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Oh, I could tell you stories... They only lightly touched on it, but his main issue was that he got a breathtaking advance and never delivered. Year after year the pressure increased and he couldn't give the publishers anything. He was writing articles for Rolling Stone and anything else that would bring in a few bucks. So he just was dug in deeper and deeper and desperate enough to use what he had to save himself. Not that that excuses what he did, but it seems to have been more something that he resorted to than a whim. I don't think it's ever been revealed. But the auction only had a portion of them. They were initially split between Joanne and Jack, and then most of her share was buried at the Westwood cemetery, supposedly in the space Peter Lawford had occupied except his bills weren't paid and he got evicted (either by the Kennedys or his wife at the time). Joanne kept some of them and that was what ended up being auctioned (after her death). I was a child at the time, but he was on EVERY talk show (back when talk shows were in the morning and afternoon). What he contributed was way above my understanding at the time (I just thought of him as that weird guy), but he clearly delivered, even if towards the end it was a train wreck sort of thing. Part of what I think he delivered was a certain kind of bitchy gossip that was novel at the time. People were so much more guarded in public - he came out and said things that made people gasp, and I can see that appealing to the society folks because he dished the dirt on people he knew they already despised. I think he made them feel modern and racy and liberal and cool, and he satisfied their mean girl streak, never suspecting that he'd do the same to them.

It will be interesting to see how the GLP-1 drugs will affect these shows (and these doctors' practices). In fact, a lot of these patients will have qualified for them based on diabetes alone. And given that they are now first line therapy for patients who start to regain after sleeve and bypass surgery, there should be fewer failures post surgery. The big sticking point is insurance, which many/most participants seem to lack - the cost per month for Zepbound is ~1200/month so the population studied on these shows may be stuck with surgery.

There's always Homeless but not Toothless.

Even better, started and informed her that she did not show up for the reunion per her contract and was being docked by the missing minute. And that she would be seated (and paid) beginning at the next natural break, and not necessarily when she deigned to show up. I think what folks are missing in the whole "attacked" episode is that Garcelle was sharing a deep hurt and feeling of betrayal over the way her son's treatment was treated as a joke (and the social media firestorm that followed). And Dorit's reaction was basically "I don't know how you can say that, it really hurts my feelings, in fact, it feels like an attack." And that plays into the whole "white woman's tears" phenomenon where a Black woman standing up for herself in any way is twisted into the sin of having made a white woman uncomfortable. And that discomfort suddenly becomes the high priority issue that everybody wants to relieve, not the situation the Black woman was addressing in the first place. In the moment, as I recall correctly, Dorit's reaction was to immediately scold Erika - she was rightfully offended and made it known. And she wasn't the one whooping it up at Kyle's dinner party. So I don't even think Garcelle was particularly irked at Dorit so much as Kyle/Mauricio. What Garcelle reacted to was the hijacking of her expression of vulnerability into a demand to make Dorit feel better about herself.

Just watched the Cary (Elvis impersonator) episode and the man was melting down in such a visibly painful way there is no ethical reason why this continued. On Hoarders they've called off a cleanup for far less visibly disturbed people. This man needed psychiatric help (including meds), not a therapist and an organizer, and he needed both immediately. As in transport him to an inpatient facility right now. I used to think this show was less about the drama than Hoarders, but yikes.

Fond memories of tween me belting out (and dancing to) "YMCA/In the Navy/Macho Man," as well as Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff". Going further back, Lady Marmalade! I could buy that Louise would be wary, despite her politics. She's the only one in the family that seems to have any grasp of needing financial security.

I think a big issue is that they work backwards - finding celebrities willing (or likely) to participate, and then working their family trees to find interesting stories. And statistically speaking, the barriers imposed by slavery and colonialism narrow the possibilities even further. Spain appears to have kept/maintained better overall records in their colonies, so people with roots in Latin America appear to have better paper trails to follow than those in English/French colonies. I don't have access to the UK version, but I wonder if they have better luck finding records for their celebs of African descent or are the roadblocks the same?

I'm built like Amanda (though considerably shorter) and I lost 50 lbs before anybody noticed - only went down 1 bra size! Then the next 5 lbs I lost 2 bra sizes and all of a sudden everybody noticed. You lead with your boobs, I guess!

A week or two ago she posted a photo of her kids with a motorized toy car on instagram (I think), thanking "Grandpa" and tagging DAVID. I figured that signaled a MAJOR shift in the family tectonic plates.

I was kind of hoping it would be Janelle's brother.

To be perfectly honest, there have been multiple occasions when Kody has been measured and fairly reasonable when one on one with Christine talking about the dissolution of their marriage. There was a huge disconnect in the early post-breakup episodes between the tenor of his discussions with Christine in person where he seemed resigned and regretful but not hostile and the rage displays in the talking heads. I came to assume that in the intervening period he had been fed the poison of "I can't believe she DID this to you, to us, do you know how that makes you look, do you know how it makes ME look, the world is going to blame it all on ME!" He's a jerk, absolutely, and I don't generally blame men's behavior on their partners and don't even blame Robyn 100% because of course he has choices in how he behaves. But I think a lot of his crazy behavior is wrapped up in his idealized vision of his marriage with Robyn and the toxic masculinity/victimization stuff he's been absorbing and perhaps she's been coddling. Early season Kody is quite a different animal altogether.

They should have called this episode "Et tu, Caleb?" Loved Janelle's snipe about rocking chair/porch/grandchildren, and the parade of littles at the beginning of the wedding shows David and Christine already have that. Indeed, the "Brown family" remains intact. Of the 13 original children, three wives and Kody, only one wife and Kody are out of the picture. I do feel bad for Sol and Ari and I hope that as they grow older they are incorporated into the greater circle as has been stated they will be.

I think she's having a mental health crisis, and it's painful to watch. That being said, she was gone a month, and had Michael sued for divorce the moment she left, she surely would have been notified, wouldn't she? So they both waited and around the one month mark, and he decided it was over (probably especially since filming had begun and she hadn't sought to film with him). Like Amy, he probably has more competent people in his life guiding him, and I hope his mother is one of them if she is going to be caring for the kids. I hope Amy's family and the show producers are also aware of how airing her breakdowns may affect custody matters. Not a case I'd want to handle if I were a judge.

Paedon has said that the one thing he gives Robyn credit for is blowing the whistle on Meri's mistreatment of the kids, and that by doing so she "may have saved some lives." So I don't know what the hell was going on, but I suspect that the adult kids broke their silence sometime recently about stuff that had gone on in the past, perhaps in tandem with encouraging Christine to get the hell out. A lot of truth can be spilled once people get going sharing stories. Then again, it's Paedon, so who knows.

I personally found it funny that they used Kody to promote Christine's second marriage.