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Sondra Celli on tonight’s “Gypsy Wedding” and more!

March 5, 2015 Lori Acken 1

She sews seas shells! On tonight’s all-new My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, Gypsy Sisters star Nettie Stanley’s son Whitey marries his longtime love Lottie — and, of course, the family turned to everyone’s favorite gypsy-couture all-star, Sondra Celli, to design the dress. “The wedding was down by water, so we did seashells,” says Celli, calling from her suburban Boston business on yet another snowy winter day. “The dress is absolutely gorgeous. She had a theme to her wedding, so it worked for me to go into ice blues and seashells. Seashells! It’s a beautiful dress. It’s odd because it […]

Gypsy Sisters Christmas special: Get an exclusive sneak peek from “A Naughty or Nice Christmas”

December 10, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

Early Christmas present, Gypsy Sisters fans! Just in time to heat up your holidays, TLC presents its newest Christmas special featuring the brawling beauties of the Stanley clan. And as their longtime fans know, there will likely be anything but peace on earth if this crew is involved. To spark the holiday spirit, Nettie decides to gather the ladies for a holiday costume party and gets the shock of her life when — instead of arriving as a naughty Mrs. Santa, elf or holiday treat like everybody else — a fully clothed Mellie hobbles in dressed as Scrooge, toting her […]

Gypsy Sisters season finale: Will Kayla, er, segue back into married life? (exclusive clip)

October 2, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

It’s been a festive and feisty — albeit short — Season 3 for TLC’s Gypsy Sisters. And on tonight’s season finale, the ladies are gearing up for Kayla to recommit to her’s and Richard’s marriage in a beachside ceremony in Ocean City, MD. • MORE: Channel Guide talks Gypsy Sisters Season 3 with Nettie Stanley and Kayla Williams! But first — in true Gypsy Sisters fashion — a few high jinks must ensue, this time beginning with the two (and in the case of the cautious bride-to-be, four) wheel variety. Predictably, Annie and Mellie take to their new rides like […]

Exclusive clip: Mellie returns to the pole (sort of) in an all-new Gypsy Sisters

September 25, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

With one week to go until the Gypsy Sisters finale, Kayla calls the gang with some happy news. All their prodding for her to reestablish communication with her estranged husband Richard has done the trick and the two are planning to recommit to one another. • MORE: We talk a new season of Gypsy Sisters with Kayla Williams and Nettie Stanley! “It’s just been a rough road with Richard for the past year, but it’s all extremely self-explanatory for the very beginning of our season clear to the end,” Kayla told us in a recent interview. “It wasn’t easy filming […]

Gypsy Sisters preview: Evil Spirits

September 4, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

On tonight’s Gypsy Sisters, the ladies are on Day 2 of their week-long escape to New Orleans and you best keep your remote in hand, because things are about to get loud. In the way that only these gypsy sisters can get loud. • RELATED: Channel Guide‘s exclusive interview with Nettie Stanley and Kayla Williams • RELATED: Channel Guide’s xclusive interview with Mellie Stanley After whooping it up with Nettie in last week’s episode, a hungover-but-happy Kay;a says she now realizes that Rumney women don’t enjoy life the way they should and that you can be a good wife and […]

Gypsy Sisters Season 3 episode 2 recap: Big Fun in the Big Easy

August 28, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

After the girls had all kinds of man trouble (and the usual each-other trouble) in last week’s Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premiere, Kayla, Nettie, Mellie, JoAnn and Annie have decided to make a ladies-only trek to the Big Easy to reconnect and rejuvenate. • RELATED: We talk Gypsy Sisters Season 3 with Kayla and Nettie! We start the episode with Kayla celebrating her newfound freedom with an ice cream date with Danielle and Sissy … and a brand-new white luxury sedan that she proudly notes breaks the Romanichal tradition of driving a trusty pickup. Kayla, temporarily encamped at a hotel while […]

We talk Gypsy Sisters Season 3 with Nettie Stanley and Kayla Williams!

August 21, 2014 Lori Acken 2

When the beautiful, brawling Stanley sisters and their extended clan return to TLC in tonight’s two-hour Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premiere, Kayla Williams and Nettie Stanley are still working though the issues that boiled over in shockingly physical fashion last season. But Kayla is suffering the worst of the fallout from the cousins’ epic battle and how others in her inner circle responded to the altercation. • RELATED: Gypsy Sisters Season 3 episode 2 recap: Big Fun in the Big Easy I talked with Nettie and Kayla in separate interviews about how the show has impacted their lives, their families and their […]

Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premieres Aug. 21 on TLC

July 28, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

The beautiful, brawling Stanley sisters and their extended clan return to TLC in the two-hour Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premiere, Thursday, August 21 on TLC. And it looks like Nettie and Kayla may have mended their fractious relationship — at least for the moment. Unless Mellie’s wearing a helmet for reasons that don’t involve skydiving or motorbikes. According to the press release for the new season, Stanley family ties are more tenuous than ever as Kayla’s 17-year marriage to Richard is tested even as she and Nettie try to put the fist-flailing and social media scandals of the recent past behind them. And while baby Richard […]

Ready for more Mellie? A new season of Gypsy Sisters premieres later this summer on TLC

May 9, 2014 Lori Acken 1

If last night’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding episode featuring the union of 16-year-old Nukkie Stanley and 18-year-old Pookie Small stirred up your hankering for a new season Gypsy Sisters, happy news. The wild and wooly reality outing featuring Nukkie’s mom Nettie Stanley, her loose cannon aunt Mellie Stanley and other members of the vast Stanley clan will return for a new season at the end of the summer. Fans of the Stanleys will recall the Stanley Sisters special in which enraged mama Nettie, pregnant Mellie and other female members of the family headed off in a camper to reclaim the then 14-year-old […]

Gypsy Sisters Season 2 premieres Dec. 5 on TLC

November 12, 2013 Lori Acken Comments Off

For plenty of us, the holidays and family drama go hand in hand. But for West Virginia’s Stanley sisters and their equally feisty kin, family drama is a daily way of life. So if you’re looking to spend part of the season with a clan that makes yours look downright normal, check out TLC’s Gypsy Sisters Season 2, which premieres Dec. 5 at 9/8CT. • RELATED: Gypsy Sisters Season 1 finale recap * RELATED: Meet Mellie’s baby Richard at TLC.com The 8-episode season kicks off with sisters-in-law Nettie and Kayla indulging in what the network promises is “one of the […]