The hooker that alleged that she and David Beckham had sex five times in 2007 is named Irma Nici. I haven't memorized her name thus far just because, why? Why would I want to remember a hooker's name? I have an encyclopedic memory for even D-list celebrity names, which is how I can recall "Premo Stallion" at a moment's notice (he is the alleged baby-daddy of Kourtney Kardashian's Mason Dixon). But now I'm going to have put Irma Nici in the old memory bank, because this bitch is bringing it. Ever since she told her story of vanilla sex seduction with David Beckham to In Touch, Irma has been big news. Add to that the little fact that Beckham is suing Irma as well as In Touch - well, Irma is now a full-fledged hooker-celebrity, like Rachel Uchitel.
Not content to simply lay there and take the lawsuit like a pro, Irma has taken to the British press - who care a lot more about this than the American press - to defend herself through various "sources." The British press don't care for her, though. They're butt-hurt that they didn't break the story. But I love how Irma is defending herself - she's threatening to tell all about the "distinguishing characteristics" on Beckham's dong. Excellent.
THE lying hooker who claimed she had a threesome with David Beckham challenged him yesterday to “drop his pants in court” to prove his innocence. Irma Nici insisted she knew intimate “distinguishing characteristics”. Becks sources branded her a desperate, raving liar, and he has lodged a £16million writ.
Sources close to the soccer legend hit out after the 26-year-old Bosnian hooker challenged him to drop his pants in court to prove his innocence. Nici - who was yet again unable to provide any evidence to support her allegations - claimed she had seen “distinguishing characteristics” which would support her story. But Team Beckham lawyers vowed to step up their bid to sue her and the US magazine which published the vile slur for £16million damages.
And a Beckham source said: “This should be seen for what it is - the ravings of a desperate woman. She is a malicious fantasist without a single shred of evidence to support her pack of lies. The writs stand against her, the magazine and its publishers. The statement is further proof that she has absolutely no evidence. If she had, she would have disclosed it by now to one of the many publications she has been trying to hawk her story to. It is not surprising that she’s had no takers.”
The source added: “Attention is now being focused on the magazine publishers as to why they maliciously went ahead with this article, knowing it was based on lies.”
Nici’s management said earlier: “Irma stands by her previous statements. Any lawsuit against her is a publicity stunt and without merit. Any attorney who brings an action against her should be prepared to face sanctions and pay all legal costs because they will lose. There is more to the story that Irma hasn’t told yet. We are highly confident that Irma can provide enough detail and other forms of proof to persuade a jury that her tryst with David Beckham did indeed take place. Mr Beckham had better be prepared to drop his pants in court if he wants to pursue this matter as he has distinguishing characteristics which will prove without a doubt that Irma is telling the truth. Mr Beckham’s baseless lawsuit is understandable. After all, he has to tell Posh something.”
Rumours have circulated for years about a distinguishing feature of the manhood of dad-of-three Becks, 35, who skippered England and has starred for LA Galaxy, Man Utd and Real Madrid.
Scheming Nici could have found these online and used them in a bid to support her claim. Becks’ 21-page writ was lodged with a Los Angeles court on Friday. It details his claim for around £16million plus punitive damages.
In addition to Nici and US magazine In Touch, which printed the story, the mag’s publishers Bauer and its editor Michelle Lee are also named as defendants. The writ is for libel, slander and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It demands a jury trial over the printing of the allegations they had been told were not true.
Nici has spent four days locked in a tiny room in New York’s W Hotel with her madam and agent Kristin Davis, while trying again to sell her seedy story to other media outlets for £200,000. Three burly men were last night staking out the hotel, waiting to swoop on the call girl and serve her with the writ.
The raven-haired hooker - real surname Nezirovic - claims she romped with Becks in London and New York in 2007 and had three-in-a-bed sex with him and another call girl. But her story is riddled with inconsistencies. Meanwhile the soccer superstar and wife Victoria, 36, have engaged former SAS soldiers to help destroy Nici’s claims.
