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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Maddie Ziegler Slams Abby Lee Miller in New Tell-All!
Maddie Ziegler has grown up so much, hasn’t she?
It seems like just yesterday that she was a tiny little girl, dancing her heart out on Dance Moms, but that was then, and this is now.
And now she’s 14 years old — and she’s already releasing a memoir!
Her book, titled The Maddie Diaries: A Memoir, was just released yesterday, and judging by these excerpts, it sounds like her childhood — well, the Dance Moms part of her childhood — was actually pretty rough.
“People ask me a lot if what they see on Dance Moms is real,” she writes in one segment. “Well, I can’t really answer that — I don’t watch the show.”
“I’ve probably only seen one entire episode from start to finish. I don’t love watching myself. I’ve lived through it, why do I need to watch it happen all over again?”
“I was eight years old at the time,” she continues, “and there were cameramen following me around everywhere I went. I would just ignore them and go about my business.”
Pretty mature for an 8-year-old, huh?
“Eventually,” Maddie explains, “you feel a little exposed because you’re on all the time. Your life is what the show is about, but you’re also trying to live it.”
“I just wanted to dance; I didn’t want all the drama.”
But if you’ve seen even a few seconds of Dance Moms, you know that the drama was unavoidable. From dance coach Abby Lee Miller screaming to the mothers screaming to the kids crying, drama is just as important to the show as dancing.
In another part of her book, Maddie laments that “When it came to competing, people expected us to be the best because we were the ones with the TV show.”
“That was a lot of pressure — we had a reputation to live up to.”
In addition to the pressure, there was also some danger, too — at one point, she recalls a an event at a mall when “a thousand screaming fans” were “pushing and shoving and trying to get close to us.”
“It was pretty scary,” she writes. “We actually had to hide locked in a store for a while till the crowds thinned out and the screaming stopped.”
But what about Maddie’s infamous dance instructor, Abby Lee Miller? She was a huge part of her life for several years, so there’s probably oodles of stories dedicated to her, right?
Wrong. Maddie doesn’t mention Abby one single time. Not once.
Beautiful, right?
But while she doesn’t mention Abby by name, she did write that before she met Sia, “I would say yes to a lot of things I didn’t want to do because I thought I had to — I didn’t want to disappoint anyone.”
“I’d be overwhelmed by the amount of work on my plate. Sia always tells me you have to have time off, step back and appreciate the moment.”
How lucky is it that she met Sia then? So at least she has one person in her life how who’s telling her to take some time off from dancing to be a kid.
Will you be reading Maddie’s book? If only just for the subtle Abby Lee Miller shade?
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The Bachelor Season Finale: Inside the Devastating, "Selfish" Proposal!
You won’t read this among The Bachelor spoilers, but after a decade and a half and 35 seasons on ABC, you really shouldn’t need to:
On Monday night’s finale, prepare to cry.
And we’re not talking about some quiet weeping. We mean prepare to cry ALL the tears, because all three people involved sure will be.
Heading into the final rose ceremony, where he must choose Raven Gates or Vanessa Grimaldi as The Bachelor winner, Nick Viall has:
1. A stunning engagement ring (from Neil Lane, natch).
2. The perfect setting (a log cabin in Lapland, Finland).
3. An avalanche of nerves, fear and self-doubt.
Good times all around. Even for a guy who has made openly bawling on The Bachelor franchise his calling card, this ought to be a doozy.
The Waukesha, Wisconsin, native has endured three TV rejections in as many years, and well, that will mess with your head after awhile.
“Nick was scared to death,” a show source says.
“He said if he left alone, he would be devastated.”
But was that level of inner torment unnecessary?
Everything we’ve read and heard about the finale indicates that Viall indeed popped the question to the woman of his choice in Finland.
As for whether it’s special education teacher Vanessa Grimaldi or boutique owner Raven Gates, and whether or not she says yes?
Follow the links above for spoilers. We’re not giving it away here … other than to say Nick picked a $ 93,000, 4-carat diamond rock.
Viall “was over the moon” about proposing on the finale, shares a production insider, but having been down this road, it was also tough.
Hours before the moment of the truth, Nick cracked.
As the runner-up professed her love, not knowing that she would be the runner-up and not the winner, Viall knew her pain like no other.
“He wanted to let her feel like she left nothing on the table,” the inside source explains of Viall’s motivation in letting her get that far.
Then he cut her loose, a feeling he remembers well.
“He told her his heart was with someone else,” says the source, noting that Nick felt awful for going through with the ceremony at all.
“He tells the runner-up, ‘I’ve been so selfish.’”
Viall felt bad for keeping her around, and moreover, “he could relate to the woman he was sending home more than the woman chosen.”
“Nick had empathy for her,” the production insider reports, noting that “it was hard for him to let her go because it hit so close to home.”
Their parting of ways hit both hard, to say the least.
“The finale is very emotional,” says the insider.
As for the burning questions of who Nick does propose to, if she says yes, and assuming she does, whether they will possibly last?
All of that remains to be seen, but we’ll tell you this:
It ain’t over until it’s over, and we’ve been promised a “historic” finale, so there may be a twist in store the likes of which we’ve never seen.
Of course, Chris Harrison and Mike Fleiss play the “history” card more often than Nick cries, so you can’t take that at face value either.
Who do you think he will pick, and will she accept?!
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