Bravo icon Lisa Vanderpump and her charity, The Vanderpump Dog Foundation, have had a hand in the rescue of thousands of dogs who were trapped in kill shelters. And she revealed that her personalized appearances on Cameo were a tremendous aid in raising money for that charity.
Her restaurants closed when most places were locked down for Covid, making filming Vanderpump Rules impossible. So, she wondered how she would keep the charity afloat, and fortunately, Cameo gave her a way to do that.
Lisa Vanderpump and Larissa Wohl | Paul Archuleta/Getty Images Lisa Vanderpump’s charity, The Vanderpump Dog Foundation, works ‘to help create a better world for dogs’
According to The Vanderpump Dog Foundation website, the charity is based in Los Angeles, but it’s a global effort. Founded in 2016, Vanderpump initially sought to fight the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China.
But the foundation also focuses on...
Her restaurants closed when most places were locked down for Covid, making filming Vanderpump Rules impossible. So, she wondered how she would keep the charity afloat, and fortunately, Cameo gave her a way to do that.
Lisa Vanderpump and Larissa Wohl | Paul Archuleta/Getty Images Lisa Vanderpump’s charity, The Vanderpump Dog Foundation, works ‘to help create a better world for dogs’
According to The Vanderpump Dog Foundation website, the charity is based in Los Angeles, but it’s a global effort. Founded in 2016, Vanderpump initially sought to fight the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China.
But the foundation also focuses on...
- 2/13/2023
- by Katie Rook
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Great American Community, the free direct-to-consumer app from Great American Media, has set its slate for next month’s launch with 15 original shortform series featuring well-known TV hosts, presenters and actors. The app debuts Monday, September 26, with multiple episodes of all series available on day one and new episodes premiering on regularly scheduled days throughout the year.
Series headliners include Danica McKellar, Cameron Mathison, Jill Wagner, Trevor Donovan, Debbie Matenopoulos, Lauren Makk, Kym Douglas, Larissa Wohl, Emily Hutchinson, Lawrence Zarian, Shirley Bovshow, Maria Provenzano, Jamie Tarence, Mahaila McKellar, and Lizzy Mathis. Additional hosts and series will be announced in the coming months.
Tracy Verna, Laura Pierson, and Michael Hinkley (Home & Family) serve as executive producers.
“We are thrilled to be launching Great American Community with fifteen new, always-on series that are topical, relatable and hosted by our growing family of recognizable talent,...
Series headliners include Danica McKellar, Cameron Mathison, Jill Wagner, Trevor Donovan, Debbie Matenopoulos, Lauren Makk, Kym Douglas, Larissa Wohl, Emily Hutchinson, Lawrence Zarian, Shirley Bovshow, Maria Provenzano, Jamie Tarence, Mahaila McKellar, and Lizzy Mathis. Additional hosts and series will be announced in the coming months.
Tracy Verna, Laura Pierson, and Michael Hinkley (Home & Family) serve as executive producers.
“We are thrilled to be launching Great American Community with fifteen new, always-on series that are topical, relatable and hosted by our growing family of recognizable talent,...
- 8/17/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When Great American Media’s free app, Great American Community, launches on Sept. 26, it will introduce viewers to 15 original short-form series, each headlined by well-known lifestyle experts and TV stars.
On launch day, multiple episodes of all series will be available. New episodes will premiere on regularly scheduled days throughout the year, with no offseason.
“We are thrilled to be launching Great American Community with fifteen new, always-on series that are topical, relatable and hosted by our growing family of recognizable talent,” says Great American Media president and CEO Bill Abbott. “This new platform represents an important evolution of the company’s digital strategy and gives our passionate fans a fun and engaging new way to interact with our stars in a trusted, family-friendly environment, 365 days a year.”
One month after the app’s launch, Great American Family will launch its holiday content, kicking it off on Oct. 28.
The 15 exclusive...
On launch day, multiple episodes of all series will be available. New episodes will premiere on regularly scheduled days throughout the year, with no offseason.
“We are thrilled to be launching Great American Community with fifteen new, always-on series that are topical, relatable and hosted by our growing family of recognizable talent,” says Great American Media president and CEO Bill Abbott. “This new platform represents an important evolution of the company’s digital strategy and gives our passionate fans a fun and engaging new way to interact with our stars in a trusted, family-friendly environment, 365 days a year.”
One month after the app’s launch, Great American Family will launch its holiday content, kicking it off on Oct. 28.
The 15 exclusive...
- 8/17/2022
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
“Echo,” a new MCU series starring Alaqua Cox, has begun production, Disney has announced.
