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Doctor Thierry Costa, who worked on French adventure reality TV show Koh Lanta, has killed himself in Cambodia after contestant Gerald Babin died.
Dr. Thierry Costa, 38, left a suicide saying his name had been “sullied by the media” over the death of 25-year-old Gerald Babin a week ago.
Gerald Babin had a heart attack during filming on the island of Koh Rong.
Dr Thierry Costa has killed himself in Cambodia after contestant Koh Lanta contestant Gerald Babin died
Some media reports had criticized Dr. Thierry Costa, saying he had taken too much time to treat Gerald Babin.
Gerald Babin had complained of cramps on the first day of filming on the southern Cambodian island on March 22.
Dr. Thierry Costa administered emergency care before Gerald Babin was airlifted to a mainland hospital where he died.
French authorities have launched a preliminary investigation into Gerald Babin’s death.
Broadcaster TF1 announced last week it would axe the show, described as France’s version of Survivor, in response to the contestant’s death.
The Koh Lanta’s producers, Adventure Line Productions (ALP), confirmed that Dr. Thierry Costa killed himself at a hotel in Cambodia on Monday.
Dr. Costa had been part of the Koh Lanta show for four seasons, assisting candidates who must survive on an uninhabited island and complete a series of challenges.
“This tragic event has to encourage those who accuse and comment without proper judgment to exercise responsibility,” ALP said, adding that Dr. Costa had left a suicide note.
In the suicide note, Thierry Costa wrote that the accusations leveled against him had been “unfair”.
“I am sure that I treated Gerald in a respectable manner, as a patient and not as a contestant. Even though I regret this sad end, I also acted in conformity with the Hippocratic oath.”
He added that “having to reconstruct this destroyed reputation would be unbearable”.
Dr. Thierry Costa asked for his body to be cremated in Cambodia, “without ever going back to France”.
The head of TF1, Nonce Paolini, described Dr. Thierry Costa’s death as a tragedy.
“The authors of the anonymous comments about the circumstances of Gerald Babin’s death and those who spread them will have to face their conscience,” Nonce Paolini said.
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Honey Boo Boo has yet again made it into the Presidential election campaign – this time with Vice President Joe Biden admitting to “catching snippets” of the TLC show on Air Force Two.
Quizzed about his pop culture habits, gaffe-prone Joe Biden revealed his favorite television shows were Modern Family and Parks and Recreation in an interview with a Miami Radio station on Friday.
But Joe Biden said he was well aware of the phenomenon that is Here Comes Honey Boo Boo after watching the program while travelling.
“Beyond Modern Family and Parks and Recreation, that’s about it, those are ones that I spend most of my time [watching],” Joe Biden told 93.9 MIA radio.
“I haven’t spent most of my time with pop culture that, like, my granddaughter talks about. Like Honey Boo Boo is not top on my list, but I am aware just, you know by catching snippets on Air Force Two, [that it is] quite a phenomenon. But, but I do try.”
Joe Biden admits watching Here Comes Honey Boo Boo on Air Force Two
Alana Thompson aka Honey Boo Boo found fame as an unlikely beauty pageant favourite in the TV show Toddlers and Tiaras before landing her own reality TV show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
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In this week’s installment of reality TV show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, seven-year-old Alana Thompson, nicknamed Honey Boo Boo, tries her hand at making lemonade.
As a little girl of many talents, Honey Boo Boo is keen to show off her culinary skills in the kitchen and suggests whipping up the concoction to help contribute towards her pageant piggy bank.
Honey Boo Boo’s mother June Shannon explains that beauty pageants can cost thousands of dollars, from the glitzy dresses to the fake hair and teeth, and explains to her daughter that they can’t really afford such luxuries.
Famous for her bargain hunting ways, June Shannon explains to her daughter how much the family have to budget.
“We’re always trying to save money,” she says.
