JoJo Fletcher And Jordan Rodgers Want To Start Their Family In The “Near Future”

JoJo and Jordan are talking about babies! It’s about time, I’d say. They’ve only been together for six years and recently tied the knot. That clock’s ticking, JoJo.

Now that they’re settled into married life, former Bachelorette star JoJo Fletcher and her husband Jordan Rodgers are discussing the next step in their life together.

“I loved our life together before as an engaged couple,” JoJo said in an interview published in US Weekly. “But there is this excitement now of talking about building a family together in the near future that is really special.”

Real estate developer JoJo and her sports commentator husband first met on Season 12 of The Bachelorette in 2016. After postponing twice during the Covid pandemic, they were finally able to have their dream wedding at a California winery this past May. 

Calling their wedding celebration the “best weekend of our lives,” JoJo added that they were “so happy” to finally say “I do” after waiting so long for their big day. Now that they’re finally married, JoJo admitted a slight change in  their relationship. “Nothing major in our day to day lives has changed, but I would say there is this feeling you get once married that just feels a bit different,” she said. “It’s hard to explain but there is a deeper feeling of connection.”

Especially at this time of the year, when she and Jordan are both “crazy” busy, JoJo explained that the newlyweds are putting “a priority on our alone time” amid the holiday chaos. “Whether it’s something small as an evening walk together or cooking our favorite meal at home, making sure we are both fully present is a great way to reconnect after a hectic work week.”

“Thankfully, we are always together when we are in the same place, but having those uninterrupted mini date nights together is super important and something we look forward to,” JoJo continued. 

Though they’re a happy couple now, the Texas native has been open about the rough road she and her former NFL quarterback traveled on their journey to “I do.” JoJo has previously admitted that their first year together after getting engaged on The Bachelorette was “tough,” but she believes working through their issues together has made them stronger in the end.

“We’re in the best place ever, let me tell you,” JoJo says now. “We’ve been very open about our first year [not being] the easiest. We had definitely some rocky, rocky moments, but those were growing years. And so, we are at the best stage we’ve ever been in our relationship. Life just keeps getting better, you fall more in love. That sounds cheesy, but it’s true.”

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A few months after their engagement on The Bachelorette, Jordan surprised JoJo when he proposed a second time.

“I love @joelle_fletcher with all my heart!! I always wanted to re-propose, with no cameras, no producers, no drama . . . just us,” Jordan wrote on Instagram in August 2019, three years after his televised proposal on the show.

“Our first engagement was so real, and meant so much to us both,” Jordan said at the time. “But as we start to actually plan our wedding for next year I wanted to do it all over again, OUR WAY! So I bought a new ring, made a plan (that almost fell apart multiple times), and got down on one knee all over again.”

After their original wedding plans were delayed twice by Covid, JoJo became even more determined to have her wedding “no matter what” the third time around.  “I think it’s just a personal decision. Like some people [might] say, ‘Listen, I just want to get married. I don’t care about all this,'” JoJo told US Weekly in August 2021. 

The Bachelor runner-up also had words of wisdom to share with any other engaged couples who might have also had to postpone their wedding, saying, “That day is not any less special just because you’ve had to move it. If anything, it’s more special. When life happens, we just roll with the punches.”

When the couple was purchasing their new Dallas home prior to their wedding, Jordan shared that kids were “definitely part of the thought process” while looking at properties.

“We know that this will be our house for the next however many years,” JoJo added at the time. “Obviously it will be our first house that we’re in once we’re married next year. And so kids could [happen] at any point after that, and we definitely have room.”

 TELL US – WERE YOU SURPRISED TO SEE JOJO AND JORDAN FINALLY GET MARRIED AFTER 6 YEARS TOGETHER? WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THEM STARTING A FAMILY SOON?

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Former Real Housewives Of Orange County Star Braunwyn Windham-Burke Claims She Cannot Provide For Her Children Amid Divorce From Sean Burke

Let me be fully transparent and confess I’m writing this article with my eyeballs rolling so far back I can see my brain. Sometimes we have toxic Real Housewives and sometimes we have problematic Real Housewives and then we have former Real Housewives of Orange County star, Braunwyn Windham-Burke.

