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John David Duggar and Abbie Burnett: Expecting First Child!!!

Welp, Internet. You finally got one right! Mere days after many social media users took a look at a photo of John David Duggar and Abbie Burnett and speculated that the couple may be expecting its first child, the reality stars have spoken out and… … verified this rumor! It’s true! Abbie Burnett is pregnant! “We are on Cloud 9 about welcoming our own little Duggar into the world ,” the couple just told People Magazine, setting Duggar Nation on fire and adding: “It really is amazing to think about being parents and having our own child to raise.” Isn’t it, though? We’re not being sarcastic at all. It’s an incredible notion to contemplate and then an even more incredible experience to, well… experience! No word yet on the gender of the impending baby or just when Abbie will give birth. Burnett and Duggar started courting in June of 2018 — and got engaged just a month later after John David got down on one knee and proposed inside of an airplane hanger. The nuptials — and, therefore, the couple’s first kiss — then took place on November 3 of that same year in Arkansas. “We are so excited to be married! It was a beautiful moment and we so appreciate our friends and family for sharing this day with us,” the soulmates said in a statement, adding at the time: “Most of all we are thankful to Christ for bringing us together. This is going to be an amazing journey!” John David and Abbie, who will return on new episodes of Counting On this October, got married at a fairly old age. By Duggar standards, at least. John David is 29 and Abbie is 27, which is another reason why so many gossip lovers out there have been assuming that this announcement was imminent for awhile now. In April, the pair gushed over both each other and their union, saying on Instagram on the occasion of their five-month anniversary: Marriage is such a gift from God and we are so thankful for each day we get to spend together!  And now husband and wife sound very ready to start their next chapter: parenthood! Hooray! “We are thankful that God has blessed us with this new life and we look forward to taking on this new adventure!” they told People Magazine. They won’t be alone on this adventure, either. Kendra Duggar (née Caldwell) is expecting her second child… while Lauren Duggar (née Swanson) and cousin Amy King (née Duggar) are both pregnant with their first. Please join us in saying the following: Congratulations to John David Duggar and Abbie Burnett! View Slideshow: The Duggars: Who’s Courting? Pregnant? Next In Line? [MORE UPDATES!]

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Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert: Our Son’s Sudden Birth Was TERRIFYING

Earlier this week, Jade Roper welcomed baby #2 with Tanner Tolbert … in an accidental home birth that no one expected. Fortunately, mother and newborn son are doing just fine. The pair of them are now opening up about how the lightning fast labor took them by surprise and how it all went down. “I was just sitting on the couch,” Jade Roper tells Entertainment Tonight . “I’ve been having labor pains for weeks so I didn’t think anything of it,” “Then I felt this pop,” she describes. “And my water broke.” “So we called my midwife,” Jade continues. “We were timing my contractions.” “They were six minutes apart,” she reveals. “So I knew it was going to be quick…” Tanner then interjects: “But not this quick!” “The midwife was, like, watch the time, just don’t have the baby in the car.” Jade recounts. “She was, like, joking around.” “I got in the bath just to relax,” she explains. “And we were going to go to the hospital.” Relaxation is important, but perhaps she should have skipped that step. Or perhaps it was already too late. “And all of a sudden it was just like, the labor contractions just sped up and got so intense,” Jade shares. “I remember walking by the mirror and looking at my face and just the change of my body, the way it looked,” she describes. “I was like, this is serious.” “The moment I realized that we weren’t going to make it to the hospital, I was, like, screaming,” Jade confesses. “It took my pain to a whole other level,” she explains. “Because it became fear.” That is very understandable. People give birth in hospitals for more than just that (very good) epidural. So much can go wrong; you want doctors on hand. Jade continues: “He’s like, ‘We need to get you down the stairs,’ and I was like, ‘This is not contractions anymore. I need to push. He’s coming,'” Jade cannot emphasie enough how quickly her childbirth process was. “30, 40 minutes after the water broke,” she shares. “Insanely fast.”  “We were all in the closet, I’m, like, hunched over clenching this bench,” Jade describes. At the same time, she shares: “Tanner’s calling 911 and they got there in six minutes.” “They got there so fast,” Jade marvels. “And then two minutes after they got there, he came out.” Following the birth, they did of course go to the hospital to get the newborn checked out and weighed. Then, hours later, they returned home. She very clearly did not have trouble bonding with the baby. “I feel like he’s just always been a part of our family,” Jade expresses. “It makes so much sense,” “The love really does just expand,” she characterizes. Emme, their daughter, is almost two years old. “She’s been great,” Tanner praises. “She’s given him little kisses and been real gentle.” “I’m not sure she understands that we’re keeping this baby,” he admits. “Like,” Tanner explains. “He’s gonna be here every day for the rest of her life.” “But,” he continues. “She’s been great with him so far.” So what fate befell the walk-in closet where Jade squeezed a tiny human being into the world? “It’s actually in really good shape,” Tanner reveals. “My mom stayed home and cleaned up a little bit,” he shares. “But it was surprisingly clean in there.” “I was worried for my shoes because Jade decided to give birth on my side of the closet,” Tanner says. “Because she didn’t want to mess up her own things.” “But the closet’s in good shape,” he notes. “Yeah, somehow a whole white closet is intact,” Jade chimes in. “I don’t know how.” The couple has yet to name Baby #2, but have joked about a Bachelor-related name — perhaps even “Harrison.” View Slideshow: Bachelor Baby Boom: The Births of a Reality Show Nation

