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Anyone who follows Chrissy Teigen on social media is familiar with her charming and hilarious mom, Vilailuck. (Just watch her reenact the “I don’t want your life scene” from Varsity Blues!) The supermodel’s dad, Ron, however, remains more of an enigma. “So my mom lives with us,” Teigen told Luxury Handbag Shopping and other reporters at the […]

Instagram users, please give a warm welcome to Tom Cruise! The 55-year-old finally joined the platform for selfies, sunsets and food pics on Thursday, January 25 — and confirmed Mission: Impossible — Fallout is the title of the sixth film in the action franchise.  In his first-ever post, Cruise shared a photo of a clap board spelling […]

After seven days of gut-wrenching testimony from more than 150 women and girls molested by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, the disgraced physician was sentenced Wednesday, January 24, to 40 to 175 years in prison. “I just signed your death warrant,” declared Michigan Judge Rosemarie Aquilina. She continued: “It is my honor and […]

Louise Turpin, the mother accusing of starving and torturing her 13 children, aspired to be like Kate Gosselin with a reality show that focused on their large family, according to Turpin’s brother. “She used to say how they would be perfect for TV and would often mention they would be bigger than the reality show Kate Plus 8,” […]

It’s a story that continues to capture international attention. On January 14, police discovered 13 malnourished brothers and sisters — aged 2 to 29 — held captive in David and Louise Turpin’s Perris, California home. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s department, the children were “shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark […]

Khloé Kardashian spent Monday, January 22, eating cereal (three bowls!) and looking at old photos of herself online.  “Now I am googling images of my pre-pregnancy body and feigning to get back to my workouts and old body,” tweeted the mom-to-be. “Holy cow.” As previously reported, Luxury Handbag Shopping exclusively broke the news in September that […]

Desiree Strout was supposed to deliver her third child on Monday, January 22. But as the 27-year-old drove to Remington-Fairway General Hospital in Skowhegan, Maine, excitement quickly turned to horror when her vehicle slid on black ice and crashed into a frozen pond.  The nine months-pregnant mother of two died in an ambulance on the […]

Megyn Kelly has been a hot topic this week — so it’s only natural that her name came up on the Tuesday, January 23, episode of The View. As previously reported, Kelly, 47, made headlines on Monday for defending her decision to question Jane Fonda about plastic surgery during a September interview — and for […]

When This Is Us star Susan Kelechi Watson was a broke Fine Arts major at Howard University, she received a life-changing phone call: Denzel Washington was going to pay $5,000 for her — and five of her classmates — to study Shakespeare at England’s prestigious University of Oxford. “They didn’t have any minority students, much […]

When news broke of Matt Lauer being fired from NBC News last November, Twitter users quickly began to speculate how Ann Curry was celebrating. After all, the allegedly tumultuous relationship between the former coworkers was widely believed to have led to Curry’s tearful June 2012 departure from Today. “Somewhere, Ann Curry just made her orange […]

Rachel Lindsay didn’t grow up dreaming about her wedding day. “I thought, ‘I’ll just find a guy and we’ll get married in a court house,” Lindsay told Luxury Handbag Shopping at the Wedspiration event in L.A. on Sunday, January 21. But that all changed when the former Bachelorette met her fiance, Bryan Absasolo, on season 13 […]

Mornings are the hardest for Nick Lachey when he’s touring with 98 Degrees. “I get up with the kids every day,” the dad of Camden, 5, Brooklyn, 3, and Phoenix, 13 months, told Luxury Handbag Shopping on January 17. “So when I’m on the road and I’m not there, it kills me.” But one thing that […]

#seriousmoves 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #elbaño A post shared by 🐾 Anna 🎈Аня (@annakournikova) on Jan 21, 2018 at 2:32pm PST If Anna Kournikova’s 5-week-old twins are keeping her up at night you would never know it based on the video she posted to Instagram on Sunday, January 21.  In the clip, the new mom, who is on […]

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shared her own #MeToo story on Sunday, January 21, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.  “Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is, although we didn’t have a name for it. The attitude toward sexual harassment was simply, get past it. Boys will be […]

Sam Rockwell and girlfriend Leslie Bibb managed to fly under the radar for more than a decade. Now, the world is finally getting a taste of their awesomeness thanks to awards season. The 49-year-old proclaimed his affection for Bibb, 43, at the SAG Awards 2018 in L.A. on Sunday, January 21, where he took home […]

It finally happened. After more than a year of dating, Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer opened up about her onscreen — and IRL — boyfriend Charlie Heaton. When Luxury Handbag Shopping asked Dyer what she loves best about the 23-year-old Brit, she couldn’t resist cracking a joke. “He’s alright I guess. He doesn’t mess up our scenes too much!” […]

With my heart filled with love and pain I had to say goodbye to my Lupe. I am so grateful for the 18 years she enriched my life with her great spirit. I have no words or tears to describe how much she meant to me. May she run free with my pack of dogs […]

With Roseanne set to return to ABC in March, Soleil Moon Frye thinks it’s time for a Punky Brewster revival.  “I just love that there’s nostalgia going on,” Moon Frye told Luxury Handbag Shopping during a joint interview with her daughter Jagger, 9, on Tuesday, January 16. “We’re ready for a reboot.” And Moon Frye knows exactly who […]

Interior designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent wouldn’t change anything about their 2-year-old daughter Poppy. Except maybe her favorite color.  “We never brought pink into her life initially because we just don’t gravitate towards pink and now we can’t get away from it,” Brent, 33, told Luxury Handbag Shopping at the Covenant House California “An Evening […]

Grab a tissue — or the entire box. A tearjerker video of a 2-year-old boy named Bo singing “You Are My Sunshine” with his big sister has gone massively viral with nearly one million shares on Facebook.  Bo has Down syndrome and his mother Amanda Bowman Grey was told by doctors that he might not […]

It’s been nearly two months since Today show anchor Matt Lauer was fired from NBC News and his former colleague Savannah Guthrie has a healthy take on his exit. And why shouldn’t she? Ratings are up, and her friend Hoda Kotb was promoted to full-time coanchor on January 2, replacing the disgraced journalist.  “It was […]