The Real Housewives of Potomac: Meet the Cast!

Andy Cohen was not kidding:

Bravo really is introducing two new additions to The Real Housewives franchise in 2016: The Real Housewives of Dallas and… The Real Housewives of Potomac?!?

The latter series will debut in January and feature "wealthy African-American families who have broken racial barriers and now reside in the sophisticated community," according to the official network synopsis.

As for the six women at the center of The Real Housewives of Potomac? Why do we think they may be in for some drama?

Get to the know the cast now…

1. The Real Housewives of Potomac Cast Photo

Say hello to the The Real Housewives of Potomac. These six ladies will be coming into your living room in January of 2016 on Bravo.

2. Gizelle Bryant

Gizelle Bryant is the former wife of Jamal Harrison Bryant, the pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore. She is working on a makeup line and she’s the mother to three daughters, Grace, and twins Angel and Adore.

3. Katie Rost

Katie Rost, a “mommy, model, philanthropist, foodie,” according to her Instagram page, once dated Russell Simmons. She also once hosted the BET talk show Teen Summit. Rost is married and has three children with her college sweetheart and ex-husband, James Orsini.

4. Karen Huger

Karen Huger has been dubbed the “grand dame of Potomac.” She throws many fancy parties and she’s married to Raymond, the president and CEO of a highly successful information technology company. She has two older kids.

5. Charrisse Jackson-Jordan

Charrisse Jackson-Jordan has been married for 17 years to NBA player-turned-coach Eddie Jordan, although they mostly live apart. The couple has two children, teenagers Jackson and Skylar.

6. Robyn Dixon

Robyn Dixon still lives with her ex-husband, Juan Dixon split. They have two sons and she works as a publicist and event manager.

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Empire Season 2 Episode 7 Recap: This is History

On Empire Season 2 Episode 7, the Lyons brought us an hour full of threesomes, shady business deals, Russian Roulette and a historically good song.

And that’s just the short version, people!

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Picking up where last week left off, Empire Season 2 Episode 7 saw Cookie and Laz spending three days in bed without her noticing that tattoo.

Honestly, that never came up once?

When he wasn’t taking all the Cookie (in the sexual sense), he was plotting on how to take all the Cookie’s money via the mogul’s concert production.

To be continued on that front shortly.

Lucious, meanwhile, was working with his talented, raw new protege Freda Gatz and urging her to face her demons and channel them in the studio.

Jamal, with the help of Cookie, lands a spot in the esteemed living room sessions of the even more esteemed Sir Huey, which is supposedly huge.

The matriarch is pulling double duty between helping ‘Mal and running her own label, and Cookie’s cookout/fish fry/summer jam show to promote it.

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from that event was that Hakeem’s girl group trio became enveloped in girl drama, putting him in a difficult position.

In the Empire boardroom, Andre pitched his idea for a proprietary independent music streaming platform to Lucious, only to be usurped by Mimi.

Why spend 4-6 just to get a beta version off the ground, she asks, when they could merge right here, right now with Jago, the founder of SwiftStream.

Lucious sides with Mimi, at least until his initial meeting with Jago, which featured some major sparring, and not just because of the boxing ring location.

When Jago called Lucious’ lyrics and music shallow, Lyon had a flashback to hiding bullets from his unstable mother, and promptly laid him the f–k out.

Oh, and then he visited Jago in the hospital, and he and Mimi increased his morphine to the point where he had his lawyer draft up a merger contract.

Is that even … who cares. Classic Empire!

“Baby, won’t you come my way!”

Determined to show he’s not blinded by her feminine charms, Hakeem takes the maligned Laura to the streets – literally – to help her find her groove.

It works, at least for the time being, and they share a kiss, which is adorable because Hakeem is happy and kind of adorable in his own way.

Then things get colossally weird, which if you watch Empire online, you’re almost expecting, as the real drama doesn’t start until about 9:45.

Mimi and Lucious, obviously, bring home a groupie to celebrate their shady SwiftStream coup. Yet as with all threesomes, things can quickly go awry.

Mimi gets a mysterious call that leaves her in shambles, and Lucious notices the groupie’s gun tattoo and is shaken to the core by this as well.

Rifling through the closet, he finds a gun – his mother’s, we’re led to believe, thanks to another flashback of her, looking for the missing bullets.

When she finds one that he missed, she plays a chilling game of Russian Roulette right in front of him as we cut back to the present day.

That song … “Boom, Boom, Boom” … hits Lucious like an epiphany and he and Freda hit the studio with reckless, gun-waving abandon.

“This is history,” declares. Is it? And what will the conclusion be? So much remains to be seen, but we can’t wait for the next chapter.

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Arrow Season 4 Episode 6 Recap: What is Normal?

Everyone tried to get back to normal on Arrow Season 4 Episode 6.

But what now constitutes normal for Felicity? That was a significant question at the center of this interesting hour.

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The beloved computer genius feels as if she’s “lost” herself in Oliver, as if her identity has been wrapped up in her boyfriend.

This was especially upsetting to her because Felicity lamented early on that she missed Ray’s original distress calls due to the relationship of her dreams.

“I was never that girl,” she said to Oliver at one point “That is not who I am.”

Inspired to come to her ex-boyfriend’s rescue, Felicity led the team in a break-in of Kord Industries.

The mission? To nab the mathematics for a machine that would enable Ray to return to normal himself; i.e. about six foot, two inches tall.

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Eventually, upon realizing that Damien Darhk was holding Tiny Ray captive, everyone (and we mean EVERYone!) infiltrated his lair.

Ray was discovered and “grown” again, while Sara snapped a goon’s neck (uh-oh! and Oliver scarcely escaped another mystical showdown with Darhk.

As a result of this (mostly) successful caper, the following developments took place:

• Felicity told Oliver that they were going to be “fine,” largely due to words of wisdom from her mother than included how she’s “supposed’ to feel lost in the man she loves because they will find themselves in each other; and also that she’ll never find anyone else “that hot who cooks.”


• Sarah peaced out, telling Laurel and Thea that she felt a need to “start over,” perhaps visit “a couple of somewheres” as a way of dealing with her post-Pit issues. Might we recommend a CW spinoff as a helpful destination?


• Darhk tasked one of his scientists with using some of Ray’s “dwarf star” power source to do… something. Something nefarious, we’re sure.

What did you make of this Felicity-based episode?

Go watch Arrow online if you need to catch up and sound off in the Comments below!

Nathaniel Marston Dies; Veteran Actor Was 40

Nathaniel Marston, a veteran actor best known for a six-year run on One Life to Live, died on Wednesday due to injuries he suffered in a car accident.

He was 40 years old.

Marston’s mother, Elizabeth, confirmed her son’s tragic passing via a Facebook message last night.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share this devastating news,” she wrote. “My beloved and cherished son… who was putting up the good fight until last night was not able to continue due to the traumatic and devastating nature of his injuries.

“Nathaniel passed away peacefully as I held him in my arms.”

The actor, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from his vehicle after getting into an accident on October 30 near Reno, Nevada.

He was placed on life-support after breaking his shoulder, ribs and five vertebrae in the crash.

His injuries, which Dr.’s did their best to heal were not responding to treatment and one after another his bodily functions failed to support his life,” Elizabeth added in her Facebook post.

Aside from his role as Michael McBain on One Life to Live, Marston appeared in episodes of Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, Castle and White Collar.

Wrote former co-star Kristen Alderson on Twitter upon hearing the news:

“Nathaniel is now in a better place and knows of all of the love and prayers that were sent to him.”

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