Liza Morales, ex of Lamar Odom.
By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Did Starter Wives Confidential get cancelled? The new TLC reality show drew in controversy easily on the premise that it would feature the exes of celebs such as Lamar Odom, DMX, Funkmaster Flex, 50 Cent, Maino and Floyd Mayweather just to name a few. However, things got nasty for the women on the show before it even premiered. 50 Cent was able to get his baby mama Shaniqua’s footage stripped from the show allegedly, and although she was confirmed to be on the show, they refused to air any of her scenes. Shaniqua took to her Twitter account to get her supported to ask the network to rethink their position, but it didn’t budge.
Although Lamar Odom has been mum about his ex appearing on the reality show, his wife Khloe Kardashian has been throwing shade on Twitter. Liza Morales didn’t seem to be fazed by the shade and insisted that she has a right to tell her story.
Then there’s that rumor that Lil Kim has plans to sue the network for allowing Maino’s baby mama Zakia Baum to discuss her on the show in a negative light, especially considering that it’s speculated that Maino was dating both women at the same time.
Welp, it looks like all of their famous exes can now breathe a sigh of relief, as Monica Taylor, Funkmaster Flex’s estranged wife took to her blog Mommy’s Dirty Little Secret to announce that Starter Wives Confidential has been cancelled.
Monica says in her blog that the remainder of the episodes will be available on the network’s website, but says she’s still not sure why TLC made the decision to stop airing the show on television.
We decided to see where the show stood on ratings, and it appears that despite how “juicy” the ladies thought they were, none of the episodes ever amassed one million viewers. That’s terrible for a reality show. So we’re thinking that TLC felt like a show that isn’t brining in the numbers, but racking up the lawsuits isn’t worth the trouble.
The network has yet to release a statement on the status of the reality show as of now.
Welp, now maybe they can go get real jobs.
If only this could happen to BBW…
Damn, nobody was watching this show! LOL!!!!
I figured no one was watching. I think the show would have done better on another network.
Good! I’m tired of women getting shows for dating someone! Stand on your own two feet.
I wasn’t watching anyway. I can’t get into any show about exes of celebs. Most of the time the show makes them seem pathetic. I couldn’t even tolerate Hollywood Exes.
Let me find out 50 shut the whole damn show down! lol
Well damn! They couldn’t even get one million viewers an episode? Yeah, they needed to be cancelled.
Damn! Somebody was not playing. Was it Floyd, or Lamar and Khloe?
You do know that Tamar and Vince and other reality shows don’t get over 1M viewers?
Tamar and Vince isn’t doing that well either if they aren’t bringing in one million viewers. And that’s doesn’t change the fact that is considered low ratings. Most reality shows pull at least one million per episode. Google it. LHH, BBW, RHOA, etc. draw in over one million an episode. If a network is getting sued for a show, the ratings have to make it WORTH it. That’s why TLC cancelled it.
Umm Starter Wives only got like 300,000 people watching an episode. I don’t care what Tamar and Vince are doing, only 300,000 an episode is a FLOP!
Only 300,000?!!!! That’s pathetic. I guess people just weren’t watching enough to justify the lawsuits. Oh well.
I’m not sure what Tamar & Vince have to do with this but umm, actually MOST reality shows average over one million viewers an episode. You’re thinking about small scale reality shows and they are in the minority. Tamar and Vince’s show is considered a small scale reality show on a network that doesn’t bring in ratings like that anyway. Now had Tamar and Vince’s show been on VH1 or Bravo, where their shows bring in lots of ratings, they would have been cancelled because they aren’t meeting the standard. But even shows like Bad Girls Club are well over one million viewers. So I’m not sure if you were talking to me or not, but reality shows under one million an episode are not in the majority, especially on big networks. This show was a flop period. TLC had higher expectations and the lawsuits were the final nail in the coffin.I think that new show Monday Morning (I think that’s the name) just got cancelled because it couldn’t pull in one million an episode. In TV period that’s usually considered a flop.
You’re actually incorrect. Most reality shows (especially the ones targeted to our demographic) are pulling in over one million viewers an episode. Shows like Tamar & Vince, Mary/Mary are in the minority and that is why neither are on major networks. TLC is a bigger network and this show was a failure in comparison to other shows they air.
Yet, the show was still cancelled due to low ratings…so yeah lol
I can’t believe some of you are debating whether or not this show was a flop. 300,000 an episode is TERRIBLE. Even Monica thinks low ratings could be why the show was pulled. And Tamar & Vince is on WEtv, that network is happy if they even get one viewer an episode. TLC is in a totally different ballpark. :-/
I didn’t even know what time and day this show came on. I know the ratings were bad. People weren’t watching it and the network didn’t promote it. I think they wanted it to fail so they could cancel it.
No one was watching…the interest and marketing for it weren’t there.