Month: November 2021

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “The Masked Singer” Season 6, Episode 8, “Giving Thanks,” which aired November 3 on Fox. Honey Boo Boo, we hardly knew you. Reality TV mother and daughter stars June Edith “Mama June” Shannon and Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson joined “Masked Singer” on Wednesday night as new Wild Card contestants the Beach Ball, but were quickly unmasked at the end of the eighth episode of Season 6, “Giving Thanks.” (Episode 7, which aired last week, was a special best-of clip show without performances or an elimination from this season’s contestants.) Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWoww” Farley. Ken Jeong went with Kim and Khloe Kardashian. Nicole Scherzinger guessed Kristin Wiig and Annie Mum...

A new court filing from Lynne Spears' requests that her daughter's conservatorship estate pay her legal fees. The petition says Lynne's retained counsel was working to benefit Britney over the last two years. One firm is billing $504,000, while a second firm's total payment would be $146,548.  Loading Something is loading. Lynne Spears, mother to pop star Britne...

It's a sad day on the ranch for Ree Drummond and her family. On Wednesday, Nov. 3, the Pioneer Woman star shared news that her beloved brother Michael Smith had died at the age of 54. In a moving tribute shared to her Facebook, Drummond wrote alongside photos of her sibling throughout the years, "It isn't possible to sum up the life of someone as perfectly wonderful as my brother Michael, so right now I won't try." "He was seventeen months older than me, my first friend and buddy, and I'm so grateful for over 50 years of photos and memories," she continued. "Please pray for my parents, whose devotion to Mike was boundless, and who will feel this loss most acutely." The 52-year-old Food Network star added, "Michael Smith, you were everything." According to a Nov. 2 Instagram post f...

Bada bing, bada boom—Tony Soprano's fate has finally been revealed.  After 14 years of speculation, The Sopranos' creator David Chase has officially confirmed, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, that Tony did in fact die at the end of the series' finale in 2007. Though the seven-time Emmy Award-winning writer always envisioned killing off Tony, it did not go according to his original plan.  "The scene I had in my mind was not that scene. Nor did I think of cutting to black," Chase explained of the famously divisive ending, which cuts to black so abruptly, some viewers at the time thought their cable had gone out. "I had a scene in which Tony comes back from a meeting in New York in his car. At the beginning of every show, he came from New York into New Jersey, and the last s...

Tiger King star Joe Exotic revealed that he has an "aggressive cancer."  On Nov. 3, his Instagram page posted a handwritten letter, dated Oct. 27, that Exotic had written to fans from prison. In the letter, Exotic said his doctors called to tell him that his prostate biopsy came back with a cancer diagnosis. He said he was sharing the news "with a sad face," adding, "I am still waiting on the results from other test as well." The big cat fanatic wrote that he doesn't "want anyones pitty [sic]," but instead hopes fans will advocate for his release from prison. He was previously sentenced to 22 years behind bars for two separate murder-for-hire plot counts for allegedly attempting to hire hitmen to take down his rival, Carole Baskin. However, a federal appeals court ruled in July that...

Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are spending more and more time together as dating rumors continue to heat up. The Skims founder, 41, and the "Saturday Night Live" star, 27, were spotted on Tuesday night dining together on the comedian's native Staten Island. TMZ reported the pair went to an Italian restaurant called Campania. Meanwhile, Page Six reported that Davidson booked the rooftop for them.  In 2019, Davidson told Paper Magazine that Campania was one of his favorite spots in Staten Island. A look at the menu shows that the eatery offers seafood and pasta dishes as well as coal-fired pizza. There's also a handful of salads to choose from. (One of Kardashian's go-to places in Los Angeles, California, is Health Nut, where she and her sisters are known to grab salads to go).  Kar...