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Bravo’s reality series Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard, which features young, Black Gen Z professionals dealing with their drama while in Martha’s Vineyard, recently wrapped its second season. However, a potential third season of the show has yet to be given a proper greenlight.
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Deadline reports that Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard is currently “paused.”
Reportedly, the cast had to fight to even have reunion special, which its first season lacked, in order to smooth over personal issues left unresolved at season 2’s end.
The reunion special did happen on Sunday, May 26 and concluded its sophomore season with Bravo’s Andy Cohen serving as its host. Members of its cast include Nicholas “Nick” Arrington, a brand manager and stylist, Jasmine Ellis Cooper, a screenwriter whose husband didn’t appear in season 2 due to his deployment and Preston Mitchum, an attorney and activist, among others.
Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard is the diverse spin-off of Bravo’s Summer House which tracks out of pocket, and usually white, NYC professionals in the Hamptons over the summer months.
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Being put on “pause” doesn’t mean Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard is canceled, but there is no timeline as to when and if it will return.
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Music management mogul Deb Antney is looking for the next queen of rap with a new reality competition series. ‘Deb’s House’ will feature eight up-and-coming female artists who move into a shared house to compete to become Antney’s next “rap protégé,” according to a report from Deadline.
The series will air on ALLBLK, which is part of the AMC Network. The announcement was made this week at the Television Critics Association panel.
“I envisioned a competition show that deviates from the norm—one centered around personal growth and self-competition,” Antney said in a statement. “Collaborating with (co-creator and co-EP) Rasheed to bring this vision to life has been an incredible journey. Witnessing the music industry veer away from artist development towards a focus on superficiality and explicit content prompted my desire to return to the core values of true lyricism and mentorship.”
She added, “The search for the next female rap sensation in Deb’s House is my way of reigniting that passion. The selection of our show as ALLBLK’s first commissioned competition reality series is truly thrilling. My sincere appreciation goes to my AMC Networks family, particularly Brett Dismuke, for their steadfast belief in this transformative project.”
This isn’t Antney’s first time on reality tv. She and her son, Waka Flocka Flame appeared on two WETv series, Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta, Waka & Tammy.
Antney has managed several iconic rap stars including Gucci Mane, French Montana and Nicki Minaj.
Brett Dismuke, head of content for ALLBLK and WETv said in a statement that “Ms. Deb is a pioneer and influential voice across the music industry who has discovered, established, and guided the careers of some of hip-hop’s most prolific and successful artists.”
He added, “We cannot wait for our ALLBLK audience to join the search and ultimately see who Ms. Deb crowns as the next iconic female MC.”
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Apparently, it’s been a long-running rumor that miseducated MAGA spawn Donald Trump Jr. had an affair with Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day. What people may not have heard is that, according to O’Day, her first sexual encounter with the apple that didn’t fall far from the orange tree happened in the bathroom of a gay club, which might be considered embarrassing if you’re a person who uses social media to make juvenile jokes at the expense of the LGBTQ community. (I mean, not any more embarrassing that admitting to having intimate relations with a member of the Trump family, but still.)
“I was hosting a gay club and our first time going out together—he wanted to see me so bad—and I told him, ‘Well, I’m gonna be at a gay club tonight,’” she claimed during a recent episode of Michael Cohen’s “Mea Culpa” podcast, according to Page Six.
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“So Don shows up to the gay club—and I’m talking about this is one of the biggest gay parties in New York, it’s a huge f—king club,” she continued. “Everybody was in a g-string or less.”
O’Day went on to call Trump Jr. out for fronting on the Gram with all of his homophobic jokes while, in reality, he’s not as disgusted by LGBTQ folks as he would have his followers believe.
“I looked at his Instagram for the first time in years and saw all kinds of jokes of belittling the gay community …and I thought to myself, ‘Man, you were super comfortable in that gay club,’” she said. “In fact, so comfortable that we ended up going to the bathroom and, for the first time, had sex in a gay club bathroom.”
Now, obviously, Trump’s online bigotry is what it is whether he’s actually low-key cool with gay people or not. And there are likely many gay people who would rather be kept out of this mess whether or not O’Day is telling a true story. Still, it would be, at the very least, amusing, if it turned out that another member of the so-called “traditional values” party, who was married to his first wife at the time of the alleged affair, began said affair in the bathroom of a club where the community he loves to hate gathers.
Either way, this is messy—and probably unsanitary.
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