The ‘Our 2 Moms’ TLC special will observe Whitney Gilbert and Shadese “Dee-Dee” Griffith get ready to get married whilst elevating seven kids.
Whitney Gilbert and and Shadese “Dee-Dee” Griffith of Statesville, N.C., appear in a position for their close-up, and that’s a good factor, considering 1000's if not thousands and thousands of audience will meet their family on TLC’s Our 2 Moms.
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The special, airing Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 10 p.m. ET, follows Whitney and Dee-Dee as they raise seven kids whilst planning a wedding, according to the Statesville Record & Landmark. But their journey to the altar received’t necessarily be simple, since they’ll be contending with “ex-husbands, opinionated families, and small-town attitudes a couple of same-sex, interracial couple,” because the newspaper explains.
Whitney Gilbert mentioned producers came calling after a video of the family dancing “ended up going viral.”
Whitney and Dee-Dee’s reality TV enjoy started with a social-media video of their blended family of 9 dancing. “So we all wore pleasure shirts and then all of our kids have been in a line at the back of us and it ended up going viral,” Whitney instructed the Record & Landmark.
After that video got greater than 298,000 likes, a manufacturing company contacted them, and Our 2 Moms used to be off to the races.
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“One thing that the display truly wants to show is that, you recognize, it’s in reality onerous to love who you love and be in an overly conservative city,” Whitney said. “They need to show that it’s not as open here and it’s now not as easy to are living the way of living that we’re we’re residing, but they’re also hoping that this may occasionally carry consciousness and assist people to understand that we're similar to everybody else.”
Whitney, a trainer, and Dee-Dee, a mental lend a hand therapist, are already seeing signs of development in Statesville, like the Pride events hosted within the city the final two years. “I believe like we’re in any case, getting there, getting someplace. Even in a yr, it has modified vastly,” Whitney said.
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Shadese “Dee-Dee” Griffith has been hyping up the premiere of ‘Our 2 Moms’ on Instagram.
On Oct. 18, Shadese shared a special “surprise” with her Instagram followers: the inside track of their time in the TLC spotlight. “Our 2 Moms is a TLC particular about our superb family,” she wrote. “Please track in on Oct. 25 at 10 p.m. ET. We laugh, love and, cry, and can’t wait to percentage a bit of bit of our international with you. Enjoy!”
A couple days later, Shadese posted a video of three of her and Whitney’s kids filming a scene for the display. “These three proper listed here are growing up so quickly!” she wrote in her Instagram caption. “This was a fantastic alternative for our family! And clearly they had a good time additionally!”
And on Oct. 23, two days before the show’s premiere, Shadese posted a romantic tribute to Whitney. “Just in case somebody appears at us and thinks we are perfect, just know we aren’t!” she wrote. “But we try, we cry, we get frustrated, we concentrate to each other, and we're running on being a better version of ourselves! My love grows deeper for her on a daily basis!”
Our 2 Moms airs Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 10 p.m. EST on TLC and streams the next day to come on Discovery Plus.
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