“N.S.A. Suspect Is a Hoarder. But a Leaker? Investigators Aren’t Sure,” reports the New York Times headline about suspected N.S.A. thief Harold T. Martin III, in the kind of profile that reminds you to always wear clean underwear, just in case you get hit by a bus.
Often, TV shows like Hoarders and Hoarding: Buried Alive will feature filthy homes crammed to the rafters with detritus, including feces and garbage. But for some hoarders, there's not a lot of filth; just a lot of stuff — an intense collection that has gotten out of hand.
After six seasons of filth, A&E is canceling Hoarders. So long, dead cat trainwreck porn.
Fashion is all about making everything glamorous and expensive, right? I wouldn't know because I only shop at the GAP and dress like my mom, so I'm not really sure about this whole fashion thing. What I am sure of, though, is that this fashion spread in Interview is reaching, even for fashion, which has been doing a…
Among the many changes made in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published earlier this month, is the addition of hoarding, recognized as its own disorder.
A new study led by Yale University School of Medicine's David Tolin has discovered that those maddeningly oblivious hoarders we gape at on TLC aren't especially keen on collecting as many lawn gnome limbs or paper towel rolls — they just can't decide which of their many worldly possessions they really want to get rid…
There are so many good reasons to exercise already, but a new study has found one that might be particularly motivating for anyone who's ever been permanently scarred by an episode of Hoarding: Buried Alive. Exercise can keep your cells from becoming tiny hoarders! Seriously. A new study, done by scientists at the…
The remains of a 95-year-old woman named Anne Bunch were found in a Florida storage unit nearly 17 years after she died in 1994. Her daughter, Bobbie Barnett Hancock, — described as a "hoarder" by her ex-husband — kept her mother's remains in storage until she could no longer afford the unit and had to sell it and its…
Mary has been living in filth for longer than her family can remember, and while they knew the conditions of her home were bad, they didn't know to what extent until the Hoarders cameras—along with a therapist—bravely entered the dwelling in hazmat suits. An owner of 15 cats, the house is literally covered in not…
You know when a sitcom character opens their closet and it's packed inch for inch with stuff and you wonder "How the fuck did it get like that?" and "How is nothing falling out when they open the door?" this photo is pretty much like that concept but on a much, much larger/cooler scale.
Last night's episode of Hoarders featured John, a man living in New Jersey with a cat hoarding problem. In the beginning of the show, John, who is retired, said, "I love my cats… But I know I have too many of them." His house was saturated in urine and coated with feces, and there were cats living in the walls and…
On last night's episode of Hoarders, we met a man named Kevin, whose dense hoard is so crammed into his apartment that he cannot live there. He sleeps on a bench outside of the building and washes himself using a hose on the street. When he needs to enter the apartment, he climbs up the fire escape and crawls…
Despite much hand-wringing about the state of women and television, one person doesn't seem too worried—and she should know better than almost anybody. Here's what Amy Poehler had to say about television's depiction of women in an interview with Ariel Levy during this week's New Yorker Festival:
At the moment, I have 112,775 emails in the inbox of my work account, 91,488 of which are unread. There are 20,241 messages in the inbox of my personal email account — 6,316 of which are unread. My iPhone has 2,498 photos and 178 videos on it, with 48 never-listened-to voicemails. There's a folder on my desktop called…
Glen was featured on the finale of last season and was revisited on last night's episode to see how he's been coping since 2500 uncaged rats were removed from his home. Before he received help for his hoarding, Glen had been pushed out of his home by his pets—forcing him to sleep in a chair in his shed—so that he…
Typically, the hoarders featured on Hoarders will keep expired, rotten food in their homes as part of their mental illness, but have the ability to recognize that they should not actually eat it. However, Lisa, a food hoarder featured on last night's episode—whose house was likened by several people as something out …
Meet Marilyn Mansfield, a woman who we assume took the names of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Mansfield and who also happens to own over 500 "reborn dolls." (Yes, those kinds of dolls.) So is it any surprise that TLC recruited her for their latest reality offering, My Collection Obsession? Of course it's not.
We're all quite familiar with the cliché of the crazy cat lady, but on last night's episode of Hoarders, we got to know a crazy dog lady. Actually, Stacey—who hoards animals as well as objects—has a home that's overrun with dogs and cats, although there are many, many more dogs. After seeing and, more importantly,…
A&E executives think Hoarders deserves an Emmy for exploiting people with increasingly troubling mental health issues and sending the average viewer into a cleaning frenzy every week. In a new ad campaign, the network uses fellow Emmy nominee Kathy Griffin's words against her, quoting her declaration that "HOARDERS IS…
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Carnie Wilson farts on The Talk, Snooki burps on The Insider, and Anderson Cooper is no longer closeted.