The elite fighting specialists were told over the weekend: “This woman must be hunted down, her hideout identified and kept under constant surveillance. The brief is that no expense will be spared and only the best security brains employed.”
One ex-Special Forces operative was asked to corner the hooker at her hotel and serve her with the writ. A source said: “A former SAS man in London was asked to feed information to other operatives - including a former British policeman - that had been scrambled in Los Angeles and New York. Experts have been alerted to the fact that Nici may head to London for talks with the publicist Max Clifford and are already drawing up plans to keep her on their radar.”
Posh took sons Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five, to see Becks play for LA Galaxy last Friday - his first start since rupturing his achilles tendon.
He later shrugged off the slurs to continue his work as a soccer ambassador, boosting England’s hopes of hosting the 2018 World Cup. He met young players and officials at the final of the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and promoted the work of his football academy in the Caribbean.
Um… because the best way for Beckham to prove his innocence is to send mercenaries to hunt the hooker down? Yes, that sounds… psychotic.
Also: is there really a rumor going around about David Beckham's dong? How unusual is this thing? Is it, like, a weird mole? Does it have an extreme curve to the left? Does it do tricks?
I’ve read all the Twilight books but after the snooze fest that was the second movie, New Moon, I never bothered to see the third. I considered catching it in theaters, but I never had the motivation or time. I will probably see Eclipse eventually when it hits DVD. Now the fourth and final book, Breaking Dawn, is coming out in two parts with the first next year. There’s casting news along with some new information about how a pivotal scene is going to be handled.
Many spoilers below There were several things that bothered me about the last book, most notably the fact that of course it’s Bella, who is inexplicably lusted after by all sorts of supernatural beings despite being dull as dry toast, who saves the day at the end. Somehow she has more powers than all the supes put together and unlike True Blood’s Sookie Stackhouse there’s no real explanation for how she earned them. Another thing that bothered me was the birth scene, in which Bella got a C-section by vampire teeth and had to be turned into one herself to survive. It was overwrought like everything else in that series but it particularly irked me.
Anyway we have news that the birth scene is going to be good, at least according to Kellan Lutz. Of course Kellan made it about him and how his character should somehow be in it. I’m surprised he didn’t talk about himself in the third person this time. Maybe he did and they edited it out. The screenwriter makes it clear that the scene won’t be particularly gory. Thank goodness.
Let the countdown begin. Cameras are pretty close to rolling on Breaking Dawn.
“We start sometime in October and go all the way through to late April,” Kellan Lutz says. “I just did a [wardrobe fitting] and a contact lenses test.”
As for that much anticipated, hard-to-imagine birthing scene…
Lutz cracked, “I think they should show it and have Emmett in the background laughing.”
Joking aside, Lutz says he knows what director Bill Condon has planned for the potentially gory sequence. “I love the way that they’re showing it,” he said. “I really thought that was going to be really a tough thing to show.”
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg recently told us the birth of baby Renesmee won’t necessarily be gruesome. “I don’t think it’s about the amount of blood you show,” she said. “It’s about the intensity of it. It’s on their faces. It’s all from Bella’s point of view when you’re seeing what’s going. It should feel visceral. I think it’s going to be pretty intense.”
In casting news, Maggie Grace from Lost will play a vampire I don’t remember who is a kind of rival to Bella named Irina. (But I don’t remember much about the books.) The child actress who will play Bella and Sparkles’ daughter Renesmee (awful name) has been named, and she’s a lovely little 9 year-old actress called Mackenzie Foy. She has that kind of haunting look that will make her a convincing vampire. I still doubt I’ll see this one in the theaters, though. I’ve about reached the point where I can wait for the DVDs for all future Twilight films. Maybe once I see Eclipse I’ll change my mind, though. We’ll see.