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The Case For Jed Wyatt: Did the Bachelorette Villain REALLY Do Anything Wrong?

For the past 48 hours, Jed Wyatt has been one of the most hated men in America. Those of us who carefully track  Bachelorette spoilers may have seen this one coming, but for millions of viewers, the events that unfolded on Tuesday night’s season finale came as an utter shock: Jed proposed to Hannah Brown , she accepted … and then all hell broke loose. Shortly after the engagement, Hannah learned that Jed had a girlfriend waiting at home the entire time he was filming. We’ve since heard both sides of the story — Haley Stevens ‘ seemingly truthful account versus Jed’s stammering, misleading version — and the more we learn, the worse it looks for Mr. Wyatt. Jed undoubtedly digs himself a deeper hole each time he attempts to justify his actions , but as the man said when he elicited coast-to-coast groans by proposing to Hannah in song — words aren’t really his thing. So allow us to try and make a case for the most reviled man in Bachelorette history. (Two important points before we go any further: Yes, at this point, we believe Jed is more hated than Luke P., and no, it’s not easy to defend the type of guy who brings his guitar to house parties.) Let’s begin by breaking down the timeline of events: Jed says he started dating Haley a few weeks before his audition for The Bachelorette . He claims he told her about the audition, but assured her it was just a Hail Mary effort to promote his fledgling music career. Definitely a strange thing to tell someone you recently started dating, but Jed says that as a fellow musician, Haley was very understanding. But several months elapsed between his audition and the time when Jed actually flew out to LA for the show, and during that time, he and Haley began dating more seriously. In fact, they entered a full-blown relationship: She threw him a surprise party for his birthday; her parents bought the two of them a trip to the Bahamas; and in what is perhaps the most damning development of all … Haley and Jed began saying “I love you” to one another. You may be wondering why we’re making the case that Jed and Haley were in a serious relationship when we’re supposed to be defending Jed — but we’re about to pull some Johnnie Cochran jiu-jitsu on your ass and turn this thing on its head: So there’s no denying that Haley and Jed were about as serious as two young people in a four-month relationship can be, right? But here’s the thing — who cares? Now, we know that sounds callous, but the thing about The Bachelor and The Bachelorette is that with all the swanky attire and candlelit dinners where no one ever touches their food, it’s easy to forget that most of the people on your screen are in their early- to mid-twenties. We’re not saying youth is an excuse for unethical behavior, but we are saying that viewers might be more willing to forgive Jed if he and everyone else on the show were dressed like the cast of Jersey Shore . The Bachelorette asks viewers to enter a kind of Fantasy Suite of our own — one where we pretend the whole experiment isn’t ridiculous and that in 2019, the average twenty-something male has a closet full of tailored suits and is in any way prepared to marry a woman he’s known for two months. There’s a reason so few of the relationships created by the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise have resulted in successful marriages: As a social experiment, both shows are inherently ridiculous. Two strangers are plucked from their lives and flown all over the world. One must compete with dozens of suitors, while the other must gradually winnow that group down to one — and then get married to the person who’s left standing. If it weren’t an actual, wildly popular TV series, it would be an episode of Black Mirror . This not how dating is supposed to work, least of all in the year 2019. Now more than ever, leap-frogging into a new relationship and ghosting one’s ex is not considered outlandish behavior. And in the age of Tinder, the line between single and taken gets blurrier all the time. Of the 30 men competing for Hannah’s affection this season, there’s only one that we know for certain wasn’t sleeping with anyone else at the time he was chosen for the show — and his name is Luke P. What we’re saying is — what Jed did was dishonest, shameful, and indicative of a man who could use some serious work in the character department. But was it unforgivable? Well, that’s tough to determine, but as they say — all’s fair in love and war, we know for certain that many have done far, far worse and not suffered nearly as much for their misdeeds. Not only did he lose Hannah, the man’s reputation is thoroughly destroyed, and he can more or less kiss his singing career goodbye. (Of course, based on what we’ve heard of his music, that might not be such a bad thing.) There are some who have defended Jed on the basis that while he was dating Haley, she was vying for Colton Underwood’s affection. But that’s silly. Everyone knows the rules of the game, and Jed’s greatest sin was his dishonesty, not his infidelity. Did he play fair? No. Did he deserve to get dumped on national TV? Absolutely. But is he a manipulative psychopath deserving of an entire nation’s contempt? Nah, that would be Luke P. Jed’s just a dumb twentysomething doing dumb twentysomething things — and since Hannah forgave him, so should we. View Slideshow: Tyler Cameron Photo Montage: Holy Hotness! Propose RIGHT NOW, Hannah!

