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To understand why a thirty-second rocking-chair video moved Sister Wives fans this week, start with the land. Janelle Brown’s new home in North Carolina sits on a 156-acre property she bought with her daughter Madison Brown and son-in-law Caleb Brush — the purchase that explains the woman in Pete’s October 21 video: settled, rooted and … Read more
Janelle Brown has found her favourite way to spend a fall afternoon, and her boyfriend Pete has made sure everyone knows it. On Wednesday, October 21, Pete posted a short video of the couple sitting side by side outdoors, each settled into a rocking chair, swaying gently and laughing as they pictured themselves doing exactly … Read more
There is a moment in every long cosmetic-surgery story where the procedures stop being about looking younger and start being about repairing the last procedure. Sharon Osbourne reached that moment years ago — she has the uneven eyes, the corrective operations and now the dent to prove it. What makes her October podcast appearance worth … Read more
The dent Sharon Osbourne described this week did not appear from nowhere. It is the latest entry in one of the longest, most publicly documented cosmetic-surgery histories in entertainment — a history she herself has written, procedure by procedure, across four decades. Understanding why her October 15 podcast comments landed so hard means understanding just … Read more
Sharon Osbourne has never been shy about her plastic surgery — but even by her standards, the story she told this week is a stark one. On the October 15 episode of The Osbournes Podcast, the 74-year-old revealed that one botched plastic surgery procedure left part of her face black and a dent — an … Read more
Every season of this show has one night that explains why it has survived for 35 of them, and this year it arrived on October 20. Dedication Night is, on paper, a theme week. In practice, it is the moment the competition admits what it actually is: a show about people, performed by people who … Read more
To understand why Viennese waltz rehearsals were happening under emergency conditions in week six, you have to rewind to October 13. That night, judge Carrie Ann Inaba called out an illegal lift in Jenna Johnson and Harry Shum Jr.’s samba and read the lift rule aloud. Johnson’s husband, pro Val Chmerkovskiy, answered with a since-deleted … Read more
Week six of Dancing with the Stars was always going to be emotional. Dedication Night is the evening the ballroom sets technique aside and asks its ten remaining celebrities to dance for the people who made them — and on Tuesday, October 20, season 35 delivered the theme’s most unforgettable edition in years: a pregnancy … Read more
Let us consider what, exactly, the Princess of Wales did wrong at the Oman state banquet: nothing, visibly, at any point, including the point at which her dress was trapped under a chair. That is the story. Not the snag — the absence of reaction to the snag. In an age when public figures flinch … Read more
Somewhere in the planning of every state banquet there is a document nobody publishes: the Banquet Seating Plan. At Windsor Castle on October 20 it placed the Princess of Wales beside Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, the guest of honour, with Prince William across the table — the seats of maximum trust at the Head Table. … Read more