The note on these fabulous photos reads: "Sienna Miller and Jude Law leave C London restaurant in Mayfair and are greeted by a large group of photographs. Jude and Sienna had trouble finding their cab and supposedly got into the wrong car. They went back into the restaurant while Jude rang the cabdriver to find out where he was." Excellent. Jude and Sienna are back in business! Let's go out to eat, get drunk, get into the wrong car, and get photographed the whole time. What else is there to do? Work? Bah! Ooh… Sienna is actually working! Whoops. She's got a film in production right now. Hm… I thought that you couldn't pay people to hire Sienna these days, but it looks like I'm wrong. I apologize, Sienna.
But I have to say, Sienna looks more wasted than Jude. She's been photographed looking drunk as hell a lot lately. She loves her wine. I think Jude looks okay, though - the scruff is meh, but I like the jaunty hat. The Sun is bitching him out for looking like he "raided Dr. Watson's closet." Harsh.
But here's a question - who gets this sh-tfaced on a Monday night? When you have to go to work the next day? Goodness.
Yes, I realize that it's a slow gossip day! That's why I have the time to write about one of my favorites, Ms. Emma Thompson, and her love of the English language. Emma loves language so much she wants to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant. She wants to have babies with good diction. She wants to ride literacy into it's begging her to stop.
Anyhoodles (Emma would hate that), Emma recently went back to her old school and all of the kids were saying things like, "Like, totally, ain't it, dur?" This angered Emma. And she spoke about her, like, anger in a recent interview, you know, like, totally:
As Nanny McPhee, she had few problems getting wayward children to fall into line. And Emma Thompson no doubt wishes she had a few of her character's magical powers to tackle her latest bugbear: the sloppy English used by the youth of today.
The Cambridge-educated actress, famed for her plummy tones, said the failure of many children to speak properly drove her 'insane'. She said: 'We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. I went to give a talk at my old school and the girls were all doing their "likes" and "innits?" and "it ain'ts", which drives me insane. I told them, "Just don't do it. Because it makes you sound stupid and you're not stupid".'
She went on: ‘There is the necessity to have two languages - one you use with your mates and the other that you need in an official capacity. Or you’re going to sound like a nob.’
The double Oscar-winner, 51, argued that while it had long been common for teenagers to have their own style and way of speaking among their friends, some were now using the same style of speech regardless of whether it was appropriate for the situation.
The Sense And Sensibility star attended Camden School for Girls in North London, which has a list of alumni that includes Sara Brown, Arabella Weir and Geri Halliwell.
She told Radio Times: 'There is the necessity to have two languages – one that you use with your mates and the other that you need in any official capacity.'
Research published earlier this year revealed that some teenagers are becoming unemployable because they limit themselves to a working vocabulary of only 800 words. Although they could often understand thousands of words, they restricted themselves to a linguistic range mainly consisting of made-up words and 'teenspeak' – which has developed through modern communication methods such as text messaging and social networking sites.
Communications expert Jean Gross warned: 'We need to help today's teenagers understand the difference between their textspeak and the formal language they need to succeed in life – 800 words will not get you a job.'
Tony McEnery, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University, analysed 10million words of transcribed speech and 100,000 words gathered from teenagers' blogs.
He found that the top 20 words used by teenagers, including 'yeah', 'no' and 'but', account for about a third of all words used. Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has also raised concerns about the 'woefully low standard' in schools, which is a cause for concern for employers.
This is, like, a worthy cause. Okay, I'll stop! I use "like" and "you know" and "I mean" way too much. In my defense, however, I know WAY more than 800 words, and I read and write all the time. I totally understand why Emma is pissed off, though. I hear teenagers sometimes and their conversations give me a headache. Emma should take them on, personally. And then she come to my house and personally give me a beat down for my conversational and writing crutches. You know? Like, I mean, come on!
Time can seem like it passes slower in the gossip bubble and I could have sworn that Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom got married just a few months ago before we actively tried to ignore them and their inevitable “trying for a baby” stories. It’s been a whole year, though, and Khloe wants to remind us of that fact. She posted a tongues-out photo of herself kissing her giant basketball star husband along with the news about how happy and perfect her life is now that she has love. Eat that, haters!