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Will You Be Watching? New Doc “Amazing Grace” Shows Aretha Franklin In New Light (Exclusive)

Source: Courtesy of NEON / Courtesy of NEON New Film “Amazing Grace” Charts Aretha Franklin’s Live Recording Of Gospel Album A new documentary about Aretha Franklin promises to show the Queen of Soul in a way many fans have never seen her. Gone are the fur coats, gowns and jewelry that typified the gospel and soul singer’s larger than life persona in recent years for the new film “Amazing Grace.” Instead, the then afro-sporting 29-year-old is stripped back and lets her voice do most of the talking. “This Aretha Franklin is a little bit different,” “Amazing Grace” producer Tirrell Whitley told BOSSIP. “She was just coming out of the 60s Black Power Movement, she’s wearing her afro….The experience of Aretha Franklin at the age of 29 at the peak of her power.” Franklin recorded the live performance in 1972 over two nights in a South Central L.A. church in front of an audience that included her father the Rev. C.L. Franklin, gospel greats Clara Ward and Mother Ward, the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts. Source: Courtesy of NEON / Courtesy of NEON Her resulting album, “Amazing Grace,” went double platinum, won a Grammy, and went on to be the Frankin’s best selling album of her career, Whitley said. Because the footage was shot out of sync, it sat in a vault for almost 40 years before a film company was able to sync the footage with the audio. Although the movie does have imperfections like out of focus shots, Whitley said that it was Franklin who pulls everything together. “The great thing is that the film had excellence in the making and her voice carries it through,” he said, adding that Franklin gave the film her blessing before she passed away last year aged 76. Whitley said the film is ideal for sororities, churches and other groups to screen. “This film takes you to church and it ministers to you in a unique way,” he said. “Amazing Grace” is now in theaters nationwide.