Braunwyn spent Seasons 14 and 15 of RHOC navigating some pretty heavy issues. While it is admirable to confront mistakes head on, Braunwyn made it her entire identity. Fans watched Braunwyn’s journey tackling her addiction to alcohol, dealing with a mother who may or may not care more about her Burning Man wardrobe than her daughter’s feelings, and coming to the realization that she is a lesbian.

Ultimately Braunwyn and statement necklace connoisseur husband Sean Burke filed for divorce after figuring out their new style of marriage isn’t going to work. She was papped openly dating others and having a grand ‘ol time with her new single lifestyle. In July 2021 Sean and Braunwyn filed for trial separation and in October 2022 the couple officially announced their divorce.

Now Braunwyn has another tidbit to share–she can’t provide for her seven children. Alex, I’ll take get a damn job for $1000, please. According to Page Six, estranged husband Sean has “stopped paying any assistance,” and as a result, she is “unable to provide” for herself and her children. Recent court documents state Braunie must now rely on family to help pay for “basic living expenses and even expenses for our children.”

 

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Per the court docs, Braunwyn states, “I have relied on [Sean] for all financial security since I was 20 years old. I have relied on [Sean] to make all financial decisions for 23 years, and I have effectively been kept in the dark regarding the true extent of our business interests and assets.” But wait, there’s more!

Get your eyerolling skills ready. Braunwyn said she can no longer maintain the lifestyle to which she had grown accustomed during their marriage. This includes opulent travels to Europe and Asia, personal trainers, a glam squad, a shopping budget, and more. Oh pardon me, I thought this was about “the children”. Someone prepare a square tissue immediately to catch these tears. She is requesting spousal support of $10 grand each month because Sean allegedly pulls in $65k gross income every four weeks. Braunwyn also demands Sean pay her legal expenses.

Sean’s legal team responded by agreeing to pay the spousal support but requested the court  “reserve for future determination the issue of support payable to” him. This looks like it has a tendency to get messy, and with Braunwyn’s history of troubles, this is another mess Sean will have to clean.

TELL US- DO YOU THINK $10K A MONTH FOR SUPPORT IS FAIR? SHOULD BRAUNWYN BE REQUIRED TO GET A JOB? DO YOU AGREE WITH BRAUNWYN’S REQUESTS?

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Kyle Richards And Kathy Hilton Give An Update On Where They Stand With Each Other

Kathy Hilton and Kyle Richards are updating fans of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills about where they currently stand with each other.

We all know the pair have fought, made up, fought, and made up again. But now, the sisters are in one of the biggest fights fans of RHOBH have ever seen. After a rocky season of allegations and accusations, Season 12 ended in such an icy way.

Yes, Lisa Rinna was back stirring up trouble like she always does. And Erika Jayne was in the background trying to rip Kathy apart over her alleged breakdown that took place in Aspen, Colorado. It led to an intense off-season with firey back-and-forth social media wars between cast members.

I mean, the drama was so intense that Kathy ended up slamming Rinna as one of Hollywood’s “biggest bullies.” Even then, it didn’t seem to phase Lisa as she fully embraces the villain role on RHOBH. On top of that, she’s even compared herself to LeBron James.  Please, this girl knows she brings the action in the 90210.

After letting Lisa get in between them, Kyle and Kathy are still having a hard time getting back on track. According to People, Kathy told Access Hollywood that she and Kyle haven’t spoken in some time. “I have not talked to [Kyle] in a while,” she said. “We’ve texted, but I have not talked to her for a while.”

Kyle also gave her own update, telling Extra, “We could be better, but we are sisters and at the end of the day we always come together, but we could be better and that’s what I want, that’s what I need in my life — to feel good.”

It seems like most of the Bravo family, including Andy Cohen, believe that Kathy and Kyle will work out their differences and get back on track. And I’m sure they will too. We’ve seen it happen before.

As far as what’s going on with the newest season of RHOBH, Kyle assures fans that we will get some news regarding the new season soon.

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“I think ‘pause’ is the word of the moment; it sounds more dramatic than it actually is. I think we just kind of want to shift our schedule,” she said. “We used to start in April, it’s kind of inched its way over the years, but we are starting later this time,” Kyle added.