A year ago today I married my best friend. I am so excited to be celebrating our one year anniversary!!!! I can’t believe it has been a year already, it feels like we just got married yesterday, but at the same time I can’t believe it has ONLY been a year. I feel like sooooo much has happened in just one year. My life has changed so much, and I as a person have changed even more. I have never been happier, never been so at peace, never been so in love. I am a better person because of Lamar. I laugh constantly! He brings so much laughter, happiness and fun to my life yet he also keeps me calm and grounded. I feel like I truly discovered myself the moment I met Lamar. 365 days have passed since we got married and each and every one of those days my husband has been the first thing I think of when I wake up, and the last thing before I go to sleep. I truly wish this kind of happiness upon everyone, I feel so blessed.
Happy anniversary to the love of my life! Thank you for everything you have given me. I love you. I can’t wait for our 80th wedding anniversary!!
Life & Style is reporting [via Hollywood Life] that Khloe and Lamar renewed their vows on September 27, at the same place and on the same day as they got “married” year. I put married in quotes because that wedding wasn’t legally binding and it took Khloe and Lamar several months to work out the prenup details and make it official. So technically their anniversary isn’t September 27, although I see why they would want to celebrate it then. They look really happy together and I shouldn’t make fun of them. Khloe would only “thank” me for it. She says the haters make her stronger.
This are photos of Heidi Klum last night in Milan for the big amFAR event. The dress is apparently Roberto Cavalli - Heidi was at the Cavalli show yesterday too, so I suppose she picked up something for the amFAR event. Even though the dress is slightly boring, I like it. I prefer Heidi when she's doing straight-up glamour, rather than avant garde stuff, or inappropriate-for-the-occasion stuff. Like wearing a minidress to the Emmys (not cool). So it's nice to Heidi in a pretty, formal gown at a formal evening event.
That being said, it's slightly beauty-queen. If Heidi had gone for big hair, it really would have been beauty queen, but she wisely went for a sleeker hairstyle. When I first saw these photos, I began thinking about Marlene Dietrich. For a brief time, Dietrich wore her hair like this, and I've always thought that Heidi must consider Dietrick one of her top style icons. But honestly, aren't you just happy that Heidi is growing out the mom-bangs-trauma?
Speaking of trauma, Heidi still has her bangs on the episodes of Project Runway. SPOILER: Weren't you just thrilled as can be that Ivy was cut off last week? I had been waiting for that bitch to fail for so long. Even though Valerie really deserved to go home (for real), Ivy has been putting out horrendous stuff for weeks, and she's horrible. The real surprise, for me, was how much the judges loved Gretchen's cheesy peasant frontier-woman fug gowns. What the hell? Sometimes I really do wonder if Michael and Nina and Heidi smoke crack before they judge.
Spoilers for tonight’s Glee below Access Hollywood used to have threepreviewvideos from Glee’s much-anticipated Britney Spears episode, which airs tonight. I watched them earlier today (my time, I’m in Europe and it’s the afternoon here) but when I checked again to see if I could share them, they were gone! I’m so sorry for this and wish they were still available. It looks really good! John Stamos co-stars as a dentist who plays psychologist Emma’s love interest. Goofy cheerleader Brittany does an excellent version of Britney’s “Slave for You” music video while Brittany and her BFF Santana play Madonna and Britney in a “Me Against The Music” tribute. It looks like we’re in for a treat, as we’ve come to expect from this highly entertaining hit show.
Spoilers for last week’s Glee below I loved the first episode of the second season last week. They struck that important balance between high energy musical numbers and an interesting plot, which was something the show struggled with last season. There are several new characters this year, most notably mannish football coach Shannon Beiste (beast), who replaced Ken Tanaka. It looks like Sue has a new rival both in terms of competition for funds and for who can come up with the best one liners.
