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If you’re following Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum, you were likely charmed by Abbey and David’s kiss on an African Safari hilltop or beamed as Tanner and a timid Kate shared a broken umbrella in the rain. Early watchers of the show, like Michelle Ivey, said the dating series had the potential to foster genuine empathy with its stars and spur interest in more love-centered stories on the spectrum. “I really did enjoy seeing an autistic person moving through regular life stuff, moving through dating and trying to…

When Jesse Montana filmed Vanderpump Rules last summer at the height of Scandoval, he didn’t realize Season 11 would be his last time in front of the cameras for the hit Bravo series. For years, Jesse has been in the background of the show as a server at Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurants SUR and Pump (the latter shuttering recently), as well as a good friend of some of the cast members. He’s spent the last decade in the Vanderpump universe on and off camera. As Jesse puts it, “I’ve just been living my real…

The Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, aptly titled “#Scandoval,” concluded with a dramatic exchange between Tom Sandoval, two-timing paragon of Angeleno scumbaggery whose five-percent ownership stake in one of West Hollywood’s seediest bars made him think he was the second coming of Steve Rubell, and Scheana Shay, an aspiring pop star/vlogger who will fall head over heels for you if you mount a TV in under seven minutes. During this coda, we saw Scheana — tears streaming down her face, because of course — read…

It was the reality TV scandal to end all scandals. So earth-shaking that it got its own hashtag: #Scandoval.  In early March, just a few episodes into the tenth season of Vanderpump Rules, it was sensationally revealed that Tom Sandoval — the worm-mustached cover-band lead and minority-stake West Hollywood bar owner — and Rachel (formerly Raquel) Leviss had been engaged in a secret months-long affair, all behind the back of Sandoval’s then-girlfriend, Ariana Madix, and their co-stars. Leviss — the retired pageant…

Netflix just announced that it has for a second season. The reality show is a toned-down version of the dystopian drama of the same name, a program known for its harsh critique of capitalism. Production on the second season is already ramping up, To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so.The Challenge recreates many of the more popular scenarios from the original show, complete with fake deaths by gunshot when a…

When father-son duo Richard Batenburg Jr. and Rick Batenburg III were approached about turning their cannabis business into a reality TV series, they had an immediate question: Why? “Frankly, we were shocked, because we don’t think we’re that interesting,” Batenburg III said via Zoom from his Denver office on Thursday. “But we’re very excitable and have a high risk tolerance. They saw potential in the family-business concept, so that’s how we ended up as the hub of the show.” The Batenburgs own and operate The Clear,…