Ever read an interview that has you saying “NOOOOO” aloud at your screen?
Brandi Glanville’s disfigurement is no longer a medical mystery.
It turns out that her breast implants are decades old and also illegal to install these days.
They’ve ruptured. Brandi says that one of her implants appears to have become filled with black mold.
During an August 2025 interview, Brandi Glanville delivered an update about her facial disfigurement and the staggering cost of paying out of pocket for treatments. (Image Credit: Us Weekly)
“The implants that I have in right now, that are almost 20 years old, are no longer made. They’re illegal,” Brandi told the Daily Enquirer in a new interview.
“You’re supposed to change them every 10 years, they say,” she acknowledged.
“But I’m also, I was like, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” Brandi added.
Not unreasonably, she asked: “Who wants to have a surgery, let alone an extensive surgery?”
(The answer is, well, people who don’t want to risk a medical nightmare like she’s been suffering)
“She called me a few days later, the woman that did the sonogram,” she recalled. “And she was like, ‘Brandi? You need to get those out yesterday.’”
Brandi continued: “She’s like, ‘You have a slow leak in your left one and your right one’s completely ruptured, and it’s in all your lymph nodes under both arms.’”
The call continued: “‘And that’s probably why whatever’s going on in your face.’”
Brandi recalled the caller explaining: “‘It can’t drain because your lymph nodes are clogged with silicone.’”
During an Entertainment Tonight segment on YouTube, Brandi Glanville highlights the regions of her face that have experienced odd disfigurement amidst her medical mystery in late 2024. (Image Credit: YouTube/Entertainment Tonight)
If that weren’t bad enough, there’s also the mold issue
According to Brandi, the technician said “that she thought she might have saw some mold on there, on one of the implants.”
She expressed: “And that’s scary because, you know, I’ve never felt back to normal since the black mold poisoning.”
It’s only been a few years since Brandi and her handsome sons, Mason and Jake, got black mold poisoning from a rental house. (Yes, just like Tori Spelling did)
“One of the houses we leased, we all got very sick,” she explained.
Brandi added: “We did get a settlement from the landlord, but that’s something that we all kind of will always fight.”
“My kids were lucky enough to move, you know, out,” Brandi acknowledged. “And I had to stay there and deal with it.”
She clarified: “I mean, I moved out eventually, but it’s life threatening. It is.”
Brandi admitted: “And I never thought something like fun, like implants, like, to me.”
In an illuminating comment, she added: “I don’t know one person out of my friends that doesn’t have them.”
Ultimately, the rest didn’t matter. Brandi reasoned: “So, I need them out.”
On ‘Ultimate Girls Trip,’ Brandi Glanville throws a lifeline to a fellow Bravolebrity. (Image Credit: Peacock)
“I don’t regret getting them,” Brandi affirmed.
She added: “I regret not thinking they had anything to do with what was going on in my head and my neck.”
From the start of Brandi’s medical journey, the world has speculated about whether she was suffering some sort of parasitic infection or from cosmetic surgery gone wrong.
Old breast implants with a moldy growth in them is, arguably, both.
We have to emphasize that it seems possible that the ailment goes beyond the implants. But they clearly weren’t helping.
And in that time, we’ve heard countless theories about how and why someone might have abducted the 84-year-old mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie.
But while most of the speculation has consisted of plausible theories, Bethenny Frankel has offered up an explanation straight out of a made-for-Netflix crime thriller.
Bethenny Frankel attends the iHeartRadio Z100âs Jingle Ball 2022 Presented by Capital One at Madison Square Garden on December 9, 2022 in New York, New York. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)
Yes, Frankel — who recently made headlines as one of several former Bravo stars to take offense at Bad Bunny’s halftime show — is firing off yet another hot take. And this is one for the ages.
In a recent TikTok, Bethenny suggested that Nancy may have been abducted by a rival journalist who is jealous of Savannah’s success.
“Can you guys share with me your theories in the horrific Nancy Guthrie kidnapping?” Frankel asked her followers.
“They say that the ransom note was written by someone extremely articulate, who has connections to TV stations in Arizona,” she continued.
“And Savannah, years ago, worked at TV stations in Arizona. They said that if the ransom were given, [Nancy] would be returned within a matter of hours to Tucson.”
All of this led Bethenny to the conclusion that Nancy might have been abducted by a former colleague of Savannah’s who has been seething with envy for years.
“So is it some competitive journalist that Savannah won, got the gig, broke out, and made all the big bucks, and that person has resentment and wants to get their payday that they deserve?” Frankel asked.
“I have not heard anything like that, and why does that type of thing sound logical to me?”
It’s a bit of a far-fetched premise, but several of Bethenny’s followers believe she’s onto something.
“I don’t think you’re wrong. Any theory at this point is plausible,” one user wrote.
“Oh I’m all over this one,” another added.
Savannah and Nancy Guthrie during one of Nancy’s many guest appearances on the ‘Today’ show. (YouTube)
“That’s a good one, haven’t heard that one yet. Hopefully FBI is investigating all that type of stuff. The poor woman,” a third chimed in.