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Martin Shkreli In Prison: Illegally Running His Business, Hanging With a Dude Named Krispy

It’s been about 16 months since Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison . You probably remember Shkreli as the “Pharma Bro” (though we’ve always preferred the “Pharma Douche” variation on that nickname) who jacked up the price of a life-saving medication for HIV patients a whopping 5,000% percent during his tenure as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. That act of pure evil made Shkreli “the most hated man in America.” (Of course, his constant trolling of the Wu-Tang Clan didn’t help. Did no one inform this guy they’re nothing to f–k with?) But it was Shkreli’s unrelated conviction for securities fraud that earned him seven-year stay in federal prison. Shkreli is a devoted member of MAGA nation, but he never climbed the ladder of insanity high enough to get the full Manafort treatment, so the Donald isn’t sticking his neck out by pardoning Lil Marty. But fear not, the hip hop obsessed Hillary hater is making the most of his life behind bars, as revealed in a hilarious new profile of Shkreli published this week by the Wall Street Journal. The paper promises a glimpse into “the secret life of inmate 87850-053, 16 months into a seven-year sentence,” and boy, does it deliver. The most talked-about revelation from the Journal piece is that Shkreli is still acting as CEO of his company (newly-named Phoenixus AG in response to numerous PR nightmares) with the aid of a contraband cell phone. And while you might think that his time behind bars would have humbled Shkreli a bit, it seems he’s still a nightmare to work for. The Journal reports that one of Shkreli’s most recent actions was to call his CFO and fire the guy while he was on an African vacation with his fiancee. The problem, it seems, is that the exec picked the wrong time to ask for a seven-figure (?!?!) raise. You see, Shkreli is stretched thin these days, what with paying for protection and covering his fellow inmates’ poker debts (seriously). Marty was already feeling the pinch, and since the fired exec won’t be shanking anyone in the yard for him, he had to be let go. So who are the movers and shakers on Shkreli’s prison payroll? Well, it seems he’s got a crew of guys with names like “Krispy” and “D-Block.” According to the Journal , these up-and-comers “walk alongside him in the hall to ward off shenanigans from other inmates,” which is exactly how we would expect the Wall Street Journal to cover prison politics. But Krispy and D-Block do more than just keep Shkreli from physical harm. They recently dissuaded him from playing guitar in a prison rock band, as the other members were all locked up for child molestation. They’re also helping Marty with his goal of doing — we sh-t you not — 15 push-ups in a row. We encourage you to take a moment to reflect on how gloriously f–ked this dude would be, were it not for the fact that he’s mega-rich. But it’s not just money that keeps Shkreli’s associates loyal (j/k, that’s exactly what it is). The 35-year-old recently attempted to bolster his street cred by asking his Facebook followers to translate Meek Mill lyrics into Spanish for him. And in exchange, the Shkreli crew bestowed upon their boss the ultimate honor — a prison nickname. That nickname? A-hole.

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Joanne Northey Not Naked Enough but Semi Naked of the Day

Joanne Northey seems to be an Irish girl in Dublin who obviously graduated with a Fine Arts degree from her Irish University, because that is why she’s getting naked in a photoshoot, as a part time model, because it’s for art man, not for ego, or for commerce…it’s just for the self expression or helping her pervert friend who wanted to see her naked and this was his angle’s self expression… She’s pretty hot, I mean that could just be the whole her naked out there….or the whole bad Catholic girl, since all of Ireland are good Catholic folk….except maybe McGregor…but I like when I see a catholic girl get her tits out there, like when I found out the catholic school girls kept their virginity but had anal…since anal to non catholics is so much fucking worse..at least in smell alone…. I appreciate whatever it is she’s doing, and I am sure Ireland does too, because if you ask any Irish men if there are hot Irish women, they’ll usually say something like “the girls look like me with a longer beard”…you know good old fashioned Irish humor…right in time for St Patrick’s day.. All this to say, I hope she’s actually Irish and didn’t just go to college in Ireland because that would really defeat the purpose of this entire post…. The post Joanne Northey Not Naked Enough but Semi Naked of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .

