and had the wardrobe of a coach's wife. Now she's got her full post-menopause body and has the wardrobe of a divorced mom of grown kids. Again, she's angling for "I'll get cast then come back with a vengeance." In the meantime, she's without glam or a stylist to help her, thus her Gap basic summer looks.

Thomas is a convicted drug dealer with his own drinking/drub issues. The fact that he's less screwed up than Katherine does not mean that those kids will be fine. I think they rolled snake eyes in the craps game of life, and at best they are going to be raised in an environment that's somewhat challenging - maybe not financially, but certainly morally.

I don't see how you can blame the Karen/Charisse dynamic on Monique. She's been off the show for a couple of years, and even if she did spill to Karen things that were said, Cha-Cha said them. I think that Karen has always had an over-inflated sense of her own importance and in the Mocha Moms/Jack & Jill/ D9/ Links world, she's probably used RHOP as a way to justify her place in the pecking order. Neither Charisse or Karen were born into those circles, nor did they get there through their professional achievements or business acumen. Both are women of a certain age who desperately want to be on the top of the pecking order, who's major claim to fame prior to this show was marrying well and this is their one desperate shot at relevancy. Charisse would see a huge come up if she could land a gig that paid $300-400k per year and that is exactly what those Bravo check would do. I don't hate her for it, but because she has nothing else going on in her life, expect fully that a return to RHoP would mean more houseware lines, the launching of a signature champagne brand, or a some manufactured for the show drama with Karen as she doesn't have an interesting life/work to share. Being an empty nester does not make you interesting in an of itself.

Yes, and while many of the kids still harbor unrealistic expectations, it's nice that he's talking about ALL their options (D2, D1AA, and D1 schools are all in the mix for his kids) and not just trying to get them into a few schools that he's got connections to. I loved that he wanted to put his autistic player in a school that would coach to his needs and not simply one that was looking for a big man. And it was great seeing Coach Rob, a man who was literally living off of gigs so he could coach at the college level, finally getting his own team - and one that pays him to work! While I was still scared about how out of touch some of the kids were with the reality of their circumstances, overall, this version doesn't make you feel dirty for watching it.

The story was Juan didn't discover his bio dad was his dad until a few years ago. Robin was already on tv and the story was big in the Baltimore papers. Up until that point he believed that the man who called himself his dad was actually his biological father. There was a big story on it for "Real Sports", and my recollection was that Juan was already coaching at the college level when this all went down. And yes, since then his dad has appeared on a couple of episodes. The story was that he met the woman here in the states. She also had (a) kid (s??), who she left behind when she moved to Europe to live with Juan. At the time he and Robyn were still together, and she didn't find out about the woman until he was already in Europe shacked up. It clearly didn't work out, and when that season was over, he moved back to the states and back in with Robyn.

Is anyone watching the BB version of this show? I like Coach Mosley and the kids much better than the FB programs.

I'm assuming this is not a copy of Robin and Gizzelle's live podcast show, but a copy of the Countess' (RHONY) cabaret show. Both have no talent, but Karen seems to recognize her shortcomings and is therefore limiting her singing and dancing.

I don't see the lack of college money as strange. One thing I've come to see as I've become an adult is that Gen Xer's who come from families that were not of means, usually ended up going to school on some combination of loans, scholarships, work study, etc at a point where college could be paid for with a part-time job and small supplemental funding. Many of them were able to pay their way through school and graduated with debt (but not the crushing debt their kids are experiencing). While they may have become solidly middle-class, many did not save for their kids (AT ALL), I think in no small part because it never occurred to them that their kids wouldn't be able to do the same thing they did. I've seen this in my own family, and among friends where the concept of saving was not prioritized. By contrast, my friends who had families with even small amounts of inheritance, and gifting from older generations to younger, tend to repeat that with their own kids.

Here's the real question someone should ask Gizelle "When did you start feeling uncomfortable being in a room alone with a married man? Has this always been your policy or was there something specific that caused you to have this concern?" Because my bet is that she has this "issue" only when it's convenient to her. She isn't pulling a Mike Pence and either bringing someone to every meeting she takes with someone who's married or in the alternative refusing to meet if she can't be guaranteed that some third party will be there. I guarantee that she meets with the male on-set producers on her own all the time.

