Wayne Brady: The Family Remix premieres on Freeform Wednesday, July 24 at 10pm EST.

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‘Wayne Brady: The Family Remix’ Explores The Private Life Of The Comedian

The show follows comedian, host, singer and producer Wayne Brady and the rest of his “Core Four,” both his biological family — his daughter Maile, as well as her mother, his ex-wife Mandie Taketa, who also happens to be his business partner, along with her life partner Jason Fordham.

In the premiere episode we meet Wayne as he’s grappling with his decision to go public about identifying as pansexual. Wayne seeks the opinion of his trusted friends and has the utmost support of his family. In an interview with BOSSIP, Wayne, Maile, Mandie and Jason opened up about why everyone needs and deserves support and the importance of being able to ask for help when you need it.

“Until this show and these things that happened in life you were looking at normally the primary breadwinner and person that carries a village on his back a lot of the time to the world,” Wayne Brady told BOSSIP. “What they don’t see, is I would fall down on my face and not be able to do what I do for the people I love if I didn’t have the support, because it was drilled into my head as a child, as a young Black male, ‘Go out there, work your hardest!’ That’s my value. So that’s the only way that I could show up in life is working myself to the bone to my detriment, because that’s all that I have to give. Until I met this woman, Mandie, who showed me that family and love looks like this. Then we had this amazing daughter and then this other incredible Black man entered our life. So you’re coming to the part in my journey where I would gladly take all the support I can because I spent 50 years on my hands and knees with the weight of the world on my back.”

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As the trailer shows, Wayne Brady speaks openly about his mental health struggles on the show and ultimately he says that’s what he’s most proud of about the series.

“I didn’t want it to sound sad clownish because I think that’s a trope as well,” Wayne Brady told BOSSIP. “Just to be a human and show up and to be an adult, to show up, especially if you’ve got a family and when your job happens to be, ‘Hey everybody! I’m going to elicit this this response in you –’ whew! That’s a lot. So the fact that we can show that there is a life behind that face. Which I think a lot of folks that watch this and a lot of people think, ‘Ohh Wayne is…’ Whatever you think I am, he’s that guy, well he’s also a guy that that has sh***y days.”

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In addition to watching Wayne navigate multiple personal and career concerns, we also get an opportunity to see Mandie at work and Maile traveling and making strides toward her own future as an entertainer.

“I think it’s really important the message that we’re sending,” Maile Brady told BOSSIP. “Also for people to see a family that looks like ours support each other and this very healthy ecosystem that we’ve created amongst the four of us.”

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We also loved getting to watch Mandie and Jason, who are also raising a toddler son. As the TikToks in the trailer prove, the ‘Core Four’ are a talented bunch.

“Over the 15 years this show intersected where Wayne was sort of the focal point and we were supporting him,” Fordham explained. “But in other times you know that that lens has shifted, to where I’m being supported or Mandie is being supported or Maile is being supported, so you get the slice of life and you get to see the structure that supports itself. Maybe in Season 2 the line shifts to someone else but you’re going to see the same energy and enthusiasm and love for each other.”

“No one should go through hard times alone,” Mandie Taketa agreed. “You can’t have people in your circle in your family that aren’t willing to pick you up off the ground even when their back hurts. That’s what I’m most thankful for and I tell you Wayne has been that person for me.”

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One of the things we love most about The Family Remix is that it offers a positive portrayal of a multicultural family — something we will never get enough of on television. The show also offers the opportunity to show people of color having the kinds of conversations that almost never happen on camera.

“We want to change the ways that people of color, especially us Black people talk about each other, talk about mental health, talk about the things that we need,” Wayne Brady told BOSSIP. “I could have never asked for help a couple years ago. Never. That’s a real conversation.”

Wayne Brady: The Family Remix airs Wednesdays at 10pm on Freeform with episodes streaming the next day on Hulu.

Khloé Kardashian has had her fair share of trauma, from having a husband addicted to drugs to a serial cheater baby daddy, but she swears she isn’t “struggling” enough to need therapy.

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These days, more and more people are seeking therapy, including Kim Kardashian. On on the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kim sits down with the mother of two to discuss her decision to return to treatment. While doing so, she suggests that Khloé join her on the “journey.” Apparently, her sister is not the only one who thinks counseling will do Khloé some good.

While at lunch with one of her best friends, Malika Haqq, they began discussing the now 40-year-old’s birthday. Haqq stated that the mother of two should celebrate big and suggested she goes on an Eat Pray Love adventure, similar to the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert and the movie starring Julia Roberts. Khloé quickly shot down the idea, claiming it would not go well. Haqq pushed further, stating that the adventure could be therapeutic for her.

“It’s indirect therapy,” Malika stated. “It’s like the kind of therapy you want to do.”

Having heard the word “therapy” again, Khloé asks her friend if she thinks she needs therapy, to which she replies, “A hundred percent.”

Khloé Kan’t Katch A Kounselor She Likes

After two different people suggested that Khloé begin a healing journey with a therapist, The Kardashians star clarified that she had tried therapy. She also claims that she shopped around, looking for the right therapist, and has gone through three or four different people.

“I’ve never connected. I’m like, ‘I just told you my whole life story. Every dark demonic thing and you’re just gonna be like, ‘Okay.’ I never got any guidance”

According to the reality TV star, she specifically tried to seek counseling before her son, Tatum, arrived in 2022. Nevertheless, her bestie, Malika, gathered that the therapist she tried was not the right one for her. Khloé then revealed that every therapist she’s been to has treated her the same. She later stated in a confessional scene that one therapist suggested that she doesn’t need counseling.

“I was actually told by one therapist that I didn’t need therapy because I process things so matter-of-fact. I don’t know. It was a strange encounter,” she admitted.

Khloé also disclosed that she sought therapy after Lamar Odom’s cheating and drug scandal broke. However, her therapist wasn’t sure how to help her due to her calm demeanor.

“My husband, I found him at a drug den in a motel and, like, I was saying something, but [my therapist asked], ‘So do you get upset?’” she stated.

Her therapist later told her that she didn’t think Khloé actually needed her, “I was like, ‘What? Is she firing me?’” Khloé asked. “I think I got broken up with by a therapist.”

Though she has had trouble finding the right therapist, Kim Kardashian’s sister is still open to the idea and agrees that she may need it. Still, she doesn’t feel like she is struggling enough to be dire.

“I’m sure I need therapy. I just don’t think I’m struggling, and I’m like, ‘I can’t find my way. I need a therapist.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, I’ll try therapy.’” she said.

After many years of tension, Khloé is seemingly in a good place as she co-parents with her children’s father and habitual cheater, Tristan Thompson.

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Marjorie Harvey took time from her richtivities to give a little PSA to haters throwing shade about her looks.

After posting pictures from a lavish and luxurious anniversary trip aboard a yacht with her husband, Steve Harvey, and their children, the full-time baddie started receiving a little hate about her appearance. Apparently fed up with the noise in her comments, the 59-year-old beauty uploaded a video of herself with a gracious clapback.

“This post is for all the ones that are interested in the forehead and dark circles that I am proud to have inherited from my Daddy,” she captioned the fresh faced post. “No filters or makeup on the face that God has blessed me with at 59. The many faces that I make in the mirror. The real hair and hairlines. The products that I’m using on my hair on the Yacht that I absolutely love. Not ashamed of anything, Blessed.”

Now, THAT’S how you clear.

The Harveys are celebrating their 17th anniversary, and Marjorie has been documenting some opulent adventures for all of us poors.

The happy couple seem to have completely shut down pesky cheating rumors from earlier this year that claimed the two were headed towards divorce. Nothing a little time on a yacht can’t cure.

Marjorie also received some love from Mama Tina Knowles after posting her Cecred hair routine alongside clearing the air about her appearance.

“In the world there is so much criticism, so much hatin, so much ageism. This gorgeous lady has the courage to have a clean face, no filter, and still looks absolutely gorgeous,” the Grand Dame of the House of Knowles said. “you go my beautiful inside out sister. Hair looking healthy beautiful and strong.”

Marjorie seems to be loving her Cecred products as she had them along with her during her anniversary celebration. We love to see the ageless beauties keeping it real about what it means to serve for a lifetime.

When JT dropped her Cindy Cinderella mixtape, she shook the scene and let the chopper sing with several shady shots seemingly targeting Cardi B.

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On Friday, JT released her solo debut mixtape, City  Cinderella. In addition to making a claim for her place on the throne, she fiercely flames her rap rivals at the top like Cardi B. The City Girls star came out the gate swinging big at Bardi on “Intro (Hope).” JT dragged her about a raunchy rumored NSFW performance, despite Cardi denying that was her in the viral video.

“Non-rapping b***h, who the f**k you talking to? I was off in Saks, Gucci alligator bags/While you were laying on your back and stuffin’ bottles up your a**,” she rapped.

Fans quickly clocked the reference, but they don’t think JT stopped there. On “Lemon Pepper” featuring Stunna Girl, JT got her lick back for Cardi’s social media shade of calling her “prison pants” in a beef a few years ago.

“JT a convicted felon and I’m still on they a**/These Rick Owens, boo, these ain’t prison pants,” JT flexed.

“Smokin’ on some s**t smell like a b***h floppin’ down/

Used to be the s**t, look at that b***h floppin’ now,” she added.

What Listeners Can Look Forward To On City Cinderella

The Jeezy remix of “OKAY” already reached No. 22 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts. City Cinderella also features DJ Khaled on “Oh” and Clip on “All Stars. While JT solidified herself as a solo artist on the latest release under Quality Control, she emphasized to Paper magazine that this is just a taste of what’s to come. There’s a big difference between pushing out the EP and the energy she’d pour into a future album.

“People work on their albums for a year, albums are just different. So City Cinderella is not my first album, being that I made this project so damn fast. I had to create this project throughout the tour and moving around, so I didn’t have time to really nurture and doctor it. This is just something that I’m putting out with my pure instincts,” JT explained.

Between reigniting beef with Cardi B and throwing shade at GloRilla’s “man voice” on “Star of the Show,” JT has everyone talking.

As City Cinderella takes over social media feeds with its quotable lyrics and clapbacks, JT the solo star is just getting started. It sounds like JT has put some serious thought into approaching a full album in the future. Until then, fans can enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at JT’s solo debut in the making.

Check out the full documentary of Making Of City Cinderella below.

What do you think of JT’s City Cinderella?