UPDATE: The nine Late Show with Stephen Colbert staffers arrested at the U.S. Capitol on June 16 will not be facing charges. "The USCP was just informed the U.S. Attorney's Office...Now that they’re officially engaged, it’s time for former Bachelorette Becca Kufrin and her new fiancé Thomas Jacobs to set up house together. And they’ll be doing just that in the new home they purchased together in San Diego, California.
“Officially co-home owners!” Becca proclaimed on social media, her happy announcement accompanied by photos of the couple and their two dogs in front of their new home. “Tommy is my new roommate, and Minno & Leo are our new tenants. Let’s fill this home with so many laughs, meals, memories, and maybe a couple babies.” Becca’s good news was reported on Friday by E! Online.
Congratulations and best wishes from many members of Bachelor Nation were shared in the comments section of Becca‘s post.
Tayshia Adams wrote, “Ahh, SO happy for you both!!!!! Can’t help but smile from ear to ear looking at these!! Cheers to you two!!!”
Tia Booth commented, “Wooooo!!!!,” while DeAnna Stagliano wrote, “Love it! Congratulations!!!”
Becca and Thomas, who met on the Bachelor in Paradise beach in 2021, got engaged in May, when Becca got down on one knee and asked Thomas to marry her. Happily, he said yes, and buying a house together seemed the next logical step.
“We knew we wanted to eventually get married and spend our lives together,” the Season 14 Bachelorette said. “But he obviously just thought he was going to be the one to do it. No questions asked.”
Becca started planning her proposal to Thomas while she was away co-hosting “The Bachelor: Live on Stage” tour. “I was like, ‘Look, I’m going to be home in a few weeks and there’s so much to do in this lifetime, but I just want him to know how committed I am,'” she said. “So I started planning in April, all of the things that would go into my proposal for him, and it all came to fruition in the middle of May.”
Now that Becca and Thomas are homeowners, is planning a wedding next for the happy couple? Or maybe planning a nursery? Their future is certainly looking rosy for these two. Congratulations, Becca and Thomas!
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BECCA’S DECISION TO PROPOSE TO THOMAS? NOW THAT THEY HAVE A HOME TOGETHER, DO YOU THINK BECCA AND THOMAS WILL BE PLANNING A WEDDING SOON?
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All roads lead back to Bravo. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck tied the knot over the weekend in a surprise Vegas ceremony. And to think, this is all thanks to the desperately messy cast of Southern Charm!
During the Season 7 reunion Craig Conover dropped a bomb in an attempt to drag his smarmy buddy’s ex-girlfriend, Madison LeCroy through the mud. Craig accused Madison of sleeping with a married MLB star. Madison bucked back and insisted Craigy say names. Later, Danni Baird confrimed Madison’s “FaceTime relationship” with none other than Alex Rodriguez. Can we get some cameras around here?
According to Shep Rose, there were cameras filming when Madion had discussed her low-key relationship with ARod, but thanks to some NDAs, we weren’t given the footage. To no avail, ARod did his best to deny he has anything going on with the Southern Charmer. He later split with his long-time fiance Jeninifer Lopez. And the rest is history.
JLo, who has stayed unbothered through it all, posted a statement following the wedding event of the weekend. She wrote, “They were right when they said, ‘all you need is love.’ We are so grateful to have that in abundance. a new wonderful family of five amaing children and a life that we have bever had more reason to look forward to. Sick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive through in Las Vegas at twelve thirty in the morning in the tunnel of love drive through, with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with. Love is a great thing, maybe the best things- and worth waiting for.”
Cameron Eubanks commented on the statement with a cheeky, “JLo you forgot to thank Craig.” @commentsbybravo noted the post and added, “Greatest butterfly effect” as their caption.
Madison once claimed that she would share her side of the story if she was able to return to Southern Charm in Season 8. “I’m happy to tell my story,” she said. “If I’m asked the questions, yes, I will tell the truth. I will say this — the reason why I’m not bothered is because I’m innocent in that sense.” Well. We’re a few episodes in to the season already, and there is nary an A-List name-drop in sight.
TELL US – IS IT TIME FOR THE SOUTHERN CHARM CAST TO MOVE ON FROM THE A-LIST DRAMA? DID JLO REGISTER FOR ANY OF CRAIG’S PILLOWS?
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Oops. Well that can of beans didn’t take long to spill, did it? Amid the first day of school vibes, new faces and understaffed first charter, this season of Below Deck Mediterranean got off to a weird start. Mostly thanks to the bizarre dynamic between chief stew Natasha Webb and Chef Dave White. And surprise, surprise, it only took two episodes to find out just how well the two newcomers knew each other before coming on board M/Y Home.
Remember last week when I said the pair’s touchy-feely relationship was giving me flashbacks to Malia White and Chef Adam Glick? Yeah, I didn’t realize at the time just how right I was. But before we get into the big reveal at the end of the episode, let’s cover everything else that happened during the first charter of the season.
