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Rock My RV with Bret Michaels on Travel Channel: Bret gives us the details

May 8, 2013 Lori Acken

Poison frontman Bret Michaels says he’s logged over 3 million miles in a host of rolling homes — from the cozy Winnebagos of his Butler, Pa., youth to the most luxurious Prevost tour buses when he grew up to be a rock star. In fact, the open-road lifestyle is so much a part of Michaels’ DNA that if you hope to get an offstage glimpse at him when he tours your town, don’t look in the lobbies of luxury inns. “When all my other bandmates stay at hotels on our days off, I actually stay [on the bus] at the […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding Season 2 finale preview

May 3, 2013 Lori Acken

It’s time for a two-hour, two-episode Season 2 finale, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding fans, and it all begins Sunday night, May 5, at 8/7CT. In the first, “All Bets Are Off,” we have the dual tales of Romanichal bachelors Rodell Stanley, 20, and Teddy Lee, age and last name unknown. Rodell isn’t going to be a bachelor much longer, though, because he’s planning to marry 16-year-old Dorothy Martin, baby sister of the birthday-king twins Tommy and Teddy from the “Double Wedding, Double Trouble” episode a few weeks back. Even though Rodell professes to have lascivious thoughts about every […]

Breaking Amish Brave New World — we talk with Kate and Sabrina

May 1, 2013 Lori Acken

Even before it hit the airwaves last fall, TLC’s reality shocker Breaking Amish stirred up a hotbed of controversy. On a near-daily basis, reporters and former friends of the five cast members revealed the truth behind the supposedly naïve Amish and Mennonite twentysomethings getting their first taste of life in New York City. The show became an instant smash. Now Amish-exile newlyweds Abe and Rebecca Schmucker, rising model Kate Stoltzfus and rebel Jeremiah Raber, and the show’s sole Mennonite Sabrina High are back for a second season called Breaking Amish: Brave New World, which premieres May 12. Attempting a fresh start […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: Family feuds and angel wings

April 26, 2013 Lori Acken

Coming this Sunday on TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, there is no wedding at all. Instead, we discover that three families featured in the past are actually interconnected. And none by much of anything good. To get you prepped, here are the basics. Aspiring pop singer Jackie Dee from a couple weeks back is a member of the Small clan — and, it turns out, the sister of Pookie, the boy who convinced Nukkie, the 14-year-old daughter of AGW and Gypsy Sisters star Nettie Stanley, to run off with him at the end of Season 1. As the […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: taboo romances and second chances

April 19, 2013 Lori Acken

On this Sunday’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, my favorite Traveller, Pat Baby, reveals what happened since his Season 1 appearance — plus a same-sex gypsy couple decides to make it official and a Romanichal woman shunned by her community for marrying a gorger hopes their daughter’s elaborate christening will mend fences. In Huntsville, Ala., Romanichal gypsy Tommy and Roma gypsy Ivan are planning their wedding. Both left their communities behind after being bullied by family and friends for being gay, and together they’ve built a happy life and a close-knit family of gorger friends. In proper gypsy-wedding fashion, […]

CGM interviews Megan Massacre of TLC’s NY Ink and America’s Worst Tattoos

April 18, 2013 Lori Acken

Despite her ferocious adopted last name, TLC’s top tattoo maven Megan Massacre has the face (and hair color) of a rock ‘n’ roll Disney Princess and the sweetly lilting voice to match. But the star of the network’s back-to-back Thursday night hits America’s Worst Tattoos and NY Ink — born Megan Woznicki in Douglasville, PA — says she actually picked “Massacre” not in homage to her edgy profession, but long before, when she and some bowling buddies decided to mock the earnestness of heavy-metal obsessed MySpace scenesters. Taken with all forms of art since she was a toddler, Massacre, 27, […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: Mamas and Dramas

April 12, 2013 Lori Acken

This Sunday on My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, yet another gorger girl prepares to become a proper gypsy wife, a gypsy teen sets her sights on a singing career — and Mellie Stanley’s mama, Lottie Mae, scores more time in the spotlight. In Princeton, WV, gypsy Timmy, 24, is so proud of his Romanichal heritage that he has an R for “Romani-” tattooed on one side of his face and C for “-chal” on the other. Nonetheless, Timmy has found his match in Kayla, a beautiful, levelheaded gorger. Timmy’s mom, Linda, says Kayla must learn to be a good gypsy […]

Theresa Caputo meets fans in “Long Island Medium On The Road”

April 10, 2013 Barb Oates

Theresa Caputo is on the go again in the one-hour special Long Island Medium On the Road, debuting on TLC May 12 at 8pm ET/PT, just prior to the highly anticipated return of the fourth season of Long Island Medium. In Long Island Medium On the Road, Caputo surprises a handful of unsuspecting fans with a surprise in-person reading. Theresa heads to Florida to meet up with three of her fans, who include a mother who hears from her daughter that died tragically, a son who is hoping to connect with his father and a woman who desperately needs to […]

Fashion Queens gets full season run on Bravo

April 9, 2013 Lori Acken

Bravo is adding a new twist to the fashion commentary show and extending its limited-run series Fashion Queens to a full 8-episode season. Fashion Queens will air immediately following Watch What Happens Live, beginning Sunday, April 14. Starring celebrity hairstylists Derek J and Lawrence “Miss Lawrence” Washington of Real Housewives of Atlanta, and hosted by New York socialite Bevy Smith, best known for her star-laden Dinner With Bevy soirees, Fashion Queens will offer the trio’s bawdy and comical quips and commentary on fashion trends and events, celeb hits and misses and more. According to the Bravo announcement, each 30-minute episode […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding Season 2, Episode 3 recap: Elvis has left the marriage

April 8, 2013 Lori Acken

Last night’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding was all about coming back home. Eden is planning to remarry her bad-boy husband Elvis, and teenage Savannah must choose whether to make her home in Hawaii with her free-spirit mother or return to Chicago to her minister dad. Eden is a 20-year-old gorger and former cheerleader/pageant girl who gave up her All-American, good-girl life to marry Elvis Boswell, a 23-year-old, alarmingly tattooed Romanichal gypsy. Eden says she was drawn to Elvis’ dark and dangerous charms and the gypsy penchant for living in the moment. The pair had a daughter, Arial, and […]