This year, The Real Housewives of Orange County added a new housewife to their mix, and she ended being my favorite this season. Heather Paige Kent is an actress and mom of four who is married to Terry Dubrow, a plastic surgeon who reality TV junkies like me will recognize from The Swan. Although they’ve been together for fifteen years, Heather has finally decided to take her husband’s last name. She told the audience that in Jewish tradition you have... Read more
Love them or hate them, you can’t deny that the Real Housewives franchise has become a huge force in our current pop culture scene. And while the women on the show never shy from discussing sex and politics, religion comes up far less rarely. Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Alexis Bellino is an outspoken Christian (her tagline is “I thank God for my life, and you would too”), and several castmembers from Real Housewives of New York have talked about... Read more
Nadya Suleman, the woman best known to the world as Octomom, is having a busy year. She made her first ever porn movie (solo, if you were dying to know) and now she’s dating someone, despite saying she planned to stay celibate until her octuplets were grown up. The man in question is someone called Frankie G (that’s the happy couple pictured above), who is an aspiring bodybuilder and would not be out of place among the Jersey Shore cast.... Read more
Actor Jonathan Jackson, who has played Lucky Spencer (son of Luke and Laura!) on the soap General Hospital since he was a kid, won the Best Supporting Actor trophy at the Daytime Emmys on Saturday night. Although he won in the same category last year, Jonathan seemed giddy and excited. A devout Greek Orthodox Christian, he also took the opportunity to thank G-d in his acceptance speech. “First of all, I have to give glory and honor to the Father,... Read more
Although nobody even knew they were dating, actor Giovanni Ribisi and model Agyness Deyn eloped in L.A. last weekend. That does leave me with one big question, though: is Agyness a Scientologist? Giovanni is a second-generation Scientologist. His mother, Gay Ribisi, is a well-known casting agent who is very active in the Los Angeles Scientology community. His twin sister, Marissa Ribisi, is married to Beck, also a second-generation Scientologist and a longtime family friend. Giovanni’s ex-wife, Mariah O’Brien, was also... Read more
The Real Housewives of New York recently premiered its new season, and the show added three new cast members to try and shake things up. One of them is Aviva Drescher, who is Jewish. Another is Heather Thomson, who is (her words) “Jewish by injection.” Ewwwwwwww. Thanks for sharing. Here’s a clip of Heather talking about her shapewear line and not her husband’s genitals and whether they make her belong to a tribe. Read more
The following is a guest post from Ashley Baxstrom. It previously appeared on The Revealer and is reprinted here with permission. The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is, you talk about Jesus at Fight Club. No, Brad Pitt didn’t change the script. Welcome to Fight Church, the upcoming documentary about young Christian mixed martial arts fighters. That description cuts two ways. First, these are people who... Read more
Actress Meagan Good, who is on Californication and has been in movies like Jumping the Broom, married DeVon Franklin last weekend. But celebrities get married all the time – what’s so interesting about this one? Well, DeVon is an entertainment executive who also happens to be a Seventh Day Adventist preacher on the weekends. Meagan said in an interview that she was inspired by her now-husband’s beliefs, and that they chose to remain celibate until they were married. She once... Read more
Although Ryan Gosling is a big movie star who makes women swoon and create internet memes, he used to be a Mormon kid growing up in Canada. Before his big break on The Mickey Mouse Club (yep, the one with young Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears on it), he performed this version of “When a Man Loves a Woman” at a local Mormon talent show. You are so, so welcome. Read more
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar already have two books under their belts – 20 and Counting! Raising One of America’s Largest Families and A Love that Multiplies – and they’re still finding ways to make money via publishing. Now, it’s the four oldest Duggar daughters (Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger) who will be working on a book. In an interview with a Duggar fan blog, Jill Duggar (pictured) said that she and her sisters are working with a ghostwriter on... Read more
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