Crash, Bang, Boom
Last week ended with disaster striking, as the yacht lost control of its stabilizers. But as is typical with editing on this show, the chaos realistically only lasts a few seconds. Bottles crash to the ground. There’s a mess to clean up. Vacuums are brought out. And Captain Sandy Yawn runs around the entire boat making sure everyone, from guests to crew, is safe and OK. Honestly, the worst part of the whole ordeal is that Chef Dave‘s dinner prep gets completely disrupted. But it looks like he saved the fryer from falling into the pot of boiling water.
Determined to get to the bottom of the mishap, Captain Sandy makes a visit to the engine room. Where the chief engineer gives her a big long explanation about how the boat is a hybrid with an A/C cooling system. Which is apparently what caused the stabilizers to have their power temporarily cut. Backup generators were involved. But honestly, I started tuning the whole thing out. Unless you’re really into yachts, you probably don’t care that the new boat is a hybrid. This is not the kind of drama that we watch Below Deck Med for.
Raygan’s Winning All of the Awards
Raygan Tyler continues to be the clear weak link in the chain of command this week. Captain Sandy‘s solution to the stabilizer malfunction is obviously to distract the guests by throwing all the toys in the water. But such a simple task takes forever, leaving the guests literally waiting and watching as the crew fumbles under the bosun’s inept leadership. Mzi Dempers quickly senses that working under Raygan won’t be quite the tightly-run ship they were last season with Malia White in charge. But he’s not about to say something this early in the season.
And that’s not all. Last week, Raygan let Jason Gaskell do all the work. This week, she’s bad at putting together anchor watch schedules. And break schedules. And really any kind of schedule at all. Her excuse is that she doesn’t know yet what all the deckhands’ capabilities are. But the bosun certainly knows when to take her smoke breaks!
Second Stew or Captain of Team Too Much?
We also get to know more about Kyle Viljoen this week and, uh, so do the guests. The stew is still pretty freshly out of the closet and he seems to really bask in telling people about it. Maybe I’m being overly harsh, but it just feels like Kyle teetered on the line of professionalism multiple times this week. First he was regaling the guests with his life story. (Part of which involves being in a secret 12-year relationship with a man who ultimately left him for a woman before he came out.) Then he was serving them drinks while wearing a bright pink, inflatable, vibrating penis apropos of nothing. And yes, the guests went along with it and made jokes, but it certainly wasn’t something they asked for. Which made it feel sort of inappropriate?
Of course, all of that was coupled with Kyle greeting the co-primaries in their room. While wearing a mask and getting tickled with a feather by Natalya Scudder. Again, the guests seemed amused in a sort of awkward, cringey way. And the stew clearly thinks he’s hilarious. But it’s all coming across as a little bit Team Too Much. Try taking it down a notch. Or several. So far, I can see a clear path from here to him trying to kiss a charter guest later in the season, as we saw in the supertease.
A Bit of Constructive Criticism
After pulling off a successful anniversary party-slash-sushi night, the first charter ends on a decent note. Even though Chef Dave just about dropped the gorgeous mirror glazed cake he made for the big night. The next morning, Captain Sandy entrusts Storm Smith and his impressive mustache with calling distances during docking. And thankfully, the first docking goes off without a hitch. Though come to think of it, I don’t remember seeing Raygan touch a single line during the process.
As they leave the boat, the primaries call out the deck team’s general lack of organization. And in the tip meeting, Captain Sandy demands that the department gets up to her standards for the next charter. Everyone’s finally here. There’s no more room for excuses anymore. Looking at you, Raygan. But still, the crew earns a tip of $27,000. Which is a massive tip in terms of general Below Deck history. Also side note: the funniest part of the episode was easily the door to Natalya and Raygan’s cabin continually getting stuck, right?
The Truth Comes Out
The crew heads to their first night out. And even before they’ve made it to the restaurant, the other guys are asking Chef Dave about his relationship with Natasha. Like, they’re totally dating, right? No, no, the chef insists. Just great pals who met five weeks ago on their last boat. And share long, awkward hugs in their cabin. And fall into one another’s arms in the corridors. That’s all there is to it. Promise. Meanwhile, in the opposite van, Natasha tells the others that she joined her last boat with an ex-boyfriend but ended up with “another guy” by season’s end. Hmm…
At the table, the topic obviously gets brought up again. And when Natasha steps away to the bathroom, Dave finally admits that while they’re not a couple, he’d like them to be. Which Natalya is more than happy to report back to the chief stew the moment she sits back down. Oh and there’s one more thing for Dave to admit to production in his confessional: He and Natasha did hook up on their last boat. But she swore him to secrecy before they started filming for Bravo’s cameras. Except oops, it took all of two days for that to come out! So basically, it really is like Malia and Adam 2.0. But where will Natasha and Dave go from here?
TELL US – ARE YOU SURPRISED NATASHA AND DAVE HOOKED UP BEFORE FILMING? WHY DO YOU THINK SHE SWORE HIM TO SECRECY? WAS KYLE BEING TOO FORWARD WITH THE GUESTS? IS RAYGAN SIMPLY INCOMPETENT OR JUST IN OVER HER HEAD?