Well, it looks like she's agreed to forfeit $6.5 million, which I'm guessing is every single penny that she and Coach had between them. So, she had something that they attached, froze or confiscated. I believe the $9 million restitution is on top of that, but someone who has read the documents can correct me if I'm wrong.

A little searching led me to the Black Faculty and Staff Association at JHU. It's clear that there are other female professors at the university. But given their low numbers in terms of membership on the executive board, it's possible that she is the only BF in her school or concentration. And as for being the youngest, that seemed possible. Then I found this on Reddit. It's a no on both counts. According to Reddit, there are 9 others in her department and she isn't the youngest of them.

I don't think she is getting special treatment. There was a long time between the guilty verdict for Keith Raniere of NXIUM and his sentencing. While his case was the Eastern District (Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island) and Jen is the Southern District (Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island), I think they both had the same issues around moving cases quickly after disposition post-pandemic. Trust me, no one in NYC is doing favors for a "Z list celebrity".

Remember, Scientologists don't really believe in doctors and treat everything with vitamins and counseling. I'm not surprised that either she or John Travolta's wife, both of whom were wealthy enough and famous enough to get top-flight medical care both died from late stage cancer diagnosis.

They staffed all of the lower level classes and served as the administrative workforce for programming. It takes a lot to run multi-day programs from a logistics perspective and these women (and men) served as free/ low-cost labor for those efforts

This is probably to represent her in any deals with Dateline, future tell-alls about the HWs, documentaries about life behind bars, etc. She's going to need to fund her restitution somehow...

We stopped putting up a tree when I got my bonus cat, Lyon. My original pair Pandamonium and Imposition liked to knock the decorations off the (artificial) tree. We quickly learned to only hang things on the top 2/3rds of the tree and dress the bottom with lights only. Plus, presents could only go out Christmas Eve because the bows were just too enticing. Fast forward ten years Impy passed, and we got Lyon from the ASPCA. His first Christmas, he decides that launching himself from the top of the piano into the MIDDLE of the tree is the best plan of attack. All I could see was coming home to an electrocuted cat, so that was our last tree. It's been at least 8 years since I've had one.

I feel like Trina is a regional thing. If you grew up in the Dirty South in the 90's she was the queen. Being from NY I felt similarly to you, until someone that I know who is from Miami explained that Trina was basically royalty in that town during his childhood. And, unlike her peers (Foxy and Lil' Kim), she is still relevant today, putting out new music and actively touring, plus producing and appearing on Love and Hip Hop Miami. She's got a level of legitimacy that means you have to mention her in the group of female MC's with staying power. I think she's certainly a catch for Candiace and someone whose name will be well known enough to get more people to listen to that "not quite a bop" single.

I did wish they did more of a "Where are they now" with the parolees, but no such luck. I wish Tia and the rest of the team good luck going forward. I'm going to subscribe for the new show, even though I don't watch YouTube at all. My hope is that AP will continue to show reruns from time to time as even that will help bring in donations. So sad to see this show go...

The timeline of all of this is wonky. The initial Times Union article about Keith having relationships with underage girls was published in 2012. That article cited a young woman whose mom worked for Keith at his MLM and who accused Keith, Pam Caffriz, Kristen Keefee and others of participating in her grooming which led to Keith sexually abusing her beginning in 1990. She reported this to the state police in 1993. That article would have been published only a few years before Daniella. In the TU article there were at least three young girls (12-16), who Keith had contact with when he was in his 20's. So, the stories about him liking young girls were certainly public well before 2014-17 period when the Daniella and Camilla abuse occurred. The Times Union isn't some hick publication. It's the major newspaper in the state's capital, and it gets read by every local as well as all of the state legislators and their staffs. This would have been COMMON knowledge in the region. I think this comes back to the fact that they now use Keith's morality scale and in their minds this isn't abuse because the girls were willing participants at the time.