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Ruby:

Had to get that last one in there, didn’t you?



Cat:

You know it! We’ll be back right after this.





TRANSCRIPT OF CHAT FROM #SQUEEZE-MAINIACS SLACK CHANNEL


Direct Message: Colin7784 and Beth.Malone


Colin7784: Hey, I have a question.

Beth.Malone: What’s going on?

Colin7784: Is there going to be a retroactive winner of the league this season now that Asher and Bea are together?

Beth.Malone: OMFG SERIOUSLY COLIN? I HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE RULES OF THE LEAGUE, WE WENT THROUGH THIS WITH THE WYATT THING, POINTS ARE AWARDED AT THE TIME OF THE BROADCAST

Colin7784: Beth, I’m messing with you Beth.Malone: What.

Colin7784: So are we going to do another league for Main Squeeze Mansion? Or not until Sam’s season?

Beth.Malone: Wow, you really got into it, huh?

Colin7784: Yeah yeah, you were right, it was fun Colin7784: Do you have plans, by the way? For the Main Squeeze Mansion premiere? Because if you don’t, I mean, I don’t know. I thought it would be cool if we could watch together or something. If you want.

Beth.Malone: Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I think that could be cool.

Colin7784: Yeah? Cool.

Beth.Malone: Cool.





LAUREN MATHERS RE-UPPED AS MAIN SQUEEZE EP IN 4-YEAR DEAL


by Tia Sussman, deadline.com


Following the highest-rated season in years, controversial Main Squeeze showrunner Lauren Mathers has inked a four-year deal with ABS to helm the reality behemoth. Mathers made headlines for her illicit affair with one of the show’s contestants, but according to our source at ABS, that wasn’t a problem for the brass.

“Numbers don’t lie, and this season of Main Squeeze was huge,” says the source. “Besides, all the men who run these shows have done way worse than Lauren for years, so why would her affair with Luc be a problem? That episode KILLED in the ratings.”

Mathers’s seven-figure deal encompasses all banners under the Main Squeeze umbrella franchise, including this fall’s upcoming season starring fan-favorite Sam Cox. We’re also told Mathers is developing a new series starring her former paramour, Luc Dupond. More details on that as we receive them.





MAIN SQUEEZE SPECIAL: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?


by Kellie McGinty, usweekly.com


It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year since Bea Schumacher’s season of Main Squeeze premiered—between the exes, the cheating, and the surprise departures, her season finally lived up to the hype of being the most dramatic one ever! But where are the Main Squeeze main players now? We caught up with the ones you love—and the ones you love to hate!

? Farm-fresh favorite Wyatt Ames isn’t just raising barns these days—he’s also raising awareness! Wyatt is working to promote outreach and acceptance for the asexual and aromatic communities, and he says he’s never been happier. (CLICK THROUGH to see photos of Wyatt and Bea on the red carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards!)

? After bad-boy Luc Dupond slept his way through popular spin-off series Main Squeeze Mansion, he landed the biggest catch of all: his own show! Luc’s new series about life in the kitchen, Can’t Stand the Heat?, will premiere this summer on Bravo. As for his love life, Luc says he is happily single. (Big surprise!) ? Being rejected in the finale turned out to be great news for Sam Cox, whose season of Main Squeeze finished airing in December—that’s where he met his now-fiancée, Meghan Vazkin! The couple is getting ready to head off for a year of travel around the world; Sam says he’s ready for marriage, but not a 9-to-5.

? As for Bea’s ex, Ray Moretti, he’s still single, and working as an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles. (We hope he didn’t move there to be with Bea, because she doesn’t live there anymore!)



So where is the leading lady herself? She tells Us she’s loving life in Brooklyn, where she lives with former suitor (and current love!) Asher Chang-Reitman. He’s a history professor at Columbia University (lucky undergrads! sign Us up for every class), and Bea is working as a contributing editor for Teen Vogue, collaborating on a size-inclusive line with stylist Alison Sommers, and writing a fashion guidebook to show how her favorite looks can be worn by women of every size. Phew! We’re exhausted just thinking about her busy life—but we couldn’t be more thrilled that she’s found so much success and so much love.

So what’s next for Bea and Asher? With two kids and two booming careers, the private couple says they love their life exactly the way it is. With such a great life to live, who could blame them?



Life with Asher in Brooklyn just fit; it felt right to Bea the way you sometimes pull on a great pair of jeans and intuitively know they’re going to button. She loved their ramshackle apartment in a Park Slope brownstone, loved Saturday mornings at street fairs with the kids and Saturday nights cooking at home, loved her wild and motley coworkers at Teen Vogue, loved weekly Sunday dim sum with Asher’s parents, loved long weekends in L.A. drinking wine with Marin and Alison, loved falling asleep with her head on Asher’s chest, loved waking up to his truly horrible morning breath.

She did not love winter. But you couldn’t have everything in life—it wouldn’t be fair.

This particular day was a perfect New York spring—lovely and cool with a soft breeze that made the whole city smell like fresh-cut flowers. Bea had been running around to meetings all day (the samples had just come in for her collaboration with Alison, and everyone was freaking out about the changes that still needed making). Her feet were killing her and she would have murdered ten men for an iced latte, but she needed to get to the Vogue offices at CondéNast, because she had angled for months for this appointment, and she absolutely could not be late.