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“Hoarding: Buried Alive” returns with new episodes tonight on TLC

February 13, 2013 StayTuned Staff

There is always a lot at stake on each episode of TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive, but tonight it goes way beyond just someone trying to get their house clean. In suburban New Jersey, single mom Karen is in serious danger of losing her children — 14-year-old Joseph and 12-year-old David — if she cannot make their home livable in 48 hours. Like most shows about hoarders, it’s natural to get a look at Karen’s filthy house — which is overrun with electrical wires, garbage and mountains of clutter — and get angry, wondering how she could have let this happen. […]

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Dance Moms recap: Rotten to the Core

February 12, 2013 Lori Acken

OK, Dance Moms fans, before we get going on 90 minutes of Dance Mama (and Papa) drama, I have a question for those of you who do such a fine job of educating me about the dance world, since I’m such an outsider looking in. The thing we are at this week is called an “intensive.” This intensive. Wild Dance Intensive — a division of Starpower. Now my admittedly limited understanding of an intensive is that it is like dance school meets summer camp only more … intense. But educational, all the same. Not competitive. So imagine my confusion at […]

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Channel Guide interviews Kelly Nishimoto of Something Borrowed, Something New on TLC!

February 8, 2013 Lori Acken

Fashion designer Kelly Nishimoto, star of TLC’s newest bridal show Something Borrowed, Something New, made her first wedding dress when she was just a kid. Her material of choice? Trash bags. Tailored with a glue gun — a bold choice that required the help of a readily available assistant. “It started melting and I remember my dad coming to the rescue,” Nishimoto laughs. “He had duct tape and electrical tape and all kinds of random things in his tool shed. Some of the tape was black and some of it was silver and I was trying to hide it and […]

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Mellie Stanley is back in TLC’s “Gypsy Sisters”

February 8, 2013 Lori Acken

Mellie Stanley is back! The beautiful, brawling breakout star of TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding — plus her mother-hen older sister Nettie, domestic goddess cousin Kayla and Kayla’s sister-in-law Laura (best known for conditioning her tresses with mayo and whitening her teeth with Clorox) have scored their own TLC series Gypsy Sisters, which premieres Feb. 10 at 9/8CT. When we last left the ladies after their hit summertime special The Stanley Sisters, wild-child Mellie had taken up — then sworn she’d sworn off — stripping. She even told Channel Guide that she was considering marriage with her “musker” (that’s gypsy-speak for […]

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Freakshow on AMC, Todd Ray is a modern day Ripley

February 8, 2013 Barb Oates

For Venice Beach FreakShow owner Todd Ray having his Freakshow on AMC is a dream come true. His show is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, as well as his journey. Ray is a Grammy-winning producer who walked away from a successful music career to satisfy his sense of wonder. “I’ve always did things from the heart and when I got to a high level of the music business — it’s really corporate and really tough to stay creative, so much so, I got to the point that I was making a lot of money but it wasn’t making me […]

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Woman addicted to eating cat hair, licking cat “My Strange Addiction” returns

February 7, 2013 Barb Oates

I thought I saw it all last season with the urine drinker episode of My Strange Addiction, but TLC has sucked me again — this time into the bizarre world of a woman addicted to eating cat hair and licking her cat. My Strange Addiction returns for a fourth season on TLC Wednesday, February 13 at 10pm ET/PT, where we meet Lisa, a 43-year-old woman from Detroit, Michigan, who enjoys eating cat hair and licking her cat as a way to bond with her pet. “Just chewing it is relaxing. It’s a comforting feeling,” she tells. “Her fur is such […]

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The Face premieres Feb 12 on Oxygen: See the kickoff special Tuesday

February 4, 2013 Lori Acken

Oxygen will air its The Face casting special The Face: The Fight to Make the Final 12 on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 9pm in advance of the modeling competition’s Feb. 12 series premiere. Hosted by America’s Next Top Model vet Nigel Barker, The Face features a dozen modeling hopefuls from varying backgrounds and experience levels competing in teams of four coached by supermodels Naomi Campbell (who picks a team full of spitfires), Karolina Krukova (who chooses classically stunning beauties like herself) and 24-year-old It Girl Coco Rocha. If you’re not familiar with the confident Canadian, she’s the stunner who danced on […]

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“Hotel Impossible” revisits some old haunts on “After Anthony” special

February 4, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Things you expect from a show about a guy who goes in full throttle to fix failing hotels: Scenes of dirty rooms, bad service and hopeless business practices followed by wondrous makeovers. What you don’t expect is to get choked up. But that happened to Anthony Melchiorri every time he went to some far-flung location to shoot an episode of his Travel Channel series Hotel Impossible, currently in its second season. The straight-talking New Yorker gets caught up in the personal stories of the hotel owners he meets, many of whom open their hearts to him and are clearly desperate […]

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Long Island Medium Season 4 returns May 2013

February 1, 2013 Barb Oates

Fans of Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo will need to wait a few more months for new episodes, as Long Island Medium Season 4 returns on TLC Sunday, May 12, 2013. Although it seems – FOREVER – since the hit medium and her lovable family have graced our screens with a new episode (after all, Season 3 finale was Nov. 2), Theresa’s nearly 3 million weekly viewers, and growing, will be thrilled to know that Long Island Medium Season 4 will include 30 half-hour episodes, which guarantees at least a three-month run of all-new Theresa. Theresa has been more than […]