Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we have a hard time deciding between a headline about the Duggars and a headline about Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx, but ultimately decide to give it to the Duggars because Katie and Jamie are boring as hell—secret wedding or not.
Ten women who formerly belonged to the Institute of Basic Life Principles, a fundamentalist organization with well-documented ties to the Duggar family, have filed a lawsuit against the group’s founder and former president, Bill Gothard, charging both “him and leaders in his ministry with sexual abuse, harassment and…
There’s a lot of tears in this extended preview for the Duggars’ latest turn on TLC, the upcoming special Jill & Jessa: Counting On.
Five former members of the Institute of Basic Life Principles, a fundamentalist organization with well-documented ties to the Duggar family, have filed charges against both the organization and its board of directors, claiming they “enabled and covered up sexual abuse and harassment of interns, employees, and other…
Sitting at home on a Saturday afternoon scrolling through television channels in the year 2015, it hardly seems as though home design shows could ever have been groundbreaking stuff; they’ve become so plentiful that they have a network devoted to them. But in the early 2000s, there was one home design show that…
For whatever reason, Bill Gothard, the 80-year-old life-long bachelor who founded the Duggars’ fundamentalist homeschool curriculum, decided that now would be a great time to put up his first Facebook post in almost two years. And since the post went live Wednesday evening, his page has been deleting allegation after…
Good lord was this a busy week. Welcome to Shade Court—I think the world is regressing.
In the wake of the revelation that 19 Kids and Counting star Josh Duggar had molested several children, TLC ran a special entitled Breaking the Silence, a commercial-free hour of survivor stories and sexual abuse prevention tips. And while the special was ultimately informative, it was also missing something very…
The barrage of indictments against Josh Duggar—and, by extension, the rest of the Duggar clan—has been unrelenting. After news of Josh’s numerous online dating accounts surfaced (including a membership with Ashley Madison) and a porn actress came forward to allege that she had sex with the disgraced reality star, his…
Matthew James McCarthy is a DJ/producer living in Hollywood and looking to make a name for himself. He is not, in fact, scandal-plagued reality star and former lobbyist Josh Duggar who made headlines last week after his name turned up in the Ashley Madison dump. But good luck telling that to McCarthy’s former high…
In 2013, conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar—of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting fame—was named the executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group in D.C. which seeks “to champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of…
Are the Duggars broke? That seems to be the question on a lot of people’s lips now that the family’s been cut off from their main source of income (their $40,000 an episode salary) and are putting their hands out more and more often, asking for their fans and supporters to buy their t-shirts and “send cards,” *wink…
Serial child molester and former reality show star Josh Duggar has just welcomed a new baby girl–Meredith Grace Duggar—into his lovely, litigation-plagued household.
On April of 2014, rapper Andre “Christ Bearer” Johnson cut off his penis and jumped off a second-story balcony while high on PCP. In the past year, the penis—thank you for asking—has been reattached and Johnson ;););) has reflected on his actions and arrived at the conclusion that cutting off his penis and jumping off…
Dennis Hof, the man behind the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and HBO’s Cathouse has publicly banned Josh Duggar from ever entering any of the brothel’s establishments. And while no one specifically asked Hof about his thoughts on the Duggars, he’s put out a press release about them anyway, saying that he’ll do anything to…
In the newest issue of Paper, Miley Cyrus—who recently launched the Happy Hippie Foundation to serve at-risk, homeless, and LGBTQ teens—talks about her own gender and sexuality, saying, “I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”
Want to know why the Duggars seem so incompetent and disingenuous in their campaign to win back the hearts and minds of America? It’s because they hired Mike Huckabee’s political adviser to help them through the PR crisis we all know as “those times Josh Duggar molested four of his sisters.”
Jim Bob and Michelle Dugger went on Fox News Wednesday night to explain why their son’s childhood molestation habit wasn’t really that big of a deal. Unsurprisingly, InTouch has found, many of their statements were deliberately misleading.
On Wednesday, 19 Kids and Counting parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar confirmed many of the allegations concerning their son, Josh, who molested four of their children and a babysitter by the age of fifteen. But man does that family make a lot of excuses. They make so many excuses.
Bill Gothard, the 80-year-old perpetual bachelor, alleged sexual abuser of at least 34 women, and founder of the Duggars’ warped fundamentalist homeschool cult, has some thoughts to share in the form of a fancy new website with a “new statement.” Or at least, he did for the few hours it was live. Now, the new site and…
