What do you Think about MTV launching a New Teen Mom in the UK?

Posted on January 14, 2016

MTV is taking its hit show Teen Mom across the pond. The music cable network, known more for its revolutionary and break-thru reality Television shows, announced that it will launch its Brit version in Autumn 2016.

“We’ll use this expertise to give Teen Mom a fresh lease of life, combined with a unique British twist, which we’re confident will have massive appeal to local audiences,” MTV UK‘s Jill Offman said. “MTV UK has a great track record of re-versioning hit shows from our sister channel in the U.S. – we turned Jersey Shore into Geordie Shore and smashed ratings records in the process.”

There have been 12 seasons of Teen Mom, which started as a short run docu-series called 16 and Pregnant, and it has spun off several celebrities: Farrah Abraham, Jenelle Evans, Caitlynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra, Amber Portwood, Maci Bookout and Leah Messer.

If you’re biggest star from the show is beefing with Nicki Minaj, that’s winning, um…we guess. (snark)

And MTV is asking for Brit teen moms to apply. Oh boy!

What do you think? Excited? Bad idea?

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Two MTV ‘Teen Mom’ stories are trending

Posted on January 7, 2015

Two teen mom stories are trending;

Congratulations are in order! On New Year’s day, MTV cast members Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra welcomed their second child together, a daughter. The couple gave away their first child to adoption in 2009, citing immaturity and lack of resources to care for their daughter Carly.

They plan to keep and raise this one and to marry later this year. They named her Nova Reign. Baltierra addressed online critics about the birth after adoption on his Twitter account:

So sick of the ignorance in the world. Just because you place a child for adoption doesn’t mean your not allowed to have another #GetReal

— Tyler BaltierraMTV (@TylerBaltierra) January 4, 2015

Since then, he has been promoting adoption and its benefits on his Twitter account.

Two other new celebrity babies have Reign in their names. Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick’s second son is named Reign Aston. And rapper Lil Kim named her daughter Royal Reign.

Also, today Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham revealed a botched lip augmentation surgery on her Twitter Account. She tells Hollywood Life that the surgeon used an anesthesia which she was allergic to it causing her lip to swell severely.

Ouch! Get well soon, mama!

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MTV Teen Mom cast member Mackenzie Douthit McKee welcomes 2nd child

Posted on February 8, 2014

Teen Mom3 cast member Mackenzie Douthit, 19, and her husband Josh McKee welcomed their second child, a daughter the couple named Jaxie Taylor, today in Oklahoma.

She announced the pregnancy last summer after just given birth to her first child, son, Gannon, within a year.

The MTV reality TV star named her second child after her grandfather, and told In Touch magazine that she opted to have another baby soon after her first because she feared a medical condition would prohibit her from having a baby in the future.

“Jaxie saved my marriage with Josh and kept our love alive. ” Mackenzie told the magazine, adding that her her C-Section went well, “My blood sugars and the baby’s were fine during the delivery.”

Congrats!

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Study: Teen Pregnancy Reality TV shows reduced teen pregnancy rate

Posted on January 14, 2014

Reality television shows helped reduce teen pregnancy and abortions in the United States, a new study in this month’s National Bureau of Economic Research concludes.

The research discovered that between 2009, when cable network MTV debuted 16 and Pregnant and the end of 2010, there was a 5.7% drop in teen births of babies that “would have been conceived” and teen abortions.

The authors monitored Nielsen ratings data, tweets about the show and Google searches for the show to discover spikes in online searches for terms like “birth control” or “abortion” precisely “at the time a new episode was released.

This analysis led researchers to find that the shows “had an influence on teens’ thinking regarding birth control and abortion,” Economists Melissa S. Kearney of the University of Maryland and Phillip B. Levine of Wellesley College, authors of the study, said

In 2012, the US teen birth was at a 2.94% rate (29.4 out of every 1,000 girls between 15 and 19), which is high for a “developed” nation. Nonetheless, the US has seen a significant drop in its overall teen birth rate since 1991 when it was 61.8 births per 1,000.

If one considers the less than ideal situations the girls from 16 & Pregnant‘s spin-offs,

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