The series is a spinoff of last year’s Disney+ Marvel show “Hawkeye,” which featured the debut of Cox as Maya Lopez. Created by David Mack and Joe Quesada in 1999 as a supporting character for the superhero Daredevil, Maya Lopez, aka Echo, is a deaf Cheyenne woman with Olympic level athletic skills and the ability to perfectly copy people’s movement. In “Hawkeye,” the character was depicted as the leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a gang of criminals working under Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). The series will see Maya leave New York for her hometown, where she reconnects with her roots and ends up at the center of a new crisis.
“Echo” stars a largely indigenous cast, which also includes Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Devery Jacobs, Cody Lightning, Graham Greene and Zahn McClarnon. Indigenous directors Sydney Freeland...
The series is a spinoff of last year’s Disney+ Marvel show “Hawkeye,” which featured the debut of Cox as Maya Lopez. Created by David Mack and Joe Quesada in 1999 as a supporting character for the superhero Daredevil, Maya Lopez, aka Echo, is a deaf Cheyenne woman with Olympic level athletic skills and the ability to perfectly copy people’s movement. In “Hawkeye,” the character was depicted as the leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a gang of criminals working under Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). The series will see Maya leave New York for her hometown, where she reconnects with her roots and ends up at the center of a new crisis.
“Echo” stars a largely indigenous cast, which also includes Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Devery Jacobs, Cody Lightning, Graham Greene and Zahn McClarnon. Indigenous directors Sydney Freeland...
- 5/17/2022
- by Wilson Chapman, Sasha Urban and Carson Burton
- Variety Film + TV
After almost a decade, “Home & Family” is signing off of the Hallmark Channel.
The morning show, which paused production twice amid the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to resume filming at the end of March. Now Variety has learned exclusively that that batch of episodes will be its last.
“The ninth and current season of ‘Home & Family’ will be the series’ last,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement. “For nearly a decade, the show has anchored our daytime lineup, featuring countless hours of cooking, lifestyle, DIY, health, entertaining and decorating segments. We want to thank the heart and soul of the show, our incredibly talented cast and crew — led by co-hosts Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison — for their creativity, hard work and dedication. Our audience can look forward to more of the topical segments they know and love when the show returns on Monday, April 5 with a new one-hour,...
The morning show, which paused production twice amid the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to resume filming at the end of March. Now Variety has learned exclusively that that batch of episodes will be its last.
“The ninth and current season of ‘Home & Family’ will be the series’ last,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement. “For nearly a decade, the show has anchored our daytime lineup, featuring countless hours of cooking, lifestyle, DIY, health, entertaining and decorating segments. We want to thank the heart and soul of the show, our incredibly talented cast and crew — led by co-hosts Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison — for their creativity, hard work and dedication. Our audience can look forward to more of the topical segments they know and love when the show returns on Monday, April 5 with a new one-hour,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Emmy-winning television star Carson Kressley, who hosted the inaugural broadcast of the American Humane Hero Dog Awards, every animal-lover’s favorite event of the year, is returning to host the two-hour 10th anniversary celebration of the awards on Hallmark Channel on Monday, October 19 at 8 pm/7 Central.
This star-studded annual celebration of heroes on both ends of the leash honors outstanding working dogs from around the country, and the list of celebrity presenters and VIP appearances includes (in alphabetical order): All-for-One, Mayim Bialik, A.J. Buckley, Kristin Chenoweth, Erik Estrada, Danielle Fishel, Vivica A. Fox, Lizzy Greene, Jack Hanna, Faithe Herman, Naomi Judd, Keltie Knight, General Spider Marks (Ret.), Richard Marx, Debbie Matenopoulos, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven, Ross Mathews, John Ondrasik, Melissa Rivers, Marcus Scribner, Alison Sweeney and Ariel Winter. Grammy-winning singer Lisa Loeb will perform. Larissa Wohl and Nick and Joanna Swisher will present a special award to Lance Bass for his humane efforts.
This star-studded annual celebration of heroes on both ends of the leash honors outstanding working dogs from around the country, and the list of celebrity presenters and VIP appearances includes (in alphabetical order): All-for-One, Mayim Bialik, A.J. Buckley, Kristin Chenoweth, Erik Estrada, Danielle Fishel, Vivica A. Fox, Lizzy Greene, Jack Hanna, Faithe Herman, Naomi Judd, Keltie Knight, General Spider Marks (Ret.), Richard Marx, Debbie Matenopoulos, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven, Ross Mathews, John Ondrasik, Melissa Rivers, Marcus Scribner, Alison Sweeney and Ariel Winter. Grammy-winning singer Lisa Loeb will perform. Larissa Wohl and Nick and Joanna Swisher will present a special award to Lance Bass for his humane efforts.
