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There are also a handful of returning faces in this new set of episodes, chief among them the aforementioned Martin, who is both the least experienced homemaker of all of Meghan’s friends and the person who best reflects the show’s premise.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025 -
Their father, José, a wealthy Cuban-American entertainment executive, lived a life of privilege in Beverly Hills, while their mother, Kitty, was a former schoolteacher and homemaker.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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The best bit for the housekeepers?—
Mattias Goldmann,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Last year, while our house was being vacuumed by a housekeeper, Butch bit her on her calf.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Here was the postwar American housewife—neatly dressed, pretty, poised, active—stepping unwittingly into a scene of utter depravity and sadism that reflected back at this wholesome young mother the darkest recesses of the human mind.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Sep. 2025
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To create the showbiz charade of being a beast in the ring and a nice presentable housewife the rest of the time.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Cohen wasn't present for the viewing, sources told PEOPLE, nor were the househusbands (both are staples at RHONJ reunions).—
Dave Quinn,
Peoplemag,
29 July 2024
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With his zeal for Jesus sweaters and his living-room church organ, Bernie plays the bumbling househusband to his successful businesswoman wife Eva (Alicia Silverstone), and father to his diligent scientist son Adam (Walt Klink) and moody shut-in daughter Sarah (Gaite Jansen).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2024
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The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2024
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Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.—
Julia M. Klein,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 July 2023
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The White House couple will be greeted by the British monarch and his wife, with royal gun salutes fired at the castle and at the Tower of London.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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And his wife is not happy about it.—
Jeremy Hanna,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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In a bizarre twist, that denial letter listed her husband as the patient but made reference to the care of a newborn, not that of a 52-year-old man having a mental health crisis.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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It’s centered on her personal experience as a caregiver for her husband, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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