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Care Bear is preggers.

Thanks, @victoria foxton. I always love to see that era of OLTL. Wish I’d been around for it.

These fandoms have gotten so gross and toxic, and I’m sure we don’t even know the half of it. Rinna’s statement feels like an “All Lives Matter” deflection to me.

Ven from Florida 🇺🇸

It’s a scourge. Even for CBS, I believe Big Brother and Survivor are now their biggest series in the demos alongside Ghosts and Young Sheldon. (NCIS still dominates in total viewers. I think FBI does well in both.) I used to enjoy the Bachelor universe, but like most reality franchises, it became more and more overproduced to keep topping the last season. (I’m still doing Drag Race and Housewives, but I’m a little burned out.)

Oh totally. I liked Tinsley fine, and I think she eventually fit in (and the show lost something when she left, which says more about how stale RHONY had become than her contributions). But she didn’t light the show on fire in the way you’d expect an “It Girl” to do. She didn’t bring much that was memorable other than “Drink, bitch” and precipitating Dorinda’s downfall. (Well, and Dale.) Her “kind” would make a solid supporting cast member and not a driver for a franchise.

Why does this board eff up when people quote IG embeds? It’s very weird.

Bachelor still performs gangbusters on ABC (might be their best performer right now) and I suppose is more on brand with their (younger) female-skewing audience.

Exactly. NYC resident here and while it certainly has been gutted culturally due to exorbitant rents over the past 20 years, it’s certainly more interesting than a group of vapid, trust-fund influencers. Hopefully this isn’t the direction they’re going for the whole cast, but those other names floated earlier weren’t all that promising. Plus, they need a solid group of friends. Seems like they are going for Tinsley types, but she was an icon (and even then, not all that great of a HW).

Especially this one:

Francisco in Portugal 🇵🇹

This fighter from wherever 🌎

Saw this in the GH thread re: Nelson Branco, then went to check Twitter. Shocking. Didn’t see any cause of death. Before this, there were a lot of worried tweets about his whereabouts.

Wow. Seeing it all over Soap Twitter.

Tonya Pinkins (ATWT, AMC) will co-star in an Off-Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun at the Public Theater.

Nicki Minaj gets her first No. 1 totally solo, without a featured artist billed with her. Steve Lacy also nabs his first top 10 hit. The Barbz are abuzz.

Here’s the new season’s trailer. I either forgot or didn’t know Alfonso Ribeiro was joining Tyra as co-host. They obviously realized she needed someone with more warmth to balance her out:

Jo from Indonesia 🇮🇩

Very chill. I don’t know these guys so I’ll check out more of them. Another Wolf Alice track with amazing harmonies:

Ken from NY 🇺🇸