Well, another Bravo couple allegedly bites the dust. In August 2022, Summer House super couple Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard became engaged. Carl’s proposal played out on Season 7 of the series.
Their journey to love started as friends and ended up headed towards holy matrimony. Until Carl reportedly hit the brakes.
A shocking split
An insider told The Messenger that Lindsay’s wedding planning was going “full steam ahead.” The duo planned to tie the knot in November.
“Lindsay was completely blindsided and is in shock. There were no signs of this coming and their relationship has been in a great place,” the source stated. “She’s called friends and has been in total denial about Carl ending the engagement. She doesn’t think it’s actually happening and can’t believe it.”
The insider added, “She’s in complete shock right now but is also upset. It hasn’t quite hit her.” I can’t see Lindsay handling this well.
“She hopes they will work it out and believes it will be OK between them. Carl basically dropped a bomb at their apartment and then left,” the source claimed.
How did things between Carl and Lindsay end?
Entertainment Tonight previously reported that the couple had called it quits. “Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard have called off their engagement,” several sources claimed. “The two were set to get married in November, but Carl told Lindsay he couldn’t move forward with the wedding,” the insiders stated. “The breakup was filmed and will most likely play out on the next season of Summer House.” Well, if it wasn’t filmed, did it even happen?
Meanwhile, Season 8 is already filming. Lindsay recently had a bridal shower, and several of her co-stars attended. Ciara Miller, Danielle Olivera, and Amanda Batula all showed up to celebrate the bride-to-be.
This juicy drama will no doubt boost Summer House’s Season 8 ratings.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK THAT CARL AND LINDSAY WILL REKINDLE THEIR ROMANCE? WHY DO YOU THINK CARL CALLED OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT?
For example, fans have already begun speculating about Teresa Giudice and Jackie Goldschneider’s relationship. Then there was Luis Ruelas passing a ball with little Joey Gorga. It’s one of the most exciting times to be a RHONJ fan.
But among the shockers was Joe Gorga and Bill Aydin, who appeared to be quite chummy, despite the tiff that Joe, Melissa Gorga, and Jennifer Aydin got into at BravoCon in 2022. Name-calling occurred, rumors flew, and a drink was thrown. But now, that might all be a thing of the past.
The Instagram account @bravoandcocktails posted a DM to their story. The message was reportedly from an insider who saw Joe and Bill. They said, “Joe Gorga [and] Bill Aydin just wrapped that long scene and they hugged and Joe said I love you to Bill.”
Another Instagram account, @allabouttrh, picked up a lot of footage from the event, including Joe and Bill acting quite chummy to one another. The two were even caught hugging one another with Melissa nearby. Jennifer, however, was nowhere to be found. There was also footage of Joe and Bill being filmed for RHONJ, as the two appeared to be having a serious conversation.
IG users were not at all too happy with Bill’s display in the footage. One commenter summed up the general feelings: “Bill you gotta defend your wife. Speaking with people who threw a drink at her and called her all types of disgusting names. Ima need you to do better sir.” Still, we’ll have to wait to see the full context of these clips.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK THE AYDINS HAVE MADE PEACE WITH THE GORGAS? IS BILL HURTING JENNIFER ONCE AGAIN?
Good morning to everyone except Kim Zolciak! Welp, It’s time to call the ball for Kim, put a fork in this woman because she’s done. It seems Kroy Biermann is truly fed up and it appears he’s got good reason. The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum has faced some ugly allegations and now Kroy is pulling receipts.
Amid round two of Kim and Kroy’s divorce, we might be seeing the real impact of a gambling habit. Kim f’ed around and found out, and now Kroy is finally trying to put an end to the madness. Radar has the details.
Wow Kim, wow
PSA – before you read the article – find some inner peace because you’re about to be disgusted. Let’s be clear, Kim has no concept of saving money and she’s proven it. That’s because she basically spends money on herself instead of the roof covering her kids’ heads. AlLeGeDlY…
Basically, Kroy was forced to run to court and demand the sale of their Atlanta McMansion. He needs the $3 million Shack of Shame sold immediately so he can put the funds towards their massive debt. Kroy has requested an emergency hearing.
Kim remained unbothered as she and Brielle Biermann flew off to LA. Kroy’s motion stated he and Kimbo are still living in the McMansion, which they’ve almost lost to foreclosure several times now. “The mortgage on the marital residence is held by the financial institution, Truist and is held in Petitioner’s name alone. The names of both parties appear on the property deed. Over the course of the marriage, the parties have incurred significant debt. The parties faced foreclosure proceedings in February 2023,” legal docs read.
