Frankel believes Meghan Markle is a “terrible businessperson” who is really “f–king up” life after leaving the palace.
Page Six Reports: The former “The Real Housewives of New York City” star said in a viral TikTok video Tuesday that the Duchess of Sussex is “painting herself into a corner.”
“She is a terrible, terrible businessperson, strategist — she’s playing checkers, not chess — because she is overplaying her hand, and she is painting herself into a corner, becoming a woman without a country,” Frankel explained.
The Skinnygirl founder, 51, said Markle, 41, was able to get out of a “terrible situation” in the UK but is “f–king it up” because of her methods.
“I remember talking about this before the Oprah interview and getting death threats and losing major deals and having many A-list people text me saying that they agree with me secretly,” Frankel said, “but then friends of hers text me, ‘Please take down what you said.’”
Bethenny Frankel called out Meghan Markle’s “terrible” business acumen. bethennyfrankel/TikTok
Frankel described the “Suits” alum as a “polarizing person” but stood by her “personal choice” not to be “terrified and not talk.”
Hours before Markle and Prince Harry’s sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey aired in March 2021, the former Bravolebrity slammed the “fairly unknown actress.”
“Cry me a river,” Frankel tweeted to her 1.5 million followers, soon bringing up the “Archetypes” podcast host’s past life as a “Deal or No Deal” briefcase model.
“The plight of being a game show host, fairly unknown actress, to suffering in a palace, w tiaras & 7 figure weddings for TWO WHOLE YEARS to being a household name w @Oprah on speed dial, fetching 7 m for interviews, hundreds of millions in media deals,” she added.
Cry me a river…the plight of being a game show host, fairly unknown actress, to suffering in a palace, w tiaras & 7 figure weddings for TWO WHOLE YEARS to being a household name w @Oprah on speed dial, fetching 7 m for interviews, hundreds of millions in media deals. 🤔 #MARRYhttps://t.co/AsbeYPF9ry
I agree. The woman is total goals. She accomplished ALL of her dreams. She doesn’t have to try to figure out how to get attention, be negative, or build a brand. She shot straight to the top.
We don’t want to hear her sob stories. Especially not the racism ones. Obviously nothing holds this woman back. She’s one of the best manifestors in the world.
Just be a Princess Megan, speak positive and sell dope sh*t. You got this.
P.S. Get you some hip black friends Sis. Ones that understand the streets to the executive suites and how to build a major business. You have too much going for yourself to complain. That’s just not the path boo.
You already have everyone’s support. Like I literally want to say NOTHING bad about her.
P.P.S. Don’t let it slip past you that Betthany is also saying this and promoting her podcast. Which is essentially the same thing Meghan is doing. Celebrities talking about celebrities is the new wave.
Growing up, chances are you watched Wendy Williams dominate the radio airwaves then be rewarded with her own dominating t.v. show.
For 35 years, Wendy Williams took the media by storm, ending with her winning millions of hearts on her daytime talk show, “The Wendy Williams Show.”
Then in 2021 life at Wendy knew it came to a screeching halt. Not only did Wendy get divorced in 2021 but she was also rudely ousted from her talk show in 2022.
To speak her story, Williams let fans into her hot topic-filled life with a biopic movie called, “Wendy Williams: The Movie,” followed by her eponymous documentary, “What A Mess!”
In both projects, the 56-year-old media mogul bares it all, sharing personal struggles that she’s faced throughout her life, including weight challenges that started as a child, cocaine addiction, alleged rape, several miscarriages, and her tumultuous relationship with her now ex-husband and former manager Kevin Hunter.
Wendy Knew She Married The Wrong Man But Kept Going
While her marriage began to publicly unravel several years ago due to alleged infidelity and abuse, Williams told Insider that privately she had been executing her divorce plans for nearly two decades. The two wed in 1997.
When asked at what point in her 21-year marriage she felt like her happiness had become compromised, Williams emphatically said, “the second year because that’s when I finally got successfully pregnant with [my son] young Kevin and gave birth to him.”
“I went into the delivery room knowing in my mind, ‘I’m planning my divorce,'” she continued. “Kevin was a serial cheat. He cheated when I dated him. He cheated when I married him. He cheated while I was on bed rest during the entire nine months of me being pregnant.”
