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Porsha Williams
Porsha Dyanne Guobadia (née Williams, formerly Stewart, born June 22, 1981) is an American television personality, actress, and author. She starred on the television series ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' from 2012 until 2021, when she departed to star in her spin-off series, ''Porsha's Family Matters''. She also served as co-host of ''Dish Nation'' from 2013 until 2021. She later became co-host of ''Bravo's Chat Room'' in 2020 alongside fellow ''Real Housewife'' Gizelle Bryant. In 2021, She published her memoir, ''The Pursuit of Porsha''. Early life and education Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia on June 22, 1981. Her parents are self-employed entrepreneurs. She has a younger half sister named Lauren with whom they share a father, and a brother named Hosea. Her grandfather is the late Hosea Williams, a civil rights activist. She attended Southwest Dekalb High School in Decatur, Georgia as a teenager, and later pursued a degree in business information technology at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Arsenio Hall Show
''The Arsenio Hall Show'' is an American syndicated late-night talk show created by and starring comedian Arsenio Hall. There have been two different incarnations of ''The Arsenio Hall Show''. The original series premiered on January 3, 1989, and ran until May 27, 1994. Nineteen years after the original series ended, Hall returned for a revival. It premiered on September 9, 2013, and was cancelled after one season, with the finale airing on May 21, 2014. Both series were produced by Hall's production company, Arsenio Hall Communications. The original series was produced and distributed by Paramount Domestic Television, and taped at Stage 29 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The second series was shot at Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood, and was produced by Tribune Broadcasting, Octagon Entertainment and Eye Productions. It was distributed by CBS Television Distribution. First series (1989–1994) Background Hall had been a host on '' The Late Show'' in 1987, another ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravo (American TV Channel)
Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film. It currently mainly focuses on lifestyle reality television series targeted at 25-to-54-year-old women as well as the LGBTQIA+ community. As of January 2016, approximately 89,824,000 American households (77% of households with TV) receive Bravo. History Bravo originally launched as a commercial-free premium channel on December 8, 1980. It was originally co-owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media division and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment; the channel claimed to be "the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People (magazine)
''People'' is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories. It is published by Dotdash Meredith, a subsidiary of IAC. With a readership of 46.6 million adults in 2009, ''People'' had the largest audience of any American magazine, but it fell to second place in 2018 after its readership significantly declined to 35.9 million. ''People'' had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by ''Advertising Age'' in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation, and advertising.Martha Nelson Named Editor, The People Group , a January 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Zolciak-Biermann
Kimberleigh Marie Zolciak-Biermann ( Zolciak; born May 19, 1978) is an American television personality and singer. In 2008, she appeared as one of the original housewives on the reality television series '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta.'' Zolciak-Biermann left ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' in 2012 during the fifth season of the series, and returned as a "friend of the housewives" for the show's tenth season in 2017–18. In 2012, she received her own spin-off show titled ''Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding'', which focused on the preparation of her wedding to football player Kroy Biermann. The series was subsequently renewed for a second season with a shortened title, ''Don't Be Tardy'', and aired for eight seasons until the final episode on December 29, 2020. In 2015, she was one of the contestants of the 21st season of the dancing competition series ''Dancing with the Stars''. Early life Kim Zolciak was born in Pensacola, Florida, to a military family, and grew up in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phaedra Parks
Phaedra Creonta Parks (born October 26, 1973) is an American television personality, attorney, businesswoman, author, actress and mortician. She is best known for appearing on Bravo's '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' from 2010 until 2017. Prior to this, she was an established attorney, fronting her own legal firm, ''The Parks Group''. In 2022, she starred on the second season of ''The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip'' on Peacock, and in 2023, joined the cast for the upcoming tenth season of ''Married to Medicine''. Early life Parks was born in Athens, Georgia, where ''RHOA'' co-star NeNe Leakes also lived, and attended the same high school as Leakes. She is one of four children to pastor parents Regina Bell and Henry Parks. Before undertaking a Juris Doctor at the University of Georgia, she attended the London School of Economics (LSE) and Wesleyan College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours. Career Parks first appeared on '' The Real Housewives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NeNe Leakes
Linnethia Monique "NeNe" Leakes (; née Johnson; born December 13, 1967) is an American television personality, actress, presenter, businesswoman, author, and fashion designer. Born in Queens, New York and raised in Athens, Georgia, she is best known for having appeared on the reality television series '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' as an original cast member and for her recurring character, Roz Washington, on the Fox comedy-drama series '' Glee''. Leakes also played Rocky Rhoades as a series regular on the sitcom '' The New Normal'' on NBC until its cancellation in 2013. She was a participant on NBC's ''The Celebrity Apprentice'' and ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars''. Leakes made her Broadway debut as Madame in '' Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella'' in 2014, and in 2015, starred as Matron "Mama" Morton in ''Chicago''. She was one of the regular panelists on ABC's revival of the 1950s game show '' To Tell the Truth''. In addition to her television projects, Leakes had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandi Burruss
