(CNN) Mama June Shannon has gotten clean and is coming clean about her addiction. The reality star is back with a new show, "Mama June: Road to Redemption," which centers around her family and the sobriety of her and her boyfriend, Geno Doak. Shannon told "Access Hollywood" that in the last year of the couple's using drugs they spent an astronomical amount on their habit. Mama June admits to $2,500-a-day meth habit "I would say the last year of our addiction, probably a good $900,000," she said. "So much money was sent to our dope man." Shannon became famous as the mother of Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, a child beauty pageant contestant who was the star of the popular TLC series, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." Read More Spinoffs followed, including "Mama June: From Not to Hot" on WE tv after Shannon lost almost 300 pounds via weight-loss surgery, going from a size 18 to a size 4. "Mama June: Family Crisis" … [Read more...] about Mama June Shannon says she almost spent a million dollars on her addiction
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London bakery finds success amid pandemic
LONDON: When Britain first entered lockdown in March last year, Sophia Sutton-Jones decided to try making sourdough bread. A year later, she is running her own popular bakery. “I’d always thought about it, but I never had the courage to do it,” she told Agence France-Presse. Now Sutton-Jones, 29, and her husband Jesse, 28, work alongside half a dozen staff members pulling hot loaves out of the oven, putting out flaky pastries and cutting slices of cakes topped with cream. It all started when Sutton-Jones, whose father was also a baker, made a loaf of bread for a neighbor who was sheltering during the first national lockdown in March 2020. “He talked to his friends about it,” she says. “Very quickly, we had 12 people waiting in front of our house.” The couple, who sold kitchenware online before the pandemic, began to deliver orders by bicycle in their north London neighborhood. Producing the loaves from home soon became impractical as everything got coated in flour, … [Read more...] about London bakery finds success amid pandemic
Exclusive: Target Of Woman’s Racist Rant At Davidovich Bakery Speaks Out, ‘Love Surpasses Hatred’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Queens woman had a racist meltdown over a mask request at a bakery on the Lower East Side . Now we’re hearing from the man who took the brunt of her anger. READ MORE: De Blasio: New York City Theater Workers Eligible For COVID Vaccine In April; Shows Could Start As Early As September As CBS2’s Jessica Moore reports, the worker, named Vic, is the kind of guy every mother hopes their son grows up to be: So confident in his own skin that even when being screamed at with racial slurs he kept his cool and responded with kindness. A woman’s racist rant at Essex Market on the Lower East Side was caught on camera on March 21, 2021. (Credit: Instagram user reallycutekid) The video is difficult to watch. Queens mother Stephanie Denaro refuses to wear a mask at Davidovich Bakery inside Essex Market on Sunday. Her young children were standing by as she accosts the cashier, yelling racial insults. “What she said was really horrible. She’s saying … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Target Of Woman’s Racist Rant At Davidovich Bakery Speaks Out, ‘Love Surpasses Hatred’
Holi 2021 Exclusive! Shruti Sharma Reveals Her Mama Pushed Her Into Tank Filled With Black Coloured Water
Holi 2021 is here, and unlike previous years, this year's festival of colours will be celebrated in a very low-key manner due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Popular TV actress Shruti Sharma, who recently featured in Sanya Malhotra-starrer Pagglait , has shared her Holi plans and craziest memories with Filmibeat . The actress who is currently busy shooting for her show Namak Issk Ka , revealed that she doesn't have any plans of celebrating the festival of colours this year. Shruti Sharma said, "I don't have any Holi plans as such this time. We'll either be shooting and if not, I'll be spending the day at home resting and pampering myself." While revealing the same, the actress also got nostalgic and remembered how she used to celebrate Holi with her family and friends. The Gathbandhan actress revealed, "When I used to be in Lucknow, I would celebrate Holi with my friends and family. But since the time came to Mumbai, I'd mostly spend my Holi working. … [Read more...] about Holi 2021 Exclusive! Shruti Sharma Reveals Her Mama Pushed Her Into Tank Filled With Black Coloured Water
Barack Obama’s step-grandmother and family matriarch ‘Mama Sarah’ dies in Kenya
(CNN) Former US President Barack Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Obama passed away Monday while receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at a hospital in Kisumu, Western Kenya, authorities said in a statement. She was 99. "The passing away of Mama Sarah is a big blow to our nation. We've lost a strong, virtuous woman. A matriarch who held together the Obama family and was an icon of family values," said Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement. Obama explains why his mom's parenting style worked 'Mama Sarah' as she was popularly known, was the third wife of the former US leader's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama and helped raise the former president's father, Barack Sr. President Obama called her 'Granny,' in his book 'Dreams from My Father,' and she rose to national prominence in 2006 after the then US senator visited Kenya. Obama was received by Mama Sarah in subsequent visits in 2015, when he became … [Read more...] about Barack Obama’s step-grandmother and family matriarch ‘Mama Sarah’ dies in Kenya