Monday, August 1, 2016

Kym Johnson and Robert Herjavec: MARRIED!

Forget going Dancing with the Stars for a moment.


Kym Johnson and Robert Herjavec have gone exchanging of the vows… with each other!



The Shark Tank regular and his former Dancing with the Stars partner got married in Los Angeles on Saturday in front of family and friends, according to an exclusive report in People Magazine.


We can only imagine what sort of moves they put on for their first dance.


Insiders say the bride donned a Monique Lhuillier strapless gown and walked down the aisle with her mother and father as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” played in the background.


We know, right? AWWWWW!


There’s a 14-year age difference between Herjavec (who is 53) and Johnson (who is 39). But whatever.


They got engaged in March after about a year of dating.


Witness confirm that Herjavec and Johnson said their “I Do’s” in front of a few well-known guests, such as Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba and former contestants Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Donny Osmond.


“I hope I can speak and that I’m not sobbing with happiness,” Johnson joked to People just three days before the ceremony. “I’m sure I’ll be overcome with emotion.”



The couple fell for one another during series rehearsals in 2015, continuing to date long after they were sent packing by viewers.


Said Herjavec at one point during their relationship:


“I enjoy every minute I spend with Kym. When I met her, I felt complete.”


For exclusive pictures and many more the details on the pair’s big day, pick up the upcoming issue of People, on newsstands this Friday.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 7 Episode 4 Recap: A Life to Envy

Sunday’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 7 Episode 4, Melissa hosted her grand opening, but would past become prologue?


Put another way, would a previous beef come back to bite her?



If you watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey online, the theme was letting go and venturing forward into new and unfamiliar territory.


(And we don’t just mean the yoga session above. Goodness.)


For Melissa Gorga, that meant a whole ‘nother level of Envy.


Her boutique, that is. That’s the name of her boutique.


For Teresa Giudice, it meant putting her time in prison into a book, because we know nothing sells like a good prison memoir from Danbury.


For Jacqueline Laurita, it meant a new venture that would potentially yield great rewards, but could jeopardize their entire financial future.


Yeah. No pressure at all there.


Bottom line for all involved?


The stakes were higher than ever in the Garden State, and for Melissa, the Envy involved wasn’t just the name of her new store after all.


Joe Gorga just can’t deal with the fact that his wife is spending an increasing amount of time away from the house and kids for this thing.


In response, she told him he was being “insulting” and that he needed to “man up,” a statement that did not go over well to say the least.


Justified, though.



Meanwhile, Teresa began making plans to cash in her brief but notable time in prison as husband Joe Giudice prepared to head to prison.


‘Murica. Greatest country on Earth.


Teresa’s book, fittingly called Turning the Tables, vividly recounts her experience going to jail herself; Teresa broke down in tears reading it.


A passage about how she’d feared her youngest daughter wouldn’t recognize her when she got home was most emotional for her to read.


Nevertheless, Tre was able to reflect on the fact that being locked up had actually been a good experience – or at least a learning experience.


For one, the perspective on life.


Her new, humbled outlook was invaluable: People who are incarcerated aren’t necessarily bad, just people like her who effed up bad.


That’s one way to look at it.


Tre added that Joe appreciated her many contributions around the house a lot more now, having taken them on with no help for a year.


As for reports of her getting a divorce? “We are together. We are happily married. It’s nonsense,” she said of the recurring tabloid chatter.


Chatter newcomer Siggy Flicker gossiped to Jacqueline Laurita about, and debated whether to confront Teresa about directly, in fact.


Later, she actually did ask Tre about her marriage, but to her credit (or perhaps the parole board’s), Giudice didn’t flip out on her co-star.


It’s all about redemption, right?


Perhaps that was on Joe Gorga’s mind when he proudly told Melissa at Envy’s opening that she was “the best wife a man could have.”


Is it dusty in here or …

Toya Wright Loses Brothers to Drive-By Shooting in New Orleans

Toya Wright is in mourning at the moment.


We can’t imagine that the reality star and her family are going through.



On Sunday morning, a little after midnight, police have reported that two young men were shot multiple times inside a car in the city’s 7th Ward.


The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.


Although authorities are yet to release their names, Wright’s family has confirmed that they were the reality star’s brothers, Rudy and Josh Johnson.