Williams, who finalized her divorce from Hunter in 2019, claimed her ex cheated because he “got too comfortable.” But despite problems at home, Williams said she made a conscious decision to stay because of her now 20-year-old son, Kevin Hunter Jr.
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“I couldn’t [leave] because the bigger the talk show got, and the more I would look into my son’s eyes … the more I decided to give of myself and I figured I’d get it on the back end, so to speak,” the daytime talk show host, who’s set to remain on air until 2022, told Insider.
But after the two became estranged, Williams said she hoped to set a good example for her son.
The Wendy Williams Movie
“I prayed young Kevin would be smarter than his parents and that I would be able to execute the proper divorce and be the proper single mother,” she said.
Still, the talk show host said Hunter “will always be my friend because we must be civil to each other because we are Kevin’s parents.”
“I don’t regret meeting Kevin. I don’t regret falling in love. I don’t regret staying with him for all 25 years — 21 of them married,” Williams added.
Despite going through a very public divorce while filming, Williams was so committed to the authenticity of her biopic that she invited Hunter to travel to Vancouver where they were filming.
“He was definitely invited by me as well as Lifetime, with a promissory note from me that he would not be talked about in any other way, but my truth in the documentary and depicted in any other way but my truth in the movie,” she added.
Still, Lifetime confirmed to Insider that Hunter declined to participate.
As for moving on to her next phase of life now that her son is out of the home and away at college, Williams is wasting no time on getting exactly what she wants.
“At 56 years old, you don’t have too many more chances to get your life together. So, I will continue to be my own best friend until the day I die because only I know what’s best for me,” she said. “My [late] mother didn’t know what was best for me. My sister doesn’t know what’s best. You don’t know what’s best. My bosses never knew what’s best for me. Only I know what’s best for me.”
“I’m extremely happy that I’m still relevant enough that I’m able to come through some pretty … double doors and say, ‘How you doing?’ and still be young, fun, and pop culture relevant,” she added.
MOVIE LESSONS
I am just now watching the movie. Here are my thoughts.
One thing I’ve learned about relationships is that most women go 20 years in and out of relationships. Never respected, because they don’t have a consistent “good man.” But the woman who is married for 20-years, even if being cheated on, as long as the public thinks it’s all good, she’s covered and she wins.
Most men are irrelevant other than being a fake cover to get respect from the world. A woman needs to be covered in this world.
Everything you want is on the other side of FEAR. Wendy decided to stop living in fear and that took her a long way.
Drugs and alcohol make humans fearless. But the key to life is to be fearless in the arms of God. To walk past the fear with FAITH.
Wendy partied, but she still worked hard and never missed a day of work on her come-up.
Wendy didn’t give up on herself no matter what. She showed up, was persistent and created her own luck.
The thing about a man who cheats on you, is that as time goes on, he gets further and further away from you, the more successful you become, the more he needs to feed his ego… Eventually he cheats with the right woman and likes her enough to divorce you or completely stop caring about you, because she’s number one.
So if that’s the lifestyle you choose, I guess you’d better get ready.
Get ready to never give your whole heart. Get ready for when he’s done hiding anything. Get ready to be laughed at.
But I guess it’s better to live the dream for awhile than to never live it at all.
And despite all Kevin did to build Wendy up and tear her down, the minute she wasn’t covered by him, it was open season to cancel her.
And that’s why a woman must always choose a good man and jump ship to a new one when he’s not being good to her.
Men are temporary unless he’s treating you right.
You can’t be a superstar woman with a bad man.
Wendy’s story also reminds me to keep doing things that are in alignment with my heart. She, Kevin Samuels and Tasha K all took a certain path. That path doesn’t seem to end well.
However God bless Wendy Williams. Her business and come-up are extremely inspiring. No judgement. Just lessons.
BLESSINGS IN OTHES LESSONS
I ended up looking at Sharina’s instagram page and she only has 15,000 followers.
Noticed some people know the deal, and they still support her. But the thing is I realize I used to beat up on myself so much for this and that, when I’ve done everything by myself from the ground up.
A lot of us run circles around people who have access to way more than us and are more famous than us.
Despite the money and fame…. I used to beat myself up because I felt I should be further along. But God looks out for his kids. Many of you are doing great without being a celebrity, knowing a celebrity or having millions in the bank. Keep Going and realize how amazing you are.
