Thursday, November 5, 2015

Melissa Rycroft: Pregnant with Baby #3!

Party of Five Alert! Party of Five Alert!


No, Fox is not bringing back this incredible former drama. Instead, Melissa Rycroft is making an important, exciting announcement.



The former contestant on The Bachelor jumped on Instagram on Wednesday to make an adorable reveal: she’s pregnant with baby number-three!


“This is definitely the last one…probably… #partyoffive #babyonboard #maybethisonewilllooklikeme,” Rycroft wrote as a caption to the above image.


She included with it an emoji of a baby’s face and a bottle, while smiling broadly alongside husband Tye Strickland, her daughter and her son.


Rycroft, of course, was originally chosen as the love of Bachelor star Jason Mesnick’s life.


But he then broke up with her on the After the Rose special and selected Molly Malaney instead.


All has worked out well for everyone involved, however, as Jason and Molly have a child of their own.


Rycroft, meanwhile, went on to compete in Dancing With the Stars season eight and actually win the All Stars season with partner Tony Dovolani.


But she’s clearly happiest playing the role of loving wife and mother.


“I’m a lucky girl,” Melissa recently wrote on Twitter while posing with her kids. “Heading on our next adventure!!! #mamaisworking #travelingfamilycircus.”


We send our best wishes to this beauty and her expanding family!


Empire Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: I"d Rather Die Than Lose You Again

Following a one-week World Series hiatus, Fox’s smash hit returned last night and Empire Season 2 Episode 6 certainly didn’t disappoint.


There was no World Series of cage-fighting between Lucious and Cookie this week, though, as they were forced to put their feud on hold.



If you watch Empire online, you know how that goes: Lyons stick together, but only to a point, as alliances are quickly formed and broken.


In the wake of Hakeem’s kidnapping, however, there was no time for their usual gripes or threats of violence. Against each other, anyway.


“High Hope for a Low Heaven” surprised us by answering and handling the question of ‘Keem’s disappearance in a most unexpected way.


Lucious and Cookie secured his release awfully fast, leaving the fallout – and Bryshere Y. Gray’s unreal performance – as the focal point.


Never before have we seen the brash young rapper so raw, so vulnerable and so lost as when he was helping his girl group with their track.


When it came time to do his verse with Mirage a Trois, something was deeply wrong in his head. We didn’t know what exactly. Nor did he.


Anxiety? Fear? PTSD? An unknown medical condition triggered by the trauma he’d been through? Unclear, but the impact was profound.


It came as little surprise, then, that when Cookie’s “promoter” Laz talked her into hiring ‘Keem’s assailants as her bodyguards, he lost it.


Seeing it as an opportunity to exact revenge, he pulls a gun on the crew, leading Cookie to desperately plead with and console her son.


“If you pull the trigger you’re going to force me to step in front of the bullet,” she begs her youngest. “I’d rather die than lose you again.”


Vintage Cookie. As much as Hakeem wants to be the tough guy – and as much of a hard-ass as his mom is – cooler heads can still prevail.


Cookie and Laz, meanwhile, maul each other passionately by the end of the night, which we might have been psyched about, until the twist:


Laz sports the same tattoo of a cow skull on his back that the thugs who abducted Hakeem had, meaning he has some nefarious motives.


Meanwhile on Empire Season 2 Episode 6, born again Andre is working the gospel into the A&R of Gutter Life Records, and with aplomb.


It seemed at first like ‘Dre was out of his mind with this, but he may have just found a kindred, Christian rap spirit in Gutter Life’s J Poppa.


Who, we might add, makes a hot couple with Becky. We did not see that side plot coming whatsoever, but hope to see more of it for sure!


Jussie Smollett was once again the unsung backbone of the episode, as his latest song “Never Love Again” may be one of his best to date.


Jamal is a powerful character who can command every scene even from the periphery, and Smollett’s voice plays a major role in that power.


Lyons have pride, as we saw with his insistence on not being marketed as a gay artist, but they also have talent, loyalty and empathy.


Andre and Jamal both stepped up in a big way to help Hakeem make his way on stage at the end, proving that family is still everything.


Carrie Underwood-Brad Paisley Monologue Rips Blake, Duggars & More

Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley opened up the 2015 CMA Awards with another humorous monologue at their fellow stars" expense.


They began by musicially riffing on everything that"s "Cray Cray" in Hollywood, including Caitlyn Jenner and Josh Duggar (seriously).


"Things are cray crazy, this world has gone bat poop cray cray," Paisley sang. "McDonald"s breakfasts all day now, Bruce Jenner"s a babe now."


And, bat poop cray cray-est of all, "Trump"s leading in the polls."


"You know what else is cray cray," Paisley then continued.


"How many famous couples have broken up this year! From Ben Affleck to Jennifer Garner, to Halle Berry and what"s his name."


"Of course, we can"t ignore the breakup that really rocked our world, the one that"s on everybody"s mind, two people in this very room."


The camera panned to Kermit and Miss Piggy in the crowd.


"We love you both and just want you to be happy," Carrie Underwood interjected. "On a completely unrelated topic: Howdy Blake!"


Blake Shelton then waved, laughed and grinned.


"Have you heard that duet that Blake did with Ashley Madison," he then joked, confusing the cheating site with singer Ashley Monroe.


Monroe is a longtime friend of Miranda Lambert, Blake"s ex-wife, and a singer-songwriter in her own right who has worked with both.


Carrie and Brad then sang a song about Ashley Madison, ending the tune with the lyrics, "Your cheatin" site will tell on you, Josh Duggar!"


LOL. Any Duggar family-related humor making its way into a national television awards show is an instant winner in our book.


Notably, during the monologue, cameras never panned to Lambert, who went on to win Female Vocalist of the Year as usual.


Carrie underwood and brad paisley cma awards monologue 2015

Country Music Stars Read Mean Tweets, Crack Us Up

Jimmy Kimmel got involved with some cross-promotion on ABC last night.


Soon after the 2015 Country Music Awards aired on that network, the talk show host treated viewers to another edition of celebrities reading mean Tweets about themselves.


This time, however, only country music stars were invited to read really cruel stuff aloud to the studio audience and millions watching at home.


There was Carrie Underwood, for example, laughing over @thainfamous 365 writing about her:


“Didn’t really like da carrie underwood concert seem do dull it had no excitement bring bcd da soccer team.”


Ouch! We guess! Good luck making sense of that message.


Darius Rucker also proved to be a good sport, sharing a Twitter user’s criticism that read: “Some of my best friends are black but Darrius rucker sucks ass.”


According to a Tim McGraw critic, meanwhile, the artist’s new song was more embarrassing than one’s mother finding one’s penis pump, to which McGraw shot back to the user:


“Reggie, you need to move out, man!”


Even Willie Nelson got in on the Mean Tweets act, going over out a message that suggested marijuana clearly works wonders because Nelson is still alive and he simply won"t die.


"You got it!" he replied, with a big, knowing grin on his face.


As for what made Rascal Flatts laugh uncontrollably? As for who else was the target of pointed, misspelled criticism?


Watch and prepare to LOL many times over now:


Country music stars read mean tweets about themselves