Wright, best known for an appearance on VH1’s Marriage Boot Camp and for her own 2011 series, Toya: A Family Affair, took to Instagram to send the following message.


“Help me Lord,” she wrote along with a photo of her siblings. “I will never understand this.”


She added the hashtags #stoptheviolence #ineverfeltpainlikethisbefore #riptomybrothers #icantbelievethis #prayformyfamily.



This devastating news comes just three days after Wright filed for divorce from her husband, Mickey “Memphitz” Wright, following five years of marriage.


She was previously married to rapper Lil Wayne from February 2004 to January 2006.


Wright and Lil Wayne she share a 17-year-old daughter named Reginae Carter.


Wright is a native of New Orleans and has also penned a book titled “Priceless Inspiration.”


She owns boutique called G.A.R.B. in this famous Louisiana city, along with GARB Shoetique in Smyrna, Georgia, and was in Baton Rouge at the timing of the killings for an appearance at Allure Night Club & Ultra Lounge.


Along with Wright’s above message, daughter Reginae wrote the following on Instagram in response to the stunning development:


“I lost two of my uncles last night I’m speechless . I’m hurt . I’m devastated . What in the world is going on in this world ?”


Hip hop star Trina also sent her love to Wright, Tweeting:


“I’m praying for @ToyaWright her mom and her family during this horrible tragedy. My heart is heavy. Life is so short.”


Just hours after Wright lost two family members, Jessica Alba and Ne-Yo led a tribute at the 2016 Teen Choice Awards to the victims of gun violence.


Toward the end, Ne-Yo asked attendees to take a photo of those on stage and to include with it one of the same hashtags that Wright used above:


#StoptheViolence.


Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 12 Episode 12 Recap: Fear & Loathing in Cuba

Sunday on E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 12 Episode 12, the family journeyed to the formerly restricted country of Cuba.



Why did they travel there specifically, and what transpired in the controversial nation so few Americans have ever laid eyes upon in person?


If you watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians online, you don’t need a reminder that seeing these people abroad can be a little … well …


Let’s just say that you wouldn’t necessarily pick them as ambassadors if you wanted to project the best image of America to the world.


That being said, ​Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 12 Episode 12 was the great mindless entertainment we’ve come to expect.


In retrospect, anyway. At the time, Kourtney Kardashian was pretty stressed about contracting the Zika virus, the scourge of the tropics.


“I don’t mess with real bug spray, but I’m not taking a chance,” she said. “We, like, doused ourselves because I don’t wanna get the Zika.”


For her part, Khloe seemed resigned to her fate, or something, saying. “I’ve already been bitten and I have Zikia or whatever the f–k it is.”


Okay then. Good to know.


Life-threatening diseases and all, Khloe had a great time in Cuba, despite her ever-present stressed-out state regarding Lamar Odom.


When this was filmed – before Lamar was back on crack and possibly homeless – he was recovering from OD’ing and dependent on her.


Khloe was especially distraught over the fact that he had asked for money, fearing that he would simply use any funds to “run away.”


Or buy crack. Either/or.



“Every time I’d leave town when we were married this would happen,” she said, which is likely why you shouldn’t marry after a month.


Malika Haqq’s advice?


“You can’t control him. You wanna try to do the best, but, honey, if he wants to run himself back into the gutter, he’s gonna do just that.”


Pretty much.


Later, Khloe talked to Kanye and Kim about how Lamar’s life started going downhill after he stopped playing for the Los Angeles Clippers.


It’s an interesting theory, as it would be the first time in recorded history that anyone’s life has gotten worse since leaving the Clippers.


In any case, Kim was worried about her sister, saying, “I wish she wouldn’t put that much weight of this whole situation on her shoulders.”


“It just breaks my heart because it’s the same cycle all over again. It just really sucks,” she added, echoing what we’re all thinking here.


On a lighter note, Kanye revealed that he has a personal cameraman to the world, a random young guy hired to film him at all times.


Best. Internship. Ever.


“Kanye always has his eye out for a young generation of really creative people,” his loyal wife Kimberly explained to the E! audience.


As a result of that important mission, “Kanye’s been working with this young filmmaker who is videoing everything that Kanye is doing.”


In other ‘Ye news, he accused Kourtney of talking to him like a child … however, “that’s the way I like to be communicated with, anyway.”


The more you know.