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3 minutes ago, IndyMischa said:
Your whole post was excellent, but this is GOLD. I think it's the "interpretive dance about her hatred of cake" that really sells it!
I take any opp to show Twit hating cake.
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13 minutes ago, 3girlsforus said:
This was going to be my next question. I figure most reality shows don’t get a “finale”, they just get dumped. Do we have any reason to believe this isn’t the last season? We do we usually find out, when they start filming again? I assume the engagement is specifically to give a reason for one more season. No matter when the end comes, Whitney won’t see it coming and won’t be ready for it.
There was a moment, between either S-2 & S-3 or S-3 & S-4, when I am convinced there was a possibility that MBFFL would be cancelled. Maybe it was a contract dispute -- I don't know. But every time a fan asked the Q, "when does the new season start?" Twit had a funny look on her face & replied, "I don't know," not "soon!"
So, I suspect we will get a sense of the status of MBFFL during its hiatus.
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Good one, @Irate Panda! No, GREAT one -- I hope the PMG scriptwriter is taking notes.
Actually, I doubt there will be a "final" show in terms of the way many shows end. I think there will just be a pink slip given to PMG from TLC telling them MBFFL is cancelled.
I think Twit is in for a big fall. No more personal attendant massaging her feet & hooking her bra. No more slobbering over her by Ryan & Chase who are going to be in the wind immediately, moving away even faster than the former barnacles. No more BGDC, NoBSactive or -dance bc she can't sustain any on her own. No more leisurely afternoons spent at the gym. (It'll be hard for her to convince her McD's mgr that she needs the time off.) Ditto for all those naps. In short she is going to be devastated when she has to go back to being a workaday, normal human being.
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13 minutes ago, SunnyBeBe said:
Is this with Neilson? Wouldn't it be double that?
I just report the facts, ma'am, I don''t interpret them.
But if you want to double MBFFL's results, you'd have to double all results, wouldn't you? And you'd end up back at the same place.
For some reason you have been disputing these ratings posts of mine since last year. As I told you then, I don't make them up. I get them from showbizdaily.com, the website address I gave you last year. I have no doubt you now go to that website weekly, as I do. Would you like to take over reporting the data to the forum? Or would you simply prefer not to see these data reported if they are not supportive of MBFFL?
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50 minutes ago, auntjess said:
Here is what I see in the future.
I don't get it.
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1 hour ago, Ketzel said:
Yes! Thanks, Dot.
And I had to think twice about spending that much on Whitney's self-serving junk. (My town library keeps bees, and they also sell handmade honey drops for a nickel apiece.) Not to mention how I'd feel if anyone I knew saw me buying it.
But if you hadn't bought it, we'd have missed out on Twit's background that you've been able to provide.
I hear ya about hoping no one saw you purchase it. I could get a copy to read thru my library's participation in an interlibrary service, but my local librarian is a good friend of mine & I wouldn't want her to know I was reading it.
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3 hours ago, Ketzel said:
If you mean me, I bought her opus at my town library fundraising sale, so none of it went to her. (And my recollection is a little fuzzy at the moment, but I know I bought it within the last half hour of the sale, when everything gets marked down by 50%. ) So I'm pretty sure it was less than a quarter. 🙂
It was marked down from a dime, so you paid a nickel.
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Yeah, @Tosia, I find Twit's prissy way of speaking particularly annoying in her THs.
And speaking of bad acting: the best example in this episode was when she pretended to be dismayed as she came thru the doorway for the fitness competition. Talk about over acting.
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31 minutes ago, Irate Panda said:
I get you think Ryan is a jerk, he may very well be, as I mentioned I haven’t seen much of him. I even think he has said some jerky/snide stuff on the show that I have seen, but I meant in the BBQ scene most of the old barnacles are downright rude for no apparent reason. This might be the same as the conniving question, but why exactly do you think Ryan is a jerk?
Is it because you think he glommed his away onto the show? You seem to know more about him from your postings so I was just curious. I mean to me Buddy is a jerk and so is Whitney a lot of times, honestly Ashley and Tal are the only ones I haven’t thought were jerks at some point. I guest what I’m asking what is so extra irritating about Ryan and did it start with the Thanksgiving thing or since him getting on the show?
All of the above.
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7 hours ago, Irate Panda said:
I think the “script” probably called for the friends to be really awful. The problem is Ryan didn’t particularly come off as a jerk in the scene so it made the old barnacles look like jackasses. Buddy doesn’t seem to need much help with that. Honestly part of me thinks Buddy is mad Whitney is getting “finessed” by somebody besides him. I think Whitney and Buddy are codependent, honestly I don’t know why anyone would really date either one of them. They deserve one another.
