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correspondent Adam Housley) . Their new series, appropriately named Tia
From left: Tia & Tamera follows twins Tia and Tamera Mowry as they learn
to balance their ca- reers with marriage and motherhood. You can expect an extra serving of Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s next season
& Tamera, follows the talented twins as they learn to balance their careers with marriage and motherhood. It writes itself. Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s is something
of season 2 was L.A. Reid’s guy, country singer Tate Stevens, who won a $5-million recording contract. The former asphalt layer from Belton, MI, is now on the road to stardom. Tia and Tamera Mowry became teen stars
on the popular comedy series Sister, Sister. The identical twin sisters were actually born in Germany, where their father was serving in the military. They both continued acting
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while pursuing psychology degrees from Pepperdine University. Tia had a part in Girlfriends and in its spinoff series The Game, while Tamera was appearing on the series Roommates and doing voice work on Family Guy. They reunited a couple of years ago for the TV movie Double Wedding, which kind of coincided with their real life weddings (Tia to actor Cory Hardrict and Tamera to Fox News
completely different. Robbie Montgomery is a former backup singer with Ike and Tina Turner, an “Ikette.” After retiring from her singing career, Montgomery opened a soul food restaurant in St. Louis called Sweetie Pie’s, which she runs with her son Tim and other family members. The story is Tim started fi lming his hardworking mother in the kitchen and sent the tape to the networks. Before you could say cornbread and collard greens, the family got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Network. Talk about hitting the jackpot. The family now owns three restaurants, and Miss Robbie is busier than ever. The show has been down-home cooking for OWN, one of the most popular shows on the network. Expect an extra serving of Sweetie Pie’s next season. For all the negative images it has
spawned, reality TV has introduced us to some true superstars and singular personalities that grab our attention and just won’t let go.
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