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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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‘Sister Wives’: The Browns Open Up About Their Beliefs On Same-Sex Marriage

The Brown family of TLC’s ‘Sister Wives’ has always been supportive of individual rights and freedoms. On the Mar. 15 episode, ‘Growing Up Gay and Religious,’ the Brown wives opened up about their feelings about same-sex marriage, in light of Meri Brown’s daughter Mariah Brown’s engagement to her longtime girlfriend, Audrey Kriss.
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‘Sister Wives’: Does Kody Brown Think Any Of His Kids Will Be Polygamists?

Kody Brown of TLC’s ‘Sister Wives’ raised his children in his fundamentalist Mormon faith, which promotes polygamy. But on the Mar. 15 episode, ‘Growing Up Gay and Religious,’ he revealed that he doesn’t think any of his kids will follow suit and have sister wives of their own (or become sister wives).
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‘I Am Jazz’: Jazz Breaks Down After Her Drag Show Performance

Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’ has always been something of a perfectionist. Her fear of failure became all the more obvious on the Mar. 10 episode, ‘Under Pressure,’ when she struggled to get through her disappointment after her drag show performance.
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‘I Am Jazz’: Jazz Panics About Her Valedictorian Speech Amid Mental Health Challenges

Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’ revealed on Season 6 that her mental health was wavering under the stress and pressure of choosing a college, planning a major fundraising event, and more. On the Mar. 10 episode, ‘Under Pressure,’ Jazz was hit with yet another major stressor as she struggled to write her valedictory address for her high school graduation.
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‘I Am Jazz’: Why Did JoJo Change Her Mind About Top Surgery?

Jazz Jennings worked to help her friend, JoJo, discuss her desire for top surgery with her skeptical grandmother on previous episodes of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz.’ But on the Mar. 10 episode of ‘I Am Jazz,’ ‘Under Pressure,’ JoJo revealed that top surgery wasn’t her main hope anymore.
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‘Married at First Sight’: Derek Tells Katie ‘F*** You’ In Explosive Fight

Katie Conrad and Derek Sherman seemed to hit it off for a while on Lifetime's 'Married at First Sight' Season 10. But the couple's progress in their relationship seemed to come to a screeching halt after they returned to Washington, D.C. On the Mar. 11 episode, 'Anniversaries and Secrets,' Katie and Derek had a huge fight just before their one-month anniversary dinner.