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Whew! Things are starting to heat up on 90 Day Fiance. The couples are finally realizing that they actions have consequences. Not everyone in their lives is happy to see the choices they are making. It’s weird for people who are going against the wishes of their families, they seem very dependent on them. I don’t think there is anything wrong with following your dreams and heart, but you have to know there is always risk involved. Many of these couples haven’t considered anything beyond the fact they want to be married.
Shaeeda turns the tables on Bilal and his prenup. Thais finally tells her dad the truth. Jibri clashes with his parents when they push him about his plans. Kara vents to friends about Guillermo‘s doubts. Ariela and Biniyam make a momentous decision. Let’s get straight to the recap.
Kobe and Emily are still hiding the fact that she is pregnant from her family. Although she feels guilty, she is adamant that they don’t reveal the big news to anyone before the wedding. Now that the wedding is closer, one of Kobe’s groomsmen, Temperature is in town from Ohio. When he and Kobe meet, his friend warns him American culture is different from the one in Africa. Kobe worries not only about his fiancé’s attitude, but the fact that they have another child on the way with no plan. Temperature encourages him to take the reins and not allow Emily to make all of the decisions.
Kobe’s best friend, Temperature joins him and Emily and her family for lunch. When Temperature witnesses Emily’s interaction with Kobe, he is shocked by how controlling she is. He even mentions that Kobe is from a royal family. Huh? Temperature reminds Emily that as a man, Kobe should have the final say. Her family literally laughs in his face at the thought that she would allow that. Honestly, I don’t think it has anything to do with their cultures. Emily does come off as controlling and disrespectful a lot of the time. Although I don’t agree with everything Temperature said, I think he was trying to get Emily to realize she needs to allow her husband to feel like a man and not her child.
Thais finally tells her father the truth about why she has traveled to the U.S. Needless to say, he is not happy to hear the news. Once Patrick leaves them to talk alone, she explains that she withheld this information from him because she wasn’t sure if she wanted to get married. Yikes! Meanwhile, Patrick is hiding in the garage venting to John. He is sad that now her father will always believe it was him who wanted to deceive him. Thais’ dad asks her to prevent any heartbreak in the future by returning home to Brazil.
After the conversation with her father, Thais is visibly upset. She is now confused about whether she made the right decision. She also admits that her dad doesn’t want her to get married to Patrick. He is shocked because he believed that her father liked him. Come on Patrick, why do you think she was hiding the wedding? She knew he would not approve. Thais is now wondering whether she should return to her old life in Brazil.
Shaeeda has spoken to her lawyer about Bilal’s prenuptial agreement and he has warned her that it is one sided. She asks him to go to lunch to talk without the children. She makes it clear that if she signs an agreement, it will be with conditions that would benefit her as well. Bilal says he will consider her changes, but he doesn’t seem too keen to do so. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
Yvette and Mohamed reconcile after their huge fight about the wedding. When she talks to one of her friends about it, she is shocked about his threats to get another sponsor. Of course, Yvette defends her man and encourages her friend to give him another chance. Later, when she asks Mohamed to hang out with her friends again he quickly declines. But in the end, Yvette gets her way and she gets him to agree to have a fire ceremony to release negative energy with her friends. Once the ceremony is underway, Mohamed looks like a scared deer in headlights. He declines to participate because he believes it goes against his religious beliefs. When one of her friends asks him does he like them, he tells her no. Sigh! Well at least he is honest. Honestly, I still have no idea why these people are still planning to get married.
The closer they get to the wedding, neither Ariela or Biniyam are sure that it will actually happen. The only thing that seems to be holding them together is their son. Sadly, these two aren’t on the same page about the future and only can agree about wanting their son to have both parents. Biniyam, still traumatized by losing his first son, will endure anything just to have a place in his child’s life. Hopefully they will be able to get on the same page at some point.
Guillermo calls his mother to get some advice about his relationship with Kara. She agrees with his hair stylist that their problems should be addressed, before the wedding. But Kara took his questions as him having doubts about them getting married. His mother reminds him that no relationship is without issues and he should focus on what brought them together. Later, Kara has friends over the house for her bachelorette party. She vents about their problems and how she isn’t changing while Guillermo is locked away upstairs. Sigh! I don’t think Guillermo realizes what he is signing himself up for.
Jibri and Miona got their walking papers from his family. Apparently, they only gave them until the end of the year to move out, which is only a month away. The 90 days is almost over and they still have no plans on when and where they will get married or where they will live. Jibri is shocked that his parents aren’t willing to help them more. But in his parents eyes, he is a 28 year old who is about to have a wife and needs to have boundaries. I can see his parents point. You don’t get to be an adult and a child at the same time. He is old enough to take responsibility for his life and the woman he intends to marry. Plus Miona doesn’t want to live with his parents anyway.
TELL US: DO YOU THINK JIBRI OR HIS PARENTS ARE RIGHT? SHOULD THAIS RETURN TO BRAZIL? IS EMILY CONTROLLING OR JUST INDEPENDENT?
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