Month: September 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Lydia Plath is done holding back.

Appearing as a guest late last week on The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast, the Welcome to Plathville cast member said she has considered leaving the reality show at times.

She’s sick of all the criticism leveled at her by various family members…

… but God wants her to stick around, Lydia explained on air.

During this same appearance, meanwhile, Plath said some rather personal things about these same family members — without naming any names.

Telling listeners that the show is mostly realistic (“Some things can be taken out of context and edited and dramatized. But storyline-wise, [it’s] pretty accurate.”), Lydia went on to slam certain relatives for showing their allegedly true colors now that they’re in the spotlight:

“It brings out what’s really deep down.

“Some of my siblings may have looked like on the outside, before the show came along, that they were great Christians and walking with the Lord and all that. But being in the public eye, the show— it’s going to bring out what’s deep inside.”

Plath added:

“If you’re seeking attention, it’s going to bring that out and you’re gonna do whatever it takes to get attention.”

Yikes, huh?

“If you’re seeking the Lord, that’s going to be magnified. And when you’re pressed, and the Lord is truly what’s inside, the Lord is what’s going to come out,” Plath also said, before addressing some of her siblings moving away from religion in recent years.

“So, if some of my siblings feel like the ‘Christian life’ was boring [due to the] things to do and things not to do, I totally understand why you don’t want a part in that. But my personal walk with the Lord has been anything but boring.”

Plath seems especially irritated by her mom these days, as Kim Plath told her daughter on the latest episode of Welcome to Plathville that she might be making “the biggest mistake” of her life by marrying Zac Wyse.

Still, Plath insists that the pros of reality television outweigh the cons.

“For me, it really drew me closer to the Lord, and that was a good thing,” Lydia said of being on Welcome to Plathville.

Elsewhere in this interview, Lydia stood up for her new husband.

“It really hurts to see my family saying things about Zac and I that if they would have just come to us, and known us, it would have all been answered and clear that all Zac was doing in that month leading up to the wedding was caring for me and being there for me,” Lydia wrote on social media this weekend.

“He’s truly the most selfless man I’ve met and loves me in such a pure way!”

Lydia Plath: My Family is Full of Fake Christians! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

​The Hollywood Gossip

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have been one of television’s most enduring couples.

They’ve worked together for decades. They clearly share a sense of humor. And it doesn’t hurt that they’re both incredibly hot.

Fans are understandably shocked to hear Mark describe their “agonizing” split.

And folks, you will not believe the gambit that he pulled to try to win her back.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos broke up just one week before their wedding

During an appearance on the Skinny Confidential podcast this week, Mark Consuelos recalled his split with Kelly Ripa. It was brief. It also took place just one week before their wedding day.

“We eloped,” he acknowledged. “It’s pretty famously eloped and we told no one for a month.” They married on May 1, 1996.

“But, if you would’ve asked me a week before I got married and said, ‘When do you think you’re going to get married?,’” Mark admitted, “I would be like ‘I don’t know, maybe never, or 10 years or 15 years from now. And I was 25 years old.”

“It’s kind of a funny story as we broke up the week before. I broke up with her because I was dumb,” Mark admitted.

“And it was the most agonizing week of my life,” he added. “And I just knew I never wanted to feel like that. I’ve never felt like that in my life.” We believe it!

“She didn’t return any of my calls,” Mark recalled of the week. Fortunately, they were All My Children co-stars.

“And then we were meant to do a bit of PR together. We were on a soap and ironically, we were both going to be presenting a winner, it was Queen for the day, and we both tried to get out of it.”

His regrets were instant and powerful

“She looked amazing. And I was like, ‘Oh man, she looks so good. Boy did I screw up,’” Mark Consuelos said, gushing over wife Kelly Ripa 29 years and some change later.