Jacob’s interviews at the beginning of the episode were clever and summed up a lot of the criticism we’ve been hearing about the show in general. For instance he asked Rachel (Lea Michelle) if she was a diva as was rumored and Finn (Cory Monteith) answered “Rachel’s what you would call a controlist.” She countered “I’m controlling, controlist isn’t a word… performing is my life. And yes, do I have opinions about it? Does my need to constantly express those opinions annoy my fellow glee clubbers?”
“Yes,” Finn answered.
Then Jacob asked Will how he would “respond to a recent post on my blog saying your glee club song selections sound like they come from a drag queen’s ipod?” He said he tries to “do something for everybody, 25% showtunes, 25% hip hop, 25% classic rock” and Jacob said “100% gay.” That’s kind of derogatory but still funny.
Kurt had a message for his critics. “Next time, instead of posting an anonymous comment online. Say what you have to say to my face!” He promptly got a slushee to the face.
Potential new Glee members include an exchange student from the Phillippines named Sunshine and a boyishly handsome transfer student named Sam. Sunshine did an excellent version of Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s “Telephone” with Rachel, who was totally threatened by her and ended up giving her fake directions to the audition. She ended up getting poached by their rival glee club, Vocal Adrenaline. Sam performed “I Want to Be a Billionaire” with the other guys but ultimately chickened out and didn’t make the audition. He ended up earning Finn’s position as quarterback on the football team.
Quinn Fabray is back after having her baby and is the new head cheerleader after she snitches on Santana for getting a boob job over the summer. Brittany is as much of a space cadet as ever. She’s about to really bring it for tonight’s episode, though.
We didn’t hear much from Emma (the psychologist), Terri (Will’s wife), Puck or Mercedes last week and I hope that changes with tonight’s episode. There are so many great characters on that show, and it looks like we’re about to get to know several more.
Back in May of this year, The National Enquirer ran a really gross story about George Lopez cheating on his wife Ann. The Enquirer's source was the young Florida hooker that Lopez had allegedly paid $500 for a romp - and the hooker passed the polygraph the Enquirer gave her too. We covered the story briefly here - and now The Enquirer has brought the story back online in the wake of George Lopez's split announcement. So… did George and Ann split because George loves some hooker action?
GEORGE LOPEZ is reportedly getting divorced - four months after The ENQUIRER exclusively revealed the comedian had cheated on his wife with hookers.
“I had sex with George Lopez for money, and so did a friend of mine,” a professional escort who uses the name Tiffany told The ENQUIRER in our May 31, 2010 issue.
The ENQUIRER’s bombshell report of Lopez’s infidelity came as a huge shock because his wife of 17 years, Ann, saved George’s life in 2005 when she donated a kidney to him. But now it appears that Ann, a TV producer, has had enough.
In a statement, a publicist for the star said: “George and Ann Lopez have made the decision to end their 17 year marriage. The decision is amicable and by mutual agreement. They remain dedicated parents, and committed partners in business and their philanthropic organization, The Lopez Foundation.”
The couple have a 15-year-old daughter.
Lopez was so brazen in cheating on his wife that he even tried to set up a threesome with himself and two hookers, the escort told The ENQUIRER. The busty blonde says she met with the star when he played in a Tampa golf tournament in April of 2009. Tiffany said that George got her phone number on website where she advertised her services. She went to his hotel room and said he was very friendly.
“He was a very nice guy,” said Tiffany. “We chatted about his career. He told me he ’saw other girls’ in other cities, and liked to have regular girls when he travels. He said, ‘That way, I know what I’m going to get.'"
“We went into the bedroom, and I asked him to get comfortable. He took off his clothes and lay down on the bed. I changed into a pink two-piece outfit and did a little dance to turn him on. Then I took my top off and got into bed. We had sex, nothing kinky, for about 30 minutes.
“It was safe sex. After we were finished, he gave me a hug and said he’d be coming back in a year or so and would like to see me again.”
To her surprise, Tiffany says that she learned later Lopez had called a fellow hooker named Samantha for an afternoon “quickie” the same day!
“I couldn’t believe it! We both had sex with George on the same day! I got $500,” she said.
