Teen Mom 2 Season Premiere Recap: Diving Into New Beginnings

MTV’s other fab four are back and Monday’s premiere of Teen Mom 2 Season 8 caught up with the lives of Leah, Jenelle, Chelsea and Kailyn.

In reality, the premiere took us behind the scenes of events most fans know the general details of long before we watch Teen Mom 2 online.

For example, Jenelle Evans’ assault trial, in which she stood accused of attacking Nathan Griffith’s girlfriend, Jessica Henry, was featured.

Furious that Jessi wouldn’t drop the assault charges, Evans was determined to prevail in court on Teen Mom 2 Season 8 Episode 1.

As Nathan and Jessi testified about the alleged assault, they insisted she was volatile and shouldn’t have custody of her son with Nathan. 

Jenelle’s lawyer insinuated that those two came looking for a fight the day alleged assault took place, and are using it to punish Evans.

On the witness stand, the tearful reality star said she never meant to throw a glass at Jessica Henry, only to splash her with water from it.

The jury bought it. Jenelle was declared not guilty!

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Meanwhile, Kailyn Lowry was still confused about her future with Javi Marroquin, so she did the only natural thing and went skydiving.

So of course, she did what any rational person confused about their relationship would do and went skydiving. Yeah. We’re serious.

Call it a “quarter-life crisis” or something like that.

After talking things over with a friend, she realized she couldn’t make any decisions about the future of her marriage until Javi got back.

These two may not be great communicators, but his deployment did not help matters during their entire marital breakdown, that’s for sure.

At this point, we all know how it played out: Javi and Kailyn are divorcing, he’s dating Cassie Bucka, and Kail is throwing shade online.

Standard. They’re doing alright for the kids though.

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Chelsea Houska, for her part, discussed how Adam Lind quit Teen Mom 2, no longer speaks to her, and won’t have any part of her life.

Lind, allegedly, refused to allow an MTV crew in his house because he was “napping,” even though they told him when they were coming.

Adam whined that they never film him being a good dad, and producers asked why he never told them about stuff he does with Aubree.

He shouldn’t have to, he says. Chelsea could do it, or they should just know. Only Adam Lind could say this stuff with a straight face.

Fortunately for Chelsea, she has plenty to smile about.

Between planning her wedding to Cole DeBoer, and telling Aubree she’s going to be a big sister, her life is really happy these days.

Even more impressive? She says she’s valuing privacy more and more as she gets older and wanted the wedding to not be so public.

Leah Messer Has MASSIVE Freakout, Makes Her Kids Cry

In West Virginia, Leah Messer was … stressed.

Like beyond. Even as relations with ex-husbands Corey Simms and Jeremy Calvert improve for her, the mom of three has a lot on her plate.

When she couldn’t find her keys and ran late getting her twin girl to their T-ball game as a result, Leah had a bona fide freak out (above).

Leah suffered what appeared to be a panic attack and railed against the way the “stuff with the show” made it hard to keep her cool.

Is that a symptom or the cause, though?

She insisted that situations only get chaotic when Teen Mom 2 is filming, and knowing she’ll be on TV looking stressed is … well, stressful!

You buying it? Hit the comments!

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Dance Moms Season 7 Episode 5 Recap: New Beginnings

Abby Lee Miller is getting sick of people slacking in the ALDC and has opted to cut people from the team if they screw up. It’s a good idea to create tension, but Abby has publicly slammed producers for making her do it. 

That’s why the arrival of a new girl on Dance Moms Season 7 Episode 5 was a bitter pill to swallow because it was clear the producers were adding them to spice things up. 

We kicked things off with the girls celebrating that fourth win in a row. It’s crazy to think how poorly this team performed for much of Dance Moms Season 6 and now their back at the top of their game. 

Abby introduced a new girl to the team. Her name was Maesi and she seemed like a nice enough girl, but it was evident the moms were concerned that this new girl could outshine all the other girls. 

Maesi was revealed to be one a one-week trial, therefore adding a decent narrative for the character. One mistake and she’s out the door. 

Brynn, Camryn and Kalani came top on the pyramid for their recent success in competitions. This was expected, but it still caused a clear divide among the girls. 

Brynn was told she would be taking the lead, giving her a huge confidence boost. 

When rehearsals kicked off, the moms got to know Maesi’s mother, Jamie, who lifted the lid on what she did for a living. She embalmed people. After that, you could pretty much cut the tension with a knife. 

Things got crazier when Jamie revealed that her brother and uncle were murdered and that she had to work on their dead bodies. The moms took a liking to her despite all of the drama. 

When Maesi struggled with her performance, the mothers took their frustrations to Jamie. None of them wanted her there in case she became better than their daughters. 

However, some of the mini mothers revealed without Maesi, the minis could be cut from the team all together. This prompted the others to change their stance on her. 

Abby revealed that she hoped Brynn would be the new leader of the team. This was kind of obvious based on how the young girl was going from strength-to-strength pretty much every week. 

Jill and Kira debated whether Brynn had what it took to become the biggest person on the team. Meanwhile, Yolanda and Stacey continued to cause problems when they said that Maesi was a terrible dancer. 

The Junior Elite and the Mini moms bickered over Maesi, which obviously put some strain on Jamie because she quit her day job for it. 

As the day of the competition arrived, Stacey and Yolanda continued to be obnoxious by wearing huge bows to trash Jamie some more. Jamie broke down because she was shocked at how cruel two women could be to another. 

The other mothers went to Yolanda to reveal that Elliana was a terrible dancer, but this did not faze her in the slightest. 

As expected, Maesi’s performance came in well below what Abby had hoped and it only gave Yolanda and Stacey more ammunition to use against Jamie. When it was all said and done, Maesi’s first performance only won her group third place. The hip-hop number came in third, too. 

Kendall, Brynn and Kalani took first place, so all was not lost. 

Maesi was swiftly cut from the team due to her terrible performance, but the moms were not about to let this happen and Elliana was thrown under the bus for performing poorly the previous week. 

Yolanda revealed that she was done with the ALDC and ordered Abby to cut Elliana and keep Maesi. Abby decided to follow through with that plan. 

That was a crazy turn of events, but Yolanda obviously realized she was a bully and needed to do something to redeem herself. 

What did you think of it?

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