“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: It’s a Man’s World

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: It’s a Man’s World

Gypsy wedding fans, prepare yourself for some days of Amber and roses (and another quick but delightful glimpse at Pat Baby) when My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding airs its third episode — “It’s a Man’s World” — Sunday night  on TLC. The ep spotlights the strict division of freedoms, duties and expectations between the genders — and the challenges women from outside the gypsy culture sometimes face when they fall in love with gypsy men. At the center of the hour is 23-year-old Romany Tommy, a traveling paver and construction worker, who is headed home to West Virginia celebrate his traditional [...]

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview — Rockin’ Pat Baby!

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview — Rockin’ Pat Baby!

As a proud devotee of all things Gypsy Wedding, I’ve been hoping against hope that My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding — now airing Sunday nights on TLC — would offer me up a U.S. version of my most beloved Irish Traveller, Paddy Doherty. • RELATED: Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Sondra Celli On Sunday’s upcoming episode, “14 and Looking for Mr. Right,” I found him: Douglasville, Ga., resident and Romanichal gypsy Pat Baby. Proud paver, party-thrower and papa to his utterly stunning 14-year-old daughter Priscilla. Because 32-year-old Pat Baby and his 33-year-old wife LouAnn have raised their daughter in strict adherence [...]

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview

Fellow Gypsy Wedding fans, are you ready to meet our favorite U.K. reality sensations’ All-American kin? Sunday night, TLC will premiere My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, an eight-episode peek into the traditions, travails and celebrations of Romanichal (say it “ROM-nee-chal”) gypsies living right here in the USA. And there are plenty of surprises for even the most ardent Gypsy Wedding watchers. In tomorrow’s premiere, “Virgin Gypsy Brides” — aptly set in the Virginias — cornflower-eyed Shyanne, a 17-year-old gypsy stunner, is preparing to marry 18-year-old Michael (who looks like a cross between Pauly D and a young Richard Gere). [...]