Tiffany passed an independently administered polygraph test that shows she is telling the truth about her rendezvous with Lopez. She also showed text messages that Lopez had sent her to arrange their hookup. When asked to comment on Tiffany claims, Lopez denied he had met with her.
Lopez nearly died in 2004 when a genetic condition caused his kidneys to fail. Ann saved his life by giving him one of her kidneys in 2005.
Ugh… I hate myself for reading it, and I hate myself for believing the hooker. I do think George was probably into hooker action, but I'm open to the possibility that George and Ann had some kind of open marriage for a time. But if they did - why the divorce? Did Ann just not want to deal with his sh-t anymore? Or does George want to make some young piece legit as his girlfriend? Ugh. I don't know.
Here are some new photos of a very rugged looking Jon Hamm out and about in LA yesterday. It's really, really hot in LA right now, so I don't know why The Hamm is so covered up. Of course, if I had my way, he wander around half-naked most of the time anyway. I'm pretty sure The Hamm looks so unkempt because he's not working at the moment - he's already finished filming this season of Mad Men (I believe there are only three episodes left to air), and he maybe doesn't have a film project coming up…? His IMDB says that he doesn't have anything in immediate pre-production, so he's likely chilling out, growing out his beard.
P.S. Check out the bulge in some of these photos. The Hamm is packing. And it is glorious.
********SPOILERS FOR THIS SEASON OF MAD MEN
I've been remise in discussing this current season of Mad Men just because A) It's really personal to me, how I feel about this show, and it feels strange to write about something I'm so passionate about and B) Other sites recap and explore theories so much better than I could, and I do link to those stories in the links. But since The Hamm doesn't seem to have any new interviews and there's nothing else to talk about, can we just talk about this season for a moment?
The first half of the season, or what I like to think of as "Don Draper's Year-Long Bender" - wasn't all that great. I mean… I didn't care for the Don parts all that much, just because I was waiting for him to find his footing post-divorce. While I waited for that, Peggy continued to wow me. The Hamm is considered the lead of Mad Men, and the three main women (January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Elizabeth Moss) seem to vie for screen time somewhat equally. But this season I just grew to love Peggy even more. She's really come into her own skin, and she's the one I've been tuning in to see this season.
It all changed on Episode 7, "The Suitcase" otherwise known as the best episode in the history of an already great television series. For nearly all of the episode, it was just Don and Peggy, talking and drinking and fighting and being honest, and it was awesome and funny and heartbreaking and moving, and that one episode - as far as writing, directing, acting and production - should set the standard for television. Since then, Don has changed for the better and Peggy seems even more confidant.
But I worry. Last Sunday's episode was difficult, because we see the catastrophe looming. Will Sterling Cooper Draper Price survive the loss of Lucky Strike? Will Roger have another heart attack? Did Joan keep the baby? Will Don finally have to pay for the sin of stealing his identity from a dead man? Will Don continue to have panic attacks and will The Hamm continue to ACT HIS ASS OFF? Will Peggy land on her feet, always and forever? And will she ever find a boyfriend who fulfills her as much as her job? Sigh… I love this show.
The family seems “normal,” likable After watching the first episode of the new TLC reality show Sister Wives, about a polygamist fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah, I have to say that they came across as likable. (You can watch the first episode online if you’re in the US.) All of the wives were very comfortable with each other, they seemed to have made a personal and informed choice to live in a polygamist family, and the children seemed happy and well adjusted. Kody Brown has three wives and thirteen biological children. (Technically twelve in the first episode with one on the way.) He’s about to add a fourth wife with her own three kids to the mix and that will of course disrupt the well established balance in their family. Kody may be the one adult male in the household, but it’s clear that his wives run things and are calling the shots. He comes across as an affable guy who is happy to play along while making sure that he’s there for each of his wives as much as he can manage.
