DMX, MAINO, AND FUNK MASTER FLEX’S EXES ADDED TO TLC REALITY SHOW “STARTER WIVES”

    by Sydney Lace October 3rd, 2012 @ 3:22pm

Hot 97 DJ, Funk Master Flex has been taking L’s all week! First, his rival NY radio crew, The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1, beat him out and were crowned the most influential show on radio in The Source’s Power 30 Issue.  Now, news has broken that his soon to be ex-wife, Monica Joseph-Taylor, is going to be on a new reality show consisting of the ex-wives of famous men.

According to The Daily Mail, the new show is called “Starter Wives”, and it will star Floyd Mayweather’s “battered” ex-wife and mother of his three children, Josie Harris, DMX’s ex wife, Tashera Simmons  Maino’s ex-girlfriend, Zakia Baum, 50 Cent’s ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, Liza Morales, Lamar Odom’s baby momma, and Cheryl Caruso, the ex-wife of mobster Phillip Caruso.

This show is sure to be explosive. I wonder what inside secrets these ladies will be spilling on the show. The show is scheduled to air in 2013, and so far, they are scheduled to air four hour-long episodes on TLC.

Apparently there are A-LOT of women formerly married to A (or A-ish) Listers who are desperate for some reality TV fame of their own! Hot on the heels of the success of Hollywood Exes, TLC – the network that has brought us every wedding show imaginable and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo – is deciding they want to get in on the action.

According to The Huffington Post, the network just began production on a show tentatively titled "Starter Wives," which basically follows the exact same premise as Hollywood Exes. Focusing on the lives of seven women – once married or baby mamas to big names – who will reveal what their lives look like post break-up. 

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TLC describes the premise as a "fascinating" look into the "controversial" world of celebrity exes. Um… where have we heart that before? The series seeks to follow the women as they emerge from their past relationships and embark upon a "path in life that will give themselves and their children the security and success they know they deserve." Again, sounds familiar… right Vh1?

The women included in the series are: 

• Zakia Baum: Ex-girlfriend of Jermaine “Maino” Coleman and mother of his son. (Who?) 
• Cheryl Caruso: Ex-wife of mobster Phillip Caruso and mother of his two daughters. (WHO?)
• Josie Harris: Ex-girlfriend of Floyd Mayweather and mother of his three children. 
• Monica Joseph-Taylor: soon to be ex-wife of Aston “Funkmaster Flex” Taylor and mother to his two children.
• Liza Morales: Ex-girlfriend of Lamar Odom and mother of his three children.
• Tashera Simmons: Ex-wife of Earl “DMX” Simmons and mother of four of his children. – Weren't they on Couples Therapy?
• Shaniqua Tompkins: Ex-girlfriend of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and mother of his son.

Set to debut in 2013, I have to say this is list is looking eerily similar toBasketball Wives in that very few of these women were ever, you know, wives! 

Well, I guess if you really, really want to see more former celebrity wives and girlfriends, tune in. I wonder what Vh1 will have to say about all this…

[Photo Credit: Reggie Collier/WENN]

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