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Sofia Richie Slutty Half Naked Instagram Pic of the Day

I saw a random facebook friend post this picture on facebook yesterday – about 5 minutes after Sofia Richie posted it….with a caption like “Sofia Richie is Fire”….not “Fyre Festival”….not “Evian Water from Fyre Festival”…but Fire….and I realized…having a blog is a totally obsolete technology….and that I need to either podcast, youtube, instagram story, or do anything crying for attention where the eyeballs are to stay alive…because little old broke ass me can’t drive eyeballs to content I didn’t produce about some trash like Sofia Richie….it is just not possible… That said… Sofia Richie, a cast member on the Kardashians, thanks to being a rich kid dialled into that crowd…has decided that social media slutty behavior justifies as a job or contribution to society so that her dad and is trust fund for her can feel like she’s doing something of substance instead of just wasting away…even though being a social media personality is this generations equivalent of rich kid living in his dad’s pool house at the lake house where he plays guitar and smokes weed all day….they are equally useless but the social media one can seemingly have more purpose… I assume she’s had some work done, they all have, but she’s alright looking, young with hr titties out…I mean I generally have less hope for rich kids…at least she’s out there doing something important…like posting up half naked pervy pics for the pervs…it’s nice. The post Sofia Richie Slutty Half Naked Instagram Pic of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .

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Brendan McLoughlin Cheated on Fiancee, Knocked Up Mistress: Report

Brendan McLoughlin is probably very happy that he’s now married to Miranda Lambert. But the heretofore unknown police officer is probably less than thrilled that his newfound fame has opened up his closet to the public… … especially when that closest is allegedly filled with a pretty huge skeleton. McLoughlin has found himself all over the news of late because Lambert stunned Instagram followers on Sunday when she announced that she actually married this random person. The country superstar has never once uttered his name prior to this revealing post, but then shared two photos from her wedding day over the weekend and wrote as a caption to them both: In honor of Valentine’s Day I wanted to share some news. I met the love of my life. And we got hitched! My heart is full.  Thank you Brendan Mcloughlin for loving me for…. me. Follow-up reports have since confirmed that Lambert and McLoughlin got married on January 26 in Tennessee. With the Internet scrambling to learn as much as possible about this Brendan McLoughlin fella, the following has been reported: 1. McLoughlin is police officer from New York. 2. McLoughlin once created a profile on a modeling website, hoping to use turn his attractive appearance into an occupation. 3. McLoughlin is an avid runner. 4. McLoughlin is a father of a baby only just born this past November. And it’s this final fact that is now the subject of controversy. According to Us Weekly, McLoughlin was engaged to someone named Jackie Bruno last year — only to not only cheat on her, but to get the woman with whom he cheated PREGNANT. The tabloid quotes Jackie’s mother, Carol, is relaying this story to its readers. “She was engaged to Brendan and he cheated on her and got another girl pregnant,” Carol told Us . “It’s all true.” If this allegation is valid, then the child born just three months ago to McLoughlin belongs to his mistress, which would explain why he was able to move on so quickly to Lambert. Radar Online has alleged that Lambert and McLoughlin met a mere three days before the latter became a father. They crossed paths in early November when Lambert was in town to play a song on Good Morning America and McLoughlin was assigned to the South Midtown Precinct in The Big Apple at the time. Less than a week later, Kaihla Rettinger reportedly gave birth to her and Brendan’s baby, a boy named Landon. The cop reportedly posted a since-deleted photo, where he’s cradling his newborn and next to which he wrote: “Blessed to have a healthy son. Welcome my boy, Landon James McLoughlin 11/5/18.” Carol tells Us Weekly that her daughter was “thrown for a loop” and had “no clue” McLoughlin was cheating on her. She also says it was actually Rettinger who told Jackie of her pregnancy. “The girl contacted her. Jackie was in Sweden playing professional soccer, got injured and came home and the girl contacted her. She broke the news to her.. “[Brendan] tried to deny it and then begged her to stay with him. “She was only going for a few months to play, he was begging her to marry him before she left, even though he knew the girl was pregnant.” Lambert, of course, ended her four-year marriage to Blake Shelton in 2015. She reportedly did not tell him of her plans to marry again last month, not that she was under any obligation to do so. In between these weddings, Lambert dated Evan Felker… who happened to be married when he got together with the artist . It sure sounds like Miranda Lambert is drawn to drama, doesn’t it?

