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Lifetime’s Raising Asia to star Asia Monet Ray of Dance Moms

Dance Moms fans know Asia Monet Ray as the wriggling little firebrand who parlayed her Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition notoriety into a couple-season stint on Abby Lee Miller’s original Lifetime hit. Now Ray and her no-nonsense mom Kristie — who also made a splash on both series — have landed a 14-episode gig of their own. Raising Asia will premiere July 29 on Lifetime, at the oddly kid-unfriendly hour of 10/9CT. Each half-hour episode will feature the eight year old, California-based singer/dancer and her glamorous momager chasing Asia’s dreams of international fame, with bodybuilder dad Shawn, and baby sister, Bella […]

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Little Women: LA Recap, Episode 5, “Movin’ On Up”

Last week’s tease of a lady fight had my interest piqued all week. They may be little women, but they bring the BIG drama. And I was interested in seeing a fight that wasn’t centered on Christy. “Three days earlier” <- earlier than what???  I have no idea. Christy and Todd are on a diet. While Veggie Shopping, Christy reveals another Little Person problem: Reaching high things. After some gymnastic climbing, Christy gets a hard-earned cucumber. Christy reveals that despite her earlier concerns, she’s not pregnant. She’s relieved because she wants to be healthy and married before expanding her family. […]

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Little Women: LA Recap: Episode 4 “The Ex-Factor”

After last week’s booze-fueled firestorm, who couldn’t wait for Little Women: LA Episode 4? This week promises to be wild as Terra and Tonya promise a performance you won’t forget! I hope you had a chance to take a look at my interview with Terra Jole where she not only answered 7 Questions about herself, she also explained why the women are like sisters. Christy and Todd are nesting as they build their newly-engaged life together. Todd and his first wife had a baby that passed away. 25% of all babies conceived between two little people with the same kind […]

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Little Women: LA’s Terra Jole Tells All

When I spoke to Little Women: LA’s Terra Jole last week, I complimented her on the fun, sexy, bawdy, outrageous world that she and her 5 close friends inhabit. “Welcome to our world,” she laughed. Little Women: LA is everything you’d want in reality TV and more. It has the fashion and sex appeal that rivals any of the Housewives series, the drama of Bad Girls Club, but at the core of the show is a close friendship that isn’t seen anywhere else on reality TV. “We’re all friends,” says Jole. “Most of us have known each other for over […]

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7 Questions With … Terra Jole of Little Women: LA

Singer and celebrity impersonator Terra Jole is one of the breakout stars of Lifetime’s new reality hit, Little Women: LA. The unabashedly outspoken beauty is the de facto leader of the drama-loving sextet who seem to agree that almost no topic is off-limits. “Most of us have known each other for over 10 years. Some of us have known each other half of our lives,” Jole says. “We all understand where we’re coming from; we all understand what it’s like to be Little Women. And so that makes it easy to talk about things that maybe we couldn’t talk about […]

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True Tori Recap: Episode 8, “Confessions”

True Tori : Confessions could have been about five minutes long if Tori and Dean would say “We confess that we made this all up. Sorry!” And then showed us a montage of Tori and Dean’s ugly crying. But it’s not. Boooooo. Tori is sitting on her bed again. Can we get a montage of Tori on her bed too? Tori says that her therapy sessions sometimes last for hours. Or in Dr. Wexler’s mind, “Hour$$$$$$$$$” Tori gave us an extended scene of the moment when Tori said that she and Dean were having crazy circus-sex. She never revealed exactly […]

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Little Women: LA Recap: Episode 3, “Who Do You Think You Are?”

Another little person challenge I would have never thought of: sitting in a pedicure chair when you’re only 4 feet tall. Christy’s solution? Stand. Christy: “I think I’m a tall dwarf” Christy’s mom: “You’re a chubby dwarf.” Obviously, Christy inherited her wicked sense of humor from her mom. She also taught her not to take herself too seriously. Christy’s getting her newly-engaged self a fresh mani-pedi. She’s ready to show off her new sparkler at that night’s wedding wine-tasting for Traci. I’ve never heard of having a pre-wedding wine tasting, because the wine normally served at weddings is a step […]

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True Tori Recap: Episode 7, the Reunion: All Questions Answered

The True Tori reunion special. For the first time since Dean left for Chopped: Canada, Tori and Dean sit down to answer Brooke Anderson’s questions. Brooke, who perhaps raided Dr. Wexler’s closet for her pantsuit choice is charged with not only asking the pressing questions, but keeping a straight face throughout the circus ridiculous. On with the acting, show! Brooke Anderson prefaces each of her questions with “A lot of people.” Who are these people? Where are they? Because I can’t find them on any chat boards and certainly not reading and commenting on my recaps. Watching the show’s recap […]

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Little Women: LA Recap: Episode 2, Little Women Big Drama

Are you as smitten with the girls of Little Women: LA as I am? I honestly think I could be friends with each of them. On to the continuing drama our favorite not-engaged but wedding-crazed lass, Christy. Christy is presumptuously looking for her own engagement ring. She loves putting the cart before the horse. And the ring she has chosen is beautiful, but I think that an engagement ring shouldn’t be something you pick for yourself. If a man knows you well enough to marry you, he should know what ring you’d like. Terra has invited the other women (except […]

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Tonight on Lifetime, True Tori: The Reunion

I thought that last week was the final episode of True Tori, but no, the universe curses me again!! Tonight, we get another chance for Tori to “find her voice” and tell us “her True sTori” on True Tori The Reunion: All Questions Answered. Bleech! Thankfully, the kids won’t be around to see Tori cry or yell at Dean, but I heartily doubt that many of my questions will be answered, namely, 1)does Dean still use the phrase “the cat’s ass,” 2) do Tori’s friends Jess, Andy and Mehran charge her by the hour for their advice?  3) is Dr. […]