“The marital home was set to be auctioned on March 7, 2023. In just the nick of time, the parties were able to avoid foreclosure and the home was taken off the auction block. An agreement was reached with Truist, that placed the parties on ‘foreclosure probation’; if the parties made their mortgage payments every month for three months, the unpaid amount would be placed at the back of the loan and foreclosure again avoided.”
Stay with me, it gets worse
So all they had to do was make three house payments in a row to avoid a really nasty situation. Seems reasonable, right? It’s reasonable to you. To me. And to the spirit of my dead cat. But it clearly wasn’t reasonable to Kim. According to Kroy, he was able to make the May and June payments despite the “financial devastation” Kim has “has wrought upon the family.”
Let’s hear from Kroy’s attorney, bless his heart. “Every month Petitioner struggled to find the money to pay the mortgage. He sold some of his designer backpacks and other personal items. He begged [Kim] to sell some of her purses to help make the payments but, she refused, stating the purses were “hers,” and she was not going to sell them.”
Okay, but she did try and sell them. On her Instagram Stories for an overblown price – and she made sure to tell potential buyers she was accepting Zelle for payments. The lawyer continued, “Ironically, she has been selling purses, hers and her daughters’ and other high-end fashion items including her infamous wigs. However, none of the funds garnered from the sale of these items have gone towards the mortgage, or any other bills. The parties failed to make the July mortgage payment and they are again facing foreclosure. “
Wait – it’s not done getting worse
This is particularly abhorrent. “The parties’ financial situation is dire and will soon dramatically affect the well-being of the four minor children. Petitioner finds himself trying to cobble together enough money to pay the $2,000 electric bill. Meanwhile, Respondent flew to Los Angeles for some rest and relaxation.”
Kroy also said Kim refuses to take accountability for any of the mess. And this is Kroy paying dearly for enabling bad behavior. The attorney shared, “Throughout the marriage, Respondent spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on online gambling, shoes, purses, clothes, wigs, and wine. Whatever money she does win, borrow, or earn from the sale of her purses, is funneled right back into maintaining her persona of a glamourous woman living a lavish lifestyle.”
Ultimately, it’s time for Kim and Kroy to end the fairytale.“There is no doubt that the parties must reside in separate residences for the sake of the children,” his lawyer stated. Living in a home with no electricity or running water would certainly be detrimental to the minor children.”
Up next, Kim avoids accountability by going into rehab. Stranger things have happened.
TELL US – WHAT WILL KIM’S NEXT MOVE BE? WILL KROY WIN THE CASE TO SELL THE MCMANSION?
Sister Wives stars Christine Brown and Janelle Brown are coming to terms with the failure of plural marriage in their family. Christine announced her split from Kody Brown in November 2021, and Janelle followed in December 2022, although she was still struggling with the relationship during Season 18. And so far, each of their adult children to marry has chosen monogamy.
“None of our children have chosen to live polygamy,” Janelle says. “We don’t even have any really that are in the Mormon church, the mainstream [LDS] church.” As Christine’s son Paedon flatly declared in last week’s episode, polygamy no longer “works in my family.”
“When they were growing up,” Janelle continues, “we always just encouraged them to have a relationship with God, and I think many of them do in their own way … I think polygamy is hard … and you really do have to have a religious conviction. And they just don’t.” People is spilling some exclusive tea.
“Some of our kids have seen how hard it is,” Christine admits. “And some of our kids have seen the separation.” The Brown family contains 18 children, ranging in age from seven to 29. Their four moms are Meri Brown, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown (Kody’s only legal wife).
Christine adds of the grown children, “They see how hard it is and they’re like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. No, that’s not for me.'”
Janelle shared that she and Kody originally committed to raising all of their children under one roof. “We had this vision [of raising all of the children from the various moms] together as siblings … We tried living in one house as long as we could until we didn’t fit anymore … That big picture was our dream.”
In January 2023, Meri and Kody announced their split. They had legally divorced in 2014 so that Kody and Robyn could wed and Kody could legally adopt her three children from her previous marriage. But even though three of his four wives have left, Janelle says all of the older kids are still close.
A fractured family
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“The kids are all the same,” she says. “They all interact, and I interact with the kids the same as I always did. The kids all really feel like … siblings.” The exception may be Robyn’s three older children, who came into the family in 2010 when she and Kody married spiritually. They have never really been accepted by the other older kids, since they never lived in the same house and didn’t grow up together.
Janelle and Christine have also remained “very close” and still spend time together. Even though Kody, Meri and Robyn remain friendly, Janelle claims “to some degree, it’s still very polite [and] superficial.”
