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Sondra Celli on tonight’s “Gypsy Wedding” and more!

She sews seas shells! On tonight’s all-new My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, Gypsy Sisters star Nettie Stanley’s son Whitey marries his longtime love Lottie — and, of course, the family turned to everyone’s favorite gypsy-couture all-star, Sondra Celli, to design the dress. “The wedding was down by water, so we did seashells,” says Celli, calling from her suburban Boston business on yet another snowy winter day. “The dress is absolutely gorgeous. She had a theme to her wedding, so it worked for me to go into ice blues and seashells. Seashells! It’s a beautiful dress. It’s odd because it […]

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My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding Season 4 preview: You can’t ring my bell….

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding returns to TLC for a fourth season on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 9/8CT — and in the season premiere, Small-family teen Julie does her (literal) level best not to ring in her Sweet 16 celebration. In keeping with her ultra traditional family’s customs, Julie will have bells sewn into her lavish party dress. Asked to walk a straight line when she enters the festivities, Julie’s dress must stay perfectly quiet as a sign of her purity or she’ll face the wrath of her grandma Tils. And from the looks of it, you do not want to get […]

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Gypsy Sisters season finale: Will Kayla, er, segue back into married life? (exclusive clip)

It’s been a festive and feisty — albeit short — Season 3 for TLC’s Gypsy Sisters. And on tonight’s season finale, the ladies are gearing up for Kayla to recommit to her’s and Richard’s marriage in a beachside ceremony in Ocean City, MD. • MORE: Channel Guide talks Gypsy Sisters Season 3 with Nettie Stanley and Kayla Williams! But first — in true Gypsy Sisters fashion — a few high jinks must ensue, this time beginning with the two (and in the case of the cautious bride-to-be, four) wheel variety. Predictably, Annie and Mellie take to their new rides like […]

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Exclusive clip: Mellie returns to the pole (sort of) in an all-new Gypsy Sisters

With one week to go until the Gypsy Sisters finale, Kayla calls the gang with some happy news. All their prodding for her to reestablish communication with her estranged husband Richard has done the trick and the two are planning to recommit to one another. • MORE: We talk a new season of Gypsy Sisters with Kayla Williams and Nettie Stanley! “It’s just been a rough road with Richard for the past year, but it’s all extremely self-explanatory for the very beginning of our season clear to the end,” Kayla told us in a recent interview. “It wasn’t easy filming […]

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Gypsy Sisters Season 3 episode 2 recap: Big Fun in the Big Easy

After the girls had all kinds of man trouble (and the usual each-other trouble) in last week’s Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premiere, Kayla, Nettie, Mellie, JoAnn and Annie have decided to make a ladies-only trek to the Big Easy to reconnect and rejuvenate. • RELATED: We talk Gypsy Sisters Season 3 with Kayla and Nettie! We start the episode with Kayla celebrating her newfound freedom with an ice cream date with Danielle and Sissy … and a brand-new white luxury sedan that she proudly notes breaks the Romanichal tradition of driving a trusty pickup. Kayla, temporarily encamped at a hotel while […]

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Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premieres Aug. 21 on TLC

The beautiful, brawling Stanley sisters and their extended clan return to TLC in the two-hour Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premiere, Thursday, August 21 on TLC. And it looks like Nettie and Kayla may have mended their fractious relationship — at least for the moment. Unless Mellie’s wearing a helmet for reasons that don’t involve skydiving or motorbikes. According to the press release for the new season, Stanley family ties are more tenuous than ever as Kayla’s 17-year marriage to Richard is tested even as she and Nettie try to put the fist-flailing and social media scandals of the recent past behind them. And while baby Richard […]

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My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: Can cheating Alyssa change her ways? [video]

On last week’s My Big American Gypsy Wedding, we got to see longtime faithful teen lovers Nukkie Stanley and Pookie Small finally tie the knot, bringing a momentary truce to their famously warring families. • RELATED: Are you ready for this Mellie? Gypsy Sisters returns this summer • RELATED: Channel Guide interviews My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding‘s Sondra Celli! It’s a little different story on tonight’s all-new episode, “Wedded to Disaster.” Though they have two kids, 22-year-old Alyssa has frequently cheated on her longtime gypsy boyfriend, Lacy — more than a dozen times, according to Lacy’s doting mother Mary. […]

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Ready for more Mellie? A new season of Gypsy Sisters premieres later this summer on TLC

If last night’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding episode featuring the union of 16-year-old Nukkie Stanley and 18-year-old Pookie Small stirred up your hankering for a new season Gypsy Sisters, happy news. The wild and wooly reality outing featuring Nukkie’s mom Nettie Stanley, her loose cannon aunt Mellie Stanley and other members of the vast Stanley clan will return for a new season at the end of the summer. Fans of the Stanleys will recall the Stanley Sisters special in which enraged mama Nettie, pregnant Mellie and other female members of the family headed off in a camper to reclaim the then 14-year-old […]

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Interview

Sondra Celli: sparkling gowns and crazy love stories

Even after many years spent designing over-the-top fashions and blinged-out accessories for her vast American gypsy clientele, Boston designer Sondra Celli says she never tires of a good challenge — or runs out of dazzling new ideas. “It is a blast to do work for the show,” Celli says. “It is blast of energy in the midst of all the baby dresses.” Celli says that her synergy with her gypsy clientele is based on a very simple premise: mutual respect paired with mind-blowing creativity. “They make me feel like a movie star,” Celli says. “They treat me so well. I […]

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My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: sister brides and Al Burke raps

On tonight’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, a pair of thoroughly modern gypsy sisters plan a double wedding to their gorger fiancés, and a 34-year-old Irish Traveller tries make a splash in the world of rap music. Louisville sisters Kayla, 21, and Kandace, 20, already live with their fiancés, much to their traditional Romanichal mother Sandy’s dismay. Evan, 19, is Kayla’s man; they’ve been together for three years. Steven, 22, is Kandace’s man. Together five years, they already have two kids. In addition to fretting over their living in sin and having babies out of the bonds of matrimony, […]