Investigators have used clues from the suspect’s clothing to try and track him down, and video taken the same night shows a man with a similar backpack attempting to gain access to the backyard of a different home.
If it’s the same man, then Bethenny’s “rival journalist” theory grows even more implausible, and the abduction of Nancy was probably random.
Ransom notes have been sent, but police and the Guthrie family have been unable to determine if the author of the notes actually knows Nancy’s whereabouts.
Police are desperate for leads, and just about any explanation is possible at this point — but Bethenny’s take doesn’t seem especially likely.
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The Band Perry has entered “Season Two” with original member Kimberly Perry and her husband Johnny Costello now making up the GRAMMY-winning group. Drawing from the energy of their RIAA Diamond-certified hit, “If I Die Young,” they created an obsessive and thrilling anthem titled “PSYCHOLOGICAL.”
Perry tells Country Now that even after all these years, stepping into this new chapter of The Band Perry is so exciting that it keeps her up at night. She explains that a lot of writing and listening to new songs went into figuring out the direction for their sound, and together with Johnny and their team, they agreed that “PSYCHOLOGICAL” was the perfect choice to mark their bold reintroduction to fans.
“It is the next installation of my favorite subgenre of Band Perry Country Music, which is the psycho girl love song,” she shared. “So it just felt like all things nostalgic, Band Perry, but also coming back in 2026 and wanting to not just harken to our past and obviously celebrate that, but also to really embrace where country music is headed and to be a part of that story as well.”
Johnny, Kimberly Perry; Photo Courtesy of Facebook
The writers on the song, Clara Park, Grace Tyler and Colton Venner, trusted the husband and wife to bring this song to life and they couldn’t be more honored to get to tell the story. The artists recap a dizzying portrayal of infatuation and obsession as Kimberly Perry’s distinctive voice cuts through a moody piano backdrop to tell a story of a love that’s both unhinged and intense.
A punchy country-rock production bursts with a bold energy, while the singers spiral over the feeling of losing yourself in an attempt to try and fit the perfect mold for someone else. The narrator reshapes themselves by listening to different music, drinking Jack even though they hate it, cutting off friends, and even joking about faking their own death, all to see if their love interest would take notice.
“‘Cause you make crazy seem rational/ I’d say obsession feels natural/ You’re all I want, any hoop, any obstacle/ Boy, you make going psycho logical/ In my head, yeah, you mess all my common sense up/ I know I’m crossing lines that I shouldn’t/ I’m out of my mind, but I don’t need no hospital/ Boy, you make going psycho logical,” they sing on the chorus.
The Band Perry; PSYCHOLOGICAL
Perry says that even though the chaos of this true story was technically inspired by a moment in the songwriter Grace Tyler’s real life, not her own, she can heavily relate to the narrative and she feels fans will too.
“I’m just so excited because it was a very true story for Grace. She was like, ‘Hey, I had met this guy and then we knew each other very shortly, and then I got a song and I wrote about it.’ I’m like well, I’m a married woman who’ve also been in that season of relationships before finding Johnny, thank God my love story improved…but to also I feel like it was something that I could legitimately and wholeheartedly sing from my perspective. It felt like a really magic crossroads of those two things with this song.”
She also notes that it holds a similar energy to previous death-related tunes, “Better Dig Two” and “If I Die Young.” According to Kimberly, “PSYCHOLOGICAL” originally had a line about the woman winding up at her love interest’s vacation with his family on spring break. However, she wanted to tap into those earlier releases to sing about faking her own death because she felt it was something she would do in her own life.
“I could attest to that,” Johnny joked.
Kimberly explained, “Well, I mean, I wrote ‘If I Die Young’ to just see how everybody would react when I put it out because I’m still living. So yeah, I just feel like it is relatable and for better or for worse, I mean, I have a ring on my hand, so the psycho girl did work out for me to be that devoted/delusional. I think it’s a fine line between the two. And I think that these are real life things that I’ve done and would do again if you ever left me. So don’t ever do that,” she told her husband.
Set to impact country radio on February 17, “PSYCHOLOGICAL” marks the band’s first new music in nine years. The track sets the tone for how they plan to move forward while still carrying on the legacy of The Band Perry and, most importantly, maintaining its original standing as a family band. With her husband by her side, she is fulfilling her dreams of embarking on this musical journey together and is even open to the idea of bringing their son into the group one day as well.
“I just feel like I’ve gotten to live so many seasons with The Band Perry. It’s been one of the great loves of my life since I was a teenager…[I], of course, enjoyed those seasons with my brothers and we love the hell out of every minute that we were on stage together. To get to come back in season two with my husband in the band, which has always been a dream of mine to have my person in the band with me, to be building this legacy for our son. And if he ever wants to come and play drums in a few years, he’s welcome to, it feels like such an important thing to keep intact.”
Johnny, Kimberly Perry; Photo Courtesy of Facebook
With Johnny’s rock background, he fits perfectly into The Band Perry’s signature blend of country and southern rock that, in his opinion, can often evoke a bit of head banging.
