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Laura Dorwart

Laura Dorwart earned her MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Antioch University and her Ph.D. from UC San Diego. She’s been writing about the entertainment industry since 2013 and joined the Showbiz Cheat Sheet team in 2019. She focuses her coverage here on popular TV including Sister Wives and Married at First Sight, along with book coverage and the representation of mental health and disability in entertainment media.

Laura was a 2020 Sundance Institute Press Inclusion Inititiative scholarship recipient. In her spare time, she is an avid reader and keeps up with the works of Roxane Gay and Carmen Maria Machado in particular. See more of Laura’s bylines from The New York Times, VICE, Forbes, McSweeney’s, Muck Rack, and her online portfolio.

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’90 Day Fiancé’: Syngin Comes Home Drunk From a Job Interview

Syngin Colchester didn’t do too well at a job interview on a recent episode of TLC’s ’90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After.’ When he came home to his wife, Tania Maduro, the South African bartender appeared to be seriously drunk—which she saw as cause for concern.
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’90 Day Fiancé’: Colt Johnson Confronts His New Girlfriend About Her Past

Colt Johnson and Larissa Dos Santos Lima are over, but it hasn’t stopped either of the ‘90 Day Fiancé’ stars from getting into new relationship drama. Colt fought with his new Brazilian girlfriend, Jess Caroline, about her past on a recent episode of the fifth season of TLC’s ’90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After.’
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‘Dateline’: Lori Vallow’s Former Friend Claims Alex Cox Might Have Hinted At JJ and Tylee’s Fate

Melanie Gibb, Lori Vallow’s former friend, recently appeared on ‘Dateline NBC’ for an interview with Keith Morrison about the ongoing case involving Vallow, her fifth husband Chad Daybell, and her two children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, whose bodies were recently discovered months after their disappearance. Gibb claimed Vallow’s brother hinted at their death after they disappeared.