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Gypsy Sisters Episode 5 recap: Who’s Your Daddy?

March 11, 2013 | By Lori Acken
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Having watched screener after screener of Gypsy Sisters, trying to come up with a preview that didn’t give away everything, I’ve decided the hell with it — ’tis better to recap than blow the show beforehand because I’m too inclined to yak about it. So here we go. We married off our little Mellie last week in an expletive and physical comedy filled, pink-and-leopard-print bonanza. Though all of the ladies professed doubt that mom-to-be Mellie would even go through with it, she did, moving the conversation to how long the marriage will last. Turns out, not very long. One month later, [...]

Gypsy Sisters preview: Last Fling Before the Ring

February 15, 2013 | By Lori Acken
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When we left the Gypsy Sisters last week, everybody was suffering from major family drama. Mellie and Nettie were struggling with their emotions about mama Lottie Mae’s release from prison — and about each other. Kayla and her husband Richard were struggling with their emotions about their daughter’s growing interest in boys — especially one particular gorger boy. And calm and sunny Laura was pretty much stuck in the middle of all it, as per usual. That’s right where we pick up for episode 3, aptly titled “Last Fling Before the Ring.” Mellie alternates between snuggling up to her mama like [...]

Mellie Stanley is back in TLC’s “Gypsy Sisters”

February 8, 2013 | By Lori Acken
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Mellie Stanley is back! The beautiful, brawling breakout star of TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding — plus her mother-hen older sister Nettie, domestic goddess cousin Kayla and Kayla’s sister-in-law Laura (best known for conditioning her tresses with mayo and whitening her teeth with Clorox) have scored their own TLC series Gypsy Sisters, which premieres Feb. 10 at 9/8CT. When we last left the ladies after their hit summertime special The Stanley Sisters, wild-child Mellie had taken up — then sworn she’d sworn off — stripping. She even told Channel Guide that she was considering marriage with her “musker” (that’s gypsy-speak for [...]

Channel Guide interviews Mellie Stanley of “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: The Stanley Sisters”

June 30, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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If you couldn’t get enough of Mellie Stanley and her sisters — the beautiful breakout stars of TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding — you’ll love Sunday’s special episode devoted exclusively to the ladies themselves. My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: The Stanley Sisters follows black-sheep Mellie and her sisters Nettie, the volatile mother hen, and quiet, calm and comical Laura plus their high-maintenance, fashion-obsessed cousin Kayla as they deal with two family crises that test the boundaries of their gypsy beliefs and iron-clad family bonds. • UPDATE: Mellie Stanley’s back in TLC’s new Gypsy Sisters! Further bucking the strict [...]

Mellie Stanley’s back in a pair of “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” specials on TLC

June 15, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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They’re the breakout stars of TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, which concludes its first season Sunday. Now West Virginia’s Stanley sisters — Nettie, Laura, Kayla and wild, wild gypsy girl Mellie — have scored an upcoming special of their own. • UPDATE: Mellie Stanley returns February 10 on TLC’s Gypsy Sisters In My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: The Stanley Sisters, premiering July 1 at 9/8CT, we find the Stanley women caught up in multiple family dramas. • Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Mellie Stanley! Mellie has found an even more brazen way to thumb her nose at [...]

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: Girl fight!

June 2, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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Well, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding fans, like the ads are promising, this is the episode we’ve been waiting for. At long last, we’ll get the story behind the infamous chick fight in the series’ opening credits. And — of course — it involves everybody’s favorite gypsy wild child Mellie Stanley. • UPDATE: Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Mellie Stanley! This time around, it’s her 20-year-old nephew Heath — eldest son of Mellie’s sister Nettie — who is planning the wedding, an event with which everyone in the clan is delighted. At first. Then Nettie gets wind that her live-in [...]

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: Murphy’s Laws

May 25, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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The first time American television audiences were introduced to Murphy Village in North Augusta, S.C., it was via the news and a young woman who was part of the culture, but not the community. Madelyne Gorman Toogood, an Irish Traveller like the residents of the village (of which she was never a resident), was caught by security cameras savagely beating her 4-year-old daughter in the parking lot of an Indiana department store in late 2002. And suddenly every major news outlet wanted to know what went on inside this highly secretive society that — contrary to Toogood’s actions — prides [...]

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: Girl Gone Wild

May 17, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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In Sunday’s upcoming episode of My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, the actual wedding takes a back seat to the myriad ways women adapt to — and sometime rebel against — their role in Romanichal culture. • UPDATE: Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Mellie Stanley! If you watched last week’s episode, you’ll recognize Martinsburg, W.Va., Romany Laura as the one-woman cavalry called in to teach teen gorger bride Amber proper gypsy-missus ways before she married Laura’s cousin Tommy. This week, you get to meet the rest of Laura’s family. Or at least a couple hundred of them. Laura’s cousin Kayla [...]