Honey Boo Boo makes lemonade to sell it and raise money for her bedazzled dresses and accessories
Ever the entrepreneur, Alana Thompson decides that her lemonade making will help pay for her bedazzled dresses and accessories.
“Honey Boo Boo had the idea of making a lemonade stand to save money for the pageants.
“Pageants a big investment. I raise four kids and I’m able to do pageants as I budget. Honestly, we budget and I try to save money any way I can,” said June Shannon.
Honey Boo Boo and her sisters build a stand and sell off the sugary sweet drink to bypassers.
Known for her love of sugary drinks, June Shannon was seen on Toddlers & Tiaras feeding Alana “Go Go Juice”, a mixture of Mountain Dew and Red Bull.
And this week’s episode is no different as June Shannon shares her secret sugary lemonade concoction recipe.
“The secret is a lot of sugar and a lot of lemon juice. The lemonade has got a good five pounds of sugar and like 2 gallons of lemon juice,” she said.
The network offered the family a spin-off series, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, an inside look into little Alana Thompson’s world.
Since premiering on August 8, the show has attracted millions of viewers and its August 29 installment attracted nearly 3 million viewers, eclipsing every network’s coverage of the Republican National Convention and Paul Ryan’s speech.
Each episode follows Alana Thompson and her unapologetically outrageous family.
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Alana Thompson, also known as Honey Boo Boo, and her family visited a wig store during the latest episode of reality TV show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Honey Boo Boo, 7, headed to the hilariously named Shh! It’s A Wig store with her mother June, her father Sugar Bear, and older sisters 12-year-old Lauryn “Pumpkin”, 15-year-old Jessica “Chubbs”, and 17-year-old Anna “Chickadee” in search of the perfect wig for an upcoming pageant.
Alana Thompson decides that the right wig will help her win the competition and tries on various styles.
However she is unhappy with most of them and her mother agrees that the majority look “a hot mess”.
“I look like I’m gonna rob somebody!” jokes the pint sized beauty queen as she is fitted with a wig cap.
Her mother also gets in on the wig sampling action, much to the delight of partner Sugar Bear.
“When I saw June in a blonde wig, it kinda made me a little frisky and uhh I wanted to jump some bones,” he says.
Alana Thompson, also known as Honey Boo Boo, and her family visited a wig store during the latest episode of reality TV show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Honey Boo Boo eventually settles on a gold sparkly wig, but mother June Thompson decides that the store’s selection are not suitable for her daughter, remarking that they look more like Halloween wigs than pageant wigs.
The Thompson family later celebrates Independence Day by having dinner together at a barque house, where Honey Boo Boo remarks that the food-loving clan are “fat”, before her father corrects her, adding: “We’re not fat, we’re pleasingly plump.”
“I want the chicken, and the barbeque and then I want the ribs,” says Alana.
“That’s three!” replies her mother, June Shannon.
“I know, but I get two sides, why can’t my sides be meat?”
The episode also showed the Thompsons driving over to the local dumpster, which they dubbed the “department store”, and sifting through the rubbish.
They excitedly reveal that they once found a surround sound with only one broken speaker at the spot.
“They should have a <<Dumpster Diva Pageant>> cos I would win,” Honey Boo Boo declares, before revealing: “All Pumpkin’s clothes comes from the dumpster.”
TLC first introduced viewers to Toddlers and Tiaras star Alana Thompson in January, where her amusing personality and self-confidence became a fixture in pop culture.
The network offered the family a spin-off series, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, an inside look into little Alana Thompson’s world.
Since premiering on August 8, the show has attracted millions of viewers and its August 29 installment attracted nearly 3 million viewers, eclipsing every network’s coverage of the Republican National Convention and Paul Ryan’s speech.
Each episode follows Honey Boo Boo and her unapologetically outrageous family.
Kim Kardashian’s short-lived marriage to Kris Humphries called into question her and her family’s thirst for publicity.
Kim Kardashian, 31, says the union led her to a life changing epiphany.