The relationship between Taye Diggs, 51, and 35-year-old TV personality Apryl Jones has light up the hearts of social media with joy for for some time now. While they haven’t exclusively spelled out the details of their relationship, it appears that the two are not just friends doing funny skits together, but actually dating. Social media users have deemed the two as couple goals. Nobody appreciates the relationship more than Diggs, though. He took to Instagram to openly appreciate Apryl for being in his life. He listed her as one of a few things he’s especially thankful for, and did so in his now trademark hilarious way.
“As an adult, there are times in life where you can’t believe what you are blessed with,” the actor shared on Instagram. “I feel really lucky to have the career I have, coming from nothing and then getting to be where I am.”
Diggs continued, “And then, the fact that this woman is in love with me. Like, I don’t [understand], I can’t, there-that’s how I know, praise you Lord Jesus or Buddha or Universe, ’cause somehow she’s next to me.” Enamored, The Best Man star continued while turning the camera to show off Ms. Jones. “She’s with me. Oh, my lord.”
Jones responded by giving Diggs some affectionate touches, beaming, and sitting down next to him. “So, for all you people out there who don’t think there’s God or no higher being or no higher force, y’all I know there is ’cause someone’s lookin’ out after me, boy!” The two then burst into laughter before the video ended.
Jones and Diggs are hard to miss on social media as they’re frequently posting videos of their humorous skits. When asked about his relationship with Jones during an interview with Fox 5 New York in July, he responded, “We’re cool, we’re enjoying ourselves. We’re having a lot of fun. These are crazy times, so we’re just trying to have as much fun as we can, and that kind of helps us out.”
The couple first started sharing social media clips together in December and made their first red carpet appearance in February at a movie premiere. They have since continued to make appearances in our social media feeds and publicly share their appreciation for one anther, which we love to see.
Interesting. Taye Diggs is thanking God for Apryl. Not the other way around. Despite her dating Omarion’s best friend, it didn’t stop Apryl from getting a relationship with a respectable man. Even Dr. Dre allegedly almost married her. Inspirational.
It hasn’t been 6 months since the couple renewed their vows and now, Ne-Yo‘s wife Crystal Renay Smith alleges that the singer has been unfaithful to her for years.
Crystal Renay, 35, who shares three kids with the musician and has been married to him for six years, detailed her accusations against her husband, 42, in a scathing Instagram message posted on July 30.
“8 years of lies and deception,” Crystal wrote. “8 years of unknowingly sharing my life and husband with numerous of women who sell their bodies to him unprotected…every last one of them [sic]! To say I’m heartbroken and disgusted is an understatement. To ask me to stay and accept it is absolutely insane. The mentality of a narcissist. I will no longer lie to the public or pretend that this is happening it isn’t. I choose me, I choose my happiness and health and my respect.”
Crystal, mom of sons Shaffer Chimere Smith Jr., 6, and Roman Alexander-Raj Smith, 4, and daughter Isabella Rose Smith, 13 months, continued, “I gained 3 beautiful children out of this but nothing else but wasted years and heartache.”
Ne-Yo “liked” her post and tweeted on July 31, “For the sake of our children, my family and I will work through our challenges behind closed doors. Personal matters are not meant to be addressed and dissected in public forums. I simply ask that you please respect me and my family’s privacy at this time.”
In her Instagram post, Crystal pleaded with her fans to “please stop sending me videos or information of him cheating because what he does is no longer my concern.”
She also wrote, “I am not a victim. I’m choosing to stand tall with my head held high. If someone can’t love you the way you deserve then it’s up to you to love yourself. With no hate in my heart I wish him nothing but the best.”
Crystal penned her post three months after she and Ne-Yo renewed their wedding vows in an elaborate ceremony following past marital strife and a breakup in 2020. Speaking on E!’s Daily Pop in May, the singer said that at one point while quarantining amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he and his wife found themselves “considering divorce.”
“It took a lot of really uncomfortable conversations,” Ne-Yo continued. “As a human being, it’s just real difficult, especially with somebody that you love and you care for. You care about how they feel, So to tell them something about themselves that they may not enjoy, it’s hard to do that, on top of it being hard to hear about yourself.”