Browns do not represent reality of polygamy It’s important to note that this family is not representative of all polygamists, just like the Duggars are not representative of families with over a dozen kids. This is a well off Hallmark version of a polygamist family and in no way captures how oppressive polygamy under fundamentalist Mormonism can be, particularly when it’s not a choice for the wives as we saw in the Texas compound that was raided two years ago. As many of you pointed out in our earlier stories on this family, this is a sanitized version of polygamy that makes it seem acceptable and like a legitimate choice. It’s not and the reality is usually much harsher for children and women.
Moms tout the benefits of having “Sister Wives” Kody married all three of his wives young and was married to all of them before any of them had their first child. So all of their kids grew up with those three moms. Each mom explained in the pilot episode how it works for them, and they all touted the benefits of having help so they had more time to themselves. For instance the second mom Janelle has six kids but she works out of the home from around 7am to 7pm. She feels comfortable knowing that her “Sister Wife” Christine is raising her six children as if they are her own. Meri, the first wife, studies psychology. She has one daughter, 14, and said she wanted more kids but it never happened to her. She was reassured by the fact that if something happened to her “Janelle and Christine would be there to raise my daughter.” Christine loves being around kids and says they’re all hers.
Children are offered educational opportunities The kids used to all be homeschooled but they’ve gone to a private school for children from polygamist families for around five years. It’s likely some of them will go to college, and there was a scene where Janelle told one of her teen daughters that “You’re not getting married until you go to college and you get yourself an education.” She also expressed disgust for arranged marriages and said “ultimately I hope they marry for love.”
They get jealous but get over it Both Meri and Christine come from polygamist families. Janelle wasn’t raised as a polygamist, but she said that “it really didn’t seem so strange” for her and that she was friends with the first wife, Meri, for a few years before she married Kody. Meri explained that there is jealousy sometimes but that it’s natural and they work it out. She explained that they all have sex individually with Kody and that there’s nothing “strange” going on.
A new woman upsets the balance The part where Kody is “courting” another woman and announces to the kids that Robyn and her three kids may join the family came at the end of the first episode. That was uncomfortable, especially when we saw Kody and Robyn on a date. They’ve only been dating three months and he’s going to ask her to join his family but wanted to check with his kids first. (He’d already told his other wives.) Both Janelle and Meri seemed ok with Robyn joining the family, with Meri saying she might be jealous but she’d get over it. Christine said she might have a problem with it, but as she explained in an appearance on the Today Show last week she’s since managed to work it out with Robyn and they get along fine. During the family meeting the older kids told their dad that they had some concerns, but that they liked Robyn and her kids and thought it would be ok.
Made polygamy seem like a legitimate choice Overall I enjoyed the show and found it interesting. I’ve never seen how a “modern” polygamist family works and I have kind of a “live and let live” approach to it in this particular instance. Again, I’m not talking about the compounds where the adolescent males are forced out and the teen girls are married off, raped and abused. Nor am I talking about any other families that I have no clue about. There is a sad oppressive reality of polygamy and is part of the reason why it’s illegal. Technically Kody has only legally married his first wife, Meri, and is trying to skirt around the law that way. As many of you pointed out, it’s vastly unfair and sexist that one man can have multiple wives under this “faith,” but that one woman can’t have several husbands.
On the Today show, Christine said that she hopes that they’ll bring wider acceptance to polygamy. "Polygamy is a hidden culture. We really don't want to be hidden anymore. We really would like it to be more open. We'd like our children to have the benefits of living in an open society. I was raised in this lifestyle and really kind of fear-based and I'd rather not have that for my children."
Browns are under investigation for felony bigamy Only polygamy is still a felony, and now that the Browns have gone public they’re under investigation. People Magazine reports that they’re being investigated by police in Levi, Utah for felony bigamy, “a third-degree felony in Utah [that] is rarely investigated.” These people may be made an example of. A representative for the local police department stated that “at the conclusion of the investigation, the evidence will be forwarded to the Utah County Attorney’s Office for review and possible prosecution.” As I said in our earlier story on this, the Browns have no idea what they’re getting into by starring on a reality show.
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