The reality TV star wed Kris Humphries in a fairytale ceremony last August, but although their union broke down within three months, she says she has been a changed person since.
Referring to her sister Kourtney in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian said: “It’s like how Kourtney had this epiphany when she had her baby and she changed into a different person, I feel like I’ve had an epiphany over the last year.
“For what I’ve been through and I am that changed person, just from my own experiences.”
Kim Kardashian is now dating rapper Kanye West, 35, and said one of the things that attracts her to him is the fact he is older than her.
She added: “I always dated five years younger. My whole thing was completely different, and now I just love that I’m with someone that’s a couple years older than me.”
During the interview, Kim Kardashian, who is of Armenian descent, says she is proud to represent Middle Eastern women in modern society.
When asked by Oprah Winfrey if she thinks the Kardashian’s reality TV show would be as successful if they weren’t pretty, she replied: “I don’t think it would have happened if we were all skinny pretty models.
“I think it has to do with us, the curves, the dark hair – I think it was a combination.
“I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, <<Where are Middle Eastern women?>>.
“I think we took that category or helped broaden that.”
Oprah Winfrey posted a picture of herself with the whole Kardashian family as she sat down with them at Kris Jenner's home
Kim Kardashian and her family will appear alongside Oprah Winfrey this Sunday.
Earlier this week Kim Kardashian was quick to post a picture of herself alongside TV royalty in what is surely the ultimate seal of approval of their ubiquitous fame.
Clearly excited she tweeted: “Ummmm no big deal Oprah just left my mom’s house! #DreamComeTrue.”
Pregnant sister Kourtney Kardashian also tweeted: “Surreal day being interviewed by the queen Oprah. Not many words to explain how incredible the experience was except for AHHH! Major moment.”
Oprah Winfrey, 58, was apparently just as impressed with the reality TV family, whom she surprisingly said she knew very little about.
She later posted a picture of herself with the whole family as she sat down with them at “momanager” Kris Jenner’s home.
Kim Kardashian was joined by sisters Kourtney, Khloe, brother Rob, Kourtney’s partner Scott Disick, Khloe’s husband Lamar Odom, mum Kris, half-sisters Kylie, Kendall and step-father Bruce Jenner to film the interview for Oprah’s Next Chapter, airing Sunday on OWN.
It is the first appearance for Kim Kardashian and her infamous family, and Oprah Winfrey admitted that she had a lot of catching up to do, ahead of the interview.
Oprah Winfrey revealed on her Facebook page: “I had never met them, nor seen the show. I did a full on <<Kardashian Kram>> in preparation, watching major shows from every season.”
It seems that Oprah Winfrey may be a bit late catching up with the family who has become something of an institution in the US.
But she said: “I genuinely wanted to know why they have become a cultural phenomenon, why so many people love to watch their every move and why so many others love to hate them.
“Are they completely ego centered? Are they really <<famous for being famous>> or is there something more?”
Oprah’s Next Chapter airs Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST) on OWN.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney Houston’s daughter, is currently in talks to take part in a show with cameras following her 24/7.
Although Bobbi Kristina’s family are appalled at the plan, the teenager hopes it will show the public that she is very different from her mother Whitney Houston, who died in February after abusing illegal and prescription drugs for years.
A source told RadarOnline.com: “This show is being done against her family’s advice
“Bobbi is scared the world will label her just like her mother.
“[During one meeting] she said: <<I will show the world I am not my mother and will not walk in her shoes down her path. My mother was just normal, completely normal, someone who did normal things. She just listened to all the wrong people – and did the wrong things.>>”
Bobbi Kristina Brown is currently in talks to take part in a show with cameras following her 24/7
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, is said to have told pals: “Something good might as well come out of all this bad stuff.”
Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning due to the effects of heart disease and cocaine use on February 11 aged 48. She had a long history of substance abuse and had admitted to Oprah Winfrey she took cocaine in a candid 2009 interview.