- 10/7/2020
- Look to the Stars
Based on more than a million votes by the American public and the deliberations of a panel of celebrity animal lovers and dog experts, Alice, a five-year-old German Shepherd from Nicholasville, Kentucky, has been named the nation’s most heroic canine, besting 360 other competitors across the country and capturing the top title of “American Hero Dog” at the 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards.
Kristin Chenoweth at the 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards
Credit/Copyright: Jordan Strauss/Invision for American Humane/AP Images
The ninth annual Hero Dogs Awards is sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation, Inc. and Zoetis, and will be broadcast nationally as a two-hour special on Hallmark Channel October 21 at 8:00 pm Et/Pt, 7 pm Central.
In 2015, Antonio was a normal, playful nine-year old who loved soccer and his friends. Then, on a normal day, while riding in the back of his parents’ SUV with his younger...
Kristin Chenoweth at the 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards
Credit/Copyright: Jordan Strauss/Invision for American Humane/AP Images
The ninth annual Hero Dogs Awards is sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation, Inc. and Zoetis, and will be broadcast nationally as a two-hour special on Hallmark Channel October 21 at 8:00 pm Et/Pt, 7 pm Central.
In 2015, Antonio was a normal, playful nine-year old who loved soccer and his friends. Then, on a normal day, while riding in the back of his parents’ SUV with his younger...
- 10/11/2019
- Look to the Stars
Bestselling author Beth Stern and James Denton will return to host the 9th Annual American Humane Hero Dog Awards, a star-studded annual celebration honoring outstanding working dogs from around the country.
The awards gala, sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation and Zoetis, will also feature Trevor Donovan, Danielle Fishel (“Girl Meets World”), Kellie Martin (“Hailey Dean Mysteries”), Debbie Matenopoulos (“Home & Family”), Cameron Mathison (“Home & Family”), Wendi McLendon-Covey (“The Goldbergs”), Brandon McMillan (“Lucky Dog”), Barbara Niven, Roselyn Sanchez, Eric Winter, and Larissa Wohl (“Home & Family”) as presenters. Additional celebrity participants and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.
The 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards will take place on Saturday, Oct. 5 at The Beverly Hilton and will be broadcast as a two-hour special nationwide on Monday, Oct. 21 (8 pm Et/7 pm Ct) on Hallmark Channel.
The evening will recognize seven canine finalists and reveal which dog will be...
The awards gala, sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation and Zoetis, will also feature Trevor Donovan, Danielle Fishel (“Girl Meets World”), Kellie Martin (“Hailey Dean Mysteries”), Debbie Matenopoulos (“Home & Family”), Cameron Mathison (“Home & Family”), Wendi McLendon-Covey (“The Goldbergs”), Brandon McMillan (“Lucky Dog”), Barbara Niven, Roselyn Sanchez, Eric Winter, and Larissa Wohl (“Home & Family”) as presenters. Additional celebrity participants and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.
The 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards will take place on Saturday, Oct. 5 at The Beverly Hilton and will be broadcast as a two-hour special nationwide on Monday, Oct. 21 (8 pm Et/7 pm Ct) on Hallmark Channel.
The evening will recognize seven canine finalists and reveal which dog will be...
- 9/25/2019
- Look to the Stars
Following more than a million votes by the American public and the opinions of an expert panel of celebrity animal lovers and dog experts, “Chi Chi,” a four-year-old Golden Retriever from Phoenix, Arizona has been named this year’s most heroic dog, besting 265 other brave canines and capturing the top title of “American Hero Dog” at the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards.
James Denton and Beth Stern hosted the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards
Credit/Copyright: Invision for American Humane / AP Images
The eighth annual Hero Dogs Awards is sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation, Inc. and Zoetis Petcare (a U.S. business unit of Zoetis) and will be broadcast nationally on Hallmark Channel October 24 at 8:00 pm Et/Pt.
Chi Chi is a quadruple amputee who is inspiring people all over the world. She was left for dead in South Korea where she was found in a garbage bag with her legs bound,...
James Denton and Beth Stern hosted the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards
Credit/Copyright: Invision for American Humane / AP Images
The eighth annual Hero Dogs Awards is sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation, Inc. and Zoetis Petcare (a U.S. business unit of Zoetis) and will be broadcast nationally on Hallmark Channel October 24 at 8:00 pm Et/Pt.
Chi Chi is a quadruple amputee who is inspiring people all over the world. She was left for dead in South Korea where she was found in a garbage bag with her legs bound,...
- 10/4/2018
- Look to the Stars
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