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Brendan Mcloughlin: Who is Miranda Lambert’s New Husband?!?

SURPRISE! Miranda Lambert suddenly has a brand new reason to be singing a very happy tune right now. The beloved singer stunned followers on Instagram this weekend by announcing that she’s a married woman… and some dude named Brendan Mcloughlin is her very lucky husband. As a caption to the photos above and below, Lambert wrote the following on social media yesterday: In honor of Valentine’s Day I wanted to share some news. I met the love of my life. And we got hitched! My heart is full. Thank you Brendan Mcloughlin for loving me for…. me. She even added the hashtag #theone to her post. According to E! News, Lambert and McLoughlin tied the knot on January 26 in Davidson County, Tennessee, which is where Miranda’s home town of Nashville is located. Incredibly, as far as we can tell, this is the first time Lambert has ever mentioned McLoughlin. Last August, she had said she was “happily single” after a breakup with Evan Felker of the band The Turnpike Troubadours. Those two musicians two dated for a few months after Lambert split from  Anderson East in April, a romance that lasted about two years. And that relationship followed a four-year marriage to Blake Shelton, from whom she got divorced in 2015. But these unexpected nuptials have left the Internet asking a very pertinent and obvious question: Who the heck is Brendan Mcloughlin? Here is what we’ve gleaned about him, courtesy of the Internet: He’s a police officer from Staten Island, the Midtown South Precinct to be exact, as a Tweet from March 2018 read as follows: “PO McLoughlin apprehended [the] perpetrator in a bank robbery in progress. He’s a father. A source confirms to People Magazine that McLoughlin recently welcomed a child from a previous relationship. According to numerous comments shared on social media, the child was born in November of 2018, making McLoughlin the father of a three-month-old. This is a photo of the new Mr. Miranda Lambert in uniform: He’s a runner . In another tweet from his colleagues at the NYPD, McLoughlin is featured holding up a trophy after winning a 5K race. “Officer McLoughlin wins 1st place for #NYPD Keith Ferguson Memorial 5k Brooklyn Bridge Run!” the message reads. He has a a profile on Model Mayhem , a widely used site for models to network as well as seek and lock in jobs. “My name is Brendan McLoughlin. I am 19 years old and live in New York. I am on this site to build my portfolio,” reads a Model Mayhem profile page, last updated in 2011 and showing a shirtless picture of McLoughlin. And also? He’s very fortunate! We send our best wishes to Lambert and Brendan Mcloughlin.

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Get Well Soon: Rich The Kid Gets Hospitalized After Crashing His UTV In Calabasas

Source: Zachary Mazur / Getty Rich The Kid Hurts His Hand During A UTV Accident Rich the Kid  ended up being hospitalized this weekend following an accident in his UTV. The rapper shared a now-deleted photo of his nasty wound on his Instagram on Saturday night, writing: “I’m just glad I’m ok. Thank god.” Not long before that, the 26-year-old has posted a photo of him on his new toy, saying he made the purchase because he got bored. No word yet on how he’s feeling about that purchase now since the crash. According to reports from the people over at  TMZ , sources say  that the crash occurred in a dirt lot behind a luxury auto dealership in Calabasas. Rich was seen riding over small hills before he began doing donuts. It’s no surprise that this was the time that the rapper lost control of the vehicle, causing it to flip over and land on its roof with him in it. Rich The Kid was transported to a hospital shortly after emergency crews arrived on the scene. He also shared footage of his hospital visit on his social media pages and in one of the clips, Rich is heard telling the medical staff that his hand was broken. At this moment in time, it’s not yet clear how severe the rapper’s injuries are–but sources told  TMZ  the damage appeared to be pretty serious. An EMT allegedly told Rich he would have trouble “using his hand for the rest of his life,” and that he hoped he wasn’t a guitar player, “as he wouldn’t be able to play anymore.” Get well soon, Rich.

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