Ryan is always a jerk. I can't stand him. So far, Twit herself has not driven me away from watching MBFFL. Ryan may.
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3 minutes ago, Colleenna said:
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Who the hell is taking care of her cats during all these vacations?
It used to be Lennie, but I don't know now, esp. since she is in Charlotte. Maybe she boards them.
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Aaaannnnd -- the tongue is back! 😝
She sure has spent a lot of days on vacay recently -- Paris, Zurich, LA, now northern Calif & across the country from there. How does she maintain her NoBSactive biz on that schedule? It couldn't be that she really has never contributed anyway, can it?
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17 minutes ago, Dot said:
More aboit Chase's early days
Chase Severino Is from North Carolina
Born on June 7, 1990, Chase Severino calls Huntington, West Virginia his hometown. But he and his younger sister, Kylie, were raised in North Carolina. He also goes by Casey Severino among family.
Chase’s parents, Harry and Dorian Severino, are based in Clayton, North Carolina. Harry Severino, a former baseball player, graduated from Marshall University in West Virginia. Harry’s father, Harry Simmons, passed away in 2014.
Harry Severino is a sales consultant for multiple car dealerships. It appears he and his family later relocated to Clayton. Chase attended Carroll Middle School in North Carolina, where he also played sports.
I tried to go to the Pike, UNCC, page & it turns out that that chapter has been thrown off campus for being bad boys. Here's a comment:
"These guys went from top dogs to the bottom of the barrel after their actions towards their pledges. Peeing on naked pledges in the woods while they were naked is absolutely disgraceful. Hopefully they learn better when they come back after a certain amount of years."
Maybe this explains the naked photo of Ryan & Chase!
Jeez! I've become as obsessive about Ryan = Pike? as Twit was in hunting down Avi's other GFs.
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More aboit Chase's early days
Chase Severino Is from North Carolina
Born on June 7, 1990, Chase Severino calls Huntington, West Virginia his hometown. But he and his younger sister, Kylie, were raised in North Carolina. He also goes by Casey Severino among family.
Chase’s parents, Harry and Dorian Severino, are based in Clayton, North Carolina. Harry Severino, a former baseball player, graduated from Marshall University in West Virginia. Harry’s father, Harry Simmons, passed away in 2014.
Harry Severino is a sales consultant for multiple car dealerships. It appears he and his family later relocated to Clayton. Chase attended Carroll Middle School in North Carolina, where he also played sports.
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2 hours ago, oneintroduction3 said:
Lol. Trust me, Ryan’s not gay. I could also say the same thing about Chase but I’m 1000000% positive Ryan isn’t gay.
You imply you, or someone you are close to, know Ryan personally. If so, ask him if he was in a frat at UNC.
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Per their IG pages, Buddy & Twit are apparently traveling by car across the country from SoCal & occasionally stopping at tourist sites such as Yosemite. Their mutual fans don't seem to have tumbled to the fact that this is a strange thing for a newly engaged woman to be doing.
That is IF she is really engaged & not "reality" engaged.
And isn't it interesting that celeb rags are already calling Chase a "reality star." Just what he intended, I suspect.
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1 hour ago, Colleenna said:According to an article in one of those celebrity rags, Ryan and Chase met at UNC Charlotte.
This seemed like a good idea, so I Googled Ryan & Chase. Below is info I got from a couple of on-line celebrity rags.
Whitney, who runs a line of activewear with size inclusivity called NoBS Active, met her handsome, long-haired fiancé through her NoBS business partner, Ryan Andreas. Chase and Ryan attended college together at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he received a B.S. degree in Accounting and Finance, according to Distractify. In addition to his new “reality star” and “fiancé” status, Chase worked as a revenue field auditor at the North Carolina Department of Revenue from 2014 to 2016, Distractify reports. It’s unclear at this time what he does for a living today.
(BTW, I read the Distractify article & it offered nothing new from the above.)
Another mag:
Given Chase Severino’s age, you might think that the star would be interested in clubbing. On the contrary, he enjoys chilled nights or days at a local club joint. He told Whitney that he loves breweries Since there is a brewery in town that only brews cider they both agreed to go and try out the Cider brewery.
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[H]e worked as a revenue field auditor for two years at the North Carolina Department of Revenue. Additionally, Chase became the Director of Beverage Operations in Wilmington. In 2019, he said that he got a new job as the manager for Amplify bar.