In recent years, if a city doesn’t pick up filming shortly after the reunion, people start to assume things are going terribly wrong. Kyle set the record straight, telling us to take a deep breath and relax. “People think there must be some drama, ‘they are starting late,’ it’s not that serious,” she explained.

Well, either way, I hope they get the cameras rolling in Beverly Hills again soon. I’m so eager to see who makes the cut and who doesn’t. This cast definitely needs a cast shake-up, and I hope Bravo agrees.

TELL US – ARE YOU SURPRISED TO HEAR KYLE AND KATHY HAVEN’T TALKED IN A WHILE? ARE YOU MISSING RHOBH RIGHT NOW? 

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Survivor 43 Finale Episode Recap: The Greatest Move In Survivor History

“Expect the unexpected” is usually the go-to phrase of Big Brother, but it sure can be applied to what was a wild, emotional finish to Survivor 43.

Heading into Wednesday’s three-hour Finale, it was Jesse‘s game to lose. He had been the season’s puppet-master, its “silent assassin,” and had just pulled one of the biggest moves of the season in blindsiding his ride-or-die, Cody (while also flushing two Idols from the game). He did all that in plain sight of the jury, and his credentials sky-rocketed. In terms of his “Survivor Resumé,” Jesse was nearly over-qualified to be the Sole Survivor. Best of all, he headed into the Finale with a hidden Idol still in his possession, one that guaranteed his spot at Final Four and ensured he could not be voted out of the game. He was either going to be the clear winner, as one of the Final Three that would get to address the final jury, or he was going to go out after losing a fire-making challenge. Jesse – a reformed gang member who wore his heart on his sleeve this season, especially when discussing his family back home – just had one fire-making challenge between himself and a million bucks.

Karla was the night’s first victim…a woman who represented such awesomeness all season long, who a few short weeks ago seemed to have the game wrapped around her stitched-up finger. Owen had won his third challenge of the season, and Jesse still could have won the final Immunity Challenge to land himself in the Final Three. But it was Cassidy who took home the most important challenge of the season, her third win as well. There was no way in hell that she was going to bring Jesse to the end, and she ultimately decided to take the hapless underdog Owen – this season’s “Charlie Brown” – with her to the end. That meant that Jesse would need to win the fire-making challenge against…hmmm…wait…who’s left? We have Cassidy, Owen, Jesse and…

…Gabler! Sorry, I didn’t see him there for a moment (he was hiding in plain sight!). Gabler, the real underdog of the season in that no one gave him a real chance at winning. He could have been his tribe’s first boot, and instead, he found himself all the way at Final Four, and nary one vote had been cast against him all season. Impressive. Cassidy underestimated Gabler, thinking that even if he were to beat Jesse at fire, Gabler wouldn’t stand a good chance at beating her. The viewers knew the great, under-the-radar yet highly-influential game that Gabler had played, but had the jury seen it?

Not only did Gabler win the fire-making challenge, he set a new record for the fastest-ever to finish it (just four minutes and nine seconds). Jesse never had a chance. And just like that, the game slipped through Jesse’s fingers. The viewing audience let out a collective gasp, and if you’re anything like me, you hadn’t even really considered that another contestant could win.

Jesse was given his props, complete with sad music in the background. He became overcome with emotion, and it permeated through the screen and all over Tribal Council. Jesse left it all out on the field. He should be proud. I know his family and his children must be.

Now normally, as a Survivor-fanatic but also as someone who writes about the show and has for 23 seasons, I’m always calculating – subconsciously, but also consciously sometimes – how good is this season? How does it stack up to past seasons? One benchmark that I always have used is that a Survivor season is only as great as its winner. The winner, sometimes, can make a good season great, or a bad season better. Conversely, a mediocre winner can knock a great season down a peg or two, or make a good season feel like a giant disappointment. The minute that Gabler won the fire-making challenge and after it dawned on me that Jesse was not going to win, I had figured that whatever ends up happening next, Survivor 43 just went down a notch. Don’t get me wrong, I really liked Gabler, Cassidy and Owen…there have been worse Final Threes. But I just felt, in that moment, that there could have been no more satisfying a winner than Jesse for Survivor 43. Anything less was going to be a let-down.

