Things have really come apart over the past couple years for Abby Lee Miller. Not only will she soon begin a one-year prison sentence for bankruptcy fraud, but her child enemy Chloe Lukasiak—the little girl Miller regularly bullied to tears—has officially announced her triumphant return to Dance Moms in the same…
Early last Friday, Jezebel received a tip that shook us to our very core: Dance Moms’ Abby Lee Miller was reportedly begging for a ticket to Hello, Dolly! at the stage door to the Shubert Theatre in New York City on Thursday night, telling employees that she desperately needed to see the show—currently starring Bette…
Last summer, Abby Lee Miller pled guilty to federal charges of withholding $775,000 worth of income while she was filing for bankruptcy. In late March, she let go of her stranglehold on reality TV show Dance Moms, which birthed the career of preferred Sia stand-in Maddie Ziegler. On Tuesday, Miller finally received…
Abby Lee Miller, the choreographer famous for manipulating fame-hungry, weak-willed mothers by punishing their children on the brilliant Lifetime hit Dance Moms, has quit the show ahead of her May 8 sentencing on charges of federal bankruptcy fraud.
Abby Lee Miller’s financial woes have been getting more and more complicated since she filed for bankruptcy in 2010, even before her Lifetime show aired.
In an episode on the most recent season of Dance Moms, 13-year-old JoJo Siwa, who loves hip-hop and is prone to wearing large bows in her hair, is tasked with channeling Michael Jackson for a solo dance she will be taking to a competition. She can do it no problem, she says, because she IS Michael Jackson.
Dance Mom’s chief leviathan Abby Lee Miller claims that she’s willing to delay shooting on Season 6 of her show because a producer with “cockamamie ideas” suggested that one of her child dancers don a fake pregnancy belly and perform as a pregnant teen. Way to put your foot down, Abby! Only the best and most tasteful…
Dance Moms’ Abby Lee Miller appeared in court on November 2, 2015 in order to plead her innocence in a bankruptcy fraud case. Just last month Miller was charged with 20 counts of bankruptcy fraud.
Maddie Ziegler, the 12-year-old Dance Moms star and performer whose talents and propensity with wigs have made her a muse to the pop musician Sia, is now taking her skills to film for the first time—in a role developed, of course, by the pop musician Sia.
Since Phoenix Sundown was caught sending disturbing packages—which contained child pornography, an Elvis blanket and a coffee maker—to Dance Moms star Jojo Siwa, he has admitted to sending packages to other young celebs.
Meet Phoenix Sundown. Doesn’t he look nice? No? How about now?
Sunday night was the Teen Choice Awards, the annual celebration where ad executives get kids to scream their prepubescent throats raw while you, a grown adult, ask yourself questions like “Who’s that?,” “Wait, Austin Mahone and Cody Simpson are two separate people?,” and “No, but SERIOUSLY, who IS that?”
Last October, Paige Hyland filed a lawsuit against her dance coach and Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller over an alleged assault that took place during the filming of Lifetime’s hit reality show. This week, a judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that after watching relevant clips of the show she didn’t feel that Hyland…
Dance Moms—the Lifetime reality series about a group of smack-talking goblin mothers who exploit their daughters’ excessive talent for fame—is not a good show. It’s a great show! And, best of all, it’s a show with a message.
Sia shared the video for "Big Girls Cry," from last year's 1000 Forms of Fear, her third consecutive video featuring 12-year-old Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler.
Yesterday, we published a quick internet deep dive essay investigating the young, Instagram-based fandom of the Lifetime show Dance Moms. Amy McCarthy wrote about this manic and self-contained social media universe: the constellations of fake accounts, password-hacking, promises to leak "secrets" about the young…
Over the past four seasons, Lifetime's Dance Moms has rapidly become one of the most popular reality shows on television, particularly with girls under the age of 18. Nearly two million viewers tuned into last week's Season 5 premiere, which features Pittsburgh's Abby Lee Miller and a troupe of elite dancers ranging…
Kelly Hyland—one of the moms on Lifetime's reality hit Dance Moms—was arrested and booked for assault and harassment way back in November for getting in a "cat fight" with the show's star Abby Lee Miller, according to TMZ. So why is this the first time we're hearing about it?
Lifetime has been marketing Dance Moms so perfectly, giving a little wink to appreciators of camp, who probably make up at least half of the show's audience. In the promo trailer for the new season, Abby and the girls recreate the iconic video for A-ha's "Take On Me."
When future humans look back at the era of gender normative child-rearing, when parents watched their girls stumble around a dance studio and watched their boys try to decapitate a tee-ball stand, they’ll probably draw misguided conclusions, conclusions distorted by a preponderance of archived Dance Moms clips. “Wow,…
