Saturday, June 16, 2018

DC ExtraTime: Team MTV Meets A Teen Mom


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Tomorrow, Thursday June 8th, sees yours truly head down to Southern California for the first time in over a decade, and the first time in exactly 20 years that I stepped foot inside Disneyland. The reason for this is that my niece is celebrating her 9th birthday this weekend, and she and us will mark it in a grand way inside the Magic Kingdom. That leads us to this piece of ExtraTime in having a birthday party… but for this one, it isn't exactly Disney-level family appropriate, shall we say.
   After posting our WRAP on Monday, if you got to see this site and our DC@TUMBLR page, you might've seen a repost from two years ago where we looked at the brief relationship between Kiki from Are You The One? Season 3 and Ryan Edwards, ex-husband of Teen Mom original girl, and a friend of the Trifecta, Maci Bookout. We reposted it in light of news the past week of Ryan admitting himself into rehab amid speculation of him encountering drug use, continuing a wave of bad luck for those in a franchise that began eight years ago this summer when the girls were 16 & Pregnant.

Another one who has had her moments since that summer of 2009 is this week's ExtraTime subject. The world first got to meet Farrah Abraham on season 1 of 16 & Pregnant as that girl from Omaha who, like fellow MTV alum and Nebraskan Laura of Real World St. Thomas, was a high school cheerleader. But she became pregnant by the time the summer of 2008 had arrived and had awaited all nine months for her baby to come, but tragedy struck just before the big day: her boyfriend of two years, Derek Underwood, was the victim of a fatal car accident over the holidays. And while she marked the birth of daughter Sophia two months later, there was no doubt an emptiness that Derek was not there in person to witness this ultimate life-changer… something that still haunts her to this day.
   On Teen Mom and its current OG iteration, viewers have seen Farrah's evolution: her having breast augmentation surgery, going down to South Florida for college, and parents Debra & Michael getting a divorce after Farrah had an argument with her mom which turned violent. When the show went on hiatus in summer 2012, Farrah released a music album and a memoir entered My Teenage Dream Ended, found herself behind bars for a DUI violation, and did both a season of VH1's Couples Therapy and made headlines in a memorable stint in the UK Celebrity Big Brother house. Then, just as it was with Dustin on Real World Back to Vegas, rumors spread of her being part of an adult sex tape which made her a millionaire but after getting drugged and raped came back to bite her in being affiliated with this pleasure industry. No wonder why there remains a solid hatred for her among fans and even among her co-stars in the Teen Mom family.

As rumors of drama with her mom and her on & off boyfriend Simon swirl (and her dating an AYTO alum which we will look at this summer), plus her on WE TV's Family Boot Camp also, this past weekend Farrah was in New York for her 26th birthday as well as shooting an Teen Mom reunion. And fitting enough for someone deemed the queen of this show whether people like it or not, Farrah celebrated her birthday in grand style in clubs in the Big Apple.

   Along with daughter Sophia, the guest list for the festivities included some from all three shows of the MTV Trifecta. Representing The Challenge was the 3rd place finisher on Invasion Nicole, while holding up her end for Real World was newly-single Jennifer from the Bad Blood season. But the largest representation came from Are You The One?: there's the original - Brittany from Season 1, the newbie and someone who knows what it's like to be the least liked person on her cast - Alicia from Season 5, and the perfect match - Giovanni & Francesca from Season 4 and AYTO Second Chances, and one of those involved in steals down in Australia. The picture of them is located above.


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