Boy was I wrong.

After one of the least bitter and most thoughtful final juries in recent memory, Gabler became the winner of Season 43. The Sole Survivor. Mike Gabler, who at 51-years-young, is now the second-oldest Survivor Winner in history (the title of oldest still belongs to Survivor: Gabon winner, Bob Crowley, who won Season 17 at the age of 57). Perhaps most impressively, Gabler fell just one winning vote shy of the coveted “Survivor Perfect Game,” which means that a player wins the game without ever having a vote cast against them, and then wins by unanimous vote. The final vote tally was seven for Gabler, with James casting the lone vote for Cassidy (poor Owen finished with zero). The “Survivor Perfect Game” has only happened twice in 43 seasons (J.T. Thomas in Survivor: Tocantins and John Cochran in Survivor: Caramoan…with Survivor: Cambodia‘s winner Jeremy Collins carrying an asterisk by his name, as technically he had three votes against him that were voided by a hidden Immunity Idol). Gabler is now the fourth winner to fall just short of the “Survivor Perfect Game” by just one vote (having Sandra Diaz-Twine, Tom Westman and Earl Cole as company is quite an impressive feat).

He’s been quite the character to root for all season, but what came after his win was what left me speechless, and yes, in tears. Gabler, the heart valve specialist from Meridian, Idaho, pledged to donate his ENTIRE million dollar winnings to Veterans In Need Foundation, given in honor of his own father, who was a green beret. There was no doubt in his declaration, no second-guessing. It brought the house down and even Jeff Probst got emotional. To know that there is goodness in the world – and to find this out while watching a show normally associated with lying, betrayal and back-stabbing – was re-affirming. There are not too many people that would do what Gabler decided to do, but to know that a person like Gabler even exists is inspirational.

Cody called Gabler‘s decision, “The Greatest Move In Survivor History,” and I’d have to whole-heartedly agree.

Wiping the tears away and continuing with this Recap, the instant Tribal Council after-party that followed Gabler‘s win and big announcement gave us many memorable moments. Cody has forgiven Jesse and they are forever going to be close friends. We learned that you can once again bid on several items from the show at SurvivorAuctions.com, and apparently you can say whatever you’d like to Jeff Probst‘s staff of interns by emailing your thoughts to SurvivorShoutOut@gmail.com. We got our first look at the next season, Survivor 44, which premieres on March 1st, 2023. It looks bananas, with a medical situation and some truly eccentric personalities (one dude was going on and on about how excited he was to poop in the ocean). We’ll regroup and do it all again starting next March.

Survivor 43 really was one of the nicest casts I can remember. There were zero sour grapes and only love and admiration in abundance. Here I thought there couldn’t possibly be a better winner than Jesse, and then the Ali-Gabler popped his head out of the shallow water and completely took me by surprise. In these tumultuous times, Survivor 43’s end felt like a much-needed gift…an inspirational jolt of goodness that I didn’t know I needed.

Ultimately, this was another great cast…if nothing else, the “new era” of Survivor that started last Fall is marked by its tremendous casting. But how good was this season – or should I say – how “memorable” will it be as time goes by? And where does Gabler rank on my list of all-time Survivor Winners? You may be very, very surprised by my answers. Look for my two season-ending lists posting soon: “Most Memorable Survivor Seasons” and “All-Time Survivor Winners,” updated through Survivor 43.

A big thank you to all of you whom follow, comment, like and share this Survivor column. Another big, big shout-out to Erik Reichenbach, for contributing to these pages such fantastic artwork this and every season of Survivor. Erik is such a talented guy, and if you didn’t know you can help support him and take home some of his amazing artwork on his site, Dabudoodles.com. I suggest you check it out. So thanks, Erik! For all of you, Erik’s final piece of the season will show below (if you don’t see it, that means that it will be added shortly, so check back!):

I hope everyone enjoyed this season as much as I did…we’ll be back in the Spring!

TELL US – WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE FINALE? WHERE DOES THIS SEASON RANK FOR YOU? AND WHERE SHOULD GABLER RANK ON THE ALL-TIME WINNERS LIST?

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