While the Brown family is pretty fractured these days, Christine hopes that changes. “I’m hopeful that … someday we can function as a family again,” she says. “I think we have smaller separate families that bump into each other like boats on the water, and it causes ripples and it’s bumpy. Sometimes it’s very rough waters, but eventually, hopefully, we can be around each other and it will be calm.”
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10/9c on TLC.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK THE BROWN FAMILY WILL EVER FEEL WHOLE AGAIN? DO YOU SEE ROBYN’S CHILDREN EVER REALLY BEING INCLUDED?
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If Bravo’s goal in bringing Tamra Judge back was to ensure the pot was stirred, they accomplished that objective. Although, some fans weren’t too pleased with that goal. Still, Real Housewives of Orange County is oozing with drama, albeit sometimes manufactured.
Tamra seemed to make it her mission on RHOC to come after everyone’s relationship, and Shannon Beador was not exempt. Of course, maybe Shannon needed the push in her relationship with John Janssen.
Still, she was not happy at all when she discovered her relationship had become a topic of contention among her co-stars. And as with many riffs, the dispute pointed back to Tamra. The two talked about it, and Tamra had more to say about Shannon than what she said to her face.
The “red flag” Tamra saw in Shannon
In an interview with Bravo regarding Episode 12, Tamra shared her thoughts on the relationship. “Shannon and John not talking about getting married is a huge red flag,” she said. “They’ve been together [for] three years, and no talk of marriage at their age? It doesn’t sound right.” That’s a pretty regressive view on Tamra’s part. People can marry if and whenever they want to.
But that’s not to say Shannon and John didn’t have other problems. In a moment of admirable vulnerability, Shannon told Tamra, “He’s an avoider like I’m a communicator. He doesn’t want to talk and, you know, we’ve never gone on a trip, just he and I with no work. And that’s something that has bothered me. And it’s like, there’s a part of me that says, ‘Is he really in it?’”
Still, Tamra’s only question was whether or not Shannon thought John was afraid to get married. Shannon said, “We don’t talk about it. These are issues that John and I need to figure out, and it’s none of Heather Dubrow, Emily Simpson, or Gina Kirschenheiter’s business. And their opinions mean nothing to me.”
Real Housewives of Orange County Season 17 continues Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
TELL US – WHAT’S THE BIGGEST RED FLAG YOU SAW IN THE PAIR’S RELATIONSHIP? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF TAMRA’S JUDGEMENTS?
The promotional material for Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 got off to a weird start, dragging on the heels of a few leaks.
But that didn’t keep fans’ excitement at bay when Bravo put out the official Season 4 trailer. The trailer promised plenty of the SLC drama that fans know and love, including OGs Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow supposedly having at it again.
Meanwhile, the trailer also showed Whitney Rose struggling with some marital issues on her end. But as viewers wait to see more details on these storylines, there’s now a sneak peek to hold us over.
Meredith and Whitney get real petty in RHOSLC preview
Whitney began, “You know I’ll own it if I said that you did that. I have never said that you’ve done ketamine.”
Meredith responded, “Whitney, I don’t believe that you own the things you say. Because we left New York, I thought we were in a neutral, peaceful zone, and the next thing I’m seeing is that I’m like, dirty and gross, because I’m creepy, because I take baths?”
“That was a funny joke, Meredith!”
“No, it was a dig on my marriage and a dig on my bathtub, like I have a dirty house.”
“It’s not a dig,” Whitney tried to protest. In a confessional, she said she’d never express that Meredith had a dirty house because she doesn’t “know what vacation rental [Meredith’s] staying in.” She assumed Meredith would keep everything in plastic to get her deposit back at the end of the lease. SHADE!
“My bathtub is clean,” Meredith told her, “Maybe yours isn’t.” Whitney said hers was very clean as well, and Meredith said, “Okay,” in disbelief.
“Meredith,” Whitney said, trying to get the argument back on track, “I take baths all the time. But I prefer to take my baths alone. Which is true. Like, why are you judging me for wanting to take a bath alone? … I don’t like to bathe with people, that’s a shady joke.”
When alone with the camera, Meredith said, “It really irritates me that Whitney can be like, ‘Oh, I was just being shady.’” She further chastised Whitney for a lack of accountability. And when the two spoke, she asked, “Did I make shady jokes when you got naked with your husband, painting each other? And saying, ‘Oh, I wonder if she’s getting bacteria in her vagina?’”
Whitney was left speechless.
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 premieres Tuesday, September 5, at 9/8c on Bravo.
TELL US – WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE PREVIEW? WHOSE SIDE DO YOU TAKE IN THIS BEEF?
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