“And so we do the segment. We barely speak to each other,” he narrated. “I’m trying to speak to her. We both smoked cigarettes back then. And so she went out for a smoke break.” (Yikes! But the story does get better)

Mark continued: “I said, ‘Do you mind if I come out with you?’ She said, “Yeah, if you want.’ And so that happened.”

“And then after the segment was done, she lived on the West Side,” Mark detailed.

“I followed her and begged her to take a walk with me through Central Park.” Gentlemanly, but not without an agenda.

“And she really didn’t want to but I was convincing and so she did. And then we ended up back at my place,” he shared.

“I lived downtown,” Mark explained. He then stunned the podcast host, adding:

“And I asked her to marry me.”

He asked her to marry him THE SAME DAY?!

“She said, ‘Ask me when you’re serious,’” Mark Consuelos recalled of Kelly Ripa replying to his proposal.

“And I said, ‘I am dead serious. We have a day off work tomorrow,’” he concluded the story. “‘Let’s fly to Vegas and get married.’”

That is precisely what they did. And they didn’t tell anyone about marrying for a month.

They have also remained married for what will soon be 29-and-a-half years. That’s older than some of the people who watched them on Riverdale.

Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos: Their ‘Agonizing’ Split Explained was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

​The Hollywood Gossip

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Less than 36 hours after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking engagement in Utah, his alleged assassin was arrested.

And while the case against Tyler Robinson seems fairly open-and-shut, many remain convinced that there’s more to the story.

Some believe Robinson had accomplices, while others are convinced he was a pawn in a vast conspiracy.

The discourse surrounding Kirk’s death has now been further complicated by shocking claims from conservative pundit Candace Owens.

Owens has made a career out of courting controversy, and now, she’s positioned herself at the center of the year’s biggest news story.

To be fair, Owens and Kirk were close friends, so her motives in all of this might be pure.

But that doesn’t make her recent remarks any less incendiary.

Candace Owen says Charlie Kirk faced ‘threats,’ bribes over Israel

On Monday, Owens posted an hour-long episode of her podcast that has already been viewed nearly six million times.

In it, she alleges that Kirk faced pressure from powerful individuals within the conservative sphere, particularly billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Seth Dillon, CEO of the satirical news site The Babylon Bee.

“Last week was not a dream. Charlie Kirk, my friend, is dead. He was publicly executed. And as we’re all searching for answers, a lot of the ones that are being supplied to us are not making sense,” Owens said at the start of the episode.

From there, Owens alleged that during a “tense” lunch meeting in the Hamptons over the summer, Dillon and Ackman tried to coerce Kirk into showing his support for Israel by visiting the county.

Owens says that Kirk had been experiencing a change of heart regarding his support for Israel’s war against Palestine, and that he had previously been contacted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to Owens, “threats were made” as part of a high-pressure “intervention” to get Kirk to double down on his pro-Israel stance.

She also alleges that some of the interested parties resorted to bribery.

“I know that Charlie was offered a significant amount of money during that time — a ton of money,” Owens said.

Who is Seth Dillon?

In 2018, Dillon purchased The Babylon Bee — a conservative, Christian alternative to news satire sites like The Onion — from its founder, Adam Ford.

Seth and brother Dan Dillon have been primarily in charge of the site and its content ever since.

He and Ackman have both responded on X to the claims Owens made about their meeting with Kirk.

Dillon stated that he was invited to a Hamptons retreat by Kirk, but “if there were any private meetings, I wasn’t in them.”

Ackman accused Owens of “slander,” writing, “For the record, at no time have I ever threatened Charlie Kirk, Turning Point or anyone associated with him. I have never blackmailed anyone, let alone Charlie Kirk.”

We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.

Seth Dillon: Babylon Bee CEO Denies Making ‘Threats’ to Charlie Kirk, … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

​The Hollywood Gossip

One of New York’s most popular BBQ restaurants has a humble origin story. Before making it big in the state, it was a roadside stand with a niche following.

​Mashed – Fast Food, Celebrity Chefs, Grocery, Reviews