Kandi Lenice Burruss Tucker (born May 17, 1976), known professionally by her mononym Kandi, is an American producer, television personality, singer, songwriter and actress. She first gained notice in 1992 as a member of the female vocal group Xscape. In 2000, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for her writing contributions on the TLC hit song "No Scrubs". Burruss has starred in the Bravo reality television series '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' since its second-season premiere on July 30, 2009. Burruss has appeared in six ''Real Housewives'' spinoff and companion series as of 2022, beginning with 2012's ''The Kandi Factory'', and continuing on with ''Kandi's Wedding'' (2014), ''Kandi's Ski Trip'' (2015), and '' Xscape: Still Kickin' It'' (2017), all of which were aired by Bravo. Burruss also appeared as a guest in Kim Zolciak-Biermann's wedding special '' Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding'' in 2012. Burruss's sixth Bravo companion series appearance, and fifth series ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Bailey
Cynthia Denise Bailey (born February 19, 1967) is an American model, reality television personality, and actress. Born and raised in Alabama, she moved to New York City at the age of 18 to pursue a modeling career. There, she signed a five-year contract with Wilhelmina Models, and subsequently appeared as a model in various magazines and advertising campaigns. She worked as a runway model in Paris and Milan. Bailey has acted in films, including ''Without You I'm Nothing'' (1990) and ''For Love or Money'' (1993), and on television programs, such as ''The Cosby Show''. She joined the reality television show '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' in 2010. She married Peter Thomas in 2010, and their divorce was finalized in 2017. Her relationship with sportscaster Mike Hill was showcased on ''Real Housewives of Atlanta'' from 2018 until she left the series in 2021. Early life Cynthia Denise Bailey was born on February 19, 1967, in Decatur, Alabama, and raised in Tuscumbia. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya Moore
Kenya Summer Moore (born January 24, 1971) is an American actress, model, producer, author, television personality, and entrepreneur. She is best known for winning the Miss USA pageant in 1993 and being a main cast member on Bravo's reality series, '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'', starring in its fifth season since 2012. Moore rose to prominence in 1993 after winning the Miss USA contest, and placing in the top six of that year's Miss Universe pageant. She was the second black woman to be crowned Miss USA, after Carole Gist, and she holds the distinction of being the first dark-skinned woman to win the contest. She subsequently appeared in films and television shows including '' Waiting To Exhale'' (1995), '' Deliver Us from Eva'' (2003), '' The Steve Harvey Show'' (1998) and '' Girlfriends'' (2004). Since 2012, Moore has starred in the Bravo series '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'', one of the most consistently highly rated reality programmes. She was also a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viacom (2005–present)
Viacom, an abbreviation of Video and Audio Communications, may refer to: * Viacom (1952–2006), a former American media conglomerate * Viacom (2005–2019), a former company spun off from the original Viacom * Viacom18, a joint venture between Paramount Global and TV18 in India ** Viacom18 Studios, the film subsidiary of Viacom18 See also * CBS (other) * Paramount (other) * Paramount Global Paramount Global ( doing business as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned and operated by National Amusements (79.4%) and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York. ..., an American media conglomerate known as ViacomCBS until 2022 {{Disambiguation Paramount Global ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platinum Weddings
''Platinum Weddings'' is an American reality television series which premiered on July 23, 2006, on the WE tv cable channel. The series chronicles the lives of couples who are planning their upcoming lavish weddings. The series spawned one spin-off series, ''Amazing Wedding Cakes ''Amazing Wedding Cakes'' is an American reality television series on WE tv that debuted on September 7, 2008. The series follows several bakers from around the country as they create high-end edible art wedding cakes. Cast It has featured the f ...''. References External links * 2000s American reality television series 2006 American television series debuts 2010s American reality television series 2010 American television series endings Wedding television shows {{US-reality-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WE Tv
We TV (stylized as WE tv) is an American pay television channel. Owned by AMC Networks since its September 1997 launch, it is oriented mainly towards lifestyle and entertainment programming. As of February 2015, approximately 85.2 million American households (73.2% of households with television) received We TV. In March 2015, AMC announced it would soon begin making its channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, Sundance TV, and We TV itself. History Romance Classics (1997–2001) We TV was originally known as Romance Classics when it launched on September 1, 1997 under the ownership of what was then the Cablevision Systems Corporation-controlled Rainbow Media. It was originally a movie channel focusing mostly on romantic dramas and comedies, and television miniseries; similar to the original format of AMC (as American Movie Classics), the channel initially broadcast its films commercial-free. At launch, the Rainbow-owned MuchMusic USA dropped movies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
