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Laura Dorwart

Laura Dorwart earned her MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Antioch University and her Ph.D. from UC San Diego. She’s been writing about the entertainment industry since 2013 and joined the Showbiz Cheat Sheet team in 2019. She focuses her coverage here on popular TV including Sister Wives and Married at First Sight, along with book coverage and the representation of mental health and disability in entertainment media.

Laura was a 2020 Sundance Institute Press Inclusion Inititiative scholarship recipient. In her spare time, she is an avid reader and keeps up with the works of Roxane Gay and Carmen Maria Machado in particular. See more of Laura’s bylines from The New York Times, VICE, Forbes, McSweeney’s, Muck Rack, and her online portfolio.

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Who Was Dolly Parton’s Original “Jolene?”

Dolly Parton's new Netflix anthology, "Heartstrings," features Julianne Hough as Jolene, inspired by the iconic Parton song of the same name. Who was Parton's original choice for the role, and who was the real-life Jolene?
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‘Sister Wives’: Maddie Brown Brush Just Revealed This Heartbreaking Truth About Her Baby

Fans of TLC’s Sister Wives saw 23-year-old Maddie Brown Brush wed longtime family friend 32-year-old Caleb Brush on the show in 2016. The newlyweds were always open about their desire to be monogamous, unlike Maddie’s polygamous family, headed by parents Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown. Since then, the couple has moved to North …