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Jerseylicious Season 5, Episode 8 recap: “Filly’s Full Monty”

March 19, 2013 Karen Ruud

This week on Jerseylicious was a doozie but before I get to the meat & potatoes of what went down, let’s sum up a couple of other boring plot lines. Olivia tells Jackie she broke things off with Nick because she needs to find herself and wants to expand her career. She tells Jackie how she wants to become a fashion “Jesus,” er, she means guru. They also discuss Gigi supposedly trash talking Jackie as a mother. Olivia is very upset about this, and decides to go confront Gigi about it. Gigi feels like Olivia is picking a problem rather than […]

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Gypsy Sisters recap: All is Fair in Gypsy War

March 17, 2013 Lori Acken

Wait, what? Season finale? Already? After only six episodes? <sigh> I suppose I can soothe myself with the notion that we have an all-new season of My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding starting up next week. But still. I’m going to miss me my Mellie and “Nenny” and the other Gypsy Sisters. Speaking of Mellie, she’s on her way to a job interview, because she says she doesn’t trust Robbie to support her and the baby. And she says it right to Robbie’s face because he is chauffeuring her to the interview. And that’s not her only bone to pick […]

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“Flea Market Flip”: Lara Spencer dishes on Season 2 of her HGTV show

March 13, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Flea Market Flip Season 2 premieres 9pm ET March 15 on HGTV. Even if it wasn’t her job to be there, odds are Lara Spencer would still be spending plenty of Saturday mornings rummaging for unique items at yard sales and flea markets. But Spencer, whose day job is cohost on ABC’s Good Morning America, turned her lifelong love of antique shopping into a popular side gig with Flea Market Flip, which is about to return for a second season on HGTV. The concept is the same — two teams scour a flea market for an item to buy, fix […]

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“Made in Milwaukee”: DIY Network showcases unique design firm

March 12, 2013 StayTuned Staff

“Made in Milwaukee” airs 11pm ET Fridays on DIY Network. When I go to meet Jeremy “Sham” Shamrowicz at his design studio, I’m expecting him to be wearing either a kilt or some sort of pirate garb. Such is the wont of the eccentric star of DIY Network’s Made in Milwaukee, who has been doing business his way since 2000 and now has his own TV series to show for it. As it turns out, on this wintry day on Milwaukee’s north side, Shamrowicz is wearing a pirate shirt — the kind that might give Jerry Seinfeld pause — beneath […]

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Family

The Little Couple Returns April 30 on TLC

March 12, 2013 Lori Acken

The Little Couple are about to become a little family! Dr. Jen Arnold and her husband Bill Klein, stars of the beloved TLC reality show, told People magazine today that they have adopted a toddler who also has a form of dwarfism. The couple’s path to becoming parents to 3-year-old William will be featured in the show’s sixth season, which makes its long awaited premiere April 30. “We are thrilled to announce that we have adopted a beautiful young boy from China,” the couple told People in an exclusive statement. “We are so proud to welcome William to our family and […]

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Competition

Nate Berkus hosting new home makeover competition series for NBC

March 11, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

NBC announced that it is beginning production on Renovation Nation, a new home makeover competition show hosted by famed interior and product designer Nate Berkus, who will also be a co-executive producer. According to NBC, Renovation Nation features the talents of accomplished designers and home renovators, and will travel across the country one city at a time, with two separate teams tackling two new homes each week. The series will conclude in a live finale, where America will vote to determine the winner, and two dream homes will be given away to two viewers. In each episode, Nate Berkus presents […]

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Gypsy Sisters Episode 5 recap: Who’s Your Daddy?

March 11, 2013 Lori Acken

Having watched screener after screener of Gypsy Sisters, trying to come up with a preview that didn’t give away everything, I’ve decided the hell with it — ’tis better to recap than blow the show beforehand because I’m too inclined to yak about it. So here we go. We married off our little Mellie last week in an expletive and physical comedy filled, pink-and-leopard-print bonanza. Though all of the ladies professed doubt that mom-to-be Mellie would even go through with it, she did, moving the conversation to how long the marriage will last. Turns out, not very long. One month later, […]

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Food TV

Channel Guide interviews Mikey Roe of Travel Channel’s Feed The Beast

March 6, 2013 Lori Acken

Feed the Beast star Mikey Roe is the Adam Richman of the late-night crowd — and he’s perfectly cool with you saying so. The affable, grungy-cool Roe credits his Travel Channel colleague for opening the door for regular guys like him to bring his passion for food (and a grand old time) to TV. “When Man vs. Food came out, that really helped pave the way for a guy like me, who’s not a chef — but I cook four nights a week for myself, I love food and have always been into it, and I know great places,” says […]

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Dance Moms Season 3 Episode 10 recap: Loves Me, Loves Me Not

March 5, 2013 Lori Acken

So I went on a little fact-finding mission this weekend, Dance Moms faithful. I actually attended a three-day dance competition. Applause Talent’s regional dealie in Madison, Wisconsin, where my beautiful niece competed with her studio, Ignite Dance. Here are some of the things I learned. There are way too many dances at these things. I have no idea how the judges keep who’s who and what’s what straight from solo No.1 to large group No. 403. I suspect it has something to do with the tablet computers in front of them. And the little microphones into which they jabber incessantly […]