I don’t think there is a huge difference between Lori and Felicity without knowing more details about the tax fraud side of things, the difference is in the benefit of the doubt we owe the kids. Is it possible that the kids who just got the SAT service really could have believed they had just received extra disability…

I’m certain that she still is, but a lawyer was at least able to get her to the point where she knows she needs to read the paragraph out loud.

The more she talks about the situation, the more it sounds like what can sometimes happen when parents bluff their 18/19 year old (...if you want to live under this roof) and the legal adult/mental child takes it literally and then everything spirals out of control.

The real irony here is that if he hadn’t fast tracked his life - if he had not gotten married way too young the first time around and spent time paying his professional dues - they probably could have dated without it being that big of a deal and he maybe even could of actually had a badass coaching career.

I think we have to take into account that Aaron was so much younger than most of the other kids in his orbit.

Eh, it’s very likely some weird uncool shit happened in the Huffman situation too. I didn’t read the whole thing, but I do remember that there was an email where it makes it clear that they almost got busted by the school. The SAT scam hinged on students taking advantage of rules designed for kids who don’t have a…

Tia: “Same day appointments!”

But can you imagine being a wealthy lawyer with literally boxes worth of evidence of international custodial interference and neglect and it still takes you a year to get back a kid that now hates you because you won’t let her play with weed on the internet?

Also, again, it’s pretty fucking ballsy to refer to talking or seeing “a doctor” in all of their marketing materials when they literally meant 1 doctor for the entire shebang? If they wanted to operate a woo-woo “here’s a crystal for your cramps” alternative medicine shop they could have done that. Hey man, at least…

She’s a Candian 11 year old named Claire. Her father was okay with her pursuing a normal entertainment career, you know the kind that still puts kids at risk but they at least make sure her bank accounts are in her name and she goes to school sometimes, and freaked out when he realized what was really going on. As you…

My first reaction when I first heard about it was“Your plan is....to use a business model designed to encourage people to sign up for recurring billing and forget/never use the service but then market it to people who specifically want high touch individualized medical care and then only hire one doctor?”

The second screen market is unregulated. Broadcast shows have to contract kids as child entertainers and are subject to all the same laws as any TV show utilizing formal child labor exemptions, even if it is some rinky-dink nobody reality show.

I think we forget the only reason why Lil Tay’s dad was able to get a court order to stop her stuff is that he is a lawyer, had joint custody, her mother had literally kidnapped her and brought her to a different country, she had missed almost a full school year, and there were photos of people using drugs in her…

Does anyone remember that designer from years ago who would send down the same boring shoulder exaggerated sculptural pieces for normal models but then just completely killed it with plus-size ready to wear both times she was faced with it because she was actually inspired by the shapes of their bodies? I wonder what…

I would be shocked if she wasn’t pitching the Hallmark Channel who suddenly has huge gaps in their programming schedule and some of the best numbers in cable right now.

I don’t think she competes anymore, but my cousin said she always felt really bad for Maddie because everyone would make a big deal about her performances, even though normally people only care about their category, and then Maddie would have to feel the eyes of the best of the best as they collectively thought “Her?”

Sub in acting for dancing and I think you’re spot on. The dirty secret of Dance Moms is that Maddie was excellent for a “local kid makes good” dancer, but she tended to place in the middle of the pack at elite championships. There’s a reason they had her judging So You Think You Can Dance juniors, not participating.…

Eh, because Maddie started chasing professional mainstream acting roles and JoJo’s family went full tilt into the unregulated, second screen market that is actually very, very dangerous for children because all of those laws designed to protect child entertainers are there for very good reasons.

I hope this is just her Insta-house and her family actually lives in a normal house? Decor this niche usually suggests its one of those houses that is technically zoned residential, but the owner uses it for film/photo shoots and party rentals.

There’s the crazy film that she did couple of years ago called “Catfight” that’s pretty damn fantastic. It’s clearly a play that was lightly adapted for screen, so it is able to be really stupid and high brow at the same time. She’s great in it.