Author: Michael

Jim Bakker, the disgraced televangelist who built a TV empire with then-wife Tammy Faye in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Monday, October 5. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I share that my beloved husband, Jim Bakker, went home to be with the Lord this evening,” Jim’s second wife, Lori Bakker, announced via the former PTL Club cohost’s Instagram account. Lori, 69, noted that Jim was “a pioneer of Christian television” to many people, “but to me, he was my husband, my best friend, and the man I was honored to walk beside through so…

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In an interview for E!’s Greatest Year in Pop Culture, Jesse Metcalfe made a rare comment about alleged tensions on the set of Desperate Housewives. “I didn’t really experience a whole lot of drama on the show,” Metcalfe said. “That was probably because of my naivete and just kind of being swept up in my newfound success and fame.” Indeed, starring alongside Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher and Eva Longoria as teen gardener John Rowland was holding plenty of Metcalfe’s focus. “I didn’t really have the awareness to know what was going on around me,” he continued, “but apparently…

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