“There’s some really fun moments. And I think there’s the element that Kimberly keeps telling having a family band, there’s a level of being family that you just…on stage, there’s a little bit of like, ‘oh, I know where you’re going with this.’ It’s what a seasoned band gets over time as well, but you’re just like, “Oh, I know where you’re going with this setup. Okay, cool. I’m going to hit this out of the stage.” It just makes a real fun element playing live music.”
The duo is currently playing their full catalog out on the road, making sure to highlight “all the hits that everybody loves,” along with a few deep cuts from the band’s earlier albums.
“I feel like I’m just really trying to take so much care about being recognizable and really championing what brought us to the dance in the first place and also just loving and being perfectly honest with where we are now, what we’re thinking about, what we love to sing about, and how we love to play on stage,” Kimberly added.
Beginning this weekend, they will embark on the Psycho Rodeo Tour with their first stop being three back-to-back nights across Colorado from February 13-15. They will return to Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry next Friday, February 20 and then continue the trek through August.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is using his book tour and 2026 reelection campaign to further build out a national fundraising network that could prove quite useful in a potential 2028 run.
The governor held a fundraising event over lunch while visiting Massachusetts for his book tour last month, two people familiar with the planning for it confirmed — making it at least the third fundraiser he attended in the last year in the deep-blue state with deep-pocketed donors who have long bankrolled presidential contenders. One of the others was held at the home of Jewish philanthropist and New England Patriots president Jonathan Kraft in April, details of which have not previously been reported. Shapiro attended another on Nantucket, a summer fundraising mecca, in July, according to an attendee and invitations obtained by POLITICO.
They add to an extensive list of networking events for the possible White House aspirant who’s long been a prolific fundraiser within and beyond Pennsylvania.
He amassed $23 million in 2025 with the help of $2.5 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; $1 million from a Soros family PAC, $500,000 from James and Kathryn Murdoch, the left-leaning son and daughter in law of Rupert Murdoch; and over $120,000 from Kraft and his father, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. That’s helped him build a $30 million war chest to unleash this year against his likely GOP opponent, state Treasurer Stacy Garrity, who raised nearly $1.5 million last year and had $1 million in the bank to start 2026.
His book tour side-hustle comes as several of Shapiro’s would-be rivals for the Democratic nomination in 2028 take donor meetings across the country as they navigate their own reelection bids and start laying the groundwork for White House runs.
Shapiro routinely dismisses talk of 2028 in public, keeping a laser focus on his reelection bid and on his efforts to help Democrats down the ballot.
“No one should be looking past these midterms,” the governor recently told reporters in Washington, D.C., who were peppering him with hypotheticals.
Sources say he is just as disciplined behind closed doors: Shapiro has kept his pitch focused on his leadership in purple Pennsylvania and how Democrats should be centering pocketbook issues in the midterms, while declining to engage with questions about his future beyond 2026, according to two people who attended donor events with Shapiro last year.
“The smartest thing Shapiro and other folks on the ballot in 2026 can do right now is say ‘I’m running for reelection right now and I’m in the middle of the fight.’ [It] makes ‘26 a nice little audition for their eventual 2028 runs,” said Alex Hoffman, a Democratic strategist and donor adviser.
His out-of-state networking is already paying off. Shapiro raked in over $700,000 from prominent donors in Massachusetts alone in 2025, including $260,000 from construction magnate John Fish and $50,000 from telecommunications tycoon Robert Hale. He also hauled in cash from Hollywood bigwigs and tech titans, including $100,000 from Sony film executive Tom Rothman and $200,000 from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen.
But the governor’s expansive donor pool is also drawing scrutiny. Garrity has called on Shapiro to return over $2 million his campaign has taken over the years from billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who is referenced repeatedly in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Hoffman gave $500,000 to Shapiro last year. Shapiro also received $50,000 from New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, who is also mentioned in the Epstein files, as is Robert Kraft. Both Hoffman and Tisch have issued statements distancing themselves from the late convict.
“Stacy Garrity should stop playing politics with the Epstein files. Donald Trump is mentioned in the files over 5,000 times. Is she going to ask him to rescind his endorsement?” Shapiro spokesperson Manuel Bonder said in a statement. Bonder declined comment on the governor’s fundraisers.
He’ll need to keep building out that network. Shapiro has benefited from what longtime Pennsylvania Democratic strategist Neil Oxman described as “institutional donors” in the state who’ve given to successive Democratic governors. But of “the thousands of people who raise money nationally, he probably knows a fraction of them. He has some [national] recognition, but he’s not Gavin Newsom. He’s not the Clintons.”
Shapiro also won’t be able to use the gobs of money he’s raised for his state campaign account to fund a run for federal office, leaving him at an initial disadvantage against other potential 2028ers who are already squirreling away millions of dollars into federal leadership committees, super PACs and congressional campaign accounts that can be converted when the time comes.
“That’s why sometimes it’s hard to run for office when you have to run for another office,” Oxman said.
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