Their relationship difficulties are at the center of his song, “Don’t Love Me,” which the signer wrote during the pandemic. He added, “I’ve always been better at writing it down as opposed to saying it out loud.”
Personally, I am tired of Neyo and Crystal Renay.
There is no way his cheating is a surprise at this point. Just create a reality show and sell tickets at this point.
Neyo picked this woman up off the internet streets and saved her from a life of dealing with other men who would cheat, not marry her and do the same things Neyo is doing to her, for a lot less money. Cause trust me Crystal could get a faithful garbage man, janitor or something.
This couple goes back and forth with the lies and cheating, with Crystal staying, cause like any woman she’s in love and wants her fairytale.
I get it. But leave the public out of it. The chaos makes no sense. It’s not healthy for them or the kids. Not to mention men having unprotected sex with random women, and bring the d back home to their wife. That’s just trifling.
How hard is it to find a therapist that can help Neyo understand why he cheats, or to help Crystal understand why she stays. Heck I can break down their unhealed trauma patterns.
The thing about celebrities is they have way too much money and access to sit around in toxic relationships.
If these two calm down again and swear everything is good, I’m simply going to assume they do this for publicity sake, to get attention and that’s that.
On top of that this is the story of so many every day women. They have a baby or three by a man and they want to be this little fairy tale family knowing the man in the relationship has a sexual addiction and hasn’t dealt with his demons.
What happened to marrying your best friend, and simply being honest with each other?
Come on, it’s the year 2022. The year of conscious, healthy relationships and REAL LOVE. Can we please LOVE the people we married. Geesh!
A man is never going to stop cheating on you, until you stop cheating on yourself.
Anyway, we are not here to judge. This situation is awesome.
Today I found out that there are actually some people who DON’T like Joe Dispenza. They think he has a “Plastic and fake persona.”
Why is that surprising when I know that some people didn’t like Jesus and still don’t?
I feel like Joe a top BRAIN analysis DR for emotions and mindset…don’t know if he should be expected to be all super emotional…. It’s SCIENCE to him.
Anyway, they don’t like Joe, didn’t like Jesus, someone killed 2 Pac and Biggie.
This goes to show how you can waste a bunch of time in fear waiting to be liked, waiting to look perfect or for everything in your life to line up right. There is no other time than now to LOVE YOURSELF and feel worthy of embodying your next level.
If the greatest among us aren’t always loved by everyone, why are you sitting around afraid of judgements, waiting for everyone to like the new version of you before you raise your prices, invite in a new aligned tribe and shift the way you show up your business?
I get it. The comfort zone is the enemy of achievement. It can be difficult to let go of something you’re already highly successful in. Back into the unknown again.
At the end of the day you know it’s better to surrender to being WEALTHY, loved by many, disliked by a few and confident enough to know that you are always going to WIN just by being the very best version of you
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Actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with sexually assaulting three men in the U.K. from 2005 to 2013, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday.
NBC Reports: Spacey, 62, has also been charged with “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. The charges follow a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation,” Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s special crime division, said in a statement.
Two of the alleged assaults happened in March 2005 in London against one person, the statement said.
Another alleged assault happened in London in August 2008. The alleged sexual activity without consent, also in August 2008 was reported by the same alleged victim.
The alleged sexual assault was reported to have happened in April 2013 in Gloucestershire, a county around 100 miles west of London.
Spacey was removed from his starring role in Netflix’s “House of Cards” in November 2017 as sexual assault and misconduct allegations against him mounted.
Actor Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of making sexual advances toward him three decades ago when Rapp was just 14 years old.
Rapp’s allegations were first made public in an article by BuzzFeed News.
Spacey said in a statement on Twitter that he didn’t remember the alleged incident involving Rapp, but he wrote: “If I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”
Days later, filmmaker Tony Montana told Radar Online that Spacey groped him at a bar in Los Angeles back in 2003. And Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos said that he encountered Spacey at the Old Vic theater in London, where Spacey was serving as artistic director — a tenure that lasted from 2004 until 2015. Cavazos said Spacey would frequent the theater’s bar and “squeeze whoever caught his attention.”
Later that year, London’s Old Vic theater said it had received 20 allegations of “inappropriate behavior” against Spacey during his time there. Spacey started acting at the theatre in the 1990s.
