Ronda Rousey has essentially announced her retirement from MMA — even though she won’t officially say the words, “I’m retired.” It all went down on the ‘Ellen’ show (airs Tuesday) — when Ellen asked Ronda if she’ll ever go back to the UFC. …
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Teen Mom OG Recap: Naked and Unafraid (of Getting Axed)
This week on Teen Mom OG, Maci trained for a new reality show, Amber prepared her nursery, and Gary received paternity test results.
Meanwhile, Tyler struggled with life as a single, working parent, and oh, right, Farrah Abraham got fired after a blowup with producers.
Months of rumors, sneak peeks, and unhinged rants at MTV later, Farrah finally squared off with producer Morgan Freeman last night.
The Backdoor Teen Mom alum was told that she treats the staff terribly, and that her adult film dealings are also a problem for MTV.
Farrah, of course, recently starred in a live stream sex show for CamSoda in addition to her other business and TV pursuits.
“You have little empathy and compassion for people,” Morgan told her, laying out the terms for Farrah’s inclusion in the show.
It’s his way or the highway, he said. Her response?
Hours after their conversation, Farrah called Morgan to say that she didn’t have to make a decision, as he instructed her earlier.
If Teen Mom OG wants her gone for her participation in live sex shows, then there’s nothing she can do about it, Abraham said.
Yes, she’s really going to die on this hill.
She also told Morgan that he would be hearing from her lawyer, which sounded like typical Farrah word salad nonsense but wasn’t.
Farrah is suing Viacom for $ 5 million, citing wrongful termination. Whether she has a case or not is unclear, but she’s serious.
Elsewhere, Maci was preparing to film the hit Discovery series Naked & Afraid, in which people compete to survive in the wild.
If you’re not familiar with that great program, contestants are dropped off in the middle of nowhere with no food or resources.
It is very scary. And also nude.
Pretty funny that Maci is getting back-ass naked for another entertainment pursuit on the same night Farrah got fired for that.
We know it’s not the same thing as Farrah’s cam girl live stream sex show, but still, there’s some hilarious irony in there.
View Slideshow: Farrah Abraham Cam Girl Live Stream: Inside the Twisted NSFW Show We Can Never Unsee
In addition to “practicing” for the show (we bet Taylor likes that), she pondered how Bentley’s custody arrangement will be handled.
Following Catelynn‘s trip to rehab, Tyler struggled to take care of Nova and the increasing demands of running his business.
The single parent hustle is tough.
Fortunately, Cate is doing a lot better in rehab, at least for the time being, and Nova loved seeing her mom on a FaceTime call.
In Indiana, the pregnant Amber Portwood was busy decorating her baby’s nursery on Teen Mom OG Season 5 Episode 14.
Meanwhile, in other baby news nearby, we learned that Jody is not Gary Shirley’s father, and both of them were emotional.
His mom, however, seemed resigned to this possibility, telling Gary that his father could only be one other (unnamed) man.
Jody seemed most devastated of all.
Imagine learning something shocking and so unexpected after SO long that completely changed how you viewed yourself.
Your entire life. Your own family.
Still, it’s not like they won’t be part of each other’s lives anymore. It will just take time for this to resonate and be processed.
We just hope Kristina – and to a degree, Amber – are there to support Gary during the difficult emotional times yet to come.
He’s going to need them.
Derick Dillard: Jim Bob Duggar Kept All Our TV Money!
Folks, it looks like the inevitable unraveling of the Duggar clan might finally be underway.
And like so many major events of the modern age, it started not with a bang … but with a deleted tweet.
As you may already know, Derick Dillard was fired by TLC back in November after launching a bigoted twitter tirade against fellow network star Jazz Jennings.
You would think that after all that, Derick would have learned a valuable lesson about running his mouth on social media, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Last week, Derick went on yet another tirade, and this time it appeared he was hell-bent on biting the hand that used to feed him.
In a series of tweets (some of which were quickly deleted), Derick attacked TLC for refusing to pay his son’s medical bills after baby Samuel spent two weeks in the NICU.
Derick’s reasoning was that since the birth was featured on Counting On, the network should have helped cover expenses.
“We even requested that they help with some of the medical expenses from the birth that they made a pretty penny on, but they refused to help cover any of those costs,” Derick tweeted.
“We could pay for it fine; I had a great job,” he continued.
“The point is, I thought that at least since they were making money off the birth special episode, they could help soften the burden a little.”
When fans pointed out that Derick and wife Jill Duggar were paid for their appearances on the show and thus were entitled to no further compensation, the former reality star dropped a bombshell that left fans stunned:
“As far as we could tell we were volunteers and hadn’t been paid anything for the show,” he wrote.
“Like I said, for the year we were paying off our son’s birth expenses, both Jill and I thought we had been volunteering our time to help out [the show].”
Volunteering?! Is Derick seriously suggesting that he and Jill weren’t compensated by producers?
And if that’s the case, was anyone in th family paid a salary?
The answers, according to Derick, are yes and yes:
“TLC should approach all adults if they expect any obligation from them, so they can evaluate their own situation,” Dillard tweeted.
“Like I said, until recently, I assumed we were just volunteering to help out in filming where it would help out.
“I knew they didn’t owe anything but I didn’t think it was unreasonable to request some expense reimbursement under the impression we volunteered all the time.”
There’s that “volunteer” word again.
Derick chose not to answer direct questions about who did receive money from the network, but he made no effort to correct fans who speculated that Jim Bob was the only one getting rich.
“[The producers] were always asking for our time, so it seemed like a lucrative trade on their part, to make all the money they did and only be requested to help cover some expense,” he reiterated at one point.
“We paid it, but it seemed like a reasonable trade to request, considering what they asked of us.”
Asked why in the hell he would agree to put his life on television for free, Derick replied:
“There is too little space and time on Twitter to explain my whole thought process over the course of the past 4+ years, but the point is, TLC should have handled all of it much differently,” he tweeted.
“Doing the right thing should be more important than taking the path of least resistance.”
In other words, “Jim Bob made me do it.”
Watch Counting On online to relive Derick’s many years of unpaid labor.
Craig Mack Dead at 46
Craig Mack, the ’90s rap star who helped put Diddy’s Bad Boy Records on the map, died at a South Carolina hospital, reportedly of heart failure. The “Flava in Ya Ear” rapper was living in Walterboro, SC, where he’d joined a church and committed…
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