From booking another show to being honest about their friend’s awkward moment, it’s been a busy week for the stars/former stars of the Teen Mom franchise! In an effort to bring you up-to-date on the latest Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 news, The Ashley brings you the Teen Mom News Pile.
Here are some of the major (and minor but interesting) ‘Teen Mom’-related things that happened over the last week or so…
Chelsea Houska & Cole DeBoer Score Another HGTV Gig– Will Star on ‘Rock the Block’ Season 6
Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer‘s mugs will be popping up all over HGTV next year!
This week, the network announced that its fan-favorite renovation competition series Rock the Block is set to return for Season 6 in 2025, with ‘Teen Mom 2’-turned-Down Home Fab hosts Chelsea and Cole joining the cast.
‘Rock the Block’ is a competition series in which HGTV designers are given a budget to renovate nearly identical homes on the same block with their signature design style. For Season 6, ‘Rock the Block’ will raise the stakes by having two veteran teams return to the block to challenge two rookie teams– the latter of which Chelsea and Cole will compete on.
Joining Chelsea and Cole as rookies for Season 6 are “house-flipping experts” Kamohai and Tristyn Kalama of Renovation Aloha, while the Season 6 veterans will include designer Alison Victoria of Windy City Rehab, designer/former ‘Rock the Block’ champ Michel Smith Boyd of Luxe for Less, and brothers/New Kids on the Block bandmates Jonathan Knight (Farmhouse Fixer) and Jordan Knight (Farmhouse Fixer: Camp Revamp). HGTV star Ty Pennington will return as host.
“Ratings juggernaut ‘Rock the Block’ delivered HGTV’s top series three years in a row and appeals to millions of fans in our key demos,” Betsey Ayala, Interim Head of Content for HGTV, said in a press release. “We incorporate a surprise element each season, and this season we’re taking the format to the next level by mixing returning block vets and some first-time contenders to amp up the competition and create some unexpected twists.”
Each of the teams in the upcoming season will have six weeks and a budget of $250,000 to renovate the identical modern properties. In addition to bragging rights, the winners of Season 6– which is being filmed near Salt Lake City, Utah– will receive a street named in their honor.
‘Rock the Block’ is set to premiere on HGTV in Spring 2025. Fans can stream past seasons of the competition series on Max and Discovery+.
As The Ashley told you earlier this summer, Chelsea and Cole’s HGTV series ‘Down Home Fab’ has been renewed for a third season, which is also set to premiere in 2025, though a date has yet to be announced.
Catelynn Lowell Clarifies Claims Made By Amber Portwood’s Ex-Fiancé Gary Wayt That His Proposal Was Staged
Gary “2.0” Wayt— one of two men named Gary that Amber has been engaged to in her life— made waves earlier this week when he gave his first post-breakup interview and stated that MTV staged his (insanely cringy) on-camera proposal to Amber. He also claimed that it wasn’t his idea to propose to Amber, and that he didn’t buy the engagement ring he gave her in the episode.
While Amber has remained quiet since Gary 2.0 gave the interview, her pal, Catelynn Lowell hit the comment section of a recent TikTok video that discussed Gary 2.0’s claims. In the comment section of a video posted by @realityTVwithRei, Catelynn clarified Gary 2.0’s statements and confirmed that the on-camera engagement was, indeed, staged.
“He proposed the night before and then did it again for the cameras,” Catelynn— who, along with Maci Bookout, was present for the fauxposal— wrote. “Maci and I had NO CLUE.”
Catelynn wrote that she– like the rest of us cringe-watching at home— felt that the proposal was “odd AF.”
As for Gary’s claims that he didn’t have to purchase the engagement ring he gave Amber, Cate signed off on that as well.
“It was Amber’s grandma’s ring & they were going to redo the ring,” Catelynn wrote. “I guess that’s a thing they do in Amber’s family, like when you get a ring passed down.”
Back when Us Weekly broke the news of the engagement (shortly after Gary 2.0 popped the question), the magazine stated that Gary presented Amber with a ring crafted from “a family stone that was reset into a new ring.”
This apparently never happened, as Amber already owned the ring and apparently didn’t have it changed before she and Gary 2.0 split in June, after Gary ghosted Amber in North Carolina after a fight.
Cheyenne Floyd Says She & Husband Zach Davis Are Trying to Have Another Baby
Cheyenne Floyd may soon have another reason to throw one of her signature over-the-top parties— or 10.
The ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’ star revealed to People this week that she and husband Zach Davis are hoping to soon become a family of five.
“We actually have been trying to get pregnant,” she told the outlet. “And just send us good baby vibes, and hopefully we’re able to get pregnant soon.”
As ‘Teen Mom’ fans know, Cheyenne and Zach are already parents to three-year-old son Ace. Cheyenne also shares seven-year-old daughter Ryder with Cory Wharton, whom she met on The Challenge.
Fans watched on the latest season of ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’ as Cheyenne and Zach discussed the possibility of adding to their family, despite Zach’s perpetually unemployed status. (The season also ended with a clip of Cheyenne taking a pregnancy test, though the results were not revealed to viewers.) Cheyenne seemed unwilling to have another baby, while Zach continued to push the issue.
Back in January 2023, both Cheyenne and Zach claimed their days of making mini-‘Teen Mom’ co-stars were behind them.
“I’m gonna put it out right now, if we were to have another baby, it was not planned,” Cheyenne said in a Q&A posted to her and Zach’s YouTube channel. “Don’t let me lie to y’all and say that it was planned because if we were to get pregnant again, it was not in the plans, all right? It would be a complete ‘oh my God, what the f**k situation,’ I’m just saying.”
“I would drop and turn in my grave,” Zach added.
While the pair claimed last year that they were done making future influencers babies, Cheyenne revealed on an episode of her Think Loud Crew podcast– released the same month as her and Zach’s YouTube Q&A– that she and Zach were considering adoption in the near future.
“We’ve talked about adopting when Ace is closer to Ryder’s age now, but adopting an older child,” Cheyenne said. “The statistics of a black male over the age of like a baby getting adopted are very low. We’ve talked about adopting someone in between the age of seven to 15.”
Cheyenne went on to claim at the time that she and Zach had purposely added an extra bedroom to their home with the “intention” that it would “be for another child.” She also said they had even begun researching the adoption process.
“ … because sometimes adoptions can take years depending on the case, or the age, or the circumstances,” she explained.