At the time, Spacey’s publicist said he “is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment.”
In 2018, Spacey was charged with indecent assault in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in an incident involving the teenage son of a former Boston TV news anchor. Spacey pleaded not guilty, and the charge was later dropped when the alleged victim withdrew a civil lawsuit.
NBC News has reached out to the actor’s representatives for comment on the latest charges.
P.S. One little girl smeared her classmates blood all over her and played dead. Now her parents have started a GoFundMe to help with her therapy. So far the GoFundMe has collect $169,000. Brilliant! Kids are a reflection of their parents.
Essence Mag Reports: While every season of Lifetime’s Married at First Sightbrings a new selection of singles looking to marry a stranger in hopes of finding their happily ever after, the constant is usually the experts. Over the last few years, the relationship advisors who’ve supported the newlyweds before and throughout the eight-week experiment have been the same faces: Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Pastor Calvin Roberson and Dr. Viviana Coles. But for the 15th season of the series, set to debut this summer, fans are getting new faces.
As Coles exits the series, entering the expert role is DeVon Franklin. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because you know him well. Aside from being an actual relationship advisor, Franklin is also a Hollywood producer and a New York Times bestselling author. He joins fellow freshman expert Dr. Pia Holec, a celebrated psychotherapist with a specialty in sex and couples’ therapy. They will help to provide guidance to the couples.
Franklin has written four books, two of which were centered on love and relationships. That includes 2019’s The Truth About Men: What Men and Women Need to Know and 2016’s The Wait. The latter was co-written with ex-wife, actress Meagan Good. The couple were married for over nine years before Franklin filed for divorce in December 2021.
Franklin and Holec (pictured above) will advise the five couples being paired from San Diego, the show’s very first foray into the West Coast. The Season 15 premiere is July 6 at 8p/7c on Lifetime, preceded by a Matchmaking Special June 22 and the Kickoff Special with Kevin Frazier on June 29, both at 8/7c. Married at First Sight: Afterparty, an insiders look at all the love and drama that plays out in front of cameras with help from show participants, will follow each new episode of the series. It’s hosted by Keshia Knight Pulliamand airs Wednesday nights at 11p/10c.
According to her, men have been teasing her over her decision not to have s*x until she’s married but she isn’t giving attention to their teasings as she’s determined to close her legs until she’s married.
The 39-year-old Olympic hurdler and bobsledder posted a note to her Instagram, explaining that men constantly tease her about her decision to abstain from sex until marriage. Jones also revealed she recently cut ties with a man she had recently been “talking to for eight months.”
“Tonight I blocked the guy I was talking to for 8 months. My heart just couldn’t take it anymore,” Jones wrote in her post. “He gave me so many mixed signals. He would talk about marriage and kids but then keep me in the friend zone. He would never make time to see me. My heart is so heavy.”
Jones went on to say that she’s “so exhausted” by her dating life and has “prayed for years with many tears for God please to allow me to find my husband.”
“I even prayed if God didn’t want me to be married to remove the desire from my heart. But as the years grow I want to be married more and desire badly to have a family of my own. And I just keep getting my heart broke,” Jones wrote.
“I get teased all the time because I won’t have premarital sex. Guys will [direct message] me that I’m old. I’m washed up I should just put out already. So I’m just crying out. Where are you God? Your word says John 14:14. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. I’m asking God to please honor the desire of my heart. Your word says two are better than one. Ecc 4:9-12 I’m just asking God to honor my heart because faith is hurting right now. I’m tired of getting teased. I’m asking God my father, my protector, my provider please show up. Please honor me.”
In the past LoLo said that Blake Griffin was a terrible kisser.
“*Checks Calendar to see if it’s April 1st*” she wrote.in the comments of an Instagram post about Griffin being traded.
When one fan questioned if Lolo has a thing for Blake, the Olympic athlete dropped some personal information.
“Nah, I went on a date with him,” she revealed. “Worst date of my life and he’s a terrible kisser.”
Back in 2014, she even had action with Ciara’s now husband, Russell Wilson.
So obviously she has had access to good men. Lolo is a gorgeous woman and some men definitely prefer women with a low body count. I’m sure some man wants to marry her. Perhaps working on her femininity and talking less could net her a man who wants to stay.
