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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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‘Married at First Sight’: Katie Tells Her Dad That Derek Is a ‘Boy,’ Not a Man

Katie Conrad and Derek Sherman have been at each other's throats for much of their time together since their honeymoon in Panama on Lifetime's 'Married at First Sight' Season 10. On the Apr. 8 episode, 'Forever or Never,' Katie sat down with her dad and stepmom to reveal that her relationship with Derek hadn't turned out the way she had hoped.