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Chase has a younger sister Kylie, and they were raised in North Carolina before moving to Clayton. Chase Severino’s mother is Dorian Severino and his father, Harry Severino, unfortunately, passed away in 2014. Harry Severino was a baseball player who had graduated from Marshall University in West Virginia and later became a sales consultant for some car dealerships.
So, lots of good info, incl an explanation as to why a WVA boy went to college in NC, something I have been wondering about.
But, dammmit! 😠 I still don't know if Ryan is also a Pike.
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Ratings for this episode
42nd of Top 50 Tue cable shows (IIRC, this is the worst placement in the 2 years I've been reporting these data)
0.22 share
889,000 viewers
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And at least one other woman conned by Avi posted photos of him on her SM pages.
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@Irate Panda said, "I also read [Ryan], Chase and the Other Thanksgiving guy all went to the same school, so they’ve been friends for about 10 years."
I continue to be confused by that TG video-feed. Cam (other guy) seemed to be the cook, so I now assume it was his residence. Prominent on the living room wall was a huge Ohio State banner. I used to think the home -- and therefore, banner -- belonged to Ryan bc he spent Xmas with his family in Ohio. So, I assumed he went to that school, but someone said he was a UNC grad
Anyone know for sure what college Ryan attended? And did he meet Chase there?
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Jeez, it was probably 40 degrees in Yosemite at sunset today. And she can't throw on a shirt over her bra?
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Random thoughts
📌 Here's exactly what Will Powell said when he opened up the competition: "Thank you for supporting me going to the Crossfit Games. This is a fundraiser." Well, no, it's not. Using the term fundraiser is not appropriate if the "charity" you're raising money for is YOURSELF.
📌 How ironic that MBFFL is product-placement promoting Dish Network when that company dropped TLC from its basic package last year !
📌 "Crush-worthy?" A nod to Seinfeld's Elaine designating her dates as "sponge-worthy"?
📌 Ryan: "I will not be replaced." No kidding; he's still getting more air-time than any other barnacle including Chase. There was absolutely NO reason for him to turn up at Will's competition. (I dislike this guy more & more.)
📌 It's sad that Ashley has regained all that weight she lost -- maybe more -- before she got pregnant.
📌 I cannot imagine any woman other than Twit saying that she & her BF "feeding each other" is "a good sign."
📌 Regarding the competition, Twit sez, "I should have been training, like, for months." When hasn't she said that about all her "competitions"? Shouldn't she have learned that lesson by now?
📌 And why would Jessica choose a super morbidly obese woman as her partner in a fitness competition?
📌 Buddy sez he needs to "trust the process" in getting to feeling comfortable on-stage. "I'm funny," he sez. "I can make people laugh." (Only some of Twit's barnacles, Buddy. The rest of us can't even understand your mumbling, much less find it funny.)
📌 Does anyone else think Chase stole his housewarming gifts from the saloon he manages?
📌 Someone upthread said she fast-forwarded thru all Twit's gym visits. I wish I had taken that as a suggestion. Who needs to watch a huffing, puffing, sweaty, morbidly obese woman perform various exercises badly?
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1 hour ago, auntjess said:
Speaking of fake story lines and end of season, did you notice the chart she made on Ari's women, among the items in the storage shed?
I did not notice the chart -- good catch! (And she calls Buddy a hoarder.)
BTW, I think the con man was named Avi.
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1 minute ago, Irate Panda said:
This sort of what I see at the end Buddy and a Whitney finally both realize at the same time they were meant to be together and that’s how the fairy tale ends. It’s not true, but what on this show really is?
Note the caption. Buddy is obviously trolling Whit's fans.
And, @Irate Panda, we often see Twit drinking from or holding a glass, so I don't think it's any mystery that she takes a drink once in a while. Mainly wine, if you look at her SM photos.
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Whitney Thore: So She Thinks She Can Dance
in My Big Fat Fabulous Life
I'm no expert on any of this. Originally, the Neilsens measured about 1600 homes. Now there are other ratings services, plus data gathered from streaming services & such as that. From the chart, I would say that the first broadcast of a show is what is primarily tabulated. So, the Tue info is published the next day, Wed. BUT, to ensure all the various viewing methods are included, the final data are published in an update later in the week. That is why I always wait until Fri to post: I wait for the Tue shows' updated info.
@SunnyBeBe has been interested in how ratings are collected. Maybe she has a more knowledgeable answer to your Q.