If you grew up watching country variety television, you already know that laugh. Gunilla Hutton spent over two decades making audiences smile, first as the second Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction and then as Nurse Goodbody, the busty blonde punchline machine on Hee Haw. She wasn’t just another pretty face in a cast full…
If you follow football even casually, you know the name Pete Carroll. The Super Bowl winning coach who built the “Legion of Boom” Seahawks and now leads the Las Vegas Raiders has spent four decades in the public eye. His wife has spent that same amount of time doing the opposite. Glena Goranson rarely gives…
What comes to mind when you hear “Gessolini”? It’s a word that feels both elegant and grounded, like a dusty workshop in Florence or a high-end boutique in Milan. The truth is, it’s a bit of a chameleon. Depending on who you ask, Gessolini could be a family name with a coat of arms, a…
If you’ve ever wondered who’s been quietly running the business side of one of pop music’s biggest legacies, the answer is Garry Kief. He’s Barry Manilow’s husband, yes, but reducing him to “the guy married to Barry Manilow” undersells what he’s actually done. Garry Kief has been managing Manilow’s career since 1978, and for over…
Garret Barnes was Pam Bondi’s first husband, married to her from 1990 to 1992, long before she became Florida’s attorney general or, later, the 87th United States attorney general under Donald Trump. He’s also one of the more genuinely private exes attached to a major political figure. No tell all interviews, no tabloid feuds, no…
If you’ve been following Iowa politics, you’ve probably heard the name “Gail Ernst” pop up in the news. He’s the ex-husband of Senator Joni Ernst, a high-profile Republican from Iowa who made history as the first woman elected to represent the state in Congress. But who is he beyond being a political spouse? And what…
Andrew Lincoln spent a decade as Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows on television. His wife, Gael Anderson, has spent that same decade doing the opposite of what fame usually demands. She doesn’t post, she doesn’t do red carpet interviews about her marriage, and she doesn’t play along with…
Francesca Tomasi spent twenty five years married to one of the most recognizable frontmen in rock music, and most of what gets written about her still filters through his name. That’s a little unfair, honestly, because she had a career of her own before Metallica ever entered the picture, and she’s stayed mostly quiet about…
If you know the name Frances Ford Seymour at all, it’s probably as a footnote in someone else’s story. She was Henry Fonda’s second wife. She was Jane Fonda’s mother. She was Peter Fonda’s mother too. But treat her only as a supporting character and you miss one of the more heartbreaking real life stories…
Fielder Douglas Jewett is a Los Angeles-based litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. But he wasn’t always a lawyer. Before he was arguing cases and doing pro bono civil rights work, he was deep in